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Cable companies stole telcos' lunch in 2Q
(AP:NEW YORK) Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for broadband Internet subscribers.
INO News |
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Google Admits its AOL Investment May Be Impaired
Google warned that its 5 percent stake in AOL may be worth less than the $1 billion.
Baseline |
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Killion: China welcomes the world
BEIJING - Carefully scripted. Appropriately dazzling. That was the Beijing opening ceremony. China had it all under control Friday night, even managing to make the Chinese and Olympic flags flutter prettily in the breeze. Mood in rest of Beijing LIVE: Purdy: Blog in the smog Profiles of local athletes Special section 360 views: Cube Inside Cube Bird's Nest
San Jose Mercury News |
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Recycling tip: 'Reusing' items often overlooked
Those who get into the habit of finding ways to reuse frequently find that not only can it be rewarding, but it can also be fun as you challenge yourself to find new uses for items that previously would end up in the recycle bin or rubbish barrel.
Marblehead Reporter |
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Cable companies stole telcos' lunch in 2Q
Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for broadband Internet subscribers.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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Cable companies stole telcos' lunch in 2Q
Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for broadband Internet subscribers. But in the just-ended quarter, that heat appears to have reached the intensity of a blowtorch, with the telcos losing out in both voice and broadband service. "Cable is taking share, and it is ...
The State |
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AJAX World RIA Conference: AJAX with jQuery
jQuery is a rapidly growing, popular JavaScript library. Its powerful and modular architecture, which emphasizes a simple yet heavily extensible API, has helped it to become one of the most popular Javascript Libraries. Because of its dead-simple plug-in architecture, many even begin extending jQuery's core features within hours of first using it. This talk will demonstrate how the library ...
SYS-CON Media |
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AJAX World RIA Conference - Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications Into Web 2.0 Using GWT
The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive; adding AJAX widgets results in a complex, unmaintainable application. Both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers. Google Web Toolkit -- the SDK that allows you to write AJAX interfaces in Java -- enables your Java developers to layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app. ...
SYS-CON Media |
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Facebook's (futile) malware exorcism - can social networks fight back?
Until the masses are educated perhaps through a Social Networking Security Consortium, the social networks will continue to fight an uphill battle to protect themselves and their users. by Jennifer Leggio
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Katie Holmes chops the bob down to a pixie
NEW YORK - Katie Holmes just keeps taking it off. Mrs. Tom Cruise, who made a huge hairstyle splash when she helped fuel Hollywood's bob craze late last year, has been seen out and about in New York with a new pixie cut. Photos popping up on the Internet show Holmes sporting a shaggier version of the short 'do, with long bangs and a tapered neck.
East Valley Tribune |
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Do it Yourself Mojave
As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC. It's not that I wasn't happy with my old PC -- it was a generic ASUS M2N32 Athlon X2 5000+ with 4GB of RAM and an ATI HD...
ZDNet |
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Lake in the Hills man charged with child porn
A 33-year-old Lake in the Hills man Thursday was accused of buying child pornography online.
Daily Herald |
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Three New AIR Apps To Bring Facebook To Your Desktop
If you love both Facebook and Adobe AIR, then you're going to love these three new AIR apps for your desktop: Facedesk, Zebr , and Flair . Facedesk is a standalone application that lets you use Facebook without having a browser window open. Both Zebr and Flair are notification programs for receiving alerts about Facebook status updates, wall posts, messages, and more. The last two are a bit ...
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Poll: What Should Be Done About The "I Am Rich" App?
By now you've surely heard the story about the "I Am Rich" app that sold in Apple's iTunes store for the ridiculous price of $999.99 (U.S.). What you may not have heard was that there were eight people who actually bought the app - six in the U.S. and two Europeans. So far, there only appears to be one person who bought the app in error, if a certain screenshot circling the net is to be ...
ReadWriteWeb |
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Verizon Voice Mail Upgrade Planned for Early Aug. 10
Verizon's voice mail service in California will be unavailable for a short period early Sunday when technicians upgrade the system's software.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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The definitive guide to watching the Olympics online [Online Video]
The folks who are bringing you the Olympics online don't actually want you to watch their coverage. NBC and Microsoft are delaying the most popular events by three hours so that it won't interfere... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Teacher's Aide Sentenced For Internet Luring
A teacher's aide at a Jefferson County elementary school, was sentenced Thursday to three years sex offender intensive supervision probation.
KMGH 7 Denver |
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Verizon Wireless to Celebrate Grand Opening of Newest Communications Store in Westfield
In response to the growing demand for the company's voice and data products and services, Verizon Wireless will celebrate the grand opening of its newest Communications Store in South Plainfield next weekend.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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California's Computers Can't Calculate Minimum Numbers
WASHINGTON----Citizens Against Government Waste today highlighted the report from the August 5, 2008, Sacramento Bee, "California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller says."
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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High gas prices driving students to online classes
Higher gas prices may have curtailed driving habits but they don't seem to have dented the learning habit. In fact, when it comes to online education, enrollment is booming.
The Daily Advance |
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Getting your Olympics fix online
CBC is broadcasting about 1,500 hours of live events online. And if that's not enough, there are ways around broadcaster geoblocking
The Globe and Mail |
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Ex-Dell India country head Anandan joins Microsoft India as MD
Filling in the vacuum created by the high-profile exit of Neelam Dhawan -- who quit Microsoft India to join Hewlett Packard (India) in June this year, Microsoft today announced the appointment of Rajan Anandan -- former Dell India head (Dell India VP and Country GM) as its new managing director.
Business Standard India |
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The Internet Meme Timeline
CNet pointed out a great use of timeline creation site "Dipity" that has created a timeline of internet fads and memes. While there are some subtle inaccuracies and a few notable omissions it seems to have touched on most of the big stuff. Everything from GOTO being considered harmful to "the website is down", it's a great trip down memory lane if you don't mind a few speedbumps like the goatse ...
Slashdot |
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NBC Universal surpasses $1B mark in Olympic ads
The network, which is planning 3,600 hours of TV and Internet coverage for the 17-day event, announced it has garnered more than $1 billion in advertising revenue.
Crain's New York Business |
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Volumizer Puts Your Mac Drives on the Dock [Featured Mac Download]
Mac only: When you want to keep your Desktop clear but still get easy access to disks and network drives, you want Volumizer. This simple utility adds your Mac's hard drive and other...
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