Why is Microsoft Cozying Up to AT&T?

Published on January 20th, 2010

Posted by John C Dvorak in Technology

Amazon raises pay rate for Kindle books.
Apple to drop Google on the iPhone and use Bing instead.
Sony motion controller delayed.
Gates on Facebook. Is he trying to get a date?
Study shows young people screen time up to 7.5 hours a day.
MSFT to sue TiVO in an attempt to kiss up to AT&T… for the Zune I’m betting.
Oracle-Sun deal almost ready to conclude.
There are 19,000 Open Source projects.
MSFT to join forces with Intuit.

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# 1 Lou Minatti said, on January 20th, 2010 at 7:11 pm

In the mobile arena, Google’s about to find out that they ain’t all that. And I think MSFT is run by idiots.

# 2 Lou Minatti said, on January 20th, 2010 at 7:11 pm

I should say mobile SEARCH arena.

# 3 Floyd said, on January 20th, 2010 at 7:47 pm

Flash player isn’t showing up on the blog yet…8:46 pm MT

# 4 deowll said, on January 20th, 2010 at 7:57 pm

When companies start telling people how to use their equipment the equipment starts to become less attractive.

Just a thought.

# 5 ECA said, on January 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm

I will go listen to this someplace else, as someone has EMBEDDED this link.

# 6 ± said, on January 20th, 2010 at 8:14 pm

#5 — I’m going somewhere else to listen too — Adobe is evil

Never thought it would happen that I would be extorted to download software on dvorak.org — not happening

# 7 honeyman said, on January 20th, 2010 at 9:01 pm

Telstra Bigpond is a crappy but large ISP in Australia. Your router rekons you’re down under!

# 8 Father said, on January 21st, 2010 at 5:31 am

Microsoft-Apple-AT&T trifecta against the Google-T-Mobile-Verizon merger. Let the bloodbath begin.

# 9 pedro said, on January 21st, 2010 at 5:44 am

#7 Beat me to it. What’s amazing is he doesn’t know. Guess he doesn’t set-up that many routers.

# 10 The DON said, on January 21st, 2010 at 12:22 pm

Best way to set up a router is:
step 1: Throw any manufacturers disc away
step 2: Connect all cables and power on
step 3: Use browser to goto IP address of router (can be found using IPconfig)

All the settings are in front of you
You should never have to use a router CD! They usually mess things up trying to be helpful.

# 11 CrankyGeeksFan said, on January 21st, 2010 at 3:50 pm

John,

Even though your router appears to be working, it may not have encryption turned on; is visible (broadcasting the SSID) to other users i.e. neighbors; or is using the default network name.

In any case it’s a security risk.

# 12 Sailboatfool said, on January 21st, 2010 at 3:56 pm

How do ya like that
rain bunky?

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