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Right as last month came to an end the FCC approved a deal with incumbent local phone service provider AT&T which will allow for rate increases in northern Illinois including in Chicago and surrounding areas.
According to the Associated Press,
“The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) agreed to reclassify local phone service in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs […]

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I have already written at length about the Net Neutrality debate in two prior articles
1. What is the Net Neutrality Debate Really All About
and
2. The Future of Net Neutrality
This one will be a bit less technical in nature and simply calls upon the reader to use some very basic knowledge of business history […]

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Recently Google announced that they now allow PDF Downloads of all public domain books that are cataloged in “Google Books – Beta” (basically this is any book published before 1923). While many of the Internet Marketing blogs and news sources are reporting on this it is clear that the only reason they are doing […]

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Part 2 - The Hidden Gold in Your Analytics
In Part 1 of this series (It is for Affiliate Marketers Too) I discussed how with just a little creative math and and adding a few redirecting URLs can allow an Affiliate Marketer a much better view into the metrics of their site. This next […]

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Video surveillance has gotten very high tech and I have always been interested in the technology. I recently ran across a cool video surveillance software package. After watching the online demo of the Digital Witness software, I was amazed at how advanced their service is for a low monthly subscription price. I am […]

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Yea you read that right. I think they are just nuts in certain ways. First I want you to go to yahoo and try to run a search with their blog search engine. Good luck with that it is almost impossible, now if you do a news search you will see some […]

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Best Buy has been testing special home theater sections in some of their best performing stores for years. Right here in Framingham Massachusetts they put in extra home theater displays. You may have seen them in your local Best Buy. Huge walls of HD screens or other special displays to promote their […]

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Has Best Buy leaked the Samsung Blu-Ray player to the public?
One of the posters of AVSForum has posted that he was already able to purchase the Samsung BDP-1000 Blu-Ray player from Best Buy. The Blu-Ray player isn’t supposed to be for sale until June 25th.
Since the intial report several other members of the AVSForum […]

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I recently decided to order some home theater equipment from the online web site of a major department store franchise. They promised that I would be able to pickup my equipment locally in the store. Since I live literally 3 blocks from one of their stores I figured that would be a good […]

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Good news for Blu-Ray DVD fans. Amazon.com has launched their Blu-Ray DVD Store.
The store lists Blu-Ray DVD players, DVDs, Blu-Ray accessories, and also offers a mailing list and background on the Blu-Ray technology.
Today was scheduled to be the release date of Blu-Ray but it has been delayed until June 20th. Executives from Sony say […]

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Who do you think will win, Microsoft or Sony?
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fight over the format for High Definition television DVDs.
There are two competing formats. HD-DVD which is supported by Microsoft and Blu-Ray which is supported by Sony. Sony’s Playstation3 will feature Blu-Ray and include games on Blu-Ray […]

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Building the Perfectly Optimized Page is a series of topics discussing the basics of web page development. Here are the primary areas that will be outlined:

Title Element
META Description Tag
META Keywords Tag
Heading Tags
Alt Attribute
Hyperlinks
Visible Copy
File Names
Directory Names

Title Element
The page title element (some refer to it as the title tag which is incorrect) […]

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Right now most Americans are simply not aware that one of the biggest legal battles in the communications world is going on in our nation as ISP’s, Local Phone Service Providers, Cable Television Providers and a host of new technology players fight about exactly what net neutrality is and whether or not it should remain […]

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Speaking of HDTV and the Red Sox (when I talked about the SlingBox a few days ago) reminded me..
A few weeks ago I had the priveledge to go on a tour of Fenway Park hosted by Vice President of Planning and Development Janet Marie Smith. The purpose of the tour was to bring in […]

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The Home Theater Blog has written a detailed review of the first HD DVD player on the market. The Toshiba HD-A1 DVD Player was the first player to be released back on April 18th as well as the first 3 HD-DVD titles.
If you’re trying to decide if the new High Definition DVD […]

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