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April 28, 2008

IRS Rebate Checks Crash Major Banks?

Today, I was downloading my financial information from various banks and credit cards and had difficulty loggiing on or downloading information from several of them. On Citibank's website I was able to logon, but couldn't successfully download the Quicken Web...


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April 18, 2008

AT&T to Lay Off 1.5% of Workforce

AT&T announced today that it'll be cutting about 1.5 percent of its workforce. The company calls it the "next step in streamlining its operations." AT&T had about 310,000 employees at the end of 2007, meaning the layoffs would affect about...


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March 31, 2008

McDonald's Egg McMuffin Inventor Dies

Egg McMuffin Tasty Goodness! Herb Peterson, creator of the Egg McMuffin, died in Santa Barbara last Tuesday. (image: John Hayes/Associated Press) Last week, I was listening to Mark Levin on WABC 770 AM radio when I learned that Herb...


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March 28, 2008

Power Outage at Disney World

Surely Disney World would never experience a power outage, right? After all, Disney World rakes in millions of dollars each year from tourists. That includes thousands of dollars from my family visits to Disney World. Not to mention they are...


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February 1, 2008

Yahoo Overture Keyword Selector Tool Outage

I can't seem to get to the Overture Keyword Selector Tool (http://inventory.overture.com/), a great site for researching keywords for SEO purposes. I was just on the site 10min ago and now it stopped. Surely, the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, which...


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January 16, 2008

Internet Telephony Expo Draws More Countries

Last year (2007) just about a week before ITEXPO, we had 64 countries represented. This year, also just 1 week away from Internet Telephony Expo we have 74 countries represented, about a 15.6% increase. If the number of countries registered...


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January 7, 2008

CopperGate Communications CG3210 HomePNA 3.1

Today at CES, CopperGate Communications, a provider of home networking technology for triple play IPTV and MDU access over existing wiring, announced its CopperStream CG3210, the highest speed solution for networking entertainment data over existing coax and telephone wires. The...


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December 6, 2007

Yahoo Messenger for Vista

According to the Yahoo! Messenger blog, the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista has arrived - well at least the preview release anyway. Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, is built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system. Since this is...


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December 5, 2007

No more Phone Pretexting!

Due to a new FCC regulation requirement, you won't be able to perform pretexting (pretend to be someone else) to gain access to Paris Hilton's phone or other celebs for that matter. Damn, just when I was having fun too!...


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November 28, 2007

Christmas Catalogs Waste Trees

Ok, we all know that millions of Christmas trees are cut each year to celebrate the Christian holiday, but did you know that millions of trees are also cut down and used in catalogs used to promote products for the...


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November 13, 2007

MyBlogLog outage - civrf.yahoo.com lookup failed

It must be outage week, since I not only discovered Skype had a brief outage but now MyBlogLog is making my blog load unbearably sloooooooooow. My blog uses the MyBlogLog code to display fellow MyBlogLog users thumbnail pictures on my...


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October 31, 2007

Google Phone Mania

There is so much hype and hysteria surrounding the Google Phone that I can't keep up with all the various rumors and speculative articles. There's so much to read and so little time. Fortunately, I have a "proxy" to filter...


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October 17, 2007

EnThinnai the un-social networking application

Aswath Rao, one of the brightest minds in VoIP points me to a new web application called EnThinnai that offers many of the features of social networks. Aswath was kind enough to invite me to be one of the...


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October 16, 2007

InfoWorld in trouble?

InfoWorld may be in trouble. According to Folio Magazine, "The top editor of IDG’s InfoWorld, Steve Fox, resigned yesterday, becoming the latest in a string of high-profile InfoWorld departures in recent weeks including CEO Bob Ostrow and vice president of...


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September 27, 2007

Technorati outage

Bah! I was just checking out Technorati at the end of the work day (5:23pm) to see if there was anything interesting going on news wise - and their website just went down. Technorati has been pretty reliable over the...


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