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Charter Cable Rated as Worst Again by Consumer Reports
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Last Updated: 6:33 PM 01/08/10 - Television, internet, and phone services are getting new grades in the new issue of Consumer Reports - and it's not good news for Charter. (Full Story) |
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It's Now Illegal to Dump Electronics in Landfills
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Last Updated: 11:25 PM 10/23/09 - MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill designed to cut down on the amount of computers and other electronics dumped in landfills. (Full Story) |
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'Anonymous' Author of Weston Administrator Criticism Outed by Local Paper
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Last Updated: 9:19 PM 09/17/09 - The Wausau Daily Herald says they regret turning over the identity of an anonymous poster on their website to Weston Village Administrator Dean Zuleger. (Full Story) |
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NEW INFO: Twitter Service Restored for Now
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Last Updated: 6:47 PM 08/06/09 - The tweets are flying again, at least intermittently, after Twitter fell victim to a hacker attack this morning. Facebook says it is also looking into possible problems. (Full Story) |
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Tech @ 10: Woman is Sued After Tweeting about Moldy Apartment
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Last Updated: 10:56 PM 07/29/09 - In this week’s Tech @ Ten: Microsoft and Yahoo merge their search engines, a Chicago woman is facing a $50,000 lawsuit after tweeting about her moldy apartment, and digital etiquette. (Full Story) |
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Science and Technology
- PayPal's India Block May Last Months
PayPal Continues To Block Some Payment Transactions In India, No Resolution Seems Near - Google Adds a Social Side with Buzz
Google Hopes to Break Twitter, Facebook Domination of Social Media - Facebook Face-off for Google
Google Makes It Easier To Socialize On E-mail Service As It Girds For Facebook Face-off - Google Goes Social (live blog)
"Google Buzz" Marks the Company's Push into Social Media - Race is on to Save Amazon Rainforest
Scientists Push Smarter Farming Techniques as Alterative to Chopping Down More Forest
- Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington. - Shuttle lands at California air base
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions. - iReporters watch planets, moon align
- Inspiration for 'Contact' still listening
From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe. - Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise
Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft.
- Google Buzz goes after Facebook, Twitter
Google plunged into the world of Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday with Google Buzz, using its popular Gmail service to allow users to post status updates and items. - New Apple product is ... Aperture 3
Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software. - Olympic social media rules
American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over, perhaps based on a faulty understanding of the International Olympic Committee's rules on blogging and social networking. - World War II navigation system dies
The U.S. Coast Guard is shutting down a mapping service called Loran-C, which has been in use since World War II. Some advocates say killing Loran will make the U.S. too reliant on its replacement: GPS. - China: Hacker training site shut down
Police in China have shut down what is believed to be the largest Web site for training computer hackers, according to local media reports.
- NASA: Space shuttle looks free of launch damage
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour is on course to hookup with the International Space Station during the middle of the night.... - New federal climate change agency forming
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.... - India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile Sunday that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defense ministry press release said.... - Even if you're careful, drugs can end up in water
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.... - Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -- Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue....
- The Privacy Factor
Daniel Sieberg: Living in the 21st Century Means Swimming in a Sea of Data Each Day - Tracking the Fault Lines
The Threat of Earthquakes to the U.S. is Very Real - Three Signs That Convinced Me to Disconnect
Cut Off From the Net Wasn't So Much Revelatory as Revealing - The Haiti Effect
How Social Networking, Internet Helping To Keep Communications Open - Best Face(book) Forward
Daniel Sieberg: How I Viewed My Facebook Page and its Effect on Me - Before Disconnecting
- Google Buzz goes after Facebook, Twitter
Google plunged into the world of Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday with Google Buzz, using its popular Gmail service to allow users to post status updates and items. - New Apple product is ... Aperture 3
Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software. - Olympic social media rules
American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over, perhaps based on a faulty understanding of the International Olympic Committee's rules on blogging and social networking. - World War II navigation system dies
The U.S. Coast Guard is shutting down a mapping service called Loran-C, which has been in use since World War II. Some advocates say killing Loran will make the U.S. too reliant on its replacement: GPS. - China: Hacker training site shut down
Police in China have shut down what is believed to be the largest Web site for training computer hackers, according to local media reports.
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