url='http://nowtnews.com/05695/world-watches-holds-its-breath-as-last-chilean-miner-is-rescued/';size='small';At 9.55pm local time Wednesday night, the last of thirty-three Chilean miners emerged from confinement nearly half-a-mile underground, ending a sixty-nine day ordeal that riveted the world’s attention. Rescue workers completed the “textbook” rescue operation, originally expected to take up to thirty-six hours, in just over twenty-two hours. As they completed their operation, worldwide...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05693/attorneys-general-join-forces-for-foreclosure-probe/';size='small';Stopping just short of demanding a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures, Attorneys General in all fifty states announced today they will investigate mortgage loan processors suspected of widespread negligence, abuse, and fraud. The announcement comes as two of the United States’ leading mortgage banks suspended foreclosures because of glaring omissions and improprieties in thousands of...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05691/android-dominates-summer-smartphone-sales/';size='small';Feel free to crunch the numbers in your spreadsheet or data analysis program of choice. You will, however, come to the same bottom line the experts at ComScore drew as they analyzed the smartphone market’s summer statistics: Android is hot. The rest are not. Between the first of June and August 31, Android surged...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05688/apple-and-google-square-off-for-duel-over-streaming-video/';size='small';If you number among the hardcore techies, your monitor probably measures ten times the size of your television and has far better picture quality and resolution. To you, then, the latest Apple-Google arm-wrestle looks more like a sporting event than an epic struggle for control of broadband’s next frontier. For a billion or so...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05686/glee-breaks-long-standing-beatles-billboard-record/';size='small';During the week John Lennon would have celebrated his seventieth birthday, the cast of “Glee” broke one of The Beatles’ longest-standing records in the history of the Billboard music charts. The singing and dancing misfits passed the Liverpool lads’ old mark for “most appearances among non-solo acts.” After releasing five Britney Spears covers and...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05684/facebook-introduces-groups/';size='small';Seeing Google looming larger and larger in its rear view, Facebook this week debuted tools designed to give its 500 million users more control over their personal information and more ways to manage their interactions with friends and “social circles.” Showing his new gimmicks and gadgets to the press in Palo Alto Wednesday, Facebook...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05682/verizon-rolls-out-4g-rumours-fly-about-iphone/';size='small';For at least the second time in three days, Verizon grabbed headlines in business and technical publications, announcing it will, by the end of this year, launch faster, more sophisticated internet service for hand-helds. The fourth-generation network will transmit data at ten times the speed of 3G signals, and it will speed the signal...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05677/box-office-friends-the-social-network/';size='small';To no one’s particular surprise, The Social Network dominated a slow weekend at the movies, grossing approximately $23 million from just over 2700 American theatres. Written by “West Wing” screenwoder Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, The Social Network stars a trio of cuties—Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake—in a historically accurate...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05674/us-weighs-criminal-penalties-for-cyber-bullying/';size='small';Three major American social issues swirl in an internet maelstrom as the nation attempts to comprehend and deal with September’s rash of adolescent suicides. Bullying, which first drew national attention in the wake of January’s Phoebe Prince suicide, now links with unreconciled homophobia, and the legal juggernaut rolls along on well-worn First Amendment tracks...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05670/verizon-to-refund-more-than-90-million/';size='small';Verizon wireless announced Monday that it will refund more than $90 million to more than fifteen million subscribers in their October and November bills. Citing “errors” in charges for “data sessions” and “wireless connections,” Verizon said customers may expect between $2 and $6 credit; customer no longer using Verizon’s service will receive checks in...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05668/britney-gleefully-does-it-again/';size='small';No “oops.” By demand and by design, the Britney Spears episode of “Glee” ran-up record ratings not only on broadcast television but also on Twitter and iTunes. While they whistle their favourite “Circus” tunes, business school students should pore over the numbers and angles in Britney’s total domination of the fibre optics, because her...
Read more »

url='http://nowtnews.com/05666/holiday-travel-forecast-higher-fares-continued-fees-bigger-crowds/';size='small';Apropos of the autumnal equinox and the grand openings of pumpkin patches all around the United States, travel experts issued their holiday travel forecasts this week, unanimously predicting a season of higher fares, Grinch-like fees, and record crowds. Peripatetic pundits suggested holiday travellers should book flights over the river and through the woods as...
Read more »