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Randon House decided it was time for a new Godfather novel, so it held a contest. Martha Stewart won – kidding: Mark Winegardner is joining the Corleone family business: He’s been selected to write the next “Godfather” novel. Winegardner, a fiction writer whose previous subjects include baseball, Cleveland and organized …

My 18 year-old daughter calls once a week from Americorps and tells me what she has been up to. Right now they’re blazing a trail through the wilderness in South Carolina and “chopping up boulders.” Zowie, no telling what those kids will be up to next. Then she said in …

The next time someone points a phone at you, duck: French police said on Friday they had seized two lethal mobile phones capable of shooting four bullets, with the digital touchpads used as triggers. The black telephones, identical to normal mobile phones on the outside, were discovered in a raid …

RIAA becomes petulant with Verizon: In a strongly worded brief filed in federal district court in Washington, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) assailed Verizon’s request for a stay of a Jan. 21 order as a brazen attempt by the telecommunications firm to “evade its responsibilities under the law.” …

Which of these scenarios makes more sense to you? Two classicists, two very different perspectives: If you want a preview of what might occur if the United States were to invade Iraq, Elaine Fantham suggests looking at what happened in 53 B.C. when the Romans marched into the territory that …

Incubus is latest band to want a divorce from a major – dudes aren’t digging the excessive deductions and the 7-year deal: Modern rock outfit Incubus has filed a lawsuit against Sony Corp. in an attempt to break free from its contract that requires the group to make four more …

The Constitution says copyright is “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Historian Garry Wills has observed that this clause in the Constitution is unique in that it states a reason – unlike the other clauses in Article I, Section 8, which merely grant the powers “to lay …

Remember the great, wide open, unregulated digital utopia that was the Internet ten years ago? The last vestige is now gone: President Bush has signed a secret directive ordering the government to develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks …

The Webcaster Alliance wants you: Webcaster Alliance today announced the organization is actively working to build a coalition of technology and music industry related organizations to spread the message of the American Internet Radio Revolution (AIRR) campaign. “Webcaster Alliance attorney David LeGrand and I spent several days in Washington, DC …

Surprise patent claim riles webcaster: Michael Roe, proprietor of the small RadioIO Webcasting station, got a surprise FedEx package this week, containing a notification that he was violating patents owned by a company he’d never heard of. That’s not uncommon in the technology world–the surprise was the scope of the …