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The Federal Communications Commission has granted the wireless industry's request for a round of tests to determine whether the agency's proposed free, smutless broadband plan will cause interference in nearby bands recently sold to wireless providers.

A new post from Ars Technica brought a thought back to the front of my mind, why does so much music today SUCK?

This past weekend, M and I were watching an episode of our beloved Midsomer Murders - “Market for Murder,” specifically - and at one point a character asked her husband if he wanted her to make him an “egg in bread.” “Eh?” I sat up, intrigued. Brit cuisine! And an appealing homely-sounding dish at that.

Take a close look at that video game development course before signing up. It may be just a waste of time. So suggests experts who make video games for a living and field thousands of queries from people who want to follow in their footsteps.

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Jacqui Cheng from ars technica took TinEye for a spin and shared her thoughts on our image search engine, saying: Our opinion of the site transformed from skeptical to impressed as we used it more and more. It’s obviously not meant for casual web browsing or finding out what that crazy animal you saw on the side of the road is.

The Goal Jim Clark recently put together an excellent series of articles describing some of the steps that Microsoft could take to educate the Average Joe about Windows Media Center and expand the market for WMC. Obviously, those of us spending our days perusing sites like We Got Served would not be the target of such an effort, but our lives are full of these Average Joes.

Bloomberg is reporting that a settlement has been reached between Merrill Lynch (MER) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts concerning auction rate securities (ARS). Resolving this way the enforcement action filed by the state’s Securities Division on July 31, 2008.

Imagine flying over a pyramid shaped boat as a variety of tones from the engine combine to create a melody. That is just what visitors will get when they interact with the new virtual art collection created by Ball State University faculty in Second Life.

AppleInsider is reporting that one of its readers has received one of Steve Jobs’s legendary one-line e-mails in response to his complaints of third-party iPhone app crashes. The issue seems to manifest at random and prevents any third-party applications from launching.