Text messaging, politics and religion?
Barack Obama used it when he announced Joe Biden as his running mate so that you would “be the first to know.” Even the Pope used text messaging! Now, AT&T is joining the political text messaging bandwagon, but for good reasons. Hit the bump for more and a video!
Its Official! Comcast sets monthly broadband cap at 250GB/month!
Sounds ludicrous? That’s because it is! Comcast claims that with a 250GB bandwidth cap, users could:
* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
Users who go over the 250GB/month quota get a [...]
Clean and speed up your PC in minutes! Or maybe an hour…
To continue on with my PC maintenance montage (post 1 and post 2), Kurt and I filmed a short, and by short I mean 12 minutes because Kurt can’t stop talking, video on some easy tips to keep your computer running smooth and fast. And by the way, it took me forever to edit [...]
New Theme?!
Let us know what you think of this new theme. If you don’t like it, we’ll go back to the old one. We are testing new ones out to try and find one we like before we make the plunge and build one ourselves.
Traveling outside the US? Have AT&T wireless? Look here!
AT&T has just released new international rates that can be added or removed on top of your current contract with ease. For just a couple more dollars a month, you’ll be able to use your phone minutes at discounted rates in over 85 countries around the world. Pretty sweet deal if you ask [...]
No more red optical or laser mice… say hello to Microsoft’s Blue Track
First it was the ball… then opticals glowing red, now lasers, but the future is blue! At least that is what Microsoft has installed for the future. Blue Track utilizes a blue LED (yes the light) and many optical sensors to give you better mouse movement on all different surfaces including carpet! [...]
Weekend Recap - August 25th 2008
Another busy week here at TNMS. Here are some important stories that you might have missed over the weekend!
Kevin Rose rumors on new iPods, etc. from Apple - CrunchGear
XBox360 will get motion controllers like the Wii? - Gizmodo
Google and Verizon to partner for cell phone searching - Gizmodo
Virgin Mobile to acquire Helio - Engadget
Cyborgs [...]
Call Geek Squad? FireDog? Try AT&T’s ConnecTech?!
Apparently, AT&T has a new home theater tech support center: ConnecTech. Just like Best Buy’s Geek Squad and Circuit City’s FireDog, AT&T will have ConnecTech. CrunchGear has the price breakdown for the available services AT&T has to offer… which is basically the same as BestBuy and CircuitCity. But how well can [...]
Hack the Planet!
Damn I hope someone out there got the movie reference in the title. Otherwise, I’m going to feel sad. Sad and old. Or, sadder & older than usual.
Anyway, over the past ten days there has been a fairly fascinating debate about Intellectual Property Laws, Computer Fraud, and plain old bored college geniuses. (Or is it [...]
Mile high club for everyone? — American Airlines debutes In-flight WiFi.
I may have the opposite of that multiple-Oscar-Winning movie with Russell Crowe, but as reported on Engadget, American Airlines has begun offering In-flight WiFi on it’s Boeing 757-200 airplanes using a system by Aircell LLC.
