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Technology

Are you overpaying for smartphone data? | Signal Strength - CNET News

Most smartphone subscribers only use about 20 percent of the data in their monthly plan. But heavy data subscribers are flocking to Sprint Nextel, while light users looking for a good deal are going to T-Mobile. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.

Broadband performance study finds huge regional disparities in US

DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls | Threat Level | Wired.com

What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.

flickrfs - manishrjain

FuseCompress | Milan's Pages

Introduction FuseCompress provides a mountable Linux file system which transparently compress its content. Files stored in this file system are compressed

FUSEPod | Download FUSEPod software for free at SourceForge.net

Get FUSEPod at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and free downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory

Homemade WASP Spy Drone Can Hack or Intercept Signals | Video | TheBlaze.com

Unmanned Aerial vehicles may be moving from far-off battlefields to the home front sooner than you think. And considering one just unveiled, you might want to start worrying. Wired is reporting on the WASP -- Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform -- a spy drone created by two security consultants...

Is Social Media a Bubble? | Points and Figures

Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess' • The Register

Linux creator calls for GNOME fork - News - Linux for Devices

Linux creator calls for GNOME fork News Linux for Devices: Linux creator Linus Torvalds weighed in on the debate over the controversial GNOME 3.0 desktop environment, recommending that someone fork the

PCWorld Can We Avoid the Mobile Bandwidth Drought?

The Almost-Free Toolkit We Use to Make Longshot Magazine - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Here's how to make a magazine by the seat of your pants using a suite of mostly free tools the good people of the Internet provide

PuTTY for Symbian OS

tagsfs - Music library file system - Summary [Gna!]

This server is a central point for development, distribution and maintainance of software. It runs on Savane.

Why Can't T-Mobile Attract Customers? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

T-Mobile lost another 50,000 subscribers this quarter, so I asked my Twitter followers what they thought was the cause.

Technolog from msnbc.com - Welcome to the United States of Android and iOS

We know about the "blue state/red state" divisions in America, but now we have a map showing a "North vs.

Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 6.7 (DistroWatch.com News)

Pioneering live-boot distro gets Chromium and LibreOffice - News - Linux for Devices