Several wireless companies have announced rate plans for unlimited calling plans, including weekends, days, nights, afternoons, nooners, holidays, and any other time you can name. Most of the wireless providers are offering the plans at just $100/mo, but Virgin Mobile USA has come in lower, offering the “Totally Everything” plan for just $80/mo.

What does Virgin hope to accomplish with this lowering? To get more customers, of course. What could be better? Because the plan is prepaid, there are no contracts to sign. No being locked into a deal. No being stuck with a carrier. A bold move. But will it work? Continue Reading »

Knowing who is the top wireless provider in the nation might change on different occassions, but for the first quarter of 2008 the numbers have been manipulated and finally submitted and are available for your viewing pleasure.

Here’s something that might surprise you, unless you think about it and the state of the economy and the overall laziness of the population. There were no changes in rankings from the last time a quarterly report was created. Continue Reading »

Microsoft Corp. has blamed computer makers for some of the problems users have encountered after updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), according to a company support document.

The document also showed that the “endless reboot” problem some users have reported after installing XP SP3 was neither unanticipated or new; Microsoft updated the document on the same day it released the service pack, and the company indicated that the same thing happened nearly four years ago when it rolled out Windows XP SP2. Continue Reading »

The term bugging may have a new meaning in the digital age, scientists are working on fitting small creatures with video cameras, electrodes and batteries. The goal is to create an ‘army’ of radio controlled creatures including sharks, rats, moths, pigeons and maybe even cattle. The creatures would be employed as spies, used for search and rescue and could could start a new arms race - a creature one at that.
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he next update of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 console, slated for later this month, will include features that let users download games, video and ring tones. Though I’m pretty sure I have never received any phone calls on my PS3, it would be nice to customize that feature. Wait, huh?

Sony said Thursday the system update will add Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0, or BD-Live capability, to the PS3. It will also let users copy photos and music playlists on to their handheld PlayStation Portable, use the PSP as a remote control for playing music on the PS3 and stream linked video files from the Web. Continue Reading »

After more than a decade of research team led by Prof Yuki Sugiyama of Nagoya University has solved the mysterious underlying cause of traffic jams when there is no obvious reason for the delay. In the New Journal of Physics a study by his group explains why we’re occasionally caught in jams for no obvious reason.
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A dairy farm in northern California is producing natural gas harvested from cow manure. The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project, the brainchild of life- long dairyman David Albers, aims to provide the natural gas needed to power 1,200 homes a day, Albers said at the facility’s inauguration ceremony.
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American Airlines is under for from environmentalists for flying an Boeing 777 from Chicago to London with only five passengers. Friends of the Earth said it was ‘obscene’ to waste so much fuel flying an almost empty plane
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If you’re using Apple’s Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud.

Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer. Continue Reading »

PETS at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed anti-depressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says. Zoo and wildlife medicine specialist with the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Romain Pizzi, told the Telegraph that more pets were being prescribed Prozac.
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