From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Comcast Capping Consumer Broadband?

by Mary on August 29, 2008

I saw the following headline in my feed reader:
Comcast to cap monthly consumer broadband
After I recovered from choking on my coffee, I read the full story, courtesy of Webware.com (now part of C\Net)… and it ain’t pretty:
Starting October 1 customers of Comcast’s residential data services will have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage. [...]

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Save a tree or two with Zinio

by Mary on August 26, 2008

I do most things online… banking, communicating, marketing, shopping… ok , I do most everything online. I’m adding one more item to that list: reading magazines…digital magazines, that is. With Zinio you can search among as many as 10,000 magazines worldwide, order your favorites and read them immediately using their Zinio Reader application.
Suprisingly, the reader works [...]

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3:02 AM?? Really?

by Mary on August 23, 2008

I just woke up and checked my phone… my VP text alert had arrived… at 3:02am.  Glad I had the phone out of earshot. Perhaps this is an “interactive” variation of the Clinton campaign’s legendary “3 AM Phone Call” TV ad?  Participants can also enjoy the panicked, sickening feeling of getting an unexpected phone message in the dead of night… just like [...]

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