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Video: USA’s Credit Crisis Visualized

By Carl Nelson on March 7, 2009

An excellent video on the Economic Crisis America is going through right now. Nope, it’s not related to games or hardware. Not directly, anyway.

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Fonolo to make phone tree navigation a thing of the past

By Trevor Flynn on September 3, 2008

[Insert Creepy Electronic Voice Here]
*Hello Welcome to [Generic Large Corporation]. For Service in English Press 1
[Continue Ad Infinitum]
Automated phone tree navigation, is there anything more frustrating? I personally refuse to call any type of technical support line unless absolutely necessary specifically to avoid these maddening systems. The only thing worse are the one with voice [...]

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DailyTech roots out the sketchy hardware sites – sorta

By Carl Nelson on June 4, 2007

In this article, DailyTech did some undercover work, posing as a fake hardware company in Taiwan, asking several hardware sites whether they will accept payment/advertising in exchange for content.
According to their 3-month long investigation, they found that at least 20% of the sites agreed to some form of payment in return for some form [...]

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“Wikipedia is broken beyond repair” – Wikipedia co-founder

By Carl Nelson on April 11, 2007

In response to some high praise from British Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who recommended that students should use Wikipedia in their studies, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger stated that the site is no longer useful, and suffers from many problems ranging from “serious management problems, to an often dysfunctional community, to frequently unreliable content, and [...]

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Trust No One… Unless They Agree With You

By Trevor Flynn on April 10, 2007

It’s no secret that the term “fair and balanced” is no longer anything more than a catch phrase when it comes to traditional media. With a handful of large corporations owning all major North America media outlets, most information presented is first run through a slanted filter. Journalism has largely taken a backseat to [...]

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Google Launches Free Directory Assistance

By Trevor Flynn on April 6, 2007

It seems that Google is expanding it’s product offering yet again. They are now offering a free telephone directory assistance service. Basically you call a toll free number (1-800-GOO-G411) and search for any local business by category or name free. You can then be connected directly to the business number free of charge (regular phone [...]

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