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Comment Philadelphia Contract? (Score 3, Interesting) 117

by kammat (#20413595) Attached to: San Francisco Free Wi-Fi Plan Fails
I wonder if this will affect Philadelphia also. We've been receiving advertisements in the mail announcing Earthlink as Philly's citywide wi-fi provider, but with Chicago and San Fran now stopped, and San Fran not seen as profitable, I find it hard to imagine that the Philadelphia city area will be as viable.
Television

Submission + - 'Stealth advertising' infiltrating TV news (pressesc.com)

Submitted by
amigoro
amigoro writes: "Over 90 per cent of newscasts in the US contained stealth advertising. Stealth advertising is showing advertisements outside regular commercial blocks cloaked as news. What's disturbing about this trend of "stealth advertising" is that viewers seldom are aware of potential slants in coverage because the connection of a story to an advertiser rarely is disclosed."
Media

Submission + - So long Mr. Wizard

Submitted by
nbvb
nbvb writes: "It's a sad day for science. The one and only Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert, passed away today at the age of 89. It's impossible to count the number of children — worldwide — who were mesmerized by his amazing feats of science! To all of us who grew up with Mr. Wizard — let's hoist one high and remember a great man. Thanks Don — it's because of you that countless children were excited about science. May your legacy live on!"
Television

Submission + - "Mr. Wizard" dead at 89

Submitted by linuxwrangler
linuxwrangler writes: Don Herbert, television's "Mr. Wizard", died this morning of bone cancer. Over the decades, the Peabody Award winning Mr. Wizard introduced several generations to science using basic household items in his demonstrations and encouraging viewers to duplicate the experiments at home. Herbert died at his home. He was 89 years old.
Music

Submission + - CRB Postpones Internet Royalty Rates Until July 15

Submitted by
Chickan
Chickan writes: "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has officially posted its ruling on Internet royalty rates in the Federal Register. However, the organization has pushed back the due date for royalty payments to kick in, from May 15 to July 15. The publication of this information also allows the 30 day period for appeals to officially begin. NPR is slated to file an appeal in this time frame."
Internet Explorer

Submission + - Has IE 7 turned back Firefox?

Submitted by
roscoetoon
roscoetoon writes: "http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking_and_ internet&articleId=9014958&taxonomyId=16

The spin continues about who's gaining what share of the browser markets. It's all in who's point of view you look at.

Firefox's success in chipping away at Internet Explorer's (IE) majority Web browser market share has slowed since Microsoft Corp. began pushing the new IE7 as an automatic update to Windows users last year, a management consulting firm said yesterday. But a Web metrics company immediately disputed the conclusion, and said that IE 7's introduction has helped — not hurt — Firefox.
They battle on:

Firefox's stall, said Janulaitis, meant that it and other IE rivals won't be able to overtake Microsoft's browser "without some major new innovation or driver."
Poppycock, said Geoff Johnston, an analyst with WebSideStory, Inc. of San Diego, Calif. "I'm surprised at how well Firefox has done since IE7 came out," he said. "It looks like the forced migration of IE7 is helping Firefox."
But it's all in 'How You Count the Beans':

"IE7 has almost 31% of the whole browser market," said Johnston, "but its growth has been almost exclusively at the expense of IE6. IE7 has not slowed the pace of either Firefox or Safari. Microsoft's getting it from both those two fronts."
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Announcements

Submission + - RegisterFly Class Action Lawsuit is Here!

Submitted by
ScrwdByRF
ScrwdByRF writes: "Many people are trapped in Registerfly or have lost their domain names there and have wanted a class action lawsuit to join — after all, who can afford to sue on their own? Well now there is one. A class action lawsuit has recently been filed against RegisterFly, ICANN, and eNom, who have all had a hand in this. You can read all of the official court documents, background, and sign up as a plaintiff and to help make the case however you can at the registerfly-lawsuit.com website. Maybe you can even get your domain names back, which is obviously one of the very top goals.

This is a real, class action lawsuit that has already been filed in a United States Court. You do not have to pay ANYTHING to be a member and, you do not have to be from the United States either. I am the lead plaintiff becuase I could not stand by and let my business be taken away from me by the negligence of these people."

NPR Finds XM's Achilles Heel 330

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the operators-are-standing-by dept.
PreacherTom writes "In the ongoing radio wars, one only has to listen to 20 seconds of Howard Stern's language to know that the lack of regulation gives satellite radio a distinct advantage. Of all the challengers, it seems that NPR has finally found a weakness in XM, which supplements its satellite coverage with earth-bound transmitters. A recent test found that 19 of these transmitters were unlicensed and another 221 exceeded their authorized power level, giving NPR an opening to press with an apparently sympathetic FCC. It certainly doesn't help that XM's own filings support their case."

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