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Patriotic PT Cruiser
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THG took a few minutes to discuss the car's masterwork with its owner: THG: Have any New York City firefighters seen your car? JG: I've had firefighters see it, but not any from New York. The mother of a firefighter killed during the 9-11 terrorist attacks...
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Strom: Postcards from the Edge Router
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tale for those thinking of trusting their voice entirely to the Net.. It has taken me almost a month of tinkering with my home network to get it back to the similar level of functionality it delivered when I was last in New York. This is a sad state of affairs....
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First iPhone Reviews In
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the cream of elite reviewers who got their iPhones from Apple well in advance of the rest of us. David Pogue, New York Times David Pogue of the New York Times loves his iPhone and at 8:15 AM PDT June 27th if the slowness of access to the article is any...
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Can VoIP Tie In With My Instant Messaging Service?
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You usually can; alternatively, you could get a new telephone number, even in a place far from where you live. For example, you could obtain a New York number, even if you're living in New Delhi; this would allow people in New York to call you while paying...
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Knickknacks For The Rich And Famous
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audio components, knickknacks for the rich and famous. Now for one of my favorite vendors, Hammacher Schlemmer (HS). HS was started in New York City back in 1848 by two German immigrants. At that time the Company sold tools and other hardware for the quickly...
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The 3G
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reverted to the slower EDGE network once, for about a minute. In timed speed tests, the 3G network handily beats the competition. I tested loading the New York Times sites (not the mobile version of the site) on three iPhones: iPhone 3G on AT&T 3G, first-gen...
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Wal-Mart Stampede: Blame the Retailer
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to a Walmart in Long Island, New York, was trampled to death early Friday morning, by shoppers looking for doorbuster sales. “Doorbuster” turned out to be an unfortunately accurate term here, as, according to the New York Times, the crowd literally broke...
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Internet Browsing Compared
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since no phone should run slower than the original iPhone (running on AT&T’s Edge network). The Pre was faster than the iPhone 3G in all but one test, but it couldn’t load pages faster than the iPhone 3GS. The "New York Times" mobile page is different for...
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Speed Tests
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and iPhone Classic nearly one year ago, the iPhone 3G performed nearly twice as fast at that time, than it did today. Many factors could have created this outcome, including time of day, heavier load on the network, and even the design of the New York Times...
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A Wet History of Top Guns
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water fight escalated into a real gunfight, and one teenager was shot to death, causing Boston's mayor to ask local stores to stop stocking Super Soakers. Shortly after, a water fight spun out of control in New York and left two teenagers wounded. Politicians...