Apparently, the committee that writes US tax laws has suggested it’s a reasonable option to think about taxing all kinds of communication services from internet connections to VoIP — just because it can. It’s based on a law originally put in place to pay for the Spanish American War that taxes telephone service. [...]
If you’ve picked up a laptop that doesn’t have an internal WiFi card,
your first inclination is probably to grab a PCMCIA card, which you can typically pick up for under $100 and install in
about 10 minutes. However, if you don’t want an antenna slab to stick out of the side of your computer, don’t have [...]
A Minnesota man received a sentence of 18 months in prison and 10 hours of community service for releasing a variant of the “Blaster” worm that infected nearly 50,000 computers in the summer of 2003. Jeffrey Lee Parson was a 19 year-old high school senior when he modified the worm.
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Intel filed for two trademarks relating to “VIIV,” and the race is on to ferret out its meaning. Could this be the new mark for the upcoming dual core Pentiums?
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Alphabet exex rein in hit ‘Housewives’ to avoid overexposure — The hard part’s over: “Desperate Housewives” has quickly become the biggest overnight sensation to hit TV in ten years. Now the really hard part begins. There’s no rest for the weary — or the tremendously triumphant — in network TV.
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Alan Cumming, who stars as Loki in the action-comedy Son of the Mask , told ComingSoon.net that he expects to start shooting X-Men 3 this summer. Cumming played mutant Kurt Wagner (aka Nightcrawler) in director Bryan Singer’s X2: X-Men United .
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Norvy sez, “I bought Quicken 2002 when it was the current version. I received a letter in the mail this week telling me that Intuit will be disabling the online bill pay feature for my version because it’s too old! I’m really dissapointed because these transactions pass through my bank, not Intuit, so [...]
Video game companies have been trying to set themselves up more and more like movie studios for a while now. In fact, they keep trying to make the video games seem more like movies with detailed story lines including animated “cut scenes” that fill in between gameplay. Clive Thompson, though, is suggesting that [...]
More cell phones than ever were shipped in the fourth quarter, with the industry growing 24 percent over the same quarter last year, the technology research firm IDC reported Thursday.
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Firefox lead engineer turned Google developer Ben Goodger announced on his Web log late this week that version 1.1 of Firefox will be delayed. The next major release of the browser had originally been scheduled for a March debut. However, Goodger said the release date had to be pushed back because of “the realities of [...]
