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Less Local Phone Competition

The New York Times – Administration Sides With Bells on Lease Discounts for Rivals bq. The administration’s decision, which was announced in a legal case making its way to the Supreme Court, followed fierce lobbying and hardball tactics. Rivals of the Bells have threatened the administration that they intend to run television advertisements in swing ...

Escher via Legos

Escher via Legos
Escher’s “Waterfall” in LEGO Some guys with far too much time on their hands have been reproducing Escher drawings in real life with Legos. They document the whole process, too.

Verizon plans unbundled DSL

Verizon Communications will soon become the second Baby Bell in the United States to offer broadband to consumers regardless of whether those customers also buy its local phone service. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it plans to offer what’s been called “naked” digital subscriber line (DSL) service to customers within its local phone region ...

Nielson on Computers of 2034

Thirty Years With Computers (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) bq.. We’ll also spend a big percentage of the computer power on defense mechanisms such as self-healing software (to root out bugs and adapt to changing environments) and aggressively defensive virus antibodies. We’ll need such software to protect against “social engineering” attacks, such as email that purports to ...

Pocket Real PC

msmobiles.com – Sony launches the smallest PC of the world: Sony VAIO U series * display: 800×600 pixels (touchscreen with stylus, not digitizer – thus requiremetns to be a Tablet PC are not met – Tablet PC needs to have a digitizer so that touching the screen with fingers doesn’t work) * operating system: Windows ...