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Broadband: Other Countries Do it Better, But How? May 12, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 6:10 pm

The US continues to fall on global broadband rankings, even as countries that are more rural and less wealthy surge ahead. Here’s how they do it (hint: it does not involve wholesale deregulation).

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MSN messenger blocking youtube links!?!? May 10, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 9:00 pm

At first I thought it was just me. But then I googled for it and found a forum where people were experiencing the same problem. On MSN, type www.youtube.com and the message won’t pass.The curious thing is that if you alter any of the letters in the domain (i.e. changing it to youtuve.com ) the message gets effectively passed.
WTF, Microsoft?

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Stolen MacBook Victim Uses iSight to Bust Thieves May 10, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 5:01 pm

A White Plains, NY woman who was the victim of burglary, including her MacBook, used the Back To My Mac screen sharing feature to turn on her webcam and capture images of the unwitting culprits using the computer. As a result, police were able to arrest the thieves and recover most of the stolen goods.

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German group patents ’smell-phone’ May 4, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 11:47 pm

A German syndicate announced this week that it has patented a chip for sending scents via text and multimedia messages.

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2008 Time 100 Includes Techies Ballmer, Jobs, Arrington, Zuckerberg May 1, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 3:44 pm

“You’re reading it here first … the tech-related members of the much-hyped Time 100 due to be announced on Time.com overnight and at newsstands Friday: Jay Adelson, Paul Allen, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy; Mark Zuckerberg.” Check out who’s in and who’s out. Pretty interesting!

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iTunes Store turns 5: Can anyone break its dominance? I think iTunes will be around for a LONG time. May 1, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 3:42 pm

Surpisingly enough, Apple’s digital music store just celebrated its fifth anniversary and a Cinderella-like run so far. They have a huge market share and also have the #1 music player, sales of their CPU’s have risen tremendously. They will be tough to push aside. Comments welcome

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HDTV’s Will Get Stupid Cheap Next Month - SWEEEEET! May 1, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 3:38 pm

Check this one out, according to HD Guru - Sony is not happy with its less-than-number-one status in flat panels. It’s planning to claw its way back into consumers’ hearts with deep price cuts on all of its 2008 models next month. Sounds good to me, comments welcome.

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AMD wants a piece of Intel’s business CPU pie April 28, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 6:07 pm

Slap on a ‘B’ to the processor name and you have a ‘business class’ processor. At least that is what AMD is going to tell you. Do you buy it? I see failure in their future. Bad timing on a new CPU business right now.

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Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: 29 Soviet Retro Posters SOME GREAT DESIGN WORK HERE!!! April 25, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 12:30 pm

One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind - this post showcases 29 incredible examples of this art-form. Very strong graphics are used to convey the Soviet brand. Nice collection!

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Google’s Ginormous Food Budget: $7,530 Per Googler April 24, 2008

Filed under: 1 — scorchman @ 4:41 pm

That free food Google gives to all its workers? It adds up. Very generous of a corporation to give so much to so many. Opposite of WalMart who watches their employees walk to the McDonald’s inside the store and eat it outside on the smoking patio = yuck!!!

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