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Do it Yourself Ikea Enhanced 35db Cellular Yagi Antenna

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 [...]

facebook.com/brackets CBSSports.com Connects With Facebook to Provide Official NCAA Tournament Brackets

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 [...]

Upgrade shuts off some iPhones

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 [...]

Apple issues warning on iPhone hacking

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

AT&T U-Verse: 100,000 and Counting

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 [...]

Opening up the American lawbooks

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 [...]

Microsoft DRM Expands To Cell Phones With PlayReady

“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 [...]

Nike Won’t Mess with Texas

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 [...]