According to statistics compiled by the Messaging and Mobile Media Division of VeriSign, Inc., mobile messaging continues to shatter records with nearly 84 billion messages were delivered throughout the first quarter of 2009. Iowa City, Iowa based Low Cost Cells has several options for plans the suit every customer, no matter how much or how little they text. http://www.biographys.com/searchpage/c009/cell+phones.htm

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What is DTV?
Digital Television (DTV) is an advanced broadcasting technology that will transform your television viewing experience. DTV enables broadcasters to offer television with better picture and sound quality. It can also offer multiple programming choices, called multicasting, and interactive capabilities.

The Transition to Digital TV

The switch from analog to digital broadcast television is referred to as the digital TV (DTV) transition. In 1996, the U.S. Congress authorized the distribution of an additional broadcast channel to each broadcast TV station so that they could start a digital broadcast channel while simultaneously continuing their analog broadcast channel. Later, Congress set June 12, 2009 as the final date that full power television stations can broadcast analog signals. As of June 13, 2009, full power television stations will only broadcast digital, over-the-air signals. Your local broadcasters may make the transition before then, and some already have.

The digital transition is underway. Prepare now! On Feb. 17, some full-power broadcast television stations in the United States may stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. The remaining stations may stop broadcasting analog sometime between April 16 and June 12. June 12 is the final deadline for terminating analog broadcasts under legislation passed by Congress.

Why are we switching to DTV?

An important benefit of the switch to all-digital broadcasting is that it will free up parts of the valuable broadcast spectrum for public safety communications (such as police, fire departments, and rescue squads). Also, some of the spectrum will be auctioned to companies that will be able to provide consumers with more advanced wireless services (such as wireless broadband).

Consumers also benefit because digital broadcasting allows stations to offer improved picture and sound quality, and digital is much more efficient than analog. For example, rather than being limited to providing one analog program, a

By VOA News
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan during press conference at World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, 11 Jun 2009
The World Health Organization has declared an influenza pandemic for the first time in more than 40 years, as the H1N1 swine flu continues to spread worldwide.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan made the announcement Thursday in Geneva, following an

By Michael Bowman
Washington
30 May 2009
The Obama administration is launching a pilot program to collect biometric information from non-U.S. citizens when they leave the country. The federal government began testing the system at two big city airports this week. The initiative is the latest effort, following the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, to keep track of those who come to and depart from the United States.


Fingerprints are displayed on a security computer
Fingerprints and other physical identifiers, called biometrics, are seen as a fail-safe way to verify identity and defeat imposters. Since 2004, the United States has collected biometric information from foreign visitors upon arrival, but not departure. That is now changing.

Robert Mocny, who leads the US-VISIT program, said "We want to have biometric exit procedures because we want to have a better sense of who is in the country and who has left the country."

The new system is being tested at airports in Atlanta and Detroit. Departing non-citizens are required give fingerprints that will be compared with prints taken when they

By Michael Bowman
Washington

A high-ranking Republican senator says President Barack Obama's nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court should apologize for a comment made years ago about the roles of race and gender in judicial opinions. Meanwhile, Democratic senators are downplaying the remark, and expressing confidence that Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Since her nomination last week, Sonia Sotomayor has been heavily scrutinized, but not on her possible views concerning abortion, gun control, or any other issue that often divides Americans on political or moral grounds. Rather, the focus has been on a 2001 speech in which Sotomayor said she would hope that "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life."

Many Senate Republicans say they are troubled by the remark, as it suggests the federal appeals court judge is inclined to consider race and gender in judicial decisions rather than adhering to an impartial application of the law.

Republican Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will vote on Sotomayor's nomination, spoke on Fox News Sunday.

"She thought a Latina woman, someone with her background, would be a better judge than a

By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
The World Health Organization says graphic pictures on cigarette packages are effective in getting people to quit smoking. As part of the commemoration Sunday of this year's World No Tobacco Day, the WHO is launching a campaign to decrease tobacco use by increasing public awareness of its dangers.

Anti-tobacco activists are on the offensive. They want to shock and awe smokers into quitting. And the way they plan to do this is by getting countries to put graphic and sickening images along with words of warning on cigarette packs.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and

(inan.info)-NASA-EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39
a.m. PDT Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the
final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis'
astronauts conducted five successful spacewalks during their STS-125
flight to enhance and extend the life of the orbiting observatory.

"This mission highlights what the challenges of

By Kate Woodsome
Washington


The STS-125 crew participates in interviews aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis, 21 May 2009
The seven-member crew of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis has made history. They have become the first astronauts in orbit to testify before a U.S. Senate committee. The astronauts lobbied for greater support for space exploration.

The Atlantis shuttle crew carried out one last task Thursday before wrapping up their mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. They beamed in via satellite to a Senate subcommittee considering the budget of the U.S. space agency, NASA.

"This is space shuttle Atlantis. We have you loud and

(inan.info)-WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Newseum will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 10 mission during a program at 12:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 18, in Washington.

Astronauts Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan will participate in the program moderated by journalist-in-residence Nick Clooney. The event is open to reporters and visitors to the Newseum, which is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. in Washington. The event will be carried live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's Web site.

On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. The flight was a test run, a crucial dress rehearsal leading up to the historic Apollo 11 mission that two months later carried the first people to walk on the moon. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program and

(inan.info)-HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter. He invites followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

Polansky, a New Jersey native and former Air Force test pilot, will command the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-127, a flight targeted for launch June 13 to deliver the final portions of the space station's Japanese laboratory. While posting tweets about his crew's training, Polansky also will select video questions submitted by followers. The videos will be transmitted to orbit during the mission and answered live during a special event that will be broadcast on NASA Television and