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Archive for January, 2009
Fifth-Dimension Treatment – Tatsuyuki Tanaka
21 Jan 2009[+] GIRL: Not yet? – – – – – [+] GIRL: Are they really going to do it? BOY: I’m telling you, they’ll do it. Watch. – – – – – [+] DOCTOR: So… what seems to be the problem? – – – – – [+] PATIENT: Uh, it’s just some pain in one of [...]
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Futuristic credit card ads from the ’70s
20 Jan 2009Sanwa Bank ran some funky magazine ads for the JCB card in the early 1970s. Date with Miss Venus… Travel to Mars… Brain transplant… Space restaurant… Vacation home on the moon… Time machine… Rent-a-rocket… Life extension medication… All OK with the JCB card!!? – – – – – “I’m back from my reconnaissance mission. This [...]
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USB Lunchbox Warmer Heats Your Bento to a Toasty 140°F
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20 Jan 2009If the lunch that you pack tastes better hot and you can’t stand the thought of leaving your cubicle to queue for the office microwave (if your office even has a microwave) then you might consider the Thanko USB powered lunchbox. It will heat your lunch to a toasty 140°F (60°Cand it is USB powered, [...]
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20 Jan 2009Martin Punts 70/70 Test To Next Chairman multichannel.com Pricing: the Final Frontier telephonyonline.com Obama s Balancing Act on Digital TV nytimes.com Bell Canada offers buyouts to 1,500 cellular-news.com Sierra Wireless debuts USB modem for Sprint network networkworld.com Global Crossing to Expand Trans-Atlantic Cable Capacity xchangemag.com Optimum Lightpath Intros Hosted Voice, Web Services cable360.net Cablevision Gets [...]
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Consumer Advocates Embrace FCC’s Latest Comcast Inquiry – Comcast tells us they’re still digesting the letter…
In: Communication|Computer|Hardware|Site Feeds|Software|VoIP
20 Jan 2009Yesterday we reported that the FCC was suddenly concerned about how Comcast’s new network management system treats independent VoIP operators. As previously discussed, the new system temporarily de-prioritizes the traffic for customers who meet two criteria: they’re on a congested node, and they have been using 70% or more of their assigned upstream or downstream [...]
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Inauguration Photosynths
20 Jan 2009By Evan Ackerman Microsoft’s Photosynth, which we’ve covered here once or twice (or three times) before, is being used by CNN to photosynth (it’s noun and a verb, I guess) the moment when Obama was inaugurated. If you’re not familiar with the photosynth software, it’s able to take a bunch of different images of the [...]
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- Tags: cnn, dimensional_scene, inauguration, photosynth, synths
Just a friendly reminder about the Prilosec OTC “Get Tough On Heartburn” Contest for Tickets to the SuperBowl XLIV – which I wished was the SuperBowl XLIII, which will be the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Arizona Cardinals. Go Steelers! Sign up, enter… win tickets. Send a ticket to me. Good luck to you all! [ [...]
AT&T Starts Selling DirecTV February 1 – AT&T staff being trained across 22-state footprint
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20 Jan 2009Back in July of last year, AT&T announced that the company s agreement with Dish Network to sell bundled TV, phone and broadband packages would be terminated at the end of the year. Not long after that, AT&T announced a partnership to market and sell co-branded DirecTV services exclusively starting in January 2009. These services [...]
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Hosting Company Closure Sees Spam Almost Stop
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20 Jan 2009Spam volume has significantly declined since hosting company McColo went down on Tuesday night. The site went down after four months of investigation by security experts and an investigative piece by Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs, which claimed that 75% of all spam was being sent via the hosting service. From CNET: Jose Nazario of [...]
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- Tags: arbor_networks, botnets, campaigns, cnet, control_servers, eastern_time, four_months, hosting_company, hosting_service, investigative_piece, relay_spam, security_experts, tuesday_night, washington_post
Nerd Up Your Apartment With Star Trek Outlet and Light Switch Covers
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20 Jan 2009If you want to add a bit of uber-nerd Star Trek flair to your bachelor pad and don’t want to bankrupt yourself in the process, you might consider buying a couple of the Star Trek TNG Plate Covers. They come in standard U.S. sizes and are made for simple installation. Price: .99 [Think Geek via [...]
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- Tags: bachelor_pad, flair, nerd, star_trek
Verizon Workers Say Telco Neglecting Copper – NY union workers mirror complaints in other states…
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20 Jan 2009While Verizon is praised for embracing FTTH, the telco has also repeatedly come under fire for neglecting copper infrastructure, union workers in several states saying that necessary resources needed to support DSL and landline networks are no longer available. Workers say that preventative maintenance programs have been abandoned, and they’re being asked to implement band-aid [...]
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The ‘Plot To Kill Google’ – AT&T, Microsoft lobbyists wage lobbying blitzkrieg
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20 Jan 2009Google’s positions on things like network neutrality and wireless competition have made them a serious target for Comcast, Microsoft, AT&T and other lobbyists, who’ve been on a tear the last year trying to smear the search giant’s public image. Efforts have ranged from Comcast and Microsoft lobbyists’ use of corn farmers to attack Google on [...]
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The North Face ETip Gloves
20 Jan 2009By Andrew Liszewski Yeah, yeah, I know, another pair of touchscreen-friendly gloves. But these ones are different, trust me. First off, they’re from The North Face, a company who knows how to do cold-weather gear right. Not some fly-by-night operation who promises their gloves will keep you warm, only to have you end up in [...]
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Epson MovieMate 55 Projector/DVD Player
20 Jan 2009By Andrew Liszewski I tend to avoid ‘all-in-one’ devices like this because they always seem to prove the old “jack of all trades, master of none” adage. But the only reason I’d buy a projector would be for portability reasons, so having a DVD player and 8 W speakers built-in would definitely sweeten the deal. [...]
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Tokyoflash’s New Kisai Keisan Watch
20 Jan 2009By Andrew Liszewski Tokyoflash once again proves that if telling time is not your number one priority when it comes to designing a watch, you’ll never have to worry about running out of new ideas. However this time around things aren’t as confusing, as long as you’re willing to do a little math. The watch [...]
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