Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groupsZDNet UK, UK -1 hour agoMobile phones have done a great deal to improve the lives of people in developing countries, but more research needs to be done to work out whether the …
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On May 1, Microsoft held an internal Town Hall meeting, largely (but not exclusively) focused on the company’s bid for Yahoo. Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodget managed to dial into the call long enough to hear CEO Steve Ballmer say the sky’s Read more here .
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This morning, I read an article from ZDNet’s Ed Bott entitled, “Making sense of Windows’ irrational pricing and licensing.” While this article is about Windows Vista and the new lower price and if you are illegal, how you can become legal cheaper, the end of the article was more appealing to me.
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There is always good stuff to read on this VoIP blog, written by Russell Shaw. Recently they've been recapping the year's most popular posts, which include "a VoIP provider flames outa VoIP provider flames out", detailing the sudden shut-down of VoIP provider SunRocket, leaving 200,000+ subscribers in the lurch.Another popular posting helped stage a serious turnaround in Sprint policy regarding soldiers and cell phone roaming charges. Read more about "Sprint spits on our fighting men and women"."CompUSA is closing for good. Good" was able to draw over 90 comments, as people ranted about the departure of the retail computer chain.ZDnet overall has been a player in the technology news and content world since the very beginning, springing from the print world, like so many other online portals have, like TMCnet, which is from the publishers of "Customer Interaction Solutions" as well as other telecom publications.We'll feature more online news resources in the future. A recommended met
Guess what letter iphone texters trip up on the mostZDNet - 44 minutes agoChicago-based usability consultancy usercentric is out with a new report that says iphone users make more errors during texting than these same people do on …iphone users make more texting errors VNUNet.comTesters give iphone virtual keyboard the thumbs down Reg HardwareSurprise! Virtual Keyboards on iphones Have Higher Text Entry … RealTechNews all 16 news articles
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XM+Sirius merger thoughts by ZDNet’s Alan Graham — Personally I think the merger could be a good thing for not only the two companies, but for the listeners as well. My reasons are likely different than most of what you will read out there, but there are some things that the new company could do that many people may not have even considered. The […]
Editor’s note from MaunTech: I still say as an XM Radio listener, I don’t like the idea, but if the deal goes through then maybe there could be a satellite iPod or Zune device. Hey, Microsoft and Apple, are you listening?
I had the pleasure of meeting Larry Dignan from ZDNet this week while attending the AO Media conference (where we received an award for being on of their top 100 companies). It was refreshing to speak with such a fair and balanced journalist. He asked the tough questions, but was not overly combative and didn't enter into our conversation with a preconceived notion of what he was going to write. If you haven't seen the post you can check it out here:http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4389
