The commission is due to issue a ruling Friday that the cable giant violated federal law when it prevented some customers from swapping videos on file-swapping service BitTorrent, according to the report. Comcast has admitted “delaying” traffic to file-sharing sites. At a public hearing in February, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen said, “Comcast may [...]

As for Window users, more than 140 million copies of the Vista operating system have been sold, Microsoft said last month. Both Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate contain Media Center, though a tuner is needed to record from TV.

CableLabs, a consortium created by the cable industry, must certify all CableCards. Microsoft’s Vista operating system [...]

Instead, maybe it ought to think about how it can become the Microsoft of online music. There’s money in the hundreds of thousands of independent musicians and their fans who use MySpace today, but it’ll take a clever entrepreneur to figure out how to unlock it.

The service sounds similar to Jambase and Bandloop, but [...]

There are no crazy shipping charges either, though you’ll likely pay sales tax.
If you want to get in on this wireless action yourself, Circuit City has the Lexmark Z1480 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer for a ridiculously low $29.99 (after a fairly substantial $50 mail-in rebate).
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The rebate deal ends Saturday.

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The game is also highly anticipated because of two innovative technologies it incorporates.

He explained that when he auditioned, he was asked to play out a scene in which his character is assembling a light saber with his mind.

“He was the guy who put the bugs in the games,” Lucas joked. “He put in [...]

All RIM can do is keep releasing compelling products that make businesses and the tech-savvy crowd take notice and wait for that knowledge to trickle-down into the mainstream. Sure, it won’t be easy, but it needs to be done.
Go ahead and ask the person next to you at the office about the BlackBerry Storm. Chances [...]

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“Every American should have affordable access to high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. This is essential to economic growth and will help maintain our global competitiveness,” said Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America. “Unfortunately, fragmented government programs and uneven private sector responses to build out [...]

The full rundown of tools the team hopes to build sounds hopelessly ambitious and reminds me of Zoho, which has a too-big suite of not-quite-developed online productivity apps. Probably a better strategy would be to focus on the key moneymakers and open up a plug-in platform so other developers could add to the ecosystem. [...]

In mid-March, Facebook gave a preview of the service and said it would be out in about two weeks. “When you log in to the site there is a Chat (user interface) at the bottom of the browser,” product manager Peter Deng said at the time. “It’s unobtrusive and there when you need it.” No [...]

Arbitration clauses are popular for several reasons: (1) they dictate where a future case will be heard, (2) they remove the risks of trying the case to a jury, (3) they lessen exposure to class action lawsuits, and (4) they tend to favor businesses rather than consumers. PayPal, eBay, and many other software and on-line [...]