Why A La Carte Cable Pricing Will Never Work In Traditional Cable Systems

March 12, 2012
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cabletv

Rumor has it that Apple is not only developing an Apple Television (not to be confused with the Apple TV) but also plans to launch a unique video streaming service along with it.  Apparently a year ago, Steve Jobs approached CBS about a content deal, which the CEO of CBS, Leslie Moonves, turned down....

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4G versus 3G: The Confusion Continues

March 9, 2012
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4G versus 3G:  The Confusion Continues

While you were sleeping, AT&T technicians were hard at work infiltrating your home, quickly procuring your iPhone 4S and swapping out your 3G chip for a faster LTE chip, thus putting you on their faster 4G network.  Is this a dream?  Can a software update suddenly increase the bandwidth capabilities of your AT&T iPhone...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 32 [100000]: Like Someone Cleaned out the Inside of a Garbage Disposal

March 7, 2012
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uncle_sam_wants_you

In this episode, the pundits discuss the U.S. Government’s stance on seizing .com, .net, .cc, .tv and other domains, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), LulSec leader has been helping the FBI take down his own members, GitHub hacked, does your employer have the right to look through your social media information, Verizon launches wireless...

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Is Microsoft Alienating IT Professionals with Windows 8?

March 2, 2012
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alien

What is the purpose of a graphical user interface (GUI) on a computer system?  In the most basic of definitions, it’s a pictorial representation of selectable actions for the end user to choose from for the purpose of effecting a change of state in a computer.  Ok, in even simpler terms – it allows the user...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 31 [11111]: I Only Download Legal Software

February 29, 2012
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iPhone-Stoves-

In this episode, the pundits discuss YouTube’s identification of birdsong as copyrighted music, the FCC thinks that ISPs should do a better job preventing fraud and theft, AT&T plans to let developers pay for your data usage so you don’t have to, SkyDrive and Windows 8, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (and how we...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 30 [11110]: The Longest Conversation Ever

February 22, 2012
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24satellite

In this episode, the pundits discuss the further developments of LightSquared’s technical issues and the FCC’s change of heart, Apple quietly and out of nowhere announces the next version of OS X 10.8 – Mountain Lion, Transistor made of a single atom, DDoS attacks on IPv6, why does Chrome try to connect to three...

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