Tag archive: New Hampshire

How much you pay for cigarettes depends on where you live. But there’s nowhere on Earth that charges $23 quadrillion – that’s $23,148,855,308,184,500, to be precise – a pack. But thanks to a computer error, that’s how much a New Hampshire man paid at a gas station using his pre-paid Visa card. When he checked his balance online later he discovered the amount – plus the $15 bank fee for being overdrawn,… Read More

Next week – from June 2-4, to be exact – 200 computer, technology and video game publishers and developers will converge on this year’s E3 Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the U.S. computer and video game publishers and owns the E3 Expo, said: "This year’s E3 Expo has garnered overwhelming support… Read More

The United States Senate has approved a measure which would extend the prohibition on taxing Internet services in the United States for another seven years. Although the measure must still be reconciled with a different House bill before being sent along for approval by President Bush, observers widely believe the current ban on Internet taxes will be extended. The current moratorium on taxing Internet services was originally enacted in… Read More

Pundits have been pondering just how much influence social networking sites like the ever-popular MySpace might be able to exert on U.S. election politics: declared presidential candidates from both major parties have assembled MySpace pages and are enthusiastically inviting the sites' online-savvy youth demographic to sign on as their friends, and organizers alternately quake in fear and glee as they ponder the potential… Read More

A new study conducted by University of New Hampshire researchers and published in the current issue of Pediatrics finds that 42 percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 years had seen online pornography in the previous 12 months—but that full two thirds of those kids stumbled onto the material by accident. The study surveyed 1,500 Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 between March and June 2005, with the consent of the… Read More

New Hampshire's Optek Music Systems is a music education company that developed the Fretlight interactive learning system for guitar: at a basic level, Fretlight guitars sport a USB port and LEDS embedded in the guitar's fingerboard; in conjunction with learning software, the LEDs light up to show aspiring players where to put their fingers. Software packages guide players through everthing from learning their first chords and… Read More

Verizon and Yahoo! today announced a new co-branded broadband service for users of Verizon's high speed FiOS Internet service. Verizon Yahoo! for FiOS is now available for Verizon customers in parts of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia. Verizon Yahoo! for FiOS, the two companies said, combines… Read More

Verizon's new DSL service offers a maximum connection speed of 3 Mbps (megabits per second) downstream and 768 Kbps (kilobits per second) upstream and is available today in 12 New England and mid-Atlantic states and in the District of Columbia. The company plans to offer 3Mbps DSL service later this year in the remaining 11 states where it now offers up to 1.5 Mbps DSL service. "Today's broadband customers are looking for… Read More

From the press release: AT&T today announced that it is adding residential digital subscriber line (DSL) high-speed Internet service to its bundle of local and long distance services in 11 additional states including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, Arizona and Minnesota. With these 11 new states, AT&T now offers DSL as part of its communications bundle in 25… Read More