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- Update: Clueless Dish Network rep did not follow disaster policy on $300 receiver demand to fire victim
- Earlier today, we reported that Dish Network demanded $300 from a couple for a receiver in a home that burned down in the Southern California wildfires. Additional info has come to my attention, via an email I just received from AT&T spokesman Brad...
- Tags: Network, Dish Network, AT&T Corp., Info, Karl, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Article puts the smackdown on some muni broadband critics
- Insanely, ragingly mad props to Karl, who writes the Municipal Report for Broadband Reports.com.Karl puts the smackdown on a buncha libertarians and right-wingers like there is a difference who have banded together as the Freedom Foundation in order to, as they say, serve the cause of "optimizing broadband deployment" in...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Karl, broadband, smackdown
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
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- On being detained in Cairo
- I've brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to "tweet" messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your Twitter stream and keep up with such urgent intelligence as, "Feeling bored," or "Currently surrounded by idiots." Or,...
- Tags: Twitter, James Karl Buck, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?
- The discussion about a UC Berkeley student that Twittered his arrest in Egypt and got help from the U.S. Embassy, the media and friends makes me wonder how long it will take to ban Twitter in the Arab world and elsewhere. Sound crazy? Perhaps not. Twitter is already banned in...
- Tags: Twitter, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Innovative model brings fiber to rural Vermont
- Innovative model brings fiber to rural VermontDownside to living in the BooniesPeople who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere should expect limited utility services. It is expensive for Telcos and Cable Companies and other utilities to provide the infrastructure for their services to a smattering of...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, fiber, Innovative model, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (2-palm)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (2-pocketpc)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (2-WinMacUnix)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Free Mercedes Screensaver (exe)
- Sit back and enjoy all these professional images displaying one of the most desired cars in the world. In remote 1883 Karl Benz founded a company and till nowadays it remains one of the most famous and expensive world brands, symbol of German auto industry. As you surely know, the...
- Tags: 3D
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Jaron Lanier's broadside against "open source religion" in Discover Magazine was well-timed. The turn of the year, and the evident turning of an era, offers a great time to see the success, and possible excesses, of the open source ideal with fresh eyes. Lanier...
- Tags: Innovation, Library, Attack, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Microsoft outlines what's coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8
- Microsoft outlines what's coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8Considering that coolness and ease of use...... are completely subjective measures, if the phone doesn't do what I need, it is neither cool nor useful. Lacking push mail connection to Exchange is a deal-breaker. Editing Office documents on an iPhone?...
- Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Mary Jo, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- BMW Classics Screensaver (zip)
- BMW was officially founded as a public company in 1922, but traces its origins to the pioneering days of German aviation all the way back to 1913. Two of these pioneering men, Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto, are credited by BMW as the "founding fathers".
- Tags: Screensaver, BMW AG
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidies
- Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesLet's end it altogether.Are we going to be paying this tax like the phone bill tax that paid for the Spanish-American War 100 years after the war ended?Terry ThomasAtlantaRE: Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesIt should have been ended a long...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Right Now IT, phone, rural area, rural phone subsidy, phone subsidy, cable, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
- I guess they read my blog in Nigeria
- I guess they read my blog in NigeriaA conspiricy after all ..The buyer now speaks up. And it now appears that the OEM/System Integrator that they are paying to assemble and distribute the laptops took it upon themselves to reconfigure those laptops with Windows on the basis of "thats...
- Tags: Operating systems, Business ethics, blog, Now IT, TSC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Karl Marx, Mandriva, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Dish Network to SoCal couple: fire or no fire, we want $300 for our receiver NOW!!
- Yup you read that right. And you've heard about the Southern California wildfires, have you not? Well, those extending the hand of mercy don't seem to include the good folks at Echostar, d/b/a the Dish Network. Karl...
- Tags: Network, Dish Network, Home, Tv & Home Theater, Call Centers, Personal Technology, It Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Polarion blinks in struggle over Subversion
- Polarion Software is donating the subversion.com domain name to the Subversion Corporation, a non-profit stewardship organization created to support the development of Subversion. Subversion is a popular open source version control package widely seen as the successor to CVS. The announcement will be made at the SubConf 2007 conference in...
- Tags: Eclipse, Domain Name, Plug-in, Polarion, Polarion Software, Subversion Corp., Subversive, SVNKit, Open Source, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Bush and planet Earth, any overlap?
- Today President George W. Bush's own special, invitation-only, climate change summit is wrapping up in Washington D.C. Earlier this week the United Nations held a conference of all members on the same suibject. Secretary of State Rice attended on behalf of the U.S. Bush could not allow...
- Tags: George W. Bush, Conference, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Yahoo, WPP join Microsoft in questioning Google-DoubleClick merger
- Microsoft isn't the only one questioning whether a Google-DoubleClick merger would be good for advertisers and consumers. During a panel on "The Changing Landscape" at the MiXX 2007 Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB conference in New York on September 24, Yahoo and WPP Plc representatives joined a Microsoft...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- How the BlackBerry Curve 8320 differs from other models
- Karl at BrokeIt.com has gotten hold of some comparison charts contrasting the BlackBerry 8320 with other models. Looking at the chart, it seems that the main difference between the 8320 and other models is the more powerful 2.0 megapixel camera and, of course,...
- Tags: BlackBerry Curve, Chart, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- New Net taxes could arrive in November
- New Net taxes could arrive in NovemberPaying More For Crappy SpeedsLook at Europe, where 10MB connection speeds are a joke....But as usual, we'll shell out the taxes and not protest at all...after all, our taxes are going towards winning the war in Iraq, not towards securing our borders and advancing...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Strategy, New Net tax, tax, government
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
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