Desks On Roof? Cypress Creek Students Pull Prank

Desks On Roof? Cypress Creek Students Pull Prank ORANGE COUNTY — It’s almost the end of the school year, and for some high school students, that means it’s senior prank time. Approximately 100 school desks, chairs and tables appeared on top of 40 portables at Cypress Creek High School overnight Tuesday. Investigators said it likely […]

No data caps, no DOCSIS 3.0? TWC’s math doesn’t add up

According to Time Warner Cable’s most recent annual report, the company has largely rolled out DOCSIS 2.0 across its hybrid fiber-coax network and ‘plans to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 selectively in its systems during 2009, which will enable TWC to deliver speeds significantly faster than currently achievable.’ But will it? Alex Dudley, the company’s vice president […]

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Seth’s Blog Seth Godin’s riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread. (View the rest of the article at Seth’s Blog: This is broken)

How to Pass Your Exams Without Killing People

How to Pass Your Exams Without Killing People: Exams can be traumatic. They can sometimes lead to strange homicidal urges. No, really. Here are 10 tips on how to avoid killing those around you while you prepare for those examinations. You may not pass the exams but at least it may mean that the chair […]

Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica

Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into ‘excessive use’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there’s little to complain about on that front. Internet data caps generated controversy in […]

Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps

Go ahead and read the article… Educate yourself… But I only have one thing to say… We are mad, and were not going to take this anymore, Time Warner! Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps: “Consumers and lawmakers have expressed anger and concern over Time Warner Cable’s plans to expand trials of service that […]

There’s no bias here…

Mac Marginalization: MacInTouch Reader I belong to a survey group called e-rewards (http://www.e-rewards.com/). I just received an invitation to a survey and when I tried to open the link in Safari I was told that it only ran on Windows with IE or Firefox. I fired up Parallels to access the survey which asked questions […]

Time Warner tries again, fails to justify caps and charges

Time Warner Cable, stung by public reaction to the Internet data caps it is now trialing in several markets, has issued yet another public statement. Turns out, the problem here doesn’t rest with the caps but with the ‘press reports’ that ‘were premature and did not tell the full story.’ All of which perfectly explains […]