Faster Forward: September 21, 2008 - September 27, 2008
Re-Computing Your Presidential Choices
Back in February, I devoted a post here to comparing the positions of the major Democratic and Republican presidential candidates on tech-policy issues that can affect the goods and services available to you next month, next year and over the next decade. Seven months have passed, those five candidates have...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 26, 2008; 10:48 AM ET |
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The business we have chosen
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New Slingbox Adds HD Video, Keeps Some Old Issues
I wasn't surprised to see the second comment posted to today's review of the new Slingbox Pro-HD end with "Tell me why I even want a slingbox?" Sling Media's Slingbox -- a small, Internet-connected device that relays whatever's on your TV to any online computer running the company's SlingPlayer program...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 25, 2008; 9:36 AM ET |
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Fine-Print Gotchas: Which Ones Actually Hurt?
In my post yesterday about T-Mobile's G1 phone, the first to run Google's Android software, we got into a brief discussion in the comments about a fine-print restriction on the use of this carrier's embryonic 3G mobile-broadband network. As a perspicacious reader noted, T-Mobile says it will enforce a 1-gigabyte-a-month...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 24, 2008; 1:27 PM ET |
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Gripes
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T-Mobile Unveils First Google Android Phone
This morning, T-Mobile introduced the G1, the first cell phone to run Google's long-awaited Android operating system. This device, made by Taiwan-based phone manufacturer HTC, will sell for $179 with a two-year contract, starting Oct. 22. T-Mobile will offer two different bundles of Internet and messaging services, on top of...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 23, 2008; 12:21 PM ET |
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Personal-Finance Tools For Stressful Times
It's been an... interesting couple of weeks on Wall Street. And after seeing headline after headline about the imploding market, I finally decided it was time to see how my own investments were doing. (In case anybody was wondering: No, I don't hold any stock in any company I cover,...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 22, 2008; 11:19 AM ET |
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Digital culture
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The Web
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