News Stories for 2009

Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches 549
Prosecutors Seek Journalism Students’ Grades After They Help Free Innocent 4
The Big Questions 229
Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome 456
Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price 555
UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D 126
Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? 978
MythTV 0.22 Released 329
Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 462
Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid 235
Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube 372
Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 227
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House 1698
Lulu Introduces DRM 222
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright 84
Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy 127
Antimatter In Lightning 169
Skype's Legal Situation Clears 49
KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor 142
Drupal Multimedia 130
Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model 675
Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth 39
LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird 478
Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners 87
Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two 170
Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project 208
Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking 698
N.Y. AG Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel 169
FCC/DOT Want High-Tech Cure For Distracted Driving 432
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence 507
AT&T Sues Verizon Over "Map For That" Ads 249
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup 109
Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP 186
Rise of the Robot Squadrons 245
Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 69
Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean 168
Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows 348
DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings 297
Paywalls To Drive Journalists Away In Addition To Consumers? 131
Attorney General Says Wiretap Lawsuit Must Be Thrown Out 493
For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone 96
Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution 211
Find DARPA's Balloons, Win $40K 252
Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books 426
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? 660
Scams and Social Gaming 95
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning 227
Plowing Carbon Into the Fields 467
A Clever New Approach To Desalination 128
Journalists Looking For Government Money 323
EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas 260
The Gathering Storm Discussion 186
Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 453
New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners 335
Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment 451
The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time 152
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823
John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture 401
The Monrovian Analog Blogger 117
Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words 323
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students 551
Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates 420
AbiCollab Takes On Google Docs and Zoho Writer 82
New DoD Memo On Open Source Software 146
EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame" 163
Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month 545
Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes 112
"2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 600
Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all 324
Geocities Shutting Down Today 396
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia 177
Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts 395
New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout 66
Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog 942
A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat 207
Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC 149
White House Website Switches To Open Source 219
BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VoD Service 179
Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops 106
No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020 346
NASA Releases Cool, Free iPhone App 47
Symbian Microkernel Finally Goes Open Source 97
Hulu May Begin Charging For Content Next Year 234
Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms 42
Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs 239
When Libertarians Attack Free Software 944
FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations 297
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites 200
Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing 212
Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle 166
EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy 272
Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer" 498
Sun Microsystems To Cut 3,000 Jobs As Oracle Deal Drags On 251
Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7 70
125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich 429
World of Goo Creators Try Pick-Your-Price Experiment 216
The Kindle Killer Arrives 542
Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine 579
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks 190
Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster 162
Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop 419
What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? 232
Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage 435
1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps 567
Amiga and Hyperion Settle Ownership of AmigaOS 227
Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads 1259
German Book Publishers Cool To E-Book Market 158
Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting 271
Arrested IBM Exec Goes MIA On the Web 185
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push 200
German Team Wins 2009 Solar Decathlon 56
Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online 98
LHC Successfully Cools To 1.9K In Lead-Up To Restart 177
Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store 152
Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules 239
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day 297
Free-To-Play Switch Going Well For D&D Online 201
Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store 305
Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading 260
What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158
CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose 383
How Nokia Learned To Love Openness 180
In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech 216
Explaining Corporate Culture Through "The Office" 224
Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites 58
Vegetarian Spider Described 162
Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99 412
High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids 332
FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV 221
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs? 306
New Jersey Outshines Most Others In Solar Energy 240
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria 280
Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale 98
EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy 183
Facebook User Arrested For a Poke 394
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads 554
Android Application Development 74
FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial 1255
Commercial Fuel From Algae Still Years Away 134
Misadventures In Online Journalism 133
Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For al-Qaeda Ties 245
Sky Watchers Want Recognized a Newly Described Type of Cloud 166
Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services 366
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 504
Kindle Finally Ready For Global Distribution 145
From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency 183
Open Source Could Have Saved Ontario Hundreds of Millions 294
FCC To Probe Google Voice Over Call Blocking 86
Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier 94
Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 1721
Harald Welte Calls Out Netgear's Open Source Sham 199
Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing 391
IBM Faces DOJ Antitrust Inquiry On Mainframes 190
Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s 438
Microsoft, EU Reach Antitrust Accord 219
MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay 441
Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty 232
London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source 498
De Icaza Responds To Stallman 747
Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 127
72% of Banks Say Their Employees Committed Fraud 272
Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year 168
What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? 1021
Learning Ext JS 133
Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade 406
Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike 86
Will Books Be Napsterized? 350
Learning About Real-World Economies Through Game Economies 178
Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb 630
Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK 152
Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync 656
Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? 1040
California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train 567
Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper 219
Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving 236
OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 249
Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards 197
Fossil Primate Ardipithecus Ramidus Described (Finally) 369
Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads 404
New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books 317
GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive 238
Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M 421
What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? 256
Google Wants to Map Indoors, Too 174
Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims 81
GPS Receiver Noise Can Be Used To Detect Snow Depth 51
US Relaxes Control Over ICANN 230
Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving 408
$338M Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Overturned 238
Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day 122
Verizon CTO Argues For Metered Pricing 99
A Geek Funeral 479
Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year 1073
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute 150
Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? 266
The Nickel & Dime Generation 358
In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users 247
Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties 830
Banking Via Twitter? 193
Iran's Nuclear Ambitions 1032
How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source 275
4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx 140
Software To Flatten a Photographed Book? 172
Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security 140
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks 501
ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning 245
Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked 594
G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" 630
Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released 184
$529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car 293
MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? 153
Computers To Mark English Essays 243
Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results 319
Google Project 10^100 Reaches Voting Phase 154
Why Games Cost $60 536
How Hardware Makers Come To Violate Free Software Licenses 186
Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States 97
New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop 81
Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 320
GPL Wins In French Court Case 266
Best Tablet PC For Classroom Instruction? 176
One Telescope Per Child 63
Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System 185
HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap 205
Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006 79
Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets 427
Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid 251
Delay, Renegotiation Sought For Google Books Settlement 83
Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed 360
Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State 681
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive 638
Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon 150
Micropayments For News — Holy Grail Or Delusion? 234
E. Coli Can Be Used To Clean Up Nuclear Waste 102
BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes 104
Using the Sea To Cool Your Data Center 194
Dell Buying Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion 92
Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid 607
"Going Google" Exposes Students' Email 244
Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? 857
Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas 366
News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product 156
Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education 165
Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App 228
"Long Tail Effect" Doesn't Work As Advertised, Say Wharton Researchers 82
Using Encryption Garners Exemption For Data Breach Notification 101
DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal 124
Taking Free Software To the Streets 184
Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy 102

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