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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 ...

Nov. 22 - Feeling frugal this holiday season? It's OK, so are most American consumers, according to numerous surveys. As the shopping season gets into full swing this week, here are some ways to save - and some ways to be safe. First, the savings. Whether it's online or at the mall, there are lots of ways to trim your holiday ...

'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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Support for a law aimed at protecting consumers' online privacy is gathering steam in Washington. Representative Edward Markey [D-Mass.], head of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, says he and others plan to introduce comprehensive online privacy legislation in the coming congressional session. Dubbed the Online Privacy Bill of Rights, the law may require companies to get approval from consumers before ...

Social networking is big. There's Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, hi5, YouTube, the list goes on and on. Then there's your personal blog that you maintain, your own website with even more stuff about yourself and you never dreamed that keeping in touch with so many could be so exhausting. But there you have it. You are connected, accessible and everyone out ...

'Buzz Broadband CEO calls WiMAX service with Airspan hardware a disaster.' - WiMAX is a wireless service that has created a lot of buzz promising broadband speeds without needing to run wires. While WiMAX networks here in America have not yet begun to take off, WiMAX is in use in several locations abroad. Buzz Broadband was the first operator of a ...

'Promises to minimize interference with TV, microphone signals.' - The Federal Communications Commission gave its unanimous approval (PDF) for white space Wi-Fi Tuesday, allowing manufacturers to build unlicensed wireless devices that make use of vacant DTV channels. While the spectrum will effectively be a free-for-all, white space wireless devices will have to operate under a number of conditions, and will be ...

NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. will start offering faster Internet services in Minnesota's Twin Cities region on Thursday, with plans to extend that type of next-generation system to its entire service area by 2010. The $150-a-month offering for residential customers costs about triple Comcast's priciest option to date and likely will appeal only to heavy users of online music, movies and ...

NEW YORK - Goodbye, broadband over power lines. We hardly knew you. Once touted as a possible third option for home broadband that could compete with phone and cable companies, the idea of providing Internet service over power lines now looks like it has died in infancy. A Texas utility company said last week that it is taking control of the ...

INDIA--Technology has made possible better management of cities and their amenities so that citizens can enjoy better quality of life. To this end, Cisco Systems unveiled in Bengaluru city on Thursday, its "Intelligent Urbanization" blueprint.

'FCC lays the ground work to dig the U.S. out of the broadband backwater.' - The U.S. is one of the most advanced and wealthy countries in the world, yet when it comes to broadband access in more rural areas of the country we lag well behind other nations. Citizens in the UK have access to better broadband speeds, as do ...

One of the many issues that President Barack Obama is tackling is the security of our nation's information infrastructure. Cybersecurity is a big issue for the President and his administration and steps are being taken to ensure that America is safe from cyber attacks. Obama has promised to hand pick a cybersecurity coordinator for the federal government, but as of now ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Internet providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to child pornography and eliminate the material from their servers, New York's attorney general said Tuesday. The companies also will pay $1.1 million to help fund efforts to remove the online child porn created and disseminated by users through their services, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...