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  The price of distraction

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 10:47pm CET by Digg

  IN 2006 the grandchildren of an 82-year-old Ohio woman discovered that she had been paying AT&T about $10 a month for a phone rental. AT&T changed a long-term leasing arrangement in 1985-86, letting customers buy a handset or return it—or continue to pay if they took no action. Millions ignored the note, and kept up with the lease payments. Hundreds of thousands were still doing so in 2006. The Ohioan's concerned progeny estimated that from the 1960s until 2006 their granny had paid over $14,000 for a pair of rotary-dial telephones. Of that, $2,000 had been unnecessary.
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  Cloud is complex—deal with it

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 9:11pm CET by Digg

  If you are looking to cloud computing to simplify your IT environment, I'm afraid I have bad news for you. For every problem eliminated by choosing cloud, it just creates more problems you remain accountable for— and perhaps some that you never had to face before.
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  5 Things You May Have Missed About Windows Phone

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 6:48pm CET by Digg

  Recent chatter about Microsoft's mobile operating system has been all over the map.
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  Don't run your own data center if you're a public IaaS

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 6:14pm CET by Digg

  Keeping a data center online is a highly complex and often underestimated task, but one that provides the bedrock of any public cloud availability. Patrick Baillie of CloudSigma explains why he thinks public IaaS cloud service providers shouldn't run their own data centers.
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  AT&T Rolls 4G LTE Out To 11 New Markets; Now Reaching 74m Customers

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 3:57pm CET by Digg

  More LTE! Celebrate! If you're an AT&T customer waiting to catch up with Sprint and Verizon in the speed department, you just might have a reason to party. The carrier just announced 11 more markets for their 4G LTE rollout, making it available now in 26 total areas including NYC Metro, San Francisco, Los Angeles. This addition makes AT&T...
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  Smart Grid: Coordinating Efforts For the Road Ahead

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:10pm CET by Digg

  The concept of a “smart grid” for power utilities is drawing significant interest from researchers, practitioners and governments around the globe. The benefits of making the grid smart would be immense, including improved security, reliability, sustainability, and, perhaps most importantly, more efficient use of renewable energy and storage.
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  Hey, electric cars don't totally suck: A realistic sort-of rebuttal

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:00pm CET by Digg

  As a Midwesterner and someone who has been paying a lot of attention to energy issues, I read Joel Johnson's recent Jalopnik essay with interest. "You're Not Alone. America Hates Electric Cars," is a pretty provocative title. But, as with most provocative titles, it doesn't really capture what Johnson is actually trying to say. So my response to this is not going to be exactly what you might expect.
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  Facebook: A Prime Target for Cybercrime

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 9:27am CET by Digg

  With more than 800 million users, Facebook is arguably the most dominant social networking platform in the world. The social network’s popularity and fast growth also make it a prime target for cybercriminals. Below, we take a look at Facebook’s online presence, how it’s being attacked, and what you can do to stay safe.
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  Skype exec flies the coop to join Urban Airship

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 4:27am CET by Digg

  Urban Airship has robbed Skype of some serious executive talent. Christopher Dean, formerly Skype's chief strategy officer and the company's global business development head, will now be Urban A...
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  Sopa and Pipa: don't let big business break the internet

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 1:12am CET by Digg

  US proposals against internet piracy is a kneejerk response of the 'content' industry to change, writes John Naughton
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  Google Chrome Finally Gets Malware Download Protection

  Posted: January 8th, 2012, 12:07am CET by Digg

  The new version of Chrome will at last include filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables.