AP - Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
AP - Former satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. on Sunday will demonstrate its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit that can tune in television and act as a cable modem.
AP - Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy.
Reuters - When Clear Channel wanted to launch a
format-free Internet radio station called erockster, executive
VP/head of online music and radio Evan Harrison turned to his
old friend Eric Szmanda for ideas. Best known for playing Greg
Sanders on the hit series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,"
Szmanda at first seems like an unlikely choice for leading such
a major initiative at the world's largest radio broadcaster.
NewsFactor - The iPhone's reach is expanding. Orange, France Telecom's flagship brand, announced that it will sell Apple's phone in additional countries in Europe, as well as the Middle East and Africa.
AFP - A deadline for Take-Two Interactive Software shareholders to agree to a buyout by video game giant Electronic Arts has passed with neither firm commenting on the takeover bid's fate.
InfoWorld - ObjectWave is offering a rich Internet application platform called Swan, which makes it easier to link AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) interfaces to back-end server code.
Reuters - For years, video games have been
blamed for turning kids into idle layabouts who only venture
off the couch to fill up on potato chips and soda.
AP - The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
AP - While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.
AP - A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments.
AP - A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.
LiveScience.com - As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in
California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this
question: Is homosexuality natural?
SPACE.com - Astronauts
aboard the International Space Station (ISS) welcomed the arrival of a new
Russian cargo ship filled with fresh food, water and other vital supplies Friday
after a flawless orbital rendezvous.
AFP - An American tourist who survived China's deadly earthquake says he is not only lucky to be alive -- he had a "surreal" experience of sharing the moment with giant pandas.
SPACE.com - The sun bounces up and down as it roams the Milky Way, and such
wavering might have hurled showers of comets Earth's way that caused mass
extinctions, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, a new study claims.
AFP - The United States is halting shipments to its strategic oil reserve for the second half of the year after Congress passed a bill calling for the suspension, the Energy Department said Friday.
AFP - South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a law to regulate research into cloning, following a scandal in which a now-disgraced expert claimed to have made the first human clone stem cells.
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