FCC Head Voices Support For Other Uses Of Vacant Airwaves

"WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A day before Google Inc. (GOOG) co-founder Larry Page makes a high-profile appearance in Washington to advocate for access to unused TV airwaves, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he favors the idea."" "I do think we need...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

Experts Unfazed by Drugs in Ontario Water

You know all those painkillers, prescription drugs and antibiotics we all take throughout the year? Turns out we're getting some of it back in the same water we're drinking. So far no one seems very concerned, nor are there any plans to deal with the drugs as they are...

Vietnamese Fishermen Harvest Internet Cables

"As if the internet didn't have enough problems, what with the NSA trolling packets for sharp words and black hole routers swallowing packets, fishermen in Vietnam are now salvaging underseas fiber optic cables that connect the nation's computers to Thailand and Hong Kong,...

Cheney's Plan

"A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward...