ShareBy Alice Hill
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UPDATE Jan 2009: I am re-running this piece because the info is still true. If you are thinking about a pre-paid cell phone plan to save some $$$ this recession, please read the posting below and think again.
It started as a Christmas gift idea. My mother is from the generation that thinks a [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Shades of the “Great Firewall of China.” But rather than blocking of outbound Internet access to certain, er, sites China would prefer its populace to avoid, what has been found is monitoring of Skype usage.
A report (.PDF) by researchers at Citizen Lab, a research group that focuses on politics and the [...]

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By Scott Martin
Guest Writer
The Garmin Nuvi 755T, 765T, 775T and 785T were recently announced and will be available on the store shelves here in the coming weeks. I was able to get my hands on a Nuvi 755T unit ahead of their launch for a review of their new offering that includes a nice handful [...]

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You have to hand it to Oracle’s Larry Ellison. He’s not known for being a blushing flower, and this week he unleashed a fine tirade on the computer industry’s over-use of faddish terms. Case in point: Cloud Computing. Here’s an excerpt from Larry himself:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In April, MySpace and three of the four major record labels announced “MySpace Music.” At the time I said it was only a matter of time before the fourth, EMI joined in, and it has — at the last minute, in fact. And Thursday at 12:00 AM EDT the site [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
You’ll recall that despite its recently-filed lawsuit against the FCC over P2P-throttling practices, Comcast agreed it would still detail its network management policies to the organization, as originally ordered. On Friday Comcast provided that documentation to the FCC.
In fact, as part (.PDF) of the documentation sent to the FCC, Comcast now [...]

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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
You can also watch the ad here now if you don’t feel like waiting for the television debut. The question remains…does not talking about Windows Vista or even Microsoft or any sort of project or philosophy help in the Mac vs. Apple battle? Is the battle even worth addressing?
Alice’s Take: It’s a much, [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
For those of you who were anxiously awaiting the release of Google Chrome, the new browser that Google just announced yesterday, Google had an 11 AM PDT press conference, and dished the details, as well as the download.
The download is available at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/ (which is the main site; actual download is at [...]