China puts nation on alert to try to stop deadly virus

Another deadly virus has the Chinese authorities worried."BEIJING - China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday calling for heightened efforts to control a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading. ...

Print Media continues to make moves in line with Tech

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - McClatchy Co., the nation's third largest newspaper publisher, will begin providing international news coverage and commentary to online powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in a partnership that further underscores the media industry's shifting balance of power.

Time Inc. Lays Off More Than 250

"Employees in those bureaus said they were “shell-shocked,” as the news was delivered by speakerphone from New York by Larry Hackett, People’s managing editor. The news “was not sugar-coated,” one employee said. A total of about 15 people work in the three bureaus;...

Beware Demands For Your Social Security Number

Around 1991 credit bureaus began using Social Security numbers to match inquiries from credit grantors with credit reports in their files. They got along nicely without them prior to that.The three major national credit bureaus rely on the Social Security number so much that...

Did Hewlett-Packard Plant Spies in Newsrooms?

Hewlett-Packard conducted feasibility studies on planting spies in news bureaus of two major publications as part of an investigation of leaks from its board, an individual briefed on the company’s review of the operation said yesterday.