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Forget 'What are your strengths and weaknesses?' If you want to get the real dope on prospective employees, ask job candidates these seven questions.

Conservative fringe wingnuts are spreading false rumors that the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a requirement that microchips be implanted in Americans before they can receive healthcare. To hear the extremists tell it, "This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option," according to an article posted on Current.com.

With so many college rankings and so many different schools rated No.1, it’s hard for parents to know whom to believe. An exclusive MoneyWatch.com analysis has the answer.

Cable manufacturer and transmission products giant, Belden has announced the launch of a new family of Solar Cables designed to support renewable energy initiatives. According to the company, the cables are UL Type PV approved (UL 4703 USE-2 Rated) for use as the interconnection wiring of grounded and ungrounded photovoltaic power systems (Section 630.31). Intended to link together the solar panels found on solar farms, these cables will be key to the transmission of electric energy from the solar panels to the transformers at the local energy storage substation and ultimately to the power grid and its commercial and residential electricity users. According to Frank Koditek, Belden’s Industrial Cable Product Manager, “Belden fully supports today’s clean and ‘green’ technology goals, including the goal to expand the proliferation of solar energy, wherever feasible."

Belden’s new Solar Cable family features:
• 18 to 8 AWG, single soft annealed tinned stranded copper
conductors
• XLPE insulation and sunlight-resistant Black PVC jackets
• Temperature rating from -40o C to 90o C
• Maximum Operating Voltage; 600 or 1000 VRMS (UL PV) or 1000 VRMS (CSA RW 90). Optional construction available for 2000 VRMS RHW-2
• Standard Lengths of 1000 ft (304.8 m) and 5000 ft (609.6 m)

In addition to being rated UL Type PV (photovoltaic) UL 4703 and USE-2, Belden’s new Solar Cables are meet VW-1 flame test, are CE approved and RoHS compliant. "Our new line of Solar Cables is just the beginning, signaling an ongoing plan to develop and bring to market additional green technology products over the coming months. All of our alternative energy solutions will, of course, reflect Belden’s long-standing commitment to quality and consistency in product design and manufacturing.” added Koditek...

LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor announced today that they intend to launch a cross-industry alliance to promote and standardize the HDBaseT technology for whole-home distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content. The HDBaseT Alliance will engage key players across the consumer electronics and the content industries. Working together, they will create a global standard for advanced digital media distribution. The Alliance’s standardization activities will cover the entire value chain of the digital media ecosystem and the various market segments: TV sets, projectors, professional AV equipment, home theater, content providers, IT companies and more. According to the companies, as the consumption of and demand for high-quality HD content increases, so does the interest of the end user in extending their entertainment experience to their entire home. Consumers are looking for a way to connect TVs and other display equipment with entertainment devices, such as a Blu-ray DVD player, for in-home converged distribution of HD multimedia content. Some of the existing technologies are limited in terms of bandwidth and cannot support uncompressed video. The demand for in-home converged distribution of HD multimedia content and the lack of adequate existing technologies are driving the industry toward an HD digital connectivity standard, such as HDBaseT, which increases distance of uncompressed HD multimedia content transfer, expands distribution, simplifies installations and lowers overall system cost. "As the demand for high-quality HD content distribution in the entire home is already huge, we are hoping that HDBaseT will play the trigger role in advancing this market, since HDBaseT enables simultaneous multi-room distribution of uncompressed HD Multimedia as well as...

Connecticut-based LIN TV ABC affiliates WTNH-DT and WCTX-DT, serving the greater Hartford/New Haven market and operating as a duopoly from the same facility, said it had decided many months ago that covering high school sports - especially in HD - was a sound competitive move that would reap benefits in a variety of ways. After evaluating comparable systems however, budget concerns prevented the stations from obtaining a full 53-foot production trailer, prompting the stations to began to explore more efficient alternatives. The local broadcasters went with the Slate 1000 from Broadcast Pix, which functions as a video switcher with file-based and network-based workflow software, and includes various aspect ratio/format conversion options. The stations said they assembled a 20-foot Markertek VPTR-1 production trailer with uplink and microwave capabilities - and using the Slate 1000 as the centerpiece - the LIN properties rounded out their equipment buys with three Sony HD camcorders (model PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX) and three Sony HDV/DVCAM VTRs (model HVR-1500A). “We found that renting a mobile unit-at about $12,000 per event-would be too costly, and building our own large mobile unit with a separate switcher and other dedicated gear would be cost-prohibitive,” says Jamie Holowaty, Live Broadcast Manager for WTNH and WCTX. “But because the Slate 1000 packs a control room full of gear into one low-cost, compact, energy efficient unit, it enables us to produce broadcast-quality HD shows from a small 20-foot production trailer we built for under $175,000.” According to the stations, Friday night high school football games were streamed live on the stations’ websites throughout the 2009 season, then aired in HD during primetime the following night. The stations currently cover boys’ and girls’ basketball games and are now considering expanding their coverage to swimming, baseball, and track...

As part of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), the nation’s next generation of emergency alert and warning networks, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have announced the adoption of the design specifications for the development of a gateway interface that will enable wireless carriers to provide its customers with timely and accurate emergency alerts and warnings via their cell phones and other mobile devices. The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) is one of many projects within IPAWS intended to provide emergency mangers and the President of the United States a means to send alerts and warnings to the public. Specifically, CMAS provides Federal, state, territorial, tribal and local government officials the ability to send 90 character geographically targeted text messages to the public regarding emergency alert and warning of imminent threats to life and property, Amber alerts, and Presidential emergency messages. The CMAS is a combined effort of the federal government and cellular providers to define a common standard for cellular alerts. Wireless carriers who choose to participate in the CMAS will relay authorized text-based alerts to their subscribers. To ensure that...

Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), the organization advancing the adoption and widespread use of 60 GHz wireless technology worldwide, today announced the completion of its unified wireless specification. The WiGig specification enables high performance wireless display and audio and provides data transfer rates more than 10 times faster than today’s wireless LANs, extending Wi‐Fi technology while supporting backward compatibility with existing Wi‐Fi devices. The completed specification is now ready for member review and is anticipated to be made available to WiGig adopter members in Q1 2010. “When we launched the WiGig Alliance in May, we announced our plan to complete the industry’s first unified 60 GHz specification by Q4 2009, and we are proud to deliver on this promise to the industry,” said Dr. Ali Sadri, president and chairman of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance. “We’re rapidly paving the way for the introduction of the next generation of high‐performance wireless products – PCs, mobile handsets, TVs and displays, Blu‐ray disc players, digital cameras and many more.”

The WiGig version 1.0 specification includes the following key elements...

Global appliance and electronics maker Sharp has announced the company has developed a coating material whose weathering resistance was improved by waste glass produced during the LCD panel manufacturing process. When glass is cut into smaller pieces for use in LCD panels, waste glass is produced. The waste glass is roughly crushed and, then, finely crushed into powder (particles with a siz