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"Nextel Communications "improperly obtained" prototypes of Verizon Wireless cell phones with a walkie-talkie feature, Verizon alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The charges surface about a week before Verizon Wireless is set to introduce cell phones that connect instantly. Nextel has so far been the sole U.S. carrier to offer such a "push to talk" service. The suit, filed in
Most of you know I am quite passionate about the battle against the RIAA. I have always advocated there has to be a new business model that is fair to consumers like the iTunes solution apple has come up with. There decision which will sell a lot of newspapers and will allow a bunch of Lawyers to Buy multi-million dollar
If your a privacy advocate of looking for information on how technology is going to continue to consume and be part of everything we do you need to keep your ears to the pavement about RFID tags. Imagine someone handing you a $20.00 bill for payment of a bicycle at your garage sale. You take that $20.00 along with the
In the first step to getting rid of those idiot Telemarketers calls, I have added all of my telephone numbers to the "National Do Not Call Registry" the process was painless and it took about 2 minutes, 1 minute to enter the numbers and 1 minute to click on the verifying URL that was delivered by e-mail. Let's see if
Every once in a while I go back and read the original mission statement I came up with for this site. A reader posted part of that mission statement on there web site yesterday and I think every now and again it is good to be reminded what Geek News Central is all about. We may not always meet every
I found an interesting article on InformationWeek.com that contains some emails by people who "[say] the spam problem is overhyped." The crap spewing forth ranges from an pseudo-intelligent: "We think that spam blockers are a good solution to the problem. Much better than legislation that wastes our time and money on a problem that government can never control anyway" All
Wireless is taking over everyone and everything in it's path! Including me, I've got a 802.11b wirless network set-up in my home for my Dell Axim "Dell Computer is going wild with wireless. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker late announced late Thursday a partnership to let Dell notebook owners sign up in advance to access T-Mobile USA's hot spots.
As the price gap has been narrowing this does not come as a surprise I had already made the decision some time ago that any new monitors we were going to buy were in fact going to be LCD. Even though is some big price differences when you start looking at features and quality of screen eye fatigue etc I
The Register has received an undisclosed number of letters with threats of Consumers wanting to Boycott the artist supporting the RIAA litigation against file swappers. [The Register] My personal opinion on this that unless there is widespread National Organization and true protest with massive amounts of people sporadic protest will have little or no effect.
I am not surprised and half expect that the more the RIAA harps about this the more people are going to flock to the service to see what happens. The threat is still real but as someone commented on they sure as hell are not going to file lawsuits to the up-wards of 57 million people who have or are
It is unfortunate that the SCO lawsuit against IBM may have a big impact on Open Source. I think I would be a little pissed myself if I found line after line of code that was exactly the same down to spelling mistakes in a product I am making money on in someone else's product. If someone at IBM deliberately
It seems like Congress got a wake-up call just in the last year, finally realizing that spam and p2p networks are getting overhand. Anyways, it's great what they are doing with both issues of internet pollution. "Facing the threat of a legal crackdown against people who swap songs online, the head of the parent of file-sharing software Morpheus on Thursday
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