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The $23 Quadrillion Pack Of Cigarettes

The $23 Quadrillion Pack Of Cigarettes

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, just to add insult to injury.

Josh Muszynski told TV station WMUR:

"I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card."

E3 Gets Ready To Roll

E3 Gets Ready To Roll

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 from members, exhibitors, attendees and media. We anticipate a blockbuster show fully-loaded with industry news, unveilings, introductions and announcements that will continue to drive our industry forward."

Senate Extends Internet Tax Ban

Senate Extends Internet Tax Ban

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.

MySpace Invites Users to Vote Early

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 person-to-person capabilities of social networking services to spread candidates’ messages (or misinformation) and mobilize young voters to actively participate in the political process—and perhaps even vote.

Study: More Children Exposed to Online Porn

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 respondents’ parents. In the study, “pornography” was defined as pictures of naked people or pictures of people having sex. Most children who reported unwanted exposure to pornography were between the ages of 13 to 17, but significant numbers of 10 and 11 year-olds were exposed: 17 percent of boys and 16 percent of girls, respectively.

Fretlight USB Guitars Go Pro

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 learning scales to note-for-note renditions of favorite tunes and learning to improvise leads.

Yahoo!, Verizon Team for FiOS Service

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 broadband connection speeds of up to 30 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 5 Mbps upstream with a wide variety of premium Yahoo! features. Verizon Yahoo! for FiOS will be the default choice for all new Verizon FiOS Internet customers.

Verizon Gives Speed Boost To DSL

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 higher speeds to support working from home, multi-player gaming and e-mailing large files like photographs, but most of all, they’re looking for a great value,” said John Wimsatt, vice president of broadband for Verizon Online. “Now they have an additional, super-fast option from Verizon, with some of the industry’s best broadband prices.”

AT&T Adds DSL Service to Internet Bundle

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 states with plans to roll out the new service in all states in which it provides bundled local and long distance residential services.   

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