The crushing weight of the digital sign killed Luke Bresette and left his mother, Heather, in critical condition at a Birmingham hospital, officials said.
The large digital sign -- showing when and where flights were arriving to and departing -- collapsed around 2:30 p.m. inside Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, airport spokeswoman Toni Herrera-Bast said.
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One agent, Kristin Nelson, said she didn't think he should sign away digital rights, but that she could help him with foreign rights and film and TV deals.
The New York Times, meanwhile, got 100, 000 readers to sign up for digital subscriptions in the first few weeks they were offered, and analysts believe the paywall may already be paying for itself.
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Overall, the City consensus appears to be that, as long as the BBC delivers on its target of persuading another 5 million homes to sign up to digital TV within five years, all the major commercial broadcasters will benefit.
Apple is now vetting developers and allowing them to sign their apps with digital certificates indicating that they're not distributing malware or other dangerous programs.
With no over-arching rules governing what happens to our online presence when we pass away, it would seem prudent and logical to sign up to a digital afterlife service.
BuzzFeed, an expert at viral content, is attracting the most attention for its aggressive plans to sign on young, savvy, digital reporting talent.
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That's a steel-and-concrete sign that the manufacturer is trying to boost digital imaging profits by focusing on cameras with higher margins, and it implies a level adaptability that other companies can only dream of.
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This means no one can hijack your digital signature en route and use the record of the way you sign your name to impersonate you.
This approach has given Zozotown more than 3 million subscribers--customers have to sign up to shop--since the site hung out its digital shingle in 2004.
They see one million year long subscriptions purchased as part of the Diablo 3 bundle as a good sign, and they believe that even with retail sales down, digital copies will move far more quickly, and have a better profit margin by cutting out the middleman.
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Digital plates could display ads whenever a car comes to a halt at a stop sign or a red light.
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