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Submission + - Sprint Cancels Service On Customers That Complain (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

s31523

on Monday July 09, 2007 @05:09PM

s31523 writes: "Sprint is fed up with customers that have called their customer service lines excessively and has decided to cancel their contracts. Apparently a 1000 or so customers have called the Sprint customer service lines over 40000 times (total) and have made many "unreasonable" requests."

Submission + - OS X security myths

Submitted by popeyethesailor on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @12:37AM

popeyethesailor writes: Jeff Jones, a Strategy Director in Microsoft Security technology unit, has a series of blog posts titled "OS X security myths".

OS X has few security bugs
Nobody attacks OS X
OS X has more security designed in

Submission + - 19 Coutries File OpenXML Contradictions

Submitted by

Excelcia

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @12:16AM

Excelcia writes: "The deadline for filing contradictions on the Microsoft OpenXML ISO bid, and the results are in. A total of 19 countries have filed, comprising most of the free world, although the United States seems to be absent from the list. From Andy Upgrove's Blog on the subject:

This may not only be the largest number of countries that have ever submitted contradictions in the ISO/IEC process, but nineteen responses is greater than the total number of national bodies that often bother to vote on a proposed standard at all ... All in all, not a very auspicious start for OOXML. And not one that augers well for a very fast Fast Track experience. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft deals with this slap in the face.
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