AT&T: Tighter control of cell data usage ahead

IPhone users who jam the airwaves by watching video on their devices will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday.

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Kids want cell phones? Here’s how to proceed

Whether you’re considering a first cell phone for your tween or teen or trying to limit various functions on your child’s existing phone, it’s important to understand the controls and technologies available today. Dr. Ruth Peters provides a step-by-step tech guide for parents.

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Study: Internet Users Go Online for Fun

Some people go online just for the sake of it: A new study finds that on any given day, nearly a third of U.S. Internet users log on just for fun or to pass the time.

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When mobiles first appeared, everyone was keen to show they had one and whipped it out at every opportunity; but now that every five-year-old owns one (yes, in Finland, the home of Nokia, all children carry a mobile to constantly reassure their parents that they are OK), surely t …

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A couple who had their electric service under the name and Social Security number of the woman's deceased infant have been charged with stealing more than $4,000 in electricity over about four years, police said.

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In NC Time Warner will soon charge $150/month for internet access (100Gig/month), cable TV is extra. October 2009 this plan goes live in Texas. Their goal is to price netflix, youtube, and other cable competitors out of the market. You pay for netflix, and TW doubles the cost.

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Hyper Right Conservatives Investing in Learning English

In this work a day world where so many of us don't have work, conservative zealots are seeking to upgrade their spelling, grammar and vocabulary. More advanced students are pursuing classes in argument, logic and rhetoric.

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Basically one should be mindful of the meaning of words you use, and also to give the devil his due by calling the pot pot, whent it's a pot...and not a nice potty...

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During my work with computers, I like to check the usage of system resources in my network. Sometimes a running process takes up too much CPU load, or the disk I/O goes too high.

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Preliminary statistics from Net Application show that Internet Explorer is losing more ground in the internet browser battle. It's not really surprising as Firefox, Safari and Chrome are all gaining popularity.

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Out of curiosity I pinged Google to see if the company would release usage numbers on the recently released themes and Labs add-ons in Gmail.

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A number of local councils in Britain have banned their staff from using Latin words, because they say they might confuse people. Several local authorities have ruled that phrases like "vice versa", "pro rata", and even "via" should not be used, in speech or in writing.

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Gary B. Larson's free portal to these writing tools: an annotated directory of writing resources on the Web; an editorial style manual; several guides to concise writing; and a bookshelf of writing references I recommend.

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The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright.

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It seems like Social Networking sites usage has finally peaked in the United Kingdom.

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Web designing is fun to learn, practice and really easy to understand. It can even earn you quite something if you know how to do it. In this age, where the internet plays a great role in everybody's life, web designing can actually be a source of income.

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I have just connected my laptop to the internet via a 3g phone. Here is a useful article about Skype and how much data is transfered per minute.

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Hello...Is There Anybody IN There? Cell Phones and Cars.

If you live in the La-La Land of cell phone usage and driving, you have a lot more fun than normal drivers. You don't have to watch the road. You can text and talk and game, doing the ultimate in multi-tasking while you drive. It's both fun and a risk.

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Every third visitor of this humble site used Firefox to access it. Firefox - 34%, Internet Explorer 63%. The rest goes to Netscape, Safari, Opera and others:

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Despite the water crisis, pool construction continues unabated. Industry figures show that 5000 new pools are built each year. Environment groups are angry that in the present drought, the water to fill them comes so cheap. The Browns will pay $93 to fill their pool.

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Poll: Daily Internet Usage of Newsviners

We Newsviners will typically use the internet quite a bit considering the fact that we go on this website quite a lot. I have decided to make a poll (i like polls) to see how frequently newsviners go on the internet and whether people think they go on it too much.

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S60 3rd Edition - Multitasking Considerations E70 Ram usage for various applications. Great little resource for quick debugging

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David Foster Wallace once invented an organization called the "Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts" whose members boycott stores with signs reading "10 items or less." It was a joke (from the novel 'Infinite Jest'), but it's not too far-fetched.

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Um, oh, yes...Digital Playground on Friday announced it has officially registered "Virtual Sex" as a trademark.I'm not sure this is an especially proud moment in the history of language. And commerce. And, um, sex.

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Teachers can be Hypocrites

At my school in Wayne Township, Indianapolis, Indiana, our Acceptable Use Policy which can be read here, states that "Communication unrelated to the School District" is prohibited when using any "technical resource" which is defined as "voice systems, e-mail, network access, Inter

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An interesting artice from th Poynter Institute on the useage of comments on newspapers weblogs

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This guy seems to have some interesting thoughts about how to reduce the memory usage of Firefox 1.5, specifically with regards to how images are handled.

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