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Obama’s Broadband Stimulus Reveals ISP Hypocrisy

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Internet service providers always claim rising network maintenance costs to justify high prices, slow speeds, lousy coverage, and onerous restrictions on your Internet access. And yet, here they are refusing to take Obama’s $4.7 billion broadband stimulus package, now admitting they’re actually flush with cash. Apparently, they don’t like the net neutrality conditions that come with the package.

What a bunch of hypocrites. Liar, liar, fiber on fire.

Originally posted on August 14, 2009 @ 8:27 am

How the iPhone Gouges You

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Want to know how much Steve Jobs is gouging you on that pretty little underpowered toy you call the iPhone? Consider this: the iPhone has the highest profit margin in the entire handset industry, at a whopping 40%. Even though the iPhone accounts for only 8% of the industry’s revenue, it rakes in 32% of the industry’s profit.

Amazing how much some people will pay to play in a walled garden. Apple fanboys are suckers.

Originally posted on August 14, 2009 @ 10:26 am

Twitter to Release Retweet Support

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Twitter Retweet Support

Tired of copy-pasting tweets to retweet? So am I. That’s why I’m very happy to hear that Twitter is releasing retweet support for its site and API. The feature exists as a sketch on paper right now, but will be tested with a limited pool of Twitter users before everyone can retweet with two clicks.

This is not the first time Twitter has adapted its service to unexpected popular uses. Replies and hashtags were originally unsupported; Twitter merely added support as they became de facto standards among users.

My only complaint is that I won’t be able to attach snarky comments to retweets anymore. That’s what we need next, Twitter: snarky retweet support.

Originally posted on August 14, 2009 @ 11:11 am