Were We Robbed By The Telecommunications Giants?

AT&T Broadband Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Access

Published on January 24, 2008

Customers of AT&T's broadband Internet service will soon have free access to the company's Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. Read more

Asus Smacks Gigabyte with a Lawsuit

Published on May 27, 2008

Earlier this month Tom’s Hardware reported on Gigabyte’s claim about Asus’s energy efficiently features being a blatant lie to consumers. Since then, the two giants have had a very public and on-going spat. Read more

Samsung Claiming Thinnest LCD Screen at 7.9mm

Published on October 22, 2008

Need another 1/10th of a millimeter of space on your desk? Probably not, but Samsung is claiming the thinnest LCD in the world at 7.9mm over the 8.0mm Phillips had on show back in August. Read more

Lasers blink through silicon chips

Published on January 31, 2006

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Intel's Core i7: Blazing Fast, But Crippled O/C

Published on November 03, 2008

Core i7--previously referred to as Nehalem--requires new motherboards, coolers and memory. Its performance is compelling and means AMD is falling behind even further, but Intel is putting in some speed bumps that will impact overclocking enthusiasts. Read more

System Builder Marathon: Performance & Value

Published on October 31, 2008

Three dramatically different builds face off in a show of performance, defining the real value of each. Our mainstream system is designed to meet the needs of most users. Who should spend more and who can live with less? Read more

System Builder Marathon: $500 Gaming PC

Published on October 30, 2008

For the second to last day of our System Builder Marathon series, we add a $500 gaming PC to the mix. It's not going to be as quick as our other two builds, but we think Paul was able to get some serious value from this thing. Read more

Tom's SBM: The $1,500 Mainstream PC

Published on October 29, 2008

We're following up yesterday's $4,500 behemoth with a more affordable $1,500 mid-range build. Let's see what sort of performance (and overclocking headroom) you can get when you spend one third of the money. Read more

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Mr Roboto

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06-11-2008 at 01:50:45 PM

I saw the article on Tom's about how Comcast and TimeWarner are performing regional testing of capped Internet services. It made me think back to a different article I read on how the telecommunications giants were givin tax breaks and other financial help to upgrade the country's internet lines with 45 Mbps fiber optic lines. $200 Billion of our money. Needless to say we're still stuck with 2Mbps lines for $60-$80 per month if you're lucky. It's an amazing read that I wanted to share with you guys. Where did that money go and why hasn't anyone been held accountable?

A quick fact from the article "The United States 16th in broadband Internet technology and falling"

Let me know what you think.

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Mr Roboto

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06-11-2008 at 01:52:40 PM

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