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Comment Re:Don't buy subsidized phones (Score 1) 416

by cocofifi on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:37AM (#42748301) Attached to: What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco

Indeed - the simple solution is to buy the phone in a version that is not locked by the carrier. If you buy a subsidized one you agree to a contract, and breaking the terms of an agreement has to have consequences under law terms.

Submission + - MIME Attachments Are 20 Years Old Today (techweekeurope.co.uk)

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judgecorp

on Sunday March 11, 2012 @05:23AM

judgecorp writes: "MIME email attachments are 20 years old on 11 March, and we now send a trillion every day. The mountains of emails in corporate archives now contain vital information says MIME inventor Nathaniel Borenstein, which can be mined to expose conspiracies and make businesses more efficient. He also says that a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany — if it werent for the fact that such a charge would have killed MIME."

Submission + - Publishers warned on ebook prices (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08, 2012 @11:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: The DoJ says Simon and Schuster, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins conspired to raise the prices of ebooks.

The report originates from the WSJ but the BBC adds comments from an analyst bizarrely claiming increased prices are somehow a good thing and thinking otherwise is the result of "confusion". I'd like to see an explanation of why the wholesale model, while continuing to work fine (presumably) for physical books, somehow didn't work for ebooks and why the agency model is better despite increasing costs for consumers.

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