from CNN.com NASA seeks cargo flights to space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) — With the space shuttles due to retire, NASA is looking for private companies interested in taking over the potentially lucrative business of flying cargo and crew to the international space station. The U.S. space agency issued a solicitation for proposals on […]
Read more "..NASA seeks cargo flights to space station.."from theage.com.au Nigeria becomes a B-movie factory Chike Bryan, the hapless director of “The Last Sacrifice,” had named his movie well. Plagued by technical glitches, filming had dragged into its third week – an eternity by Nigerian standards. The unpaid cast and crew were holding the executive producer for ransom in his stuffy hotel room. […]
Read more "profile of Nigeria’s film industry"from Media Week Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run Fox will produce original episodes of it’s resurrected hit Family Guy exclusively for the Web sometime next year. Speaking at the UBS 33rd Annual Global Media Conference in New York, Ross Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media said that the original Family Guy episodes will […]
Read more "..Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run.."from Yahoo! News Time Warner, Microsoft near ad deal NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Inc is closing in on a deal with Microsoft Corp. to team up on an online advertising service to compete with Google Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the talks. The paper said the […]
Read more "Yahoo!’n’Microsoft vs Google?"from http://www.theage.com.au Why this brain flies on rat cunning It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of “living” computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening. The “brain”, grown from 25,000 […]
Read more "coming soon.. Stealth 2: When Rat’s Brains Attack"from http://www.engadget.com iTunes now offering NBC, SciFi, and USA television for download Well, now we know why NBC is thinking of suing TiVo over their announced PSP and iPod support as expected they want you to pay for the content. So those rumors were true, Apple is now offering NBC programming in addition to […]
Read more "..iTunes now offering NBC, SciFi, and USA television for download.."from Variety.com Fox drives ’24’ bonus seg with Toyota DVD episode to bridge gap between seasons This week’s season-four DVD release of “24””24″ contains an ambitious bonus mini-episode of the show — but the segseg didn’t cost 20th Century Fox TV a dime. In order to build buzz for next month’s fifth-season premiere of “24,” […]
Read more "Season 4 DVD of “24” to feature DVD-only bridging movie"from Washington Post New Orleans’s New Connection City-Owned WiFi System To Be Announced Today Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans will deploy the nation’s first municipally owned wireless Internet system that will be free for all users, part of an effort to jump-start recovery by making living and doing business in the city as attractive as possible. The […]
Read more "New Orleans’s New Connection"from Variety.com Peeved over TiVo TiVo’s plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple’s iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studios hoping to develop revenue streams from digital distribution. Several TV and studio execs told Daily Variety that they were considering legal action against the […]
Read more "TiVo introduces record-to-PSP, and annoys NBC"from WSJ.com Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blog As parents wring their hands about Internet predators, many teens are worried about a different kind of online intruder: the school principal. Students are blogging about schoolyard crushes and feuds, posting gossip about classmates on social-networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com, and sharing their […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 