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The crowds, the fluorescent lights, the sales clerks who ignore you and the lines, lines, lines. Some people love Christmas shopping. I assume they also like sleeping on a bed of nails. Here are 10 reasons you should consider shopping online. 1. Unique gifts: You can find the coolest and most unusual stuff online. From remote-controlled Ferraris at hipstergifts.com to Gummi ...

'TWC throws down the gauntlet in additional markets.' - Nearly a year ago, DailyTech brought you news that Time Warner Cable (TWC) planned to implement bandwidth restrictions in Texas. The initial plan was to use Beaumont, Texas as a trial run for bandwidth caps meaning that customers would no longer have access to unrestricted, "all-you-can-eat" internet bandwidth. The Beaumont test bed ...

NVIDIA and Intel, two of the electronics industry's largest veteran powers, have never been too warm or close.  Recently, the pair can't seem to stop stepping on each other's toes.  The pair's troubles started last year with NVIDIA releasing its Ion integrated graphics platform, which NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang likened to opening a "can of whoop-ass".  Intel was not too happy ...

NEW YORK -- You have good reason to be skeptical when someone says millions of ordinary television viewers are about to start surfing the Internet on the living room's electronic hearth. We've heard that Web-on-your-TV convergence promise for more than a decade, with ambitious efforts to make it happen including AOL TV and WebTV Networks. Each time, the optimists have ...

Nov. 5--The wireless industry gathered Wednesday in Dallas to talk about the next generation of high-speed mobile connectivity and promote a new industry standard. But the spirit of cooperation went only so far. Some of the disagreements among the giants couldn't help but leak out, even as telecom experts predicted a magical era a few years down the road with ...

It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of those managing enterprise LAN switches and routers, a habit that might be costing organizations in unnecessary purchases and manpower at a time when every penny counts. Ten top problems network techs encounter: Download now An informal canvass of some leading switch ...

Photo: Lachlan Hardy/Flickr (CC) You need to know how to deal with different types of people in order to get along. Some are especially sensitive to certain things, like the conflict resolution rep that hates to hears insults around the office, even when they're said in jest. IT workers like us are no different. We take our geekiness seriously and ...

Holly Kopczynski always prided herself on raising her kids the right way, teaching them etiquette basics like saying "please" and "thank you." Then it happened. "We were at a restaurant for my mom's birthday. I looked over and there are my daughter and my oldest son texting, holding their phones under the table," said the mom of four in Lewiston, Idaho. ...

Cloud computing, the new buzz-phrase of the tech world, is actually an exercise in common sense for many applications. Eric Knorr, a tech blogger at InfoWorld.com, contends that hosting a company's e-mail on local servers "is a storage hog, a time-suck to manage, a compliance liability, and about the least strategic thing imaginable," and I'm inclined to agree for the most ...

PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. on Wednesday said it will begin rolling out faster Internet speeds over the next few weeks in selected markets to homes and businesses. The nation's largest cable operator and residential Internet service provider will offer speeds up to 50 megabits per second, which enables users to download a high-definition movie in 16 minutes and a standard definition ...

 Cable television and broadband provider Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland, Monday, with plans to bring the service to Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia by the end of 2009.                                                            READ MORE ...

'Comcast's equipment didn't distinguish between a network that needed management and one that didn't, according to FCC chairman Kevin Martin.' - Testifying before Congress, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin presented a damning contrast (PDF) to Comcast’s claims that it blocked traffic only when needed. “Contrary to some claims, it does not appear that [Comcast’s BitTorrent technique] was used only to occasionally ...

NEW YORK - Google and two nonprofit partners Wednesday launched a Web site that lets consumers test their Internet connections to reveal possible interference and traffic management by service providers. The site, Measurement Lab, addresses a need among academics who want to gather data on how Internet connections work in practice. While the workings of the core Internet "highways" are well ...

BEIJING - China's fast-growing population of Internet users has soared to 221 million, tying the United States for the largest number of people online, according to government data reported Thursday. The figure, reported by the Xinhua News Agency, reflects China's explosive growth in Web use despite government efforts to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic. It was a 61 ...

'You may still be able to leech off other people's wireless networks for a little while longer thanks to the House Judiciary Committee.' - With growing concerns over internet security, one Maryland delegate decided to take action. Brought before the Maryland General Assembly last week was a bill sponsored by LeRoy E. Myers, Jr. criminalizing unauthorized use of a wireless access ...

'Google steps in to offer an alternative for "losers" of the FCC Auction 73.' - Last week the FCC's auction for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum ended with more than just a winner. The spectrum auction ended with bids totaling $19.592 billion. Google's failure to win any of the spectrum surprised few analysts, at least compared to the company's ulterior motive ...

'American Airlines, working with Aircell, plans to roll out Wi-Fi Internet on a larger number of planes.' - American Airlines has announced it will expand its in-flight wireless internet to include an additional 300 aircraft in its fleet. Fifteen different Boeing 767-200 aircraft currently support the AA Wi-Fi internet, but 300 MD-80 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft will also have internet support ...

WASHINGTON - A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday. Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, was accused of violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. Three commissioners have voted in favor of an order reaching agreement ...

Sherry Natoli is followed everywhere she goes while shopping online, but she doesn't mind at all. Natoli, who owns a seashell business in Tampa, does all but her grocery shopping on the Internet and even opts in whenever she's asked whether she's willing to have her online movements tracked by websites. Companies have been monitoring our online behavior for almost as ...

PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. said Thursday that by early 2010 it plans to offer consumers in most of its markets Internet service so fast they will be able to download a high-definition movie in minutes. The nation's second-largest Internet service provider - and biggest cable TV operator - will offer speeds over 100 megabits per second in 20 percent of its ...