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Nokia and Microsoft to announce an "alliance" tomorrow -- what? Update: Office on Nokia phones {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 12th 2009 8:05AM This might explain why QuickOffice suddenly became free for many S60 users. I'll take that, no need to go all Microsoft, as I don't use word to begin with, now if openoffice would create an symbian version, then thats news.
Nokia and Microsoft to announce an "alliance" tomorrow -- what? Update: Office on Nokia phones {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 11th 2009 6:52PM my guess is some kind of mobile office support or something
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Jun 29th 2009 7:08PM isn't this redundant, doesn't Sprint own Boost?
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Time Warner's TV Everywhere to pipe internet TV to Comcast subscribers {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 6:37PM jed772, in relation to your second question, they tried to throttle bandwidth use before and got in trouble for it, as it was seen as helping specific organizations over others. Places that legally distribute their content creation through bittorrent were harmed by the throttle as speeds were slowed down to slower than dial-up.
Time Warner's TV Everywhere to pipe internet TV to Comcast subscribers {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 4:42PM grouperboy and gowen, corporations already have enough control over the industry, my point is that comcast, has restricted technology advancement. Taxed are you kidding me, there are not enough taxes on income in the US, it is a joke, people who make millions or millions or even hundreds of thousands should pay a higher percentage of their income (look at Nokia for example, Finland has one of the highest income tax brackets in the world, and the difference in pay between their highest paid people vs lowest in the smallest gap amongst developed nations. So you throw the tax idea out, corporations alone in the US make out like bandits (bandits you know the ones that steal), by getting tax breaks so they can make more money, that is exactly why industry moved out of the US, it was never that we paid people too much, its that corporations found people that would take cheaper pay for a job. I won't touch the liberals have control of the TV systems, rupert murdoch, GE, Disney, Viacom and Time Warner do not constitute liberals in my mind, some might be socially liberal, but far from economically liberal.
ciphone makes a good point we do pay for a lot of the internet already through ISPs and ads, though if you are lucky and live in a town or city with free wifi it's not ass bad, but the town still pays for the access. Basically
Do you use Firefox (I do), do you use linux (I do), do you use Miro (I do), point is they are software that are produced without any intention of making profits, but to advance technology. Miro uses bittorrent, which has proven to allow downloading at faster speeds without one place taking the cost of the band width. Bittorrent was not created to allow illegal downloads, but in part to cut the cost to places like democracy now. I don't believe in fantasies, so no there are no unicorn where I am.
Time Warner's TV Everywhere to pipe internet TV to Comcast subscribers {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 12:31PM gowen, A little harsh I would say. No reason to fly off the handle. You ever think that that the cost of nearly everything in life is, well, substantially higher than the actual cost to produce it? I'll disregard your "hippy" and "burger flipping" comment as you know absolutely nothing about me or my career.
I do not devalue the work of those that create content for the internet, though I do need to clarify one point first, the internet was not created in california nor was it created by any company, it was in fact created by the military in connection with a number of colleges and universities (see Digital Capitalism, by Dan Schiller https://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-9780262692335-0).
As for your hippy comment, I have no problem with services such as the internet itself being paid for through tax dollars to expand and create, I think allowing corporation to control the internet (i.e. comcast with broadband capping and throttling http://www.freepress.net/release/342) is worse than government control at least I have a somewhat democratic vote. As for left wing long haired hippies, I am not really sure who your target is in that statement, but I'd say that if capitalism is supposed to bring about the best, most efficient productive tools in society, then the capitalist or really monopolist involved in cable TV are restricting that advancement by preventing people from using services that they even pay for the way they desire. I dropped comcast highspeed a year ago and went with dsl cause verizon, won't restrict what I download or stream, and cares a little (albeit not much) more about their consumers.
I certainly believe my time is valued, I wouldn't study half the stuff I have if I didn't, but I also understand that in the capitalist system the owners of companies actually look at their workers in a much different light, essentially they would rather pay the least they can and devalue a workers labor hours by under paying them while they themselve make a fortune (see Bill Gates and how he tried to get temp workers to perform the same job as full time employees to in fact forcefully raise the production by threatening to replace the full time employees with temp workers, really what kind of values does Bill Gates and Microsoft have?)
by the way i'd never sell you a burger in the first place cause I don't support fast food joints.
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