Unsatisfied with the Omni-Directional Antenna that came with my Digital Antenna (DA4KSBR-50M) 70dB Cell Phone Repeater Kit, I decided to improve the system with a Wilson Cellular PCS Yagi (1850MHz-1990MHz) Cell Phone Antenna.  While that helped my mountain living situation, it didn’t get me where I wanted to be so I “improved” it. with a [...]

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CBSSports.com Connects With Facebook(R) to Provide Official NCAA(R) Tournament Brackets Facebook Platform to offer ‘CBSSports.com Tournament Brackets’ application         for the 2008 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship     FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — CBSSports.com todayannounced it has developed and will host an official NCAA March Madness(R)Brackets application that will be offered and promoted [...]

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Stuff Magazine wants you to believe there is an Ultimate Xbox on the way.  Well they may not be that far off. One of the biggest obstacles to Microsoft’s IPTV solution, now named MediaRoom, is that the Xbox 360 is too much of an energy hog to be an always on device.  Combine this with [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Since the iPhone hit the market in June, tech-savvy owners of the phone have been busy messing with its insides, figuring out how to add unauthorized software and even “unlock” it for use on networks other than AT&T’s. But the Web was filled Friday with complaints from people who had installed the [...]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — IPhone owners who have unlocked their handsets so they could use carriers other than AT&T may end up with a phone that doesn’t work after the company’s next software update, Apple Inc. warned Monday. Full Story

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I am off to tape the show this morning — earlier than usual because of some personal issues. Regular programming will resume when I get back, but meanwhile, enjoy this early morning blog goodness. Broadband Daily: Motorola might not be shipping too many mobile phones but it is selling a lot of IPTV set-top boxes; [...]

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AT&T’s (T) much vaunted triple-play service has finally passed the 100,000-subscriber mark — not exactly a scorcher, but good enough to meet the low end of expectations set by the phone company for Wall Street. AT&T also said today that subscribers will soon get more HD channels, according to a press release. The company has [...]

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Cory Doctorow: From copyfightin’ law Tim Wu and government info liberator Carl Malamud comes these two pieces of news about the future of the American legal code: Carl sez, “Public.Resource.Org released a gigapixel ‘photograph’ of 1000 pages of U.S. case law, a volume of what is known as the Federal Reporter. Accompanying that is a [...]

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iPhone bill is surprisingly Xbox HUGE (lol)  —  As you enjoy your weekend, ponder this bit of humor: while the iPhone may be master of the digital mobile experience (for now), dead trees come in for a flogging, as AT&T’s iPhone bills are quite impressive in their own right. Source:   Ars Technica Author:   [...]

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 I may not have your cool photo application, but my Helio now Syncs with Outlook / Microsoft Exchange, and does so as well as any CrackBerry.  With a great browser and a QWERTY keyboard and the whole dual slider thing… Helio’s Ocean is sexy, and practical.   For the first 60 days the beta is [...]

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“The result of extended dialogue with the mobile industry,” PlayReady offers PlaysForSure DRM for mobile phones.  This is not to be confused with Zune DRM which at least today will not work on a mobile phone.  PacketVideo vowed to be the first company to implement this content access technology. PlayReady will be a licensable technology [...]

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Recently Nike added the option to custom create your own version of the Nike Air Turbulence. At first I was impressed with the ability to create my own shoe with custom color combinations from awesome to ugly. While the color combinations prevent you from making totally stupid choices (Pink with lime green highlights) they do [...]

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