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Comment Hotel / Travel sites (Score 1) 345

Aside from the technical sites, the worst offenders in this area are the Hotel sites. The search results for anything related to Hotels or Travel are loaded with sites that simply try to hide the hotels actual sites from you. They use misleading URLs that try to trick you into believing you are visiting the Hotel's actual website, and the prices are always higher than they will be if you are able to actually find the Hotel's actual website. If this can help all of those sites die, all the better.

Comment Really Bad, but QWEST? (Score 1) 371

I've been in Telecoms for a long time, and I have a hard time believing that a Qwest installer really did that. Whoever did it should definitely not be doing installs. There must be more to this story than we are being told.

Comment Re:Clearly what they need to do is just get ride T (Score 1) 70

True, But many companies who are registered in Portugal, will be using a .com instead of a .pt.


I suppose that situation exists everywhere. The .com seems to be preferred by certain companies all over the world.


On another note, if you wouldn't mind emailing me about some of those web shops in portugal, I would sure appreciate it. I have found it hard to locate shops in Portugal that will sell online.

Comment more to do with Telecom (Score 1) 206

I think that all of google's noisemaking in the utilities area has very little to do with power and power consumption, and everything to do with Telecommunications. There was an announcment recently that Google was entering the Electric Utility business. Everyone was saying that google would be an electricity provider before long, but this probably has more to do with accessing the utlitiy easments for fiber than anything else. Google has made it clear that they intend to be a serious player in Telecoms very soon. All the noise about utilities is probably really all about Telecoms.

Comment Re:Slow (Score 2, Interesting) 422

Man, I sure would like to know how you do that. I have an E65 and an HTC Dream. I would also like to find an easy way for my android phone to do that.

What I also need is to be able to extract a text file containing my contacts from thos backups.

And then I don't understand why there isn't an easy way to just import and export all of my contacts to a CSV file whenever I want. I use Sony Ericsson phones, Nokias and HTC, I am constantly needing to sync my contacts, but I have never found a quick and easy way to do that. It sure seems like something that everyone would need to do. Why isn't it an obvious option on every single phone?

Comment Re:Makes me wonder... (Score 1) 509

And if your friends bank is in California and you are in Texas, it is probably easier to send your money to India. Once in the US, I was unable to deposit money to a friend's BofA account in California from a BofA office in Texas, which seemed bizarre considering it is the same bank. They told me I would have to do a wire transfer.

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