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There are two things here: business and technology. AT&T and Verizon are both using "700MHz" spectrum. However, Verizon is using the upper-700MHz band and AT&T is using the lower 7…

That's quite an accusation. It's incredibly unlikely that PC Magazine is risking the FTC going after it by publishing something paid for by AT&T without disclosing it. Frankly, tha…

In Rackspace's defense, this might be more of an issue of lack of community. Sometimes it's hard to get other people involved and excited about an open source project. It's a lot e…

The one issue with T-Mobile is it uses the fairly nonstandard 1870 MHz frequency Actually, T-Mobile uses the AWS spectrum (in addition to PCS/1900MHz spectrum) which has the uplink…

It doesn't break them. Safari doesn't accept cookies from across domains (by default). Safari still sends cookies to iframes across domains. Even if Safari blocked sending cookies …

The big deal is that many people see Yahoo as a company that time has passed by. There was a time when its properties were the tops. Everyone used Yahoo Mail or AOL, Flickr was the…

You're right. Coins are cheaper than bills, but $183M per year isn't going to balance the budget. Basically, keeping the $1 in bill form is costing 60 cents per American per year.

The signature database is where they'll get more money from. However, this is still bad for them. It gives people the chance to look through the code for vulnerabilities and it all…

I guess I don't see how BankSimple can be truly better. First, there are already no-branch banks like ING-Direct. Second, Credit Unions exist. BankSimple seems to be a no-branch ba…

ATT isn't saying that your iPhone is 4G. Your iPhone supports HSPA 7.2. ATT's network is HSPA+ but they don't have any HSPA+ phones yet. HSPA+ is what ATT and T-mobile are calling …

This is something that has bothered me about my Ruby usage. A lot of the time, I feel like I'm writing "dynamic" code that really just needs to be pre-processed. class Cool [:ice, …

I'm not trying to be harsh on your concept, but if one takes it a little further: "If the citizens can't be mustered to volunteer their taxes. . ." One of the ideas behind governme…

I have no internal knowledge of Zencoder, but. . . Because Zencoder is running a service, they can have lots of boxes going at the same time. You might want to encode 50 things at …

I came here to post that too. The only thing I can think that means is that it is laid out better for large teams to program on without stepping on each other's toes. Sort of like …

Actually, high fructose corn syrup is a combination of fructose and glucose - the same sugars in most fruits. For example, grapes are 52% fructose, 46% glucose, and 1% sucrose. Pea…

You're right to be suspicious. Juices like orange juice and apple juice hit the same 40g of sugar per 12 fl oz mark that Coca-Cola hits. It calls into question the entire post. It …

I find it a little odd that an open source project seems so opaque. Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be no concrete news on Android 2.3. This article says that Nexus…

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" http://ycombinator.com/newsguidel…

I decided to look through your comment history to see what postings you've been downvoted for. There's a decently common theme. Usually they have flippant remarks and/or curse word…

Something I'd like to point out: http://i.imgur.com/gNdLh.png Make sure you test your fonts on Windows both with and without Cleartype. A few of the trendy new sites are using this…

The beauty of this is that it's a way for them to let people try Ubuntu Server quickly and easily. While I don't remember the articles, we've all seen the ones talking about how de…

It's not surprising that they've sold so many. The Galaxy S seems to be the first Android device that the maker hasn't gone the exclusive route. In the US, yes, they did rename it …

Google Apps Standard might be different. Google Apps Standard is offering you the same thing that Google already offers for free, just using your own domain. It still has ads and s…

Rails is based around the idea that the simple cases don't need a lot of explanation to the computer. So, let's say that you have an Article model. class Article There's no need to…

So, I encounter a lot of programmers that have read a little and consider themselves to really know what they're talking about. However, they can't explain how an index works - not…