Article and the first time poster at #1 both stink of marketing stunts. Also do you even know anybody that has a windows phone? I doubt my friends even know Microsoft is in this market. I think they could steal some corporate market away from blackberry if they thrown in good exchange/vpn support I personally hate the blackberrys my company uses they break often and drop calls daily

the best way to keep your tv/internet cost down is to switch back and forth. In my area you can get tv/internet through ATT or comcast if you know where to look you can often get 1-2 year promotions through their alternate sales channels (.com/field agents) and just go back and forth after your promotions run out you will save far more than any install fees you may occur once a year.

You don't even have to disconnect entirely, if you drop your services to basic levels for a couple months you can often get a discount for upgrading again later.

I read the announcement yesterday and that just isn't accurate. What they are doing is doubling the speeds of their top 3 internet tiers 25 to 50, 50 to 100, and 100 to 300. It will happen in every docsis 3 area they are just doing it in the northeast FIRST.

It would be perfectly suitable upgrade if they stuck with the windows 7 UI

While I could care less for MS Word and could easily switch to just about any other document program Excel is a different game. The things I do with pivots, tables, and shared data between files/servers is a step beyond open office.

I'm sure this is the case for me, i have never visited it but i do not doubt my parents held nothing back when filling out their family details settings. Even if i ask them to delete it it would have little point, facebook would still hold onto it.

You are unlikely to find it online but its on the price list you can probably pick one up or call them and ask about it. Its only 6mb speed but its at a fixed price of $49 if you have cable its cheaper to get the higher speeds as internet is discounted with another product

I wouldn't say it buried at all the package is there and is clearly labeled on the price list in the same font/size as the other packages. It might be on fine print on advertisements nobody ever said a company has to advertise every service they offer they could choose not to mention it at all. There is nothing you need to find just call and ask about them nobody will proactively offer you the cheaper packages but if you ask they will tell you.

I'm certain the servers will go off eventually however I do not doubt that my concern for playing diablo will have long passed by then. You might take this risk for other games but I expect battle.net will outlast my interest in 1 game.

I recommend this also, do nothing. Making a choice like this for your community forces those who want no part of it to contribute to it as part of their association fees. It would also severely restrict competition as many competitors will not invest in a community with an existing bulk cable/internet arrangements because the number of customers they could acquire would not be enough to warrant construction and maintenance cost. I work for a cable company and we do offer bulk agreements to communities but these type of arrangements restrict choices and is best left to places that would suit it (nursing homes, student housing etc, places that change tenants frequently.)

I could of sworn I remember seeing an article that google was no longer censoring in china, did they go back on that while I wasn't looking?

I usually have to make extra effort to stay under 250, i think i would be very comfortable with around 275-300 so them changing the base cap to 300 and allowing me to pay for more I have no problem with. I use data a lot more than the average user i'm willing to pay extra now and then for more but the current policy is an outright service termination if you frequently go over I would rather pay an extra $10 every few months than worry about them turning me off.

I used to work for a relay service that was a subsidy of Sprint. We had this problem too but there were issues involved that prevented alot of action on our part to stop these fraud calls. Relay's for the most part contracted by the state for a particular area and did not follow the monopoly areas. By contract we were required to be impartial on calls, even though our operators were accustomed to these calls and knew usually within the first 60 seconds if it was fraud or not we could not assume said person was fraud because legitimate users used the service also and we could be wrong and since we were held to strict requirements of impartiality (as interpreters for the deaf) we could not make judgement on the content of calls. Most of our relay calls would done over the wire telephone but we did offer an internet based relay and those calls had significantly higher fraud rates. Outside-US IP's were blocked but they still found ways around that (likely by proxy).

It already happens. Time Warner and Comcast both have botnet detection. They put you a restricted walled garden until you take steps to remove it. There is no email and there is no hugely complex packet sniffing software. Its quite easy to detect such botnet traffic as such traffic is very predictable in nature. Your computer sending large amount of traffic to some known botnet location? Redirect all traffic to some basic HTML page with instructions. Customer does nothing and just lets it stay that way? No prob you can pay for service that you don't use all you want to.

Yes but if these thieves had a rifle it would of been a dead neighborhood watch.