Typhoon disrupts Asia Internet, telephone service

Seabed movements believed caused by Typhoon Morakat damaged seven undersea cables linking Asian nations, disrupting Internet and telephone services, a Taiwanese telephone company said Friday.

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A TiVo newbie’s nightmare

When it comes to computers, I do OK at handling tech problems that arise. TVs and their components — not so much.

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Finger-Thin Cables Tie Internet Together

The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor.

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Microsoft's VP of Interactive Entertainment Business in Europe, Chris Lewis, tells GI.biz that the removal of the HDMI cable from the Elite packaging was to enable more "flexibility to consumers who can then decide which type of cable they want for their specific gaming and TV sc …

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Kotaku reports that according to GameStop employees, new models of the Xbox 360 Elite - now arriving in stores across the US - no longer ship with an HDMI cable. OK, so they include a component cable instead right? Wrong. The new model ships with only the SD composite cables.

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Imagine a world where you wouldn't need to plug in your electronics to get their power or charged and totally replacing the need of batteries. Well that world might be here...

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As regular Cheapskate readers know, HDMI cables are insanely overpriced. Pity the uninformed consumer who walks into, say, Best Buy, and walks out $40 to $90 poorer. Happens all the time.

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The non-profit investigative journalism site ProPublica is reporting today that cables sent to CIA headquarters detailing the waterboarding of captured al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in August 2002 may indicate that doctors were involved in monitoring his torture.

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We live in Sweden, a very organized country when it comes to things like infrastructure, electricity, etc. However, there are some countries that have a more "organic" approach to their cabling…

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Over a year after the internet was set ablaze with rage after seeing Monster's HDMI cable scam, we've just been notified that the tactic is still being used in at least one Fry's Electronics store.

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Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

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Large parts of Egypt are without Internet at the moment, multiple sources report.

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Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed. It is thought the FLAG FEA, SMW4, and SMW3 lines, near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt, have all been cut.

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More than 50 people have been evacuated from a gondola at Whistler ski resort in Canada after a tower supporting the cables partially collapsed last night. One of the gondola cars hit a bus shelter, while two more were left dangling when the tower collapsed.

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The cable comes with a Migration Assistant that performs a similar function to Apple's Migration Assistant -- it copies music, movies, photos, files, and Internet preferences from the PC to the Mac at USB 2.0 speeds.

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e put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way.

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Telecommunications company Reliance Globalcom has announced the results of its investigation into a rash of cable cuts that occurred earlier this year.

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We've always believed that the perceived quality boost that comes from using high-end cables is really just a trick of the mind (read: justifying the ridiculous cost of premium cables to yourself) -- if you've dropped enough cash, you can probably hear anything you want.

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Ever wonder why gadget store employees push Monster cables like they're crack? @!$%#in' markups, just like you suspected (or knew) all along.

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It has been nearly two weeks since the last reported cable failure in the Middle East, but questions continue to swirl regarding the cause (or causes) of the failures.

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Getting a brand new high-definition TV should be an enjoyable experience, but when you open up that big box you could also be opening up a frustrating can of worms. HDTVs are complicated gadgets.

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Work has begun to repair two damaged internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were severed last week. Flag Telecom, one of the firms responsible for the cables, says it will take about a week to be fixed.

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A passionate discourse on the objective reality that millions of global citizens, especially Americans, seem to be completely oblivious too.

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Several cut cable lines off the coast of Egypt are creating a major slowdown and even complete outages of Internet services in parts of the Middle East and India.

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Package Contents: X-230 Speaker System (2 satellites, 1 subwoofer), color-coded audio cables, user manual, 2-year limited warranty. Crank up the audio on your PC with the Logitech X-230 Speaker System. It delivers clean, crisp, consistent sound from your games, music, and more.

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It never pays to buy a Monster cable first. It doesn't even make sense to buy the "marked down" $50 cable you can buy if you don't want Monster. Go online, order your cables, and wait. The only people who should buy Monster cable are people who light cigars with Benjamins.

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Cable creep happens slowly. You buy your Mac, you setup the keyboard and mouse, and everything is fine. But then comes the digital camera, the printer, the iPod, the camcorder, the USB hub and everything else. Before you know it, you have a tangled mess of cables on your desk.

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Review: RoadWire Keycard Travel Lock

One year ago I got my hands on a laptop lock system developed by RoadWired. The lock was praised by Gadgeteer and appealed to many laptop users on NotebookReview.com. I purchase the lock because of it's unusual design along with all the positive remaks it receieve.

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