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Have you taken a look at AT&T’s Terms of Service for High-Speed Internet (HSI) lately? Some changes they’ve made are downright draconian. In the section labeled “5.1 Suspension/Termination,” AT&T says the normal stuff about lack of payment and so forth. But clause (c) says they can terminate your service for conduct [...]

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While Microsoft said the “stealth install” of updated Windows update files — even when users had disabled automatic updating — which we wrote about earlier, was harmless, it turns out it wasn’t quite that simple. For XP users, if you happened to do a “repair” using a repair CD, you [...]

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Apple warned that some hacked iPhones would become bricked (specificially, a bricked device is only useful as a brick or doorstop — it does not mean recoverable data loss) with the latest update (1.1.1) which was released yesterday. Indeed, some hacked phones have been bricked. But now some reports [...]

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While Google clearly dominates search, it’s Yahoo! that gets the most clicks, according to a study released this week by Compete, Inc., a site with a vested interest in search analytics, as it says on its site, “Compete’s Search Analytics are the starting point to build search marketing campaigns that create [...]

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When Microsoft launched Windows Vista, it said that Windows XP sales would be halted on January 30th of 2008. Since then, however, it’s become evident that Windows XP is still in demand, as evidenced by the continued sales of the OS by OEM vendors such as Dell and others.
Now Microsoft [...]

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Palm has been struggling, but with the introduction of this new phone, they hope that an inexpensive PalmOS phone can make a real impact in the market.
Hoping to entice consumers looking for a low-cost upgrade, Palm has priced the new “Centro,” a smaller and lighter version of its Treo smartphone, to [...]

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The Newton was a little too bulky to really fit into the PDA market, and it died a lamented death. Now, rumor has it that Apple is looking into a PDA to flesh out its line … and based on what it’s done with the iPod Touch and iPhone, it [...]

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You might have heard of the concept of a bachelor auction. Usually a group of hunks is auctioned off for a good cause, to whichever woman can “buy him.” (Even Frasier and Cheers had episodes featuring such auctions). It’s usually for charity. Well, they say charity [...]