FCC finally prepares to investigate embedded ads on TV (Ars Technica)

The FCC has, at long last, opened a proceeding on what to do about "paid placement" advertising in TV shows. The FCC Chairman says Americans should know when someone is trying to sell them something, no matter how sly the reference.

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Temple To Deploy Wireless LAN Across 8 Campuses (Campus Technology)

Temple University, with 34,000 students, has begun deploying a new wireless network with equipment from Meru Networks that by the end of 2008 will cover all eight of its campuses in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Wily Teens Find Pools With Google Earth (Digital Trends)

Some British teens are using Goggle Earth to find houses with pools then trespass and hold illegal pool parties.

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Why women quit technology careers (Computerworld)

What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave -- most of them during their mid- to late 30s.

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X-rated SMS case gives employees some privacy guarantees (Ars Technica)

A ruling by the 9th Circuit Court has provided users of electronic messaging services with extensive privacy guarantees in a ruling that focuses on personal use of a job-related service.

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Verizon expands 50Mbps FiOS footprint (Network World)

Verizon plans to expand its 50Mbps FiOS Internet service to cover all 10 million homes and businesses that are currently within its FiOS network footprint.

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Verizon buys Alltel in $28.1 billion blockbuster (Network World)

Apparently tired of being the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless has finalized a deal that will vault it past AT&T and net it millions of new wireless subscribers.

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They say it got smart: a 2008 review of the PS3 (Ars Technica)

No system has changed more since launch than the PlayStation 3, and it's time to take another look at what Sony's console can do. Ars Technica re-reviews the PlayStation 3.

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