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Time Warner Cable: Consumers Don't Want Gigabit Internet

Posted 03/01/2013 at 9:58am | by Paul Lilly

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Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, meet your new spokesperson, Time Warner Cable.

Google's trying to pave the high-speed cyber highway with its Google Fiber Internet service, which is currently only available to the lucky residents of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Time Warner Cable could follow suit if it wanted to -- after all, it's already serving incredibly high-speed Internet service to businesses -- but the reason it isn't pursuing 1Gbps Internet service to consumers at this time is because, well, they don't want it.

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Pandora Imposes 40 Hour Monthly Limit for Mobile Freeloaders

Posted 02/28/2013 at 12:31pm | by Paul Lilly

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Don't like the 40-hour limit? Blame greedy publishers who keep hiking royalty rates.

Pandora this week put the word out that it's introducing a 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening, though the streaming service doesn't expect much of a backlash. According to Pandora, the artificial limit will affect less than 4 percent of its total monthly active listeners. The average freeloader listener spends around half that time (20 hours) listening to Panodra across all devices in any given month, Pandora says.

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Twitter Owned Blogging Site Posterous Goes Dark April 30, 2013

Posted 02/18/2013 at 6:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal thanks its members for the pie and waves goodbye.

You could almost see this one coming from an Internet mile away, which won't come as much consolation to those invested in the service, but Twitter is pulling the plug on Posterous on April 30, 2013. First launched in 2008, the Posterous blogging service was acquired by Twitter in March of last year, and at the time, users were told it would stay up and running. And it did, for a little while, anyway.

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Presto Change-o, Opera Browser Shifting to Webkit Engine

Posted 02/13/2013 at 10:24am | by Paul

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Opera is pulling its Presto browser engine and replacing it with WebKit.

Opera Software today put the world on notice that its Presto rendering engine will be making a disappearing act. Going forward, Opera will make a "gradual transition" to WebKit, as well as Chromium, for just about every upcoming browser release for smartphones and computers, the Norwegian browser maker announced today. The engine replacement was mentioned as an aside to the fact that Opera's collection of browsers across all products now boast 300 million users.

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Reddit Recap: Bill Gates' Seven Best Responses

Posted 02/12/2013 at 9:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates won over the Reddit crowd by answering a plethora of questions.

Bill Gates is a rock star on so many levels. Yes, he co-founded Microsoft, built his net worth to tens of billions of dollars, and now spends his days doing philanthropy work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, all of which are admirable in their own right. It would be easy for someone in his position to be an egotistical jerk who's disconnected from the public at large, but instead, this is the same guy who once did the Robot next to Jerry Seinfeld, made us crave churros in another Vista ad, and more recently (as in, yesterday) answered a boatload of questions on Reddit.

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Bill Gates is Fielding Questions on Reddit

Posted 02/11/2013 at 12:24pm | by Paul Lilly

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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates jumped into an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit.

From cheap thrills (like cheeseburgers) to unreleased products, the man himself, Bill Gates, billionaire founder of the world's largest software company, is right now answering user questions on Reddit. There's still time to jump into the AMA (Ask Me Anything) session if you have a burning question of your own, but you'll have to ask fast, as he's already been in there for about an hour.

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Russian Search Engine Yandex Surpasses Bing in Popularity

Posted 02/11/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Bing falls to fifth place in the search engine wars, according to data from comScore qSearch.

Google tends to be the go-to search engine in the United States and in many other parts of the world, but in Russia, Yandex is top dog. On a global scale, Yandex is now officially more popular than Microsoft's Bing, so says the latest search engine data from comScore qSearch. Bing slipped to fifth place with a 2.5 share of the search market, falling slightly behind Yandex at 2.8 percent.

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Amazon Allegedly Picks Fight with Mom and Pop Porn Site

Posted 02/08/2013 at 12:47pm | by Paul Lilly

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A family-owned adult DVD store claims Amazon is trying to shut it down.

Oh, the injustice! The owners of AdultWoot.com, a small, family-owned online store that sells adult themed DVDs (read: pornography) for under $5 a pop, claims Amazon is the one playing dirty by trying to shut the site down using underhanded tactics. Why would Amazon go out of its way to shutter an online porn shop? Simply put, Amazon owns Woot.com, an online deal site it acquired last year, and it doesn't want customers thinking the two sites are in any way related.

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Boston Dad Bribes Teenage Daughter $200 to Suspend Facebook

Posted 02/07/2013 at 12:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Teenage girl plans to buy "stuff" with the $200 she'll receive for quitting Facebook.

An interesting story about a 14-year-old daughter who convinced her dad to pay her to suspend Facebook for five months is making the rounds. Paul Baier, a research consultant in Boston, posted an image on his blog of the contract he and his daughter signed. Under terms of the agreement, little Baier will receive $50 upfront for deactivating her account, and another $150 at the end of June when the contract expires.

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Best Super Bowl-Related Websites

Posted 02/01/2013 at 2:23pm | by David Murphy

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Websites to stream the game online, watch Super Bowl commercials, and more

Regardless of whether or not you, the geeky PC enthusiast that you are, are excited about watching (arguably) the two top teams in the NFL meet for their annual head-to-head, commercial-filled extravaganza; we've got 10 fun Super Bowl-related websites to keep you entertained. Puppy Bowl, anyone?

So if you truly want to enrich your bone-crunching football experience, check out one of the many companion websites below that will help make the big game day even better.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, meet your new spokesperson, Time Warner Cable.

Don't like the 40-hour limit? Blame greedy publishers who keep hiking royalty rates.

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