Landline's decline
• By JOHN ROLFE - The Daily TelegraphONCE the biggest and most profitable company in the country, Telstra managed to eke out a share price gain yesterday by revealing an earnings decline no worse than expected.
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Israel: May rue the day we supported Saddam's ouster
• BBC NewsThe head of Israel's domestic security agency, Shin Bet, has said his country may come to regret the overthrow of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Yuval Diskin said a strong dictatorship is preferable to the present "chaos" in Ira
Ex-FEMA head wants all Katrina facts to come out
• CBS NewsFormer disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support.
IBM brings hyper-realistic imagery closer with new chip
• www.theglobeandmail.comThe IBM chip will be a new challenger to graphic chip makers ATI Technologies Inc., Nvidia Corp. and semiconductor giant Intel Corp., which compete against each other in various segments of the computing and electronic devices market.
Terrorism Security Authority Rules with Heavy Hand
• New York TimesOne is a second grader in Manhattan. Over the protests of his American mother, immigration officials have been trying to deport him ever since he returned from a brief visit to Canada without the right visa. Another is an Irish professor invited to t
Cheney authorized CIA Plame leak by Libby
• National JournalVice President Dick Cheney directed his aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby to use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq war effort, the National Journal reported. This was the outing of CIA agent Valerie P
Sen. Feingold angry about Patriot Act expansion
• Raw StoryI am gravely disappointed in this so-called deal. The White House agreed to only a few minor changes to the Patriot Act conference report that could not get through the Senate back in December. These changes do not address the major problems with the
Bush: US, allies thwarted terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles
• Agence France PressePresident Bush unveiled details about an Al-Qaeda plot to crash a hijacked airliner into the tallest building in Los Angeles in 2002. The mastermind of the 9-11 attacks planned to have terrorists use shoe bombs to breach the cockpit doors and fly the
MP3 Inventor Develops Tool to Fight Piracy
• IDG News ServicesBased on the group's own digital watermarking technology, for tracking pirated audio files in peer-to-peer file-sharing networks as an alternative to digital rights management, which he says require special players and are prone to hacking.
L.A. Mayor knows nothing about Bush's 2002 terror plot
• ABC NewsMayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he was blindsided by President Bush's announcement of details about a purported 2002 plot to crash a plane into a downtown skyscraper, but the White House said it had contacted the mayor's office.
The Bribing of Congress
• Business WeekIn the carpeted corridors of K Street, the 11,500 people who earn their living in the influence-peddling profession know a different reality. They understand that money goes up to Capitol Hill by demands from members of Congress.
Brown blames everyone but himself for New Orleans
• Associated PressUnder oath, Brown told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he could not explain why his appeals failed to produce a faster response. "I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they coul
Is Bush lying?
• AmeriblogIN 2004: FBI Counterterrorism Official Said He Knew of No Thwarted Al Qaeda Attacks. After a CIA official claimed that the government had "probably prevented a few aviation attacks against both the East and West Coasts" since 9/11, John Pis
NBC Expands Free Online Olympics Video
• Associated PRessNBC is significantly expanding its Olympics video offerings for the Internet and cell phones, a sure sign of its increased comfort with technologies that erect geographic boundaries online.
Defense Spending approaching Cold War high
• UPIAs the Defense Secretary shops his $439 billion, 2007 Pentagon budget request—not including $100 billion in war costs—he is circumventing sticker shock by pointing as a economic percentage the defense budget is at historic lows.
Blackberry back with new non-patent infringing software
• IDG News ServiceRIM announced that it has developed and tested software that would enable it to continue to offer its wireless e-mail service to BlackBerry users if a court orders RIM to shut down the current form of the service in the US. In an unusual turn of even
Blair uses terrorism to get National ID card and police powers
• London TimesTony Blair desperately trying to avoid a series of Commons defeats next week, will play the terrorism card today as he tries to persuade Labour rebels and the Conservatives to back the identity cards Bill and anti-terrorism measures
Bush budget cuts (list) proposed
• ReutersThe 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget, with potential savings in millions.
US Citizen detainees to be handed over to Iraq
• Associated PressThe U.S. government wants an Iraqi court to prosecute an American citizen who is being held in Iraq on suspicion that he is a senior operative of al-Zarqawi. Once served in the Minnesota National Guard, held since late 2004 as an enemy combatant. No
Anti-war mom Sheehan will not run for Senate
• ReutersCindy Sheehan, the anti- Iraq war activist whose son was killed in the conflict there, put an end to speculation that she would launch a long-shot bid to become a U.S. senator from California.
Congress cowers over nerve gas
• ReutersA suspected nerve agent forced the evacuation of a US Senate office building late on Wednesday until tests concluded the vapor that set off the alarm was harmless. Some 200 people, including several senators, were quarantined for 3 hours in a nearby
Some companies helped the NSA, but which?
• Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache - CNET NewsSome reports have identified executives at "major telecommunications companies" who chose to open their networks to the NSA. Because it may be illegal to divulge customer communications, though, not one has chosen to make its cooperation pu
Attention Deficit drugs killing kids
• ReutersDeaths of 51 U.S. patients who took widely prescribed drugs to treat attention deficit disorder prompted regulators to start watching for heart attacks, high blood pressure and other problems in 2004, with many doctors and parents arguing the medicin
Getting the Internet under control top US priority
• NewsfactorThe debate over controlling access to the Internet took center stage in the U.S. Senate this week during a hearing that focused on "network neutrality" and possible new legislation that advocates say would protect the Internet from being fr
27,000 miles alone non-stop for world record
• CNNDespite some hair-raising moments, Fossett soared out over the Atlantic from a Kennedy Space Center runway Wednesday on a quest to break the nearly 25,000-mile (40,0000-kilometer) record for the world's longest aircraft flight.
US plans massive data sweep
• Christian Science MonitorThe US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.
BlackBerry lawsuit: all you need to know
• TechWorldThe BlackBerry patent infringement case has led to a whirl of recent legal filings over the future of the popular wireless handheld device. This list of answers to frequently asked questions provides background on the case and its potential impact on
Web Sites Hawking Your Phone Records Shut Down
• Associated PressFollowing a wave of negative publicity and pressure from the government, several Web sites that peddled people's private phone records are calling it quits. The Federal Trade Commission conducted a sweep of 40 sites known to have been selling pri
Secret Court's Judges Were Warned About NSA Spy Data
• By Carol D. Leonnig - Washington Post Staff WriterTwice in the past four years, a top Justice Department lawyer warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information overheard in President Bush's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to obtain wiretap warrants
As Democrat calls for special prosecutor on Iraq War, Democrats duck
• by John Byrne (The Raw Story)What's striking isn't that Conyers is calling on Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. He's done it before. But his seeking a Justice Dept. investigation of pre-war policy and manipulation of the press has met resounding silence among
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