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Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Construction(thehill.com)
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Ars Technica’s OS X Lion review made $15,000+ in 24 hours on the Kindle(thenextweb.com)
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FCC Commissioner Calls For National Effort To Save News Media(techdailydose.nationaljournal.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
HackerNews is easy to include in your Google Reader Send to menu (just like the bookmarklets functionality). Go to settings: http://www.google.com/reader/settings?display=edit-extras , click the " Send to " tab, click " Create a custom l
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo bow to Apple sales edict(theregister.co.uk)
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Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab(bbc.co.uk)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
The first link is really a great retrospective (thank god for PBS) and it gives a much more nuanced look at the situation than the overly simple statement you made. The final outcome showed, at least for me, that Google is willing to learn
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by joelhaus 15y ago
3D Printing has a lot of potential as a profitable niche for RadioShack to get into. It would certainly get me in the door.
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by joelhaus 15y ago
> Google's censorship cooperation with China was fairly > despicable. And they only started changing after they were > publicly humiliated by PBS Interesting, do you know where to find both of these stories (or just
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FCC's Copps calls for news education in schools(thehill.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
These guys are one of my favorite startups, somewhere between Flippa and an investment bank: https://www.secondmarket.com/
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Agreed. This visualization is only interesting to someone obsessed with the physical size of paper currency. Planet Money recently did a nice job of comparing the current U.S. debt level and the historic debt levels of other countries to GD
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Google looking at InterDigital after patent bid loss(news.cnet.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Very good points, upvoted. Not to nit-pick, but much isn't much of the PBS library already available free online? Also, HBO seems to have an interesting strategy. http://www.hbogo.com is only available to cable subscribers right now, but
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by joelhaus 15y ago
My brother likes to say that America is an adolescent, while Europe is the adult. According to the article, it sounds like the America is growing up and it's manifesting as a desire for job autonomy in the labor market. However, the author
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by joelhaus 15y ago
> downgrades of those led to alternative structures Proliferation of "credit enhancements" certainly did spark the AAA bubble, but I'm quite certain that participating financial institutions became much more profitable under this new
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by joelhaus 15y ago
This article is so utterly biased, that I hesitated to post it. However, I find it interesting how threatened the carriers feel by Google and after the GLAAD/AT&T debacle[1], I hope that this casts some more light on the shady lobbying
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Do No Evil? Google’s Deceptive Practices Harm Consumers(blogs.forbes.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
If only the market was competitive, this would be a non-story. "Right" or not, our future economic success depends on driving broadband prices down and service quality up.
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by joelhaus 15y ago
This. Combined with the power of local carrier monopolies, it's exactly the reason we need net neutrality.
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Competition is the missing ingredient for reducing broadband prices and improving service quality. Unfortunately, a "free market" tends to have the opposite effect in industries that are this capital intensive, resulting in monopolies. Even
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Apple, Microsoft, Oracle Lead Unholy Patent Alliance Against Android(eweek.com)
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Study argues rural broadband stimulus wasn't effective(thehill.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Schedule 13D is an SEC filing required when anyone takes an ownership stake over 5%, Form 5 for an ownership stake over 10%. The Edgar database makes this information available for free to the public: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
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Antitrust officials probing sale of patents to Google’s rivals(washingtonpost.com)
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‘Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Respect Authority’ says Founder of Sun Microsystems(thenextweb.com)
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FCC delivers net-neutrality rules to OMB(thehill.com)
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Potentially very interesting stuff, thx. If anyone plans to use this data to inform a purchasing choice, one note of caution: phones with higher utility that often connect via wifi will almost certainly show higher reconnect rates due to An
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by joelhaus 15y ago
Doesn't this practice violate the 1994 consent decree with the FTC? The linked article states that MS could only charge computer manufacturers if MS software was installed. I guess the decree must have expired, because it seems that the And
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by joelhaus 15y ago
This sounds like thenextweb.com's implementation of RSS subscriptions. A modal window pops up when you click the RSS icon on the right; it says "Pick & Mix The Blogs You Want to Subscribe To". Is that similar to what you propose? I do l

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