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- Senators oppose plan to curb phone taxes
- Senators oppose plan to curb phone taxesWhat! And cut their kickback checks! ?Right... a politician actually do something for his/her constituents! That would be like the oil corps going green... ]:)Well, here's a radical ideaLet wireless providers charge more for rural service.Why in this age should we subsidize at all?After...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, phone, phone tax
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Telecom tax imposed in 1898 finally ends
- Telecom tax imposed in 1898 finally endsPhone tax unfairThis is progress of a sort, I rarely use long distance yet pay an excise tax every month. This tax is unfair and should be based on usage, not for simply having a phone.I like the fact that......they've voted to continue to...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, phone tax, telecommunications, tax
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
- Senators target Net, phone taxes
- Senators target Net, phone taxesinternet taxesI think it is a very dumb idea to tax the internet as most people don't use the phone part of it. It is there but very few can make it work properly or don't have the know how. ...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, phone tax, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
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- Gallery: Motorola unwraps double touch flip phone
- Motorola claims the Krave ZN4 is the first touch phone to feature an interactive clear flip with touch--along with a regular screen that works with its own touch. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Phone, Touch, Motorola Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Andy Smith, Krave ZN4, Motorola, touchscreen, flip, phone
- Image galleries 2008-10-15
- Facebook and its ilk are for the enterprise too
- Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may make sense to bring them into the enterprise instead of buying some corporate social networking application. Gartner analyst...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Chances, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the new
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the newMulti-touch trackpad: gimmick or useful feature?The thought of having to use gestures with 4 fingers on a small trackpad as opposed to a touch screen display sounds absolutely nightmarish in terms of UI usefulness. Multi-touch on the iPhone is a total joke...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, multi-touch, Apple MacBook, keyboard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Microsoft pushes idea of "Apple tax"
- Microsoft pushes idea of "Apple tax"upgrade tax?all the mac laptops are upgradable in terms of ram and hard disk. what else do you need to upgrade on a laptop?I think MS should push for Apple salesThe first piece of software that gets installed on a Mac is Windows and at...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Apple Inc., tax, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Microsoft pushes idea of "Apple tax"
- With more people turning to Apple products, and the holiday season just around the corner, Microsoft is keen to emphasize the fact that users looking to switch from Microsoft face the "Apple tax." by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?
- Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?Off course >: )Yes i would especially if it comes with Windows 7 and has quite a bigger than 22" and Full HD screen.Seriously it is not everyday that Microsoft release an innovative and exciting consumer product.Yes. Heck, I have...
- Tags: Keyboards, Games, Food & Beverage, Surface Table, Oahu, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support
- Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with tech installations and troubleshooting. Circuit City has Firedog, and Office Depot has Tech Depot Services. Now LG Electronics is trying...
- Tags: Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Cable, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.So if the task gets sold to ONE bidder......what company is big enough to "connect" the entire country? And wouldn't that be creating a monopoly? Or wouldn't a monopoly exist, because the system is free?If it is free, where is the financial...
- Tags: Taxes, Wireless LANs, Free trade, WIRELESS, Internet, tax, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Economics of open source remains an academic challenge
- Explain the economics of open source, especially as it relates to international trade. Give us charts, graphs, and especially models. We like models. Then just wait for the phone call from Scandinavia. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Theory, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no
- Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, noThe choose their words carefully. Like "has access to" a computer withSilverlight. They might lead you to think that one in four computers has Silverlight installed. But, NO, that just means one in four persons has access somewhere, somehow, to Silverlight, though possibly...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Silverlight 2
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devices
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devicesNokia key lockHaving been primarily a Windows Mobile user for the past couple of years, I too was going crazy having to lock my E71 from the power button menu until I remembered from my old Nokia phone days that the quick...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Handy Tools Pack, Mobile software Monday, mobile, S60, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- BlueAnt V1
- BlueAnt V1What I've been waiting forI've owned a half dozen bluetooth headsets and despised them all. The speech recognition and synthesis capabilities of the v1 make it an order of magnitude easier to deal with than the others. Answering the phone is really hands free, just say "answer"....
- Tags: Speech recognition, BlueAnt
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
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