A study just released by the Leichtman Research Group, indicates that the “twenty largest cable and telephone providers in the US” now total approximately 65.1 million, high-speed Internet subscribers. Those 20 providers make up roughly 94 percent of the U.S. broadband market. Assuming that Leichtman’s results are correct (and assuming that Neilson’s latest numbers are as well, which show 164 million U.S. users went online in May 2007), this would mean that about only 42 percent of U.S. Internet users connect

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Last week we passed on information about the Motorola Alexander, a device made known to the world by the BoyGeniusReport.  Now, that same site has let another cat out of the bag: the Motorola Atila, a version of the Alexander without the sliding QWERTY keyboard.

Features are fairly high end with HSDPA and HSUPA mobile broadband, Wi-Fi 802.11g, a Qualcomm 7201A mobile processor and Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro.  No word on other specs, price or availability just yet. 

The 4GB A-DATA 150X Turbo SDHC (High Capacity) 2.0 Card, offers high capacity, low power consumption. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

If you’re hungry for news about the future of Intel’s pesky little rival, AMD, (we always are) then perhaps you’d go to their spokesman and flat out ask. If you’re Business Week, here’s the sort of answer you’d get: “AMD continues to look at multiple options that leverage our world-class manufacturing capabilities and relationships to achieve an optimum blend of internal and external operations.” Let’s play PowerPoint Bingo with that short sentence. Let’s see, we’ve got: multiple options leverage (used as a

Ken Brill at Forbes does a little arithmetic to examine the true cost of running a server, and the numbers are a bit of a surprise. Since we’re in the midst of something of a boom in data center construction, shouldn’t someone be figuring out what they really cost before they buy a bunch of servers and roll out the plans? Because of the weird way accounting departments compartmentalize costs, server farms might seem awfully cheap. Until you plug it all in, of course.Data-center building depreciation is often

Is microvideoblogging the next big thing? “Micro-what?” you say. Picture Twitter, but with video posts instead of text. That’s microvideoblogging. Now limit each video post to only 12 seconds long, and that’s the idea behind 12seconds.tv. Like Twitter, you can post pretty much anything you want, as long as it doesn’t violate the site’s terms of service (TOS). “12seconds.tv allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are. You can use a webcam or a

It was a little, tiny, tiny addendum at the end of a WSJ article, but it was there: in an interview with the WSJ, Steve Jobs confirmed that the suspected iPhone “kill switch” does indeed exist.  Of course, for investors, talk of the App Store downloads are probably more exciting, and Jobs detailed that as well:If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store, Mr. Jobs said. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” he added.

Italy has been showing BitTorrent no mercy lately. First, Italy shuts down the country’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, Colombo-BT.org, a couple of weeks ago; and now it is trying to block country-wide access to The Pirate Bay–the Swedish-based BitTorrent site that claims to be “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker”–by ordering all Italian ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay. According to TorrentFreak, the initial country-wide blocking of the site was successful: “An insider working at an Internet provider

Doyle Drive is the antiquated and dangerous southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s actually a steel-truss bridge and has been rated as the most dangerous span in California. Most in the SF Bay Area are aware of this. And although geared toward rural drivers, SafeRoadMaps.org, a project of the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) aims to help educate drivers as to the safety of their roads. CERS is itself a joint program between the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of