Judge in hospital; husband charged with attempted murder

"NEW YORK – Elizabeth Halverson underwent surgery today for injuries sustained when her husband, Ed, allegedly attacked her with a frying pan. Ed Halverson was arrested last night and charged with attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and battery with substantial...

Plan for ICANN's Future Urgently Needed

"Plan for ICANN's Future Urgently Needed The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private, non-profit steward of the global domain name system, does not have a mechanism to protect itself against governmental interference, CDT warned in comments...

Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft

"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...

Congressman: Peru trade deal priority

"Peru and U.S. trade negotiators agreed on a trade pact in April 2006 and it was ratified by Peru's Congress two months later. But its approval has been held up in the Democrat-controlled Congress, where some lawmakers worry that pending trade deals with Peru and other...

Chuck S01E01 (NBC)

Chuck is a new series that will premiere on NBC on the 24th of September 2007. It has been picked up for a full season and will air on the same day as the critically acclaimed Heroes. The show was created in part by Josh Schwartz, responsible for the O.C. and produced by McG,...

The GPL Wars: Torvalds vs Schwartz

""The controversial message published by Linus Torvalds (mirrored) in the Linux Kernel Mailing List was from the beginning to the end an open attack to Sun and its Open Source strategy. Linus criticized Sun's real position on GPL, and claimed that Linux could be dangerous to...

MOONBAT LUXURIES - New York Post

"THE San Francisco Board of Education voted to phase out the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps in city schools next year. The ostensible reason? The board opposes the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Likelier reasons? Teacher Nancy Mancias: "We need to teach a...

In Connecticut, Lieberman Headed Towards Re-Election

"In Connecticut's U.S. Senate race, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) still holds a 50% to 38% likely voter lead over Ned Lamont (D), with 8% for Alan Schlesinger (R). Said pollster Douglas Schwartz: "It appears that Ned Lamont peaked in August and that...

Mega CEOs...... blog too.

"At the helm of Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz became "un blogeur" last week when he started publishing his blog in French and nine other languages. Schwartz, whose Web journal attracts 50,000 viewers each month, says going international will generate new customers...