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Why Verizon Doesn't Want You to Buy an iPhone

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Sascha Segan writes that although Verizon adamantly denies steering customers away from Apple's iPhones in favor of 4G LTE-enabled Android devices, he is convinced that Verizon has a strong reason to push buyers away from the iPhone. "Here's the problem," writes Segan. "Verizon has spent millions of dollars rolling out its massive LTE network" but the carrier can't easily add capacity on its old 3G network. Since the iPhone isn't a 4G phone sales of Verizon iPhones just crowd up their already busy 3G network while their 4G network has plenty of space. "The iPhone is a great device. But it's making a crowded network more crowded. Until the LTE iPhone comes along, to rebalance its network, Verizon may quietly push Android phones.""
Cloud

Microsoft releases SkyDrive app for Windows and Mac, lowers its storage to 7GB->

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suraj.sun writes "Today Microsoft has released SkyDrive preview for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista users in 106 different languages worldwide, which was avilable for Windows Phone, iPhone and iPad since December 2011. The company has also provided a preview version for Mac OS X Lion users too, providing access to SkyDrive documents directly within Finder. SkyDrive for Windows will allow users to drag-and-drop files (up to 2GB in size) to and from SkyDrive folders. Similar to Dropbox, all files and SkyDrive content will be managed in one central folder that syncs with Microsoft's online cloud storage. There is also a new fetching files option that allows SkyDrive desktop users to access, browser, and stream files from a remote PC running the latest preview of SkyDrive desktop — handy if you forgot to sync a particular file from your desktop PC while you away from your PC. Microsoft also announced changes to its free and paid storage plans up to 100GB. All new SkyDrive users will be offered 7GB of free space, a reduction from the usual 25GB of storage, while for a limited time, any registered SkyDrive user who has uploaded files to SkyDrive as of April 22nd can opt in to keep 25GB of free storage while still getting all of the benefits of the new service."
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Censorship

Google helped with CISPA,quietly worked with the bill's authors behind the scene->

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suraj.sun writes "One spark of hope to the people and organizations that oppose cyberspying bill CISPA was that in the list of 28 corporate sponsors (including Facebook), Google was nowhere to be seen. But now CISPA’s author Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has bragged that Google had, in fact, quietly worked with the bill’s authors behind the scenes. According to Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and number-one fan for the execution of Wikileaks whisteblower Bradley Manning — Google is “very supportive” of CISPA.

CISPA has been nicknamed “SOPA 2 but is more accurately described as a setup to wipe out decades of consumer privacy protections, giving the US government unprecedented access to individuals’ online data and communications. Now it seems we know where Google stands, too. The bill primarily protects internet companies that share private data and communications with the government — it promotes digital spying on citizens without a warrant under the guise of cybersecurity. The bill’s vague language, in addition to the power it can give Homeland Security entities involved in domain shutdowns to go after sites such as Wikileaks, has had CISPA labeled as a relative to SOPA and PIPA."
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Comment: Re:Government should give away such software. (Score 1) 387

by FaxeTheCat (#39636075) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software?
Actually, in a different world (Norway, actually), the tax people are obliged by law to calculate your tax in the way which result in the lowest tax for the taxpayer (based on the numbers they have been given, of course). That of course include all deductions you are entitled to. No tricks.
Also, most institutions deliver the numbers in electronic format to the tax office so that we get a filled in form with the numbers and an estimated tax which we can use as a starting point for the tax return. For a fair number of taxpayers the pre-filled in form contain the correct numbers.

Comment: Re:I switched to UTP a year ago (Score 1) 91

by FaxeTheCat (#39609341) Attached to: 42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016
So when my wife is browsing the net form her iPad and my daughter is downloading to her smartphone through the WiFi, and my son connects his Nintendo 3DS to the network, exactly how are they going to replace this with UTP?


I have 3 (stationary) PCs and my TVs connected on UTP, but more and more devices are just not suitable for it. And there are just so many. Between us, the family now have close to 20 network capable devices (everything from DSis and iPods to PCs and TV decoders). Cabling for all of that would make the house look like a bowl of spaghetti. Not really a realistic option for most people, is it?
Music

The father of rock amplification is dead->

Submitted by FaxeTheCat
FaxeTheCat writes "The founder and manager of Marshall amps, Jim Marshall is dead at 88.
If you need more references than the name, then you probably have not been listening to music much during the last 50 years.
Usually we ask for a minute of silence when somebody is dead, but in this case I think it is more appropriate to ask for a minute of the sound of a guitar feeding back through a wall of Marshall stacks."
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Your reasoning powers are good, and you are a fairly good planner.