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Submission + - AT&T/BellSouth deal near with new concessions

Submitted by davidwr on Thursday December 28, 2006 @10:48PM

davidwr writes: The Associated Press reports: "AT&T Inc. has offered a new set of concessions that are expected to satisfy the two Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission and lead to approval of the company's $85 billion buyout of BellSouth Corp. Approval by the full commission could happen as soon as Friday. AT&T filed a letter of commitment with the agency Thursday night that adds a number of new conditions to the deal, including a promise to observe "network neutrality" principles, an offer of affordable stand-alone digital subscriber line service and divestment of some wireless spectrum."
Good news for Google and for end-users.

Submission + - Top 100 Domain Names That Wikipedia Links To

Submitted by

Imri

on Thursday December 28, 2006 @06:14PM

Imri writes: "The Zana Zen has an article about the top 100 domain names that Wikipedia links to. Interesting to note is that the distribution of the number of links obeys Zipf's law. Zipf's law plays a major role in the understanding of interent traffic (pdf)."

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by LokiSnake on Thursday December 28, 2006 @05:24PM

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by LokiSnake on Thursday December 28, 2006 @05:22PM

Submission + - How DS took over the world - the defining moments

Submitted by ElFozzie on Thursday December 28, 2006 @04:15PM

ElFozzie writes: This Top 10 feature highlights the defining moments that led to Nintendo's handheld dominance in 2006 from the TV ad campaign to the return of Pokemon via developer's falling in love and, of course, the launch of the DS lite.
From the article: 10 Nintendo DS TV ad campaign
There must be a law of advertising that says a first campaign will be crap. It happened with Sony's Society Against PlayStation and Microsoft's bizarre arty Xbox ads, and in keeping with the trend came Nintendo's DS 'In Touch with Original Comedy' sponsorship of Channel 4 programmes. It began in Carry On mode with a selection of woman, often middle-aged, asking young men if 'They could touch it?'. This was followed by the camera panning down to groin level, finally demonstrating a shot of Metroid Prime Hunters or some such. Thankfully, the rise of the mass-market Touch Generation campaign eliminated this rubbish. There was even a brief halcyon period in the summer where the Trauma Centre ads coincided with the Green Wing comedy.

Submission + - PSP Hackers Crack Sonys PS1 Emulator

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Tuesday December 26, 2006 @07:01PM

Croakyvoice writes: PSP Hackers have cracked Sonys protection of its PSOne Emulator for the PSP, the emulator requires you to download the Game to your PS3 then to your PSP, but now with a new Custom Firmware released and a small converting tool you can now play any Playstation game on the PSP at full speed.

Submission + - Expired domain name search

Submitted by

on Tuesday December 26, 2006 @06:02PM

An anonymous reader writes: Expired Domain Name Search Beta was just released, making it possible to find domains that people forgot to renew. To find the best ones factors such as Google Trends are used to narrow down the list. The site has been making the rounds on Digg and del.icio.us hotlist and is clearly the best such list available.

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