T-Mobile is warning G1 customers that they could get placed into the slow lane if they use more than 1GB of data in a billing cycle.
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Download more than 1GB of data on your new G1 phone, and T-Mobile might severely restrict your bandwidth.
Now, that doesn’t apply to anything you download or [...]

A Fedora project leader issued an alert to a Fedora e-mail list that some Fedora servers were taken offline after they were found to have been illegally accessed last week.
The open-source vendor also released a script designed to detect potentially compromised OpenSSH (OpenBSD’s Secure Shell protocol implementation) packages.
Despite the fact that [...]

Still, the trend of premiering TV shows on the Web continues to illustrates how much TV networks and cable channels are beginning to respect the Internet as a distribution channel.

Fans of such NBC shows as Knight Rider, Chuck, and 30 Rock will be able to see their season premieres first on Hulu.

While this [...]

Perhaps not surprisingly, Yan’s exhibit at the fair is being co-sponsored by Microsoft Research, Cambridge (U.K.). Microsoft announced in May that it will include a multitouch interface with Windows 7 that could be available in 2009 and will work with existing touch screens.
Yan is showing off the Background Draw-a-Secret software on iPhones, laptops and PDAs [...]

At this point in time Google performs somewhere around 71 percent of Internet searches in the U.S. Google appears destined to increase that share over the next decade unless Microsoft or some company just hatching can come up with a substantially superior search experience.
It appears that Google will stay on the same path that it [...]

The company also detailed its plans for the technology, saying that the purchase will pave the way for Microsoft to create “a new solution based on Datallegro’s technology that extends Microsoft SQL Server to scale into hundreds of terabytes of data.”

I asked Microsoft for more details on why it will take two years to do [...]

The software giant said it would repurchase up to $40 billion worth of its shares through September 2013. It recently completed a previous $40 billion buyback program.

In addition to the stock buyback program and increased quarterly dividend, Microsoft is also planning to float out corporate debt of up to $6 billion. The proceeds from the [...]

To use the AIM API (application programming interface), developers have to use two of five AIM elements. The ad is one. The other four are bundling the AIM browser toolbar; providing access to AIM Expressions that customize the AIM interface; displaying the AIM Dashboard start page; and displaying buddy info.

As the computing industry has discovered [...]

Another sector AT&T expects to benefit from with this service is e-commerce. Jim Paterson, a vice president of product development at AT&T, told the Journal online retailers could use the service to help manage spikes in shopping activity, such as the day after Thanksgiving.

AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud-computing service providers that offer [...]

Is it frustrating, sure, when people talk about the departure of employees, but I would like to get the distractions behind us.

Icahn, who reached a settlement with Yahoo earlier in the week, agreed to halt his proxy fight in exchange for being appointed to the board after the company’s August 1 shareholders meeting. Yahoo also [...]