Citing an undisclosed assault arrest from last October, finalist Corey Clark was disqualified by American Idol: the network said on Monday it was expelling another finalist, Corey Clark, who is facing trial on misdemeanor charges of battery against his sister and resisting arrest. Fox said in a statement that Clark …

Hitachi introduces new new optical disc drive that can record on all types of recordable DVD and CD: The drive is different from some of the multiformat DVD drives that have been announced recently by companies such as Sony because it also handles DVD-RAM discs. These are used in several …

If this report is accurate, it is very serious and has all kinds of implications, including civilian casualties: Sources have revealed to the mi2g Intelligence Unit that some of the most sophisticated hackers originating from Eastern Europe and Russia are being offered financial incentives to hijack satellite communications through covert …

PayPal, now owned by eBay, has been accused of violating the Patriot Act by providing payment services to online gambling operations: Silicon Valley-based eBay said it received a letter on Friday in which the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri accused PayPal of violating a provision of the …

War is different: that’s all I can come up with to justify my internal battle between free speech – the public’s right to know – and my extreme discomfort with the 24-hour barrage of images and verbiage about the war, that, cumulatively, I find depressing and dispiriting. (I will not …

MTV sees itself as far too hip, brimming with too much integrity to allow overt product placement in music videos: In her recent music video, rapper Ms. Jade is swerving on a dark city street to the beat of her song “Ching Ching.” She’s behind the wheel of a sparkling, …

Reports have been circulating of “surprise” that the allied troops haven’t been universally greeted with dancing in the streets by Iraqi civilians. The answer seems pretty clearly that civilians are so fearful and traumatized by almost a quarter century of Saddam that they aren’t going to commit to anything until …

I am with Bush on the war and agree with him that it must be our top priority, but his domestic agenda and mine have been, shall we say, divergent. Another reason for me to back the war: With Bush focused mostly on the war in Iraq, a small but …

Forbes looks at the next wireless standard: This new standard is dubbed 802.16a by the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, which disdains catchy names. Some are calling it Wi-Max, but a better tag might be Wider-Fi. Meanwhile, a rival group at IEEE is working on 802.20–a kind of Mobile-Fi …

The Future of Music Coalition is hoping you will express your opposition to further deregulation of media ownership rules – the Duke hearing is going on right now: FCC Media Ownership Hearing [download a flyer] Monday, March 31, 2003 Duke University Law School, Durham, NC Time: 12:30 PM – 5 …