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- Hey Time Warner: Left hand, meet right hand
- So just days after the news broke that Time Warner was getting ready to test a pay-for-pipe rate plan for Road Runner customers, HBO announced that it would start making some of its shows available to subscribers via the Web for free. (Henry Blodgett, for one, is convinced the new...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Road Runner, Subscriber, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Senators can't agree on municipal broadband rules
- Senators can't agree on municipal broadband rules$20 is fair market?Sign me up. Road Runner is outta here.Can't Agree? Must not have been paid enough yet...Give the Telecomm Lobby in Washington time...WmHCompetition?"That's my bent...whenever possible I don't like to see local governments competing with the private sector." When we have...
- Tags: Vertical industries, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Road Runner, government, broadband rule, broadband
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- Time Warner profit up on cable, films
- Time Warner profit up on cable, filmsTime Warner profit up on cable, filmsOf course their profit is up, look how much they charge for cable and internet.FOr once I will agree ...with you Loveroc ...I have TW basic and Tier 1 service, and ONE HBO, no digitial and nothing else.In...
- Tags: Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Time Warner Inc., Road Runner, cable
- Discussion threads 2006-02-01
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road Runner
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road RunnerRoadRunnerThere prices are very very high. I live in a area that does not have fiber optic and cannot get any DSL from any company. BellSouth will not update our phone system. There are about 600 phone users in our area but they say...
- Tags: DSL, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Roadrunner, Road Runner, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-17
- Road Runner zip-bangs to 6mbps
- Road Runner zip-bangs to 6mbpsbajeebers!85 bones a month? That's a big difference in moola for a bandwidth difference you'll rarely notice in practice unless you download a whole lotta porn.Cutting Their Own ThroatsLet me tell you a story about Cincinnati's Zoomtown DSL. I used to pay $29.95 a month...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, DSL, TWC, broadband, Road Runner, Time-Warner Cable
- Discussion threads 2004-07-30
- AOL, Road Runner team up for broadband
- AOL, Road Runner team up for broadbandWhat moron would do this???Why would you pay for a kick-ass broadband connection, and then turn around and pay AOL $14.95 a month to put training wheels on it?Apparently the suckers they get don't realize you can find everything AOL offers elsewhere much cheaper,...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, team, Road Runner, America Online Inc., broadband
- Discussion threads 2004-04-22
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- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- 10 essential gadgets for studentsImpressive...A laptop with the same specs as a laptop! Wow!Only 2 are "essential"Out of the list of 10 only #1 is "essential" for students. If in college #10 is also needed, but the other 8 are nothing but luxuries and two are just plain useless....
- Tags: Scanners, Digital music, ONLY 2, essential gadget, Digital Pen, phone, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets. It's the second portable navigation device we've seen from the Finnish cell phone manufacturer (the first being the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation) and it's a big improvement over the 330. The design is a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system, power button, Nokia Corp., Nokia 500, Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Ego Cup
- With many states recently passing hands-free laws banning the use of handsets while driving, we're seeing a flood of new Bluetooth devices into what is already a pretty crowded market. The Funkwerk Ego Cup is one such device, promising clear calls without fear of a citation. It stands apart from...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Ego Cup, cup-holder
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- The $200 web tablet ... dream on!
- The $200 web tablet ... dream on!Reinventing the wheelIt's been done albeit not quite $200 but the technology has been here--The Nokia N800/810. I've got an 800. The 800 shares the same multi-core TI ARM processor as the 810, except the 810 has a slide out keyboard. ...
- Tags: Notebooks, Channel management, Keyboards, Operating systems, OS 2008, web tablet, laptop computer, Web, Nokia Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- 2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium
- Photo gallery:2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X PremiumIn a major update, the 2009 Subaru Forester features a longer wheelbase and a modernized exterior design. And, for the first time, a navigation system is available. Unfortunately, our test vehicle was the low trim 2.5X Premium model, and navigation can only be had in...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Subaru Forester, Subaru
- Product reviews 2008-07-22
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
- AMD on road to recovery, says research firmWhile this may sound too simple...all AMD needs is a processor that would outperform what Intel is offering. The CPU market is a lot less sophisticated than analysts would have you believe. But then what would they have to write about.When AMD had...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
- Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of...
- Tags: Recovery, Technology Business Research, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, processors, servers, PCs, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-07-21
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