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Comcast working with BitTorrent
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Susan Johnson
I can’t believe that Comcast is doing something this smart and innovative. They’ve got a real problem with some users who are using BitTorrent excessively and slowing down the speeds for everyone. Slowing down those who overuse it during peak usage and working with BitTorrent to figure out how to optimize it for Comcast is…
Blogging, the digital sweatshop
By
Susan Johnson
So, do you think we should start a union? They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and…
Times reporter “Every Iraqi who offers me a view on American politics seems to be praying for a McCain victory”
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Susan Johnson
I bet this might come as surprise if you think our military is hated and that Iraqis would be upset at someone who has said he’d stay as long as it takes. If they wanted the Americans out, wouldn’t they be praying for Obama? But perhaps the most remarkable change of all is in how…
Microsoft continues to not take “no” for an answer
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Susan Johnson
Uh Oh! Looks like Microsoft is going to start strong-arming Yahoo into a deal: Computer software giant Microsoft has given Yahoo a three-week deadline to respond to its offer to buy out the internet company for $44.6bn (£22.3bn). Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company would take its case directly to Yahoo’s shareholders if Yahoo’s…
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