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Submission + - Comcast Costs Unknowing Customers Over $350 Millio (grubulub.com)

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dirvish

on Friday April 02, 2010 @05:41PM

dirvish writes: "Comcast is costing their customers over $350 million dollars a year in unnecessary electricity charges while their power hungry set top boxes are supposedly turned off."

Submission + - Plastic artificial bone (rutgers.edu)

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pnosker

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:37PM

pnosker writes: "Researchers at Rutgers University have found a way to create artificial bone using a blend of usually immiscible plastics, both bio-compatible, where one plastic is dissolved and excreted creating an empty sponge-like region for natural bone to grow and a lattice of PMMA plastic for the growth to occur. The new material is undergoing further study and testing."

Submission + - Microsoft delays Office 2008 for Mac until mid-Jan (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by i_hate_robots on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:00PM

i_hate_robots writes: AppleInsider is reporting that Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) said Thursday that the release of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac has been pushed back from the second half of 2007 until mid-January. The Redmond-based firm now anticipates showing a final version of the software at the Macworld trade show and conference in January, with global availability to commence in the first quarter of 2008. "This was a business decision based on the Mac BU's commitment to deliver a high-quality product," said Mac BU General Manager Craig Eisler. "Our number one priority is to deliver quality software to our customers and partners, and in order to achieve this we are shifting availability."

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