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  • Comcast settles bandwidth throttling lawsuit for $16 million. That’s 4 hours of revenue.

    Comcast settles bandwidth throttling lawsuit for $16 million. That’s 4 hours of revenue.

    Whoever says the legal system in this country is broken, well, you're right. Comcast was caught tampering with its customers' packets two years ago. It bitched and moaned like nobody's business, earning itself no friends. The Federal Communications Commission sanctioned the gigantic corporation in what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Big deal. A class action lawsuit was filed, which was just settled for $16 million. Comcast raked in $34.3 billion in revenue in 2008, meaning that this settlement amounts to four hours of revenue. That's right: four hours. Take that, corporate America!

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  • MacBook Air-style netbook available in Singapore next week

    MacBook Air-style netbook available in Singapore next week

    iiviewTake the MacBook Air, shrink the screen down an inch, slap in some netbook components, and load it up with Windows 7 Release Candidate and -- drumroll, please -- you've got the iiView A2 out of Singapore. Oh, and lower the price to $468. That's kind of important there.

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