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Submission + - The Twitter/T-Mobile Battle (bibleboy.org)

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bblboy54

on Saturday December 15, 2007 @08:17PM

bblboy54 writes: "Starting Sunday December 9th, many T-Mobile customers began having issues sending SMS messages to the Twitter service. Initially this was thought to be a bug but customers began investigating and received very strong e-mail responses from T-Mobile's President's office. On Thursday, AlternaGeek reported the speculation. It was then later confirmed by the emails customers were receiving from T-Mobile and TechCrunch picked up the story. After a huge outcry from the Twitter community, it was just reported by a representative of Twitter that the problem was found to be technical and not political but this is not only after the direct emails from T-Mobile but also Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, announced T-Mobile was blocking Twitter. The motives and actions of what happened are up for debate but, at the very least, T-Mobile owes their customers and explanation for the way they were treated."

Submission + - T-Mobile Blocking Twitter? (alternageek.com)

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bblboy54

on Friday December 14, 2007 @11:50AM

bblboy54 writes: "While there isn't any (published) official word from T-Mobile or from Twitter, it appears that T-Mobile has begun blocking users from sending SMS messages to the Twitter service. There are a few blog posts popping up regarding this including one over at Alternageek. I personally called T-Mobile last night and spoke with 3 different representatives before finally being told that "T-Mobile does not support third party message providers and while you were able to use the Twitter service previously, this was the result of a bug in their system which has now been corrected." When I specifically asked if I could expect to ever be able to use Twitter with T-Mobile again I was told that it wouldn't occur until Twitter made a contract with T-Mobile (the same mentality that ISPs are using to destroy net neutrality). This can be confirmed by asking anyone on T-Mobile to send an SMS to the Twitter short code (40404) and they will most likely receive a service is unavailable message which has been the result for the last 3 days."

Submission + - Semen may have anti-depressant properties (spring.org.uk) 1

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bblboy54

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @09:15PM

bblboy54 writes: "PsyBlog is running articles related to "weird psychology" and one article recalls a 2002 research study by Gallup, Burch and Platek that links condom use to depression and suggests that semen contains anti-depressant properties. The article also mentions a 1986 study that explains how this may occur."

Submission + - CompUSA Sales Empty Box (lostremote.com)

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bblboy54

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @12:14PM

bblboy54 writes: "CompUSA recently sold a customer an empty box and is refusing to refund the money because the item was a clearance and, according to CompUSA, all sales are final — even if the sale is of an empty box. The CEO's office goes as far as to blame the buyer for not inspecting the box."

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