| 18 months after gambling raid, no charges filed
The owner of a Warminster bar cited for illegal video poker machines in October had similar machines seized from another of his bars in July 2006, but has yet to face any charges. Bensalem Township Public Safety Director Fred Harran said on Friday that no charges have been filed against any of the operators of four establishments in his township where illegal video poker machines were seized nearly 18 months ago. .
Hollywood unions and the digital revolution
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" return to the air tonight. It's just in the nick of time, too, because primary season is now fully under way, and I need their parody skills if I'm going to endure several more months of policy air-filled balloons that seem to pop out of every orifice of a politician's body this time of year. Yes, that image will stick in your head for the rest of the day. They will, of course, be operating under less than ideal conditions on account of the ongoing Writer Guild of America (WGA) strike, about which I wrote last week. As I noted then, I think there is some merit in the WGA's stance on things, given that it would be nuts for writers to forego a cut of revenue derived from digital download of media, a portion of the market which is likely to balloon in the coming years (I seem to have a balloon fixation today).
DOD Gets a Handle on Sensitive Content
"The research community is a very heterogeneous environment," Baenen said. "We have users that are on everything from Windows machines to Macs to Solaris machines to Linux machines. We wanted to allow end users to continue to use the tools that they were accustomed to; the only way to do that was to focus on open standards." .
Satellite tie-up for fast Galileo
"To date there's been no competition for operational Galileo satellites," said Phillip Davies, the business development manager at Guildford-based SSTL. "The announcement of the new team opens up the possibility of a real competition." The partnership believes it can produce Galileo spacecraft quickly and at an extremely competitive price. OHB would build the satellites; SSTL would produce the electronic payloads. The 30-strong constellation of Galileo satellites was conceived in the 1990s as an alternative to GPS, the technology that underpins car navigation systems and tracking devices. European market The proposed European system promises to improve the availability and precision of location and timing signals delivered from space. Designed to work alongside GPS, the enhanced programme is expected to drive many new applications, especially as new mobile phones come on to the market with sat-nav functionality.
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