Subject: Software

• New Chow Bella URL

  April 3, 2007

• CANDY'S CAPITULATION: Video of Andrew "Candy" Thomas' crow-munching press conference this afternoon.

  October 19, 2007

• MCSO pays more than $200K in RICO funds for facial recognition tech; large portion intended for "Honduran unit."

  April 30, 2008

• Podcast: Vans Warped Tour Primer

  June 25, 2008

• Podcast: Ecclesia

  July 3, 2008

• Podcast: Mad Juana

  September 5, 2008

• Podcast: Love Phoenix or Leave Phoenix Continued

  September 26, 2008

• WHAT'S $12 MILLLION AMONG FRIENDS?

  MARICOPA COUNTY IS SCRAPPING A BRAND-NEW, VERY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM SO IT CAN BUY---SURPRISE!---ANOTHER NEW, EXPENSIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM

  October 6, 1993

• Letters

  July 4, 1996

• System Failure

  Two years later, Maricopa County's computerized inspection effort is still struggling to get online

  February 19, 1998

• The Internet Internist

  Dr. Pietr Hitzig of Maryland has prescribed a fen-phen panacea for all manner of ailments to thousands of patients he has never met. One of them, Alvin Chernov, killed himself.

  March 19, 1998

• Best Place to Get a Cake With Your Kid's Face on It

  Fred Meyer
  4707 East Shea
  602-801-3200
  (and other Valley locations)

  September 21, 2000

• Best Country Radio Station

  KXKQ-FM 94.1

  September 20, 2001

• BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION

  KBAQ-FM 89.5

  September 30, 2004

• Can the perfect pop song be calculated?

  May 29, 2008

• Breathalyzer Software Issues Give Attorneys Hope for DUI Dismissals Across Arizona

  "I can tell you with absolute certainty that every breath test result on an Intoxilyzer 8000 is inaccurate," Nesci says.

  November 13, 2008

• "Pregnant Man" Stories Back in Media After Sex-Change Patient Conceives Again

  Beatie is legally a man, but no medical or chemical procedure has changed the fact that she's still a woman -- as her pregnancy proves beyond all doubt.

  November 14, 2008

• Irwin Benefit Boasts Two Brash Female Voices

  By Martin Cizmar st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } It was a bold move, putting Dry River Yacht Club on right before Black Carl. Here you have two of the biggest female voices in the Valley's indie rock scene -- Emma Pew of BC and DRYC's Garnet -- back to back. But, hey, when you're talking about a benefit show for the family of former New Times staff writer Megan Irwin, you can afford to be bold.This past Labor Day weekend, the family of Megan Irwin -- former staff writer for

  November 24, 2008

• Top 10 Country Records of 2008

  By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and George Strait kept filling arenas and at least maintaining their popularity on the road, if not with record sales. But as has often been the case, the best country music has little

  December 30, 2008

• Wanda Jackson Show on Jan. 11 Cancelled

  Old timey rock chick Wanda Jackson has canceled her January 11 performance at the Rhythm Room due to a family emergency. The 71-year-old Oklahoma native is known as "The Queen of Rockabilly" once dated Elvis Presley... before setting down with a IBM programmer named Wendell. Refunds are available through The Rhythm Room or Ticketmaster. --Martin Cizmar

  January 5, 2009

• Heartland Payment Systems Waits Till Inauguration Day to Release News on Massive Data Breach

  A New Jersey company that processes payments for tens of thousands of American restaurants and other small businesses had its electronic pockets picked in a data breach that may be the country's largest ever.And it waited until Inauguration Day to let us know about it.A Washington Post article by Brian Krebs about the breach quotes a fraud analyst about the timing of the announcement by Heartland Payment Systems:

  January 20, 2009

• Fountains of Wayne deliver debut DVD

  After releasing their first album in 1996, power pop purists Fountains of Wayne finally deliver their debut DVD, No Better Place - Live in Chicago, 13 years later. While that may seem a little late in the game, it's about right on schedule for FoW time. After all, this is a band that earned a Grammy nomination for best new artist after releasing their third album and scoring their first (and, so far, only) bonafide hit with "Stacy's Mom" in 2003.

