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WHOAH! AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA in $39 Billion Deal

Mar

20

2011

AT&T announced on Sunday that it has agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion in cash and stock, in one of the biggest mergers since the onset of the financial crisis. The deal will dramatically bolster AT&T’s footprint in the country, adding an additional 46.5 million customers. Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will ...

Roku Streaming Players

Mar

20

2011

The Roku devices are awesome ways to watch HD (or SD, if you want) video from services like Netflix and Hulu. Thousands of movies and the latest television shows. Since the device is less than $75, it inexpensively brings all the benefits of things like Google TV, at a much lower cost. Add Netflix and ...

one coin, one play. or "warrior, you're pushing me" 7

Oct

20

2008

the conman maintains that this happened at brunswick, and there’s a chance that’s true, though i’m pretty sure this event happened at roller kingdom. regardless, i have a new toy. it’s a full size arcade cabinet running MAME, the arcade simulator. that means that just about every arcade game we played as kids can be ...

SomethingStore

May

16

2008

Nutpharm has mentioned the mystery auctions on ebay in the past. in these auctions, you bid on something unknown. it might be a ferrari. it might be a rock in a box with a label that says ‘suck this.’ you never know. but the seller certainly does better than the buyer. i’m a big fan ...

i can't wait 3

Apr

21

2008

goodbye cablevision

Mar

27

2008

i’ve grown tired of all the promises delivered by cablevision about adding more HD content. we have two HD TVs, and it’s a waste to only have a few HD channels. so I’m switching to DirecTV that also means that i can get NESN out here in yankee country. i don’t know why i didn’t ...

HD DVD is dead 1

Feb

17

2008

It’s official. I returned my Toshiba HD DVD A3 Player to Amazon today after watching just three HD movies on it. HD movies are awesome. We saw Jumpers in the theater yesterday, and I’m convinced that an HD movie on my home screen is better. Jumpers was still visually stunning, and is nice to look ...

the downfall of hd dvd 1

Jan

18

2008

i’m pretty geeky. there aren’t many people who care about the ‘format wars’ of hd dvd versus blu-ray. but things have gotten hot lately as studios jump ship and hd dvd fights back. toshiba announced a price drop on their base player, the hd a3, and you can scoop one up on amazon right now ...

the alcove with mark molaro

Nov

15

2007

if you’re interested in some very compelling interviews with eclectic, unpretentious and interesting guests, check out the alcove iwth mark molaro http://markmolaro.blip.tv/ jerome might like the gwendolyn wright interview where she talks about american houses (she’s also the history detectives lady) enjoy, or don’t. Share this:

The iPhone is even more affordable 1

Sep

6

2007

but no more desirable. Share this: