Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
Bidding reached $18.55 billion on Friday in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s record-setting auction of government-owned wireless airwaves, but there were no new offers for two large, closely watched slices of spectrum.The total bidding, which covers five separate blocks of spectrum in the auction, was up from $15.64 billion on Thursday.
There were no new bids [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
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Repairs to one Mediterranean cable expected by February 12
Cable reported cut Friday off Dubai in Persian Gulf
Extensive Internet failure has affected much of Asia, the Middle East, north Africa
Analysts say no chance of similar Internet loss in United States
An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
At a recent meeting, the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) voted to approve Adobe’s PDF as an international document format standard. The vote was passed with 13-to-one in favour and PDF is set to become the ISO 32000 Standard. As a result, Adobe will no longer have sole control over what is already the de [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2008 by moneyvsdebt
This past holiday (I’ve been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL). The code won’t have reference to any SimCity name as that has all be renamed [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by moneyvsdebt
LED rope light is perfect for sculpture decoration, building outlines, bars, step lighting, handrails, displays, window and architectural highlighting, decks, patios, gazebos, boats, and RVs. LED rope lighting consumes very little energy (it depends a bit on spacing but generally only about .47 watts per foot.) Comparable incandescent rope lighting consumes about 6 watts per [...]
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