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...hosting servers in Delhi, Montreal, Brooklyn and New Jersey have in common? Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" - just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down and then pop up again somewhere else on the World Wide...
...ESPN Best all-around sports site, with sports news, sports videos, sports columns and sports data galore. Honorable mention goes to MLB.com, which lets you watch baseball games that aren't broadcast in your local TV market. The service's success inspired CBS Sports to team up with NCAA to offer March Madness on Demand which drew 5 million viewers earlier this year...
...concentrations of Israeli forces in order to confront them. At the same time, as if to remind the Israeli public of their survival, Hizballah continues to rain down rockets on Israeli cities - Wednesday saw the heaviest fusillade yet - and the movement's Al-Manar television station continues to broadcast its version of events to an Arab audience eager to see the Israelis punished...
...summit with a tinge of embarrassment. Not because the meeting of world leaders failed to solve global poverty or secure peace in the Middle East, but because a private chat between the pair was picked up by an open [an error occurred while processing this directive] mike and broadcast around the world. But the conversation - which saw Bush greet the British PM with a cozy, "Yo, Blair. How are you doin'?" - is just the latest case of politicians being caught on-air and unaware. Here are other high-profile victims of the dreaded live mike, ranked on Time's blush...
...Those centers, which rapidly interpret earthquake data sent in by seismic observatories around the world, detected last week's Java tsunami. But due to gaps in the way a tsunami alert is broadcast to the public, no warnings reached the people on the Javanese beaches?underscoring just how difficult it still is to protect the most vulnerable countries from killer tidal waves. "Let's not kid ourselves and think we solved the warning problem because we can detect a tsunami and say, 'It's coming,'" says Laura Kong, head of the International Tsunami Information Center in Honolulu. "We have...