Posts by Theicom

Amazon offers publishers pre-iSlate Kindle bribes

They should drop the price of books instead

Too many times I can find the paperback of a book on Amazon (being sold by Amazon) for less then the Kindle price.

And I can't give the Kindle version to a friend to read after I'm done with it.

Mini-asteroid sneaks up on Earth

Vogons

It's just the Vogons come to build an interstellar bypass.

They seem a day early however.

Have your towel at hand.

Radio Society tries to beat back powerline networks

Same problem with BPL in the US

The ARRL in the US basically caught the FCC in what could be called a BPL lie, and had to seek court action.

One of the first and largest BPL rollout in the us (Manassas, VA) is going under:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/11/19/11206/?nc=1

More information on the US BPL battle can be found at the ARRL website:

http://www.arrl.org/bpl