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Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 3 maker of wireless telephones, on Monday said it landed an agreement to provide phone handsets to AT&T Wireless, extending its push into the high end of the U.S. wireless market. [News.com]
A very unique perspective of what Microsoft Customer Support has had to deal with over the last week since the Blaster Worm has been on the loose. If you are a regular reader here you would have known about this issue mid July. [The Scobelizer Weblog] If you have a friend that is bitching about this issue. Tune them into
A lot of great weblogs link to Geek News Central we are not able to provide a direct link on the main page to all of those that link to us. But I thought I should try and acknowledge those that do. A lot of great reads in that list and we recommend that you visit them. I know there
SCO's lawyers admissions that it want's to invalidate Open Source and the Linux GPL has raised my eyebrows and has the attention of the entire computing world. I personally think that the desperation they are showing shows that the dynamics of software licensing is about to change. Obviously corporations do not want to have to spend millions of dollars to
In a few weeks we will be revealing our complete list of news sites we read to cull data for this website. Without a news aggreator it would be nearly impossible for us to dig out the nuggets and put our spin on them. Wired has a pretty good article about aggreators and how people are using them. My goal
Those that know me well will laugh at that headline but hey you have to keep things humorous. I have always wanted to sky-dive but having spent 20 years working on and in airplanes the idea of jumping out of a perfectly good one is not a idea that most fly-boys think as appealing. But a new invention that lets
If you want to keep the lights on next time the lights go out get yourself a generator. Word of advise hire a electrician to install a bypass circuit so that you can completely safely disconnect from the power grid when you go on generator power. If you don't install a bypass circuit make sure your not the idiot that
I am 3 weeks away from taking my first real vacation in 5 years and will be spending time with my family in Michigan and will be heading out to spend some time in the Windy City. I would love to attend any blogger functions in the Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois areas. So if your having a function in
We had a problem yesterday where our site was not updating as new post where being entered. We have yet to figure out exactly what happened but this far we think it was a malformed trackback ping. So if you tried us yesterday and got a blank page that was the cause. I went into a mild panic as it
Microsoft said it had thwarted a hacker's attempt to attack the software maker's most important website with a computer worm that itself contained a critical flaw. The so-called Blaster worm, which still infects an estimated 300,000 computers worldwide, was programmed to bombard the Windows Update site from the stroke of midnight in each country Saturday morning. The attacks began midmorning
If you have documents online you may want to consider what they contain or used to contain. It is amazing what document editing leaves behind! [New Scientist]
I have received 2 already so those of you getting a e-mail that references new Citibank terms beware it is bogus. [SiliconValley]
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