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25Mar/110

School insanity: change everyone’s life to accommodate girl with allergies

Peanut allergy is a bad thing, and the deadly allergy is horrible. It’s even worse when child suffers (try to explain to 6 year old why she can’t have peanut butter and sneakers). However, as this constitutes disability, one school south of Daytona Beach, Florida, is now forces everyone in the class to alter their…

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21Mar/110

AT&T and T-Mobile – Sprint’s bad luck

Well, that was unexpected. As many others, I think the AT&T – T-Mobile merger will result in this: It’s like trying to merge a hipster with an old bureaucrat and expect hipster to win — doesn’t normally happen. I don’t think T-Mobile’s customer service will really go downhill once the merger is approved. And I…

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20Mar/110

Will Netflix really save the “cult shows”?

So, Netflix went boldly where no other rental company went before and bought itself a TV show, so it can be not only a middleman between the spigot of Hollywood TV creations and viewers, but the supplier of show(s) as well. If the price is right, sure, why not? The real question is, will it…

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18Mar/110

AT&T wants to auto-enroll you in tethering plan

Ah yes, the new bastion of fair usage and caps, AT&T, now decided to auto-switch users who tether their phones by using jailbreak to their special tethering plan, which costs more and gives a separate 2Gb bucket specifically for laptop/whatever data. You probably remember that they’ve done something similar before — Media Net packages with…

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17Mar/110

If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t care that much

Marketing from Apple always was exciting and fresh. And occasional inaccuracies are usually written off as per “artistic license”. But lately their standards have fallen, especially when looking at facts. Yes, if you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have “that” app store. You probably have Android Market instead, or download apps directly (even Nokia…

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