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- The NSA phone call database is illegal
- Since shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C. the National Security Agency has been collecting private phone records through a program of cooperation Once again, President Bush has botched the job and opened the door to sweeping government abuse of...
- Tags: Americans, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
- 130 mln Americans own cameraphones
- There are an estimated 2 bln mobile phone subscribers worldwide and 194.5 mln in the United States, according to CTIA. About 130 mln Americans own cell phones with camera capabilities and approximately half of those camera phones also shoot video, Ovum said.
- Tags: telephone, Americans
- Blog posts 2005-12-25
- Americans throw away 50 mln computers and 130 mln cell phones annually
- Americans dispose of 2 mln tons of electronic products a year - including 50 mln computers and 130 mln cell phones - and by 2010, the nation will be discarding 400 mln electronic units annually, according to the International Association of Electronics Recyclers.
- Tags: Americans
- Blog posts 2005-01-23
- Americans throw away 50 mln computers and 130 mln cell phones annually
- Americans dispose of 2 mln tons of electronic products a year - including 50 mln computers and 130 mln cell phones - and by 2010, the nation will be discarding 400 mln electronic units annually, according to the International Association of Electronics Recyclers.
- Tags: Americans
- Blog posts 2005-01-23
- 15% of Americans to cut the telephone cord by 2009
- Merely 3% of Americans use a cell phone as their only phone today. But Yankee Group predicts that by 2009 as many as 15% of American adults will have cut the cord. If that happens, pollsters would face the frightening proposition that more than one in seven adults would have...
- Tags: telephone, Americans
- Blog posts 2004-09-28
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- Speculation over possible Skype backdoor
- There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- What people hate most about health insurance
- What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- 90% of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PC
- According to the Forrester Research, although Gen Y is a small generation of 18- to 28-year-olds, comprising only 38 mln US adults, it sets the pace for technology adoption. 90% of Gen Yers own a PC, and 82% own a mobile phone. But it is technology use that sets this...
- Tags: Generation X, Mobile, PC, Generation Y, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...
- Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama"Democracy cannot exist without strong differences"I disagree. Seems to me that democracy works in a consensus environment just fine. What it does require, though, is toleration for differences in opinion and the ability of citizens to say what they think without fear of...
- Tags: Obama, Netroots Nation, Netroots
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Where's Sarah Connor?Will it change its shape to an LA policeman and chase me in a tractor trailer truck?Mercury?It's the only metal I know of that is liquid at room temperature.RE: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Reminds me of liquid-sodium-cooled nuclear...
- Tags: liquid metal-cooled CPU, metal-cooled CPU, water-cooled system, Liquid metal-cooled CPU, CPU, Galinstan, Mercury, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer
- Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...
- Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Zoor Business Kit (zip)
- Zoor Business Kit is an ultimate 3 in 1 solution for daily communication. You can now perform routine business communication tasks like a charm. Zoor Business Kit comprises three best in class directories. Personal Directory, Your Personal Contacts Manager. Business Directory, Yellow Pages With Zoor Power Search. PTCL Directory, Latest...
- Tags: Directory, Zoor Systems, Zoor Business Kit, Backups
- Software downloads 2008-07-21
- iPhone 2.0 performance issues: Contacts
- One of the consequences of new software is bloat. In its worst manifestation new features get added at the expense of core feature performance. A perfect example of this is iPhone 2.0 software, specifically the Contacts application. When I migrated from iPhone 2G to 3G I synchronized...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Performance, Contacts, 3G, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Average US household credit card debt is $8,565
- Americans carry $2.56 trln in consumer debt, up 22% since 2000 alone, according to the Federal Reserve Board. The average household’s credit card debt is $8,565, up almost 15% from 2000. ?verage US student emerges from college carrying $20,000 in educational debt. Household debt, including mortgages and credit cards, represents...
- Tags: Credit Card, Debt, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- Towards low-cost LED lightingA terrific ideaThis is a great advance and I hope the technology proves practical. Now if Americans will just get their heads on straight and build about 50 nukes and shut down all oil and gas-fired power plants, The USA will no longer be held hostage...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, LED lighting
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
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