Technology Sector

Texas' War on behalf of the Incandescent Light Bulb Dies a Quiet, Predictable Death

In 2011, state lawmakers took a break from slashing school funding, dreaming up new abortion restrictions and fighting against the encroachment of Islamic law to do battle with a new enemy: the compact fluorescent light bulb. More and more, those tightly coiled tubes were replacing Edison's good ol ... More >>

Patent Trolls and the War on Innovation

On the front line of the costliest battle in the high-tech world.

Heisted Kotex Tampons Were Supposed To Be Turned Into Fuel, Ended Up On the "Gray Market" Instead

Earlier this week, we all shuddered in unison upon learning that some Kotex Natural Balance tampons, possibly tainted with bacteria and "metallic particles," were stolen and fraudulently sold under shadowy circumstances. Kimberly-Clark, Kotex's Irving-based parent company, says they've received no r ... More >>

SOPA is Dead, but the Copyright Debate Rages On

And it's happening where it belongs: online.

Old Records Are Outselling New Ones For the First Time

by Chris Kornelis See also: All of the arguments about digital music, summarized In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But unti ... More >>

73-Year-Old Dallas Man Convicted In International Telecom Swindle Worth $60 Mil

​Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn't do this alone. He had plenty of co-c ... More >>

Country Music Television, Time Warner Cable Legal Tussle Lands in Dallas County Courtroom

​This morning, Courthouse News directs our attention to a legal dispute playing out in Judge Carlos Cortez's courtroom: Country Music Television v. Time Warner Cable, filed by McKinney Ave. attorney Michael Raiff. The original complaint itself isn't available: All of the available filings in the D ... More >>

Dish Network Gets Blockbuster For Around $230 Mil in Cash and a Pallet of Junior Mints

​The question "Why does Dish Network want Blockbuster?" was asked and answered late last week, though one Friend of Unfair Park suggested, "Twizzlers." Turns out, the Colorado-based Dish wanted it plenty bad -- more than Carl Icahn and the lenders who turned up to take the Renaissance Tower-based ... More >>

In Case You Switched Providers in Recent Weeks, Dish Network, FOX Kiss and Make Up

Dish'ers, you're now free to watch FX's The League again. And if you're not, you should.​That's the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it's not gonna drop regular ol' FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, inc ... More >>

You Know Who Doesn't Have the Fastest Mobile Network in Dallas? Hint: It's Based in Dallas.

​Two things I probably should replace sooner than later: car and cellphone. Got the former covered. As for the latter, I'm still considering T-Mobile's HTC HD2, a little more this morning than yesterday. That's because, per PC Magazine's just-released survey of the fastest mobile networks, T-Mobil ... More >>

Cable Access's iMedia Goes Dark

​It's not the most surprising press release to ever arrive in the Unfair Park in-box -- especially given the fact that City Manager Mary Suhm's FY2009-2010 budget cut its funding ($246,000 for last fiscal year, about a third of its annual operating budget). But there it is: Dallas iMedia Network, ... More >>

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Dora's Crying. Mommy, Make it Stop.

On Page 13A of Your Morning Paper is Dora the Explorer, crying all over a full-page ad that screams: "Time Warner Cable is Taking Dora Off the Air Tonight! Along with 19 of your favorite channels!" Which is a bit of a stretch. Spike? Please. MTV? Since when? 1985? TV Land? Since when? 1966? OK, thou ... More >>

Good Call: Nokia Siemens Is Actually Adding R&D Jobs in the DFW

Amidst all the gloomy news of local business shutterings of late, this ray of sunshine for folks in the telecom industry: Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the opening of a research-and-development facility in the area that the company's calling "another significant step in further accelerating t ... More >>

EDS HP = WTF?

Dalton Sherman Goes on Ellen, Gets a Computer and Printer

Time Warner North Texas Ain't Happy With Its Cell Service Either

Hertz So Good

Artistic Invention

Kilby was a 'chip off the ol' easel

Go, Longhorns! (W.T. White Longhorns, That Is.)

What Ross Perot's Thousand-Dollar Investment Has Yielded

Kid Rock And Gretchen Wilson To Play Granada Tonight...For T-Mobile Customers

Guitar Hero Will Save the Economy

Good Points

Which is the Best Cell Phone Service in the DFW? What? Can't Hear You.

Getting Lit Whilst Touring the Bright Christmas Lights of Highland Park

The NFL Wants Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones to Fix Its Cable Problem

Dallas-Based Kimberly-Clark Makes Procter & Gamble Want Its Mommy

Virgin Mobile Had Plenty of Warning a Dallas Family Was About to Sue

Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming in Highland Park

Hey, Belo, Maybe It's Time for a Split?

XM's Off a KLIF

Park City Thrifty

HPHS throws a garage sale for charity

Belo to Get New Life?

Channel 4: It's Foxy!

Who Hoak?

Richie Rich Round-Up

No Stars Gazing

Internet Not Good for Everything? C'mon.

From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

In the Matter of Kirk v. Klingon

Best Reason to Book It to Denton

Recycled Books Records CDs

The View From the Bottom

What's it like surviving the telecom bust? Numbers alone don't tell the story.

Best Used Computer Store

Tran Computer Service

Software and hard time

Texas prisons take a byte out of crime with a computer rehab program

Bill soon due

Dallas beat the telecoms, but guess who pays the price?

Ring Ma Bell

When heavyweight Southwestern Bell gets into a brawl with AT&T at the Legislature, consumers--that's you--are the ones who get beat up

Damage control

A deadly accident in a pit at Texas Instruments sent lawyers and flacks scurrying, but the company's response may put it deeper in the hole

Funny money

Kimberly-Clark gets benevolent with Florida county's cash

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