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To: slacker711 who wrote (188280)	2/18/2016 12:32:23 PM
From: John Koligman	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bill from Wisconsin Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

"The new rules will let you buy your own cable box at cost for a flat cost instead of paying a monthly rental fee. It also means tech companies can start building cable boxes with better interfaces and unique features you can't find in the one your cable company gives you." That would be nice! I added Comcast's cable based phone service the other day to save some bucks, but guess what, they told me they no longer provide cable modems with a phone jack. You have to use one of their 'gateways', which is basically a modem and router housed in one box. I already have a much more sophisticated MIMO router than what they provide, so I told them I wanted to use mine or I did not want to make the switch. Turns out you have to go through a 'procedure' where you enable something called 'bridge' mode to 'brick' the wireless on their gateway, then you plug your router into ethernet port #1 on the gateway, at which point you should be able to use your own router. I'll see how it goes, but it's kinda ridiculous... Regards, John

To: slacker711 who wrote (188280)	3/1/2016 8:30:53 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 213182

Qualcomm Catches Apple As iPhone Retains Advantage Qualcomm is back. The chip manufacturer ruled Mobile World Congress! Everybody loves Qualcomm right now! If I had to award a prize for the best product at MWC, then I would find it very easy to justify choosing Qualcomm. Yet behind the avalanche of good news I want to make an observation. In the time it has taken Qualcomm to bring the 64-bit SnapDragon 820 chipset to the public, Apple has been shipping devices with its own 64-bit chips for nearly two and a half years. It has a huge amount of experience with the hardware, it continues to push the technology with vast amount of real world data, and all of that is going to be poured into the A10, extending the advantage that Apple already has over the competition. More at: forbes.com o~~~ O