Category: Technology

Herald-Mail via Digg via ars technica:
Purposely surfing the Internet on someone else’s wireless connection, without permission, would be a crime under a bill Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. presented Tuesday.

Myers, …

Baltimore Sun
Walter C. Abbott Jr. has sent e-mails from time to time to the governor and state legislators complaining about losing construction work to illegal immigrants.

He never received anything but a form-letter type response.

This week, the 44-year-old Parkville man …

WBAL.com
The Greater Baltimore Committee is launching a Web ad campaign today for repeal of the computer services tax.

The tax is set to take effect in July.

Greater Baltimore Committee President & CEO Don Fry says this is a tax that …

I’ve previously posted here about the National Federation of the Blind picketing outside a Maryland Dept. of the Environment meeting last fall that was looking at adopting California emissions standards by 2011. The protesters were upset that hybrids were …

Frederick News-Post:
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

Construction on the $143 million project is on schedule at 60 percent complete, and should be finished …

An article from last week’s Arbutus Times talks about expansion of the UMBC Research Park on the edge of campus along with more details on the business incubator area that can be seen from I-95. Details on efforts to …

Channel 2 in Baltimore had a news story about an online threat causing a lockdown of public schools and Frostburg State University this morning. Their initial story didn’t have many details, so I went to the Frostburg page which …

United Industrial Corporation of Hunt Valley has been sold to Textron, Inc. of Rhode Island (more here and here.) United’s subsidiary AAI is responsible for the manufacture of the …