Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be tried Associated Press
A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country’s disputed presidential election. The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati alarmed European nations and fueled calls for tougher action against Tehran. Britain is pressing for members of the European Union to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran to protest the arrest of its embassy staffers last week — a step that the EU so far has hesitated to take.

Shot fired, one wounded at Virginia-based Apple Store AppleInsider
An unidentified man fired at least one shot at the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia shortly after the store opened Friday morning, wounding at least one, a person with knowledge of the situation tells AppleInsider. “Someone was just shot at the store and just were carted out in an ambulance,” that person said. “Unsure what happened but the store is closed down and there are police everywhere.”

MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed Reuters
A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona. U.S. District Judge George Wu said during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom that prosecutors’ application of a federal anti-hacking statute against the Missouri woman, Lori Drew, was selective and the law was unconstitutionally vague. In a high-profile cyber-bullying case that drew worldwide headlines, Drew was found guilty in November 2008 of three misdemeanor counts of accessing a protected computer without authorization. She was acquitted of more serious felony charges. The jury deadlocked on a fourth felony conspiracy count. Drew was accused of creating a fake profile on the MySpace social networking website, owned by News Corp and posing as a teenage boy to tease and humiliate 13-year-old Megan Meier, a neighbor who had quarreled with Drew’s daughter. Megan ultimately committed suicide, hanging herself in her bedroom closet in October 2006.

Radio stations step up battle against Performance Rights Act Los Angeles Times
For more than 80 years, commercial stations have aired songs without paying royalties to musicians, but a bill making its way through Congress would change that. The bill making its way through Congress would require AM and FM stations to pay fees, to be split evenly between the artists and copyright owners. The annual flat rate would be calculated according to a radio station’s revenue, with the smallest paying $500 a year, medium-size stations paying as much as $5,000 and the largest paying more.

Bell closes deals for The Source, Virgin Mobile Canada CBC
Bell Canada has completed two deals worth a total of $277 million, acquiring Canadian electronics retailer The Source and buying the half of Virgin Mobile Canada that it didn’t already own. Bell paid $135 million for The Source and $142 million for the 50 per cent stake of Virgin Mobile. Circuit City renamed RadioShack stores The Source after acquiring them with the purchase of Barrie, Ont.-based InterTan Inc. for $371 million in 2004. Bell also announced Thursday that The Source will sell Bell and Virgin Mobile wireless products exclusively starting in January 2010. It already sells the high-definition television service Bell TV and will offer other services, such as Bell home phone and Bell internet, in the coming months.

Report raises concern over Wireless E911 services Digital Home
In February of this year the CRTC gave Canada’s wireless phone companies one-year to deploy upgraded wireless 911 service which the feds said would give emergency responders the ability to pinpoint the location of 911 callers with much greater precision. A recent report, however, from IDC Canada Ltd. suggests that federal regulators have waited too long to implement such measures and failed to properly regulate the implementation of important safety features necessary to make the Enhanced Wireless 911 service work effectively. For example, the researchers found that under the new CRTC mandate, emergency responders would still be unable to glean accurate location data from as many as 70% of wireless 911 phone calls. “Canada is significantly lagging behind the U.S. as well as Europe in adopting wireless emergency service technology. This technology exists today and it is imperative that Canada’s emergency call centres are well equipped to quickly and accurately pinpoint the location of a 9-1-1 cell phone caller.” said IDC Canada VP Lawrence Surtees.

Essayrunner sells school papers found on Limewire P2P Blog
Would you pay ten bucks per month for the chance to access thousands of school papers that your teachers won’t find with a simple Google search? Essayrunner.com is betting that some folks will, and it is using the Gnutella P2P network to build a business based on this idea. The site is basically a giant archive of essays, currently promising access to over 140,000 school papers. There are dozens of essay sites with names like Duenow.com out there, and many students have started to upload papers to sites like Scribd. Essayrunner however offers an interesting twist: The site scours the Gnutella P2P network for essays shared via Limewire and similar file sharing clients.

Stolen Mongolian crown found at police station after 20 years The Local
A decorative Mongolian silver crown stolen in 1984 from a Stockholm museum has been found on the premises of the Swedish Police Service, where it has spent more than twenty years in accidental storage. “We would like to thank the national police service for housing the silver Mongolian crown for such a long time,” said museum chief Anders Björklund in a statement. The crown, part of a woman’s costume from Mongolia, was one of the Museum of Ethnography’s most prized possessions when it first went on display in 1980.

Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far Reuters
U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday. USTelecom, which represents the biggest U.S. telephone companies Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc, said it was still analyzing requirements to provide loans and grants to applicants that can include state and local governments as well as non- and for-profit organizations.

True HD Streaming Likely Years Away, Says Report IMDb
It is likely to be at least five years years before high-definition movies can be streamed to home theaters with the same resolution as Blu-ray discs, according to a study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and reported on the Video Business magazine’s website. Although millions of homes are already connected to video services that claim to offer HDTV titles, via streaming, the quality doesn’t even match that of standard DVDs and the “flow” is sometimes jerky.

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