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A few weeks ago I made a diigo on the Verizon AT&T lawsuit over the Verizon commercials. According to a note we just received from AT&T, "Verizon and AT&T have dismissed the litigation between them in Georgia and New York." Here is the note: "IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless ("Verizon Wireless") and Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff AT&T Mobility LLC ("AT&T") that pursuant to Rule 41(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: (a) Verizon Wireless's claims against AT&T in the above- captioned action are hereby dismissed without prejudice, and (b) AT&T's counterclaims against Verizon Wireless in the above-captioned action are hereby dismissed without prejudice." With the back and forth battle between AT&T and Verizon commercials have been less directed to the phones, and more directed to the service provided. I personally rather hear about the new phones and great applications, rather than in No Where, Nevada if I will be getting 3G YouTube goodness. What clearly defines 3G is more important to me. AT&T should target their commercials on how much faster the 3G network is compared to Verizon. I hope that in the near future we can find much more informative commercials than bickering.

As far as literature review sites go SparkNotes is one of the best. When placed in the hands of the lazy, this website, and the convenience it brings, can lead to a quick and painful academic downfall. However, if used merely as a study resource SparkNotes can substantially increase a students grades. For example, You've just finished reading The Lord of the Flies and you've been assigned an essay on symbolism due next class. You don't particularly remember any symbols from your reading, so you check spark notes which gives you a few examples and leads you in the right direction. Add a little of your own synthesis and some specific incidents that support your statements and your essay will be done before you know it! This also works with hard to follow Shakespearean plots and deep character development. Along with being able to help you learn, SparkNotes can also help you study and remember old books that you've read just in time for your final. Or it can help you study for your SATs. In fact, SparkNotes has a lot of sections designed to help high School and College students succeed. SparkNotes is a great tool as long as you remember to do the real work yourself!

I picked slashdot.org because...well...slashdot is for NERDS! GEEKS!!! Someone who might be in the Computer Information Technology learning community! LIKE ME! On a more serious note though, I picked slashdot because it involves people like the CIT learning community. We are nerds/geeks we know it, and love it. Slashdot is composed of authors that are IT gurus and love to talk about as what there title says, 'news that matters' which is straight and to the point.\n\nLike any good nerd we like to put in our two cents. Slashdot added a message board to reply to any post the authors make. The articles composed by Slashdot will always involve technology in someway. Whether it's a post on the internet's birthday or a post about how red hat enterprise linux 5.4 has been released. Slashdot has posts to the point for people like "us". Its not filled with clutter or garbage about stupid news about Jon and Kate + 43000, its news that MATTERS. Simple as that.\n

This article explains how some people are now getting a new screen, dubbed the black screen of death. Apparently there are 10 scenarios in which this can happen where you login and all that is there is a Microsoft explorer icon and nothing else. It came with the last security update on November 10th. I chose this article because it seems t go with the latest trend of the snow leopard versus Windows 7 debate. It used to be called the blue screen of death but apparently that isn't the "in" thing anymore so it is being changed to the black screen of death. Hopefully this will be fixed in a timely manner or else we may have some vista like views again. Just a side note I haven't gotten the black screen!