  March 3, 2009

• Slumdog Millionaires

  February 12, 2009

• Statues of Liberty

  Photoshop helps artist break free from the portrait rut

  December 25, 2008

• Stimulus Package

  Hillz Thrillz par-tay scintillates the senses

  December 25, 2008

• Con Artists

  Students get digital in Mesa

  July 17, 2008

• Cyberspace Invaders

  County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

  December 20, 2007

• Lucky Dragons

  September 20, 2007

• How to Restore a Photo

  Memory enhancement

  January 18, 2007

• Coming Zune

  Microsoft shoots at the Apple again

  October 5, 2006

• Unnatural Beauty

  The bare facts

  August 31, 2006

• The Art of Darkness

  What's inside

  March 23, 2006

• Hacked

  Ford runs smack into it, poor guy

  February 9, 2006

• Burning the Faithful

  New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left

  October 27, 2005

• The Shipping News

  Jose Avila's furniture designs are out of the box

  September 8, 2005

• All Bark and No Bite

  The county attorney could've forced elections department reform, but he backed down

  July 14, 2005

• Legal Love

  Getting the cream for free

  April 21, 2005

• County Connivers

  May 20, 2004

• BEAT IT:

  Quitting for dummies

  January 22, 2004

• Shotgun Franny

  Local blues diva gets some Texas-size love from the Red-Headed Stranger

  October 12, 2000

• Blood on the Dance Floor

  Art, commerce and ideologies all collide in the strange world of the remix

  November 18, 1999

• Eclipsed

  Arizona asteroid hunters were poised to save the Earth from Armageddon. Then a secret Air Force project took over.

  February 25, 1999

• Blues Bodhisattva

  Valley jazz singer and devout Buddhist Sherry Roberson answers the question "What's the sound of one woman scatting?"

  June 13, 1996

• HIGH-TECH'S MISSING LINK

  IS JAMES J. DILETTOSO A TECHNO GOD OR JUST ANOTHER FLOPPY DISCIPLE? EVEN HE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE.

  April 21, 1993

• Scotland May Be Small, But It's Big On Pop Music

  The flag of Scotland What is it about Scotland that makes the country of just more than 5 million people produce far more than its fair share of great pop music artists? Consider the following sample list: Simple Minds, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Altered Images, The Bluebells, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, The Vaselines (more on them later), The Blue Nile, The Proclaimers, The Pastels, Fairground Attraction, The Trash Can Sinatras, Teenage Fanclub, Del

  May 12, 2009

• App Pupils

  May 14, 2009

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff

    Image: ICE PowerPoint presentationThe U.S. Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is seeking a supervisor and agents to operate a recently approved investigation office in Phoenix. The news, (first reported in the Arizona Daily Sun yesterday), comes after about two years of talks for such an office. ICE has offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, Nogales, Sells and Yuma, but nothing north of the Valley. "Now it's just a question of staffing and getting things or

  May 26, 2009

• Cisco Company Partner in Tempe Giving $527,000 "Donation" to County; Sheriff's Office Questions Deal

  ​ A planned $527,000 "donation" to Maricopa County's IT department by Tempe-based Insight Networking (a.k.a. Calence) looks suspicious to the sheriff's office. After a hearing last week over the sheriff's takeover of the ICJIS system, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott told New Times and other news media he questioned the "gift." "Why would anybody give that out of the goodness of their heart?" Hendershott wondered. Dave Hendershott​ Frankly, that's a good question.

  August 18, 2009

• Metadata in Electronic Government Records Must be Released to Public, Arizona Supreme Court Rules

  Phoenix police Sergeant David Lake may get to find out whether his supervisors screwed him over, thanks to unanimous pro-public-records ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. As we related back in January, Lake was halted twice by the court system in his quest to obtain the metadata embedded in a Microsoft Word document written by one of his supervisors. Metadata (yeah, it's an ugly, modern word that doesn't flow trippingly from the tongue). But every computer user ought to know about it

  October 29, 2009

• Google Launches Fancy New Music Search

  Google has launched - albeit slowly - their new music search feature, making it easier to immediately hear an artist's music right awayEvery wonder how many Google searches are music related? Two out of every 10 searches just so happen to be music related, you curious cat, you. Google, the internet behemoth, noticed this trend and figured they would spruce up their search function to easily satiate the widespread need for internet users to get their music fix, announcing their new music search f

  October 29, 2009