Big Oil dumps money into McCann's campaign after drilling speech

Industry Gushed Money After Reversal on Drilling - washingtonpost.com

It's never been a secret that the oil industry is VERY much in bed with a lot of our politicians. The idea is that MILLIONS of dollars are hard to ignore!

Gateway exits direct PC sales business

Electronista | Gateway exits direct PC sales business: 

Whoa! That is a surprise. It's almost sad. I know a lot of us, especially in the midwest, grew up with Gateway 2000s and Gateways as our first PCs. The good ole' Windows 3.1.1, 95, 98 days. Ah, the memories...

"Gateway on Friday revealed that it will formally quit direct-order sales of PCs and other products and offer its lineup only in retail stores. The surprise move ends the business that underpinned Gateway's early success in the 1980s and 1990s but is described as bringing the American company's approach in line with that of its parent company Acer, which took over Gateway last year and itself offers computers only through resellers"

The way to market Vista... Don't mention it's Vista!

Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Vista

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AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte

You've got to be kidding! This should be illegal. What a rip-off. I've previously posted about how cell companies purposely charge people more for the features they use, simply because they use them and they can bleed their customers through these features...why is the better business bureau not helping us?!

"Today is basic math day at CrunchGear where we discovered that if 160 bytes of SMS data costs twenty cents then 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) of data would cost 131,072 cents, or $1,310.72."

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Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters

You fuckers!

"During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," Fox News aired photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered to add yellowed teeth and exaggerated features."

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