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RCN Corp., which has cable TV customers in Putnam and Dutchess
counties and a small portion of Westchester County, announced this
week that it narrowed its loss for the third quarter of this year
compared to the same period in 2002. Princeton, N.J.-based RCN
announced in July that it would be selling its franchise in the
northern suburbs to Susquehanna Communications, a privately held
company, for $120 million in cash. RCN said it expects the deal will
close during the first quarter of 2004.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/111303/d0113burbs.html
Police warn of e-mail scam targeting bank accounts
11/13/2003
Cheektowaga police say town residents are among those being targeted
by an e-mail scam in which a person, purportedly from an African or
South American country, seeks financial help.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031113/2051514.asp
Sprint offers TV for cell phones
Bloomberg News
11/13/2003
NEW YORK (AP) - Sprint Corp. is adding a television service for cell
phones with real-time programs, albeit somewhat choppy, from cable
networks including CNBC and ABC News.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031113/3055218.asp
Telecast of holiday parade won't be live
Schenectady-- Chamber unplugs public access coverage of event to get
more people downtown
By MIKE GOODWIN, Staff writer
First published: Thursday, November 13, 2003
The Chamber of Schenectady County is pulling the plug this year on
the local public access channel's live coverage of the downtown
Christmas Parade, the city's day-after Thanksgiving salute to Santa
Claus that every year draws about 40,000 people.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=189061&category=REGION&newsdate=11/13/2003
Powder Sent to News 12
Offices evacuated after suspicious letter opened
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
STAFF WRITER
November 13, 2003
A portion of the News 12 Long Island headquarters in Woodbury was
cleared for several hours yesterday morning as police investigated a
suspicious envelope that appeared to be from Pakistan, containing a
threatening note and a powdery substance, Nassau police said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-
lianth133539408nov13,0,2140928.story?coll=ny-li-vertical-headlines
911 phones back on line
November 13, 2003
Staff reports
Direct phone service was restored by 8 a.m. Wednesday to the Cayuga
County 911 Center- about 18 hours after a truck hauling a bulk milk
tank crashed on Route 34, knocking out phones.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
5/1068717335309721.xml
Cablevision reports loss, must restate earnings
By ALAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 12, 2003)
Cablevision Systems Corp. lost $104.6 million during the third
quarter and must restate its financial performance for 2003 because
investigators have discovered the company improperly recorded $15
million in expenses.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/111203/d0112cablevision.html
Choice One earnings up
By Richard Mullins
Staff writer
(November 12, 2003) — The Rochester-based telecommunications company
Choice One Communications Inc. posted improved financial results as
it markets more package phone and data services to businesses.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1112SK2B7KL_CWONWeb_busine
ss.shtml
Kodak cell phone photo album?
New service offers video storage 'anywhere'
By Ben Rand
Staff writer
(November 12, 2003) — Users of cellular telephones with built-in
digital cameras will be able to view pictures and video
clips "anytime, anywhere" using a new Eastman Kodak Co. service soon
to be widely available in the United States.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1112662B3IV_ek12_business.
shtml
Filing by Adelphia's ex-auditor might help Rigas
By JERRY ZREMSKI
News Washington Bureau
11/12/2003
WASHINGTON - In a little-noticed court filing in a lawsuit against
the cable company, the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche pins
Adelphia's problems on Adelphia's former board and management, not
specifically on the former Buffalo Sabres owner or his sons.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031112/1038819.asp
City district considers technology project
By LAWRENCE HOVISH, The Leader-Herald
GLOVERSVILLE - At a workshop meeting Monday night the Gloversville
Enlarged School District Board of Education focused its discussions
on a technology upgrade and transportation facility, both part of a
proposed capital project.
http://www.leaderherald.com/news/story/1111202003_new03_schooltech1111
.asp
Madster creator seeks hearing
John Deep petitions Supreme Court to hear case on file-sharing
By KEVIN HARLIN, Business writer
First published: Tuesday, November 11, 2003
John Deep of Cohoes -- who in 2000 created Madster, then known as
Aimster -- petitioned the Supreme Court on Oct. 28 for a writ of
certiorari, a formal request for the court to hear his case.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=188342&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=11/11/2003
Mediation planned for Frontier contract
By LAWRENCE HOVISH, The Leader-Herald
GLOVERSVILLE - Frontier Communications is set to enter into federal
mediation with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Unit 363 later this week in efforts to get a new contract for the
union's members.
http://www.leaderherald.com/news/story/1110202003_new03_Frontier1110.a
sp
Victor company soars on eye-popping video
Richard Mullins
STAFF WRITER
(November 9, 2003) — Six months before the United States attacked
Iraq, some of the largest media companies in the world started lining
up at the front door of GCS Inc.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1109CV2A76F_Top100_No1_bus
iness.shtml
Adelphia adds high-definition channels to cable TV lineup
By GEORGE NIANIATUS
Adelphia Communications Corp. has just begun offering three high-
definition television (HDTV) channels to subscribers in Western New
York, including Olean, Wellsville and Springville.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=10485939&BRD=386&PAG=461&dept_id=444918&rfi=6
Call center to streamline heart care
11/8/2003
The Catholic Health System is expected to start a program later this
month that will serve as a sort of call center for doctors to
streamline services when their heart patients need admission into the
hospital.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031108/1047783.asp
State's thriving libraries face economic hurdles
By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press
First published: Saturday, November 8, 2003
ALBANY -- State Education Commissioner Richard Mills on Friday said
use of libraries increased 20 percent in the past two years and the
state's "virtual library" will help boost that volume. The decline
in libraries some predicted with the rise of the Internet didn't
happen in New York.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=187630&category=STATE&newsdate=11/8/2003
Web site honors town's veterans
Colonie -- 452 servicemen listed on online commemoration
By ALEXANDRA KAGAN, Special to the Times Union
First published: Saturday, November 8, 2003
Posted Friday afternoon, the Town of Colonie Veterans Project Web
site (http://www.colonie.org/ vetproject) is part of an ongoing
effort to find veterans who live or have lived in the town.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=187587&category=REGION&newsdate=11/8/2003
Window on the world
Region eyes fiber-optic link
By DENISE A. RAYMO Staff Writer
MALONE — Federal funds are available to create a digital-
communications network to link Franklin, Essex and Clinton counties
to the rest of the world. A Comprehensive Economic Development
Strategy, written for the county several years ago, would need to be
dusted off, updated and sent to Washington, D.C., along with an
application for about $3 million in start-up funds for a fiber-optic
network from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development
Administration.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2003/11_2003/110820033.htm
All-hazards radio warns of danger
By Corydon Ireland
Staff Writer
(November 7, 2003) — Rochester-area citizens can now add one more
tool to their winter emergency kits: an all-hazards weather radio,
which emits a tone to alert owners to civil or weather emergencies.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1107EN29ORI_alert707_news.sht
ml
Area telecom market still unstable
By Richard Mullins
STAFF WRITER
(November 7, 2003) — Three telecommunications-related firms in the
area posted their quarterly earnings Thursday, each reflecting the
turbulence of a difficult telecom market.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1107LN29OM4_Telco07_busine
ss.shtml
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