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...order to simulate being on the road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...Sling newest addition is its SlingPlayer Mobile software for PDA phones ($30, but there?s a free trial). Using Sprint's UTStarcom PPC 6700, operating on a highspeed data network similar to Verizon's, I could pull up the cable box - live shows and ones I had already recorded. My only complaint is that the virtual remote control gets in the way of the on-screen program guide, so you can't see what you're trying to select. My clumsy solution was to keep toggling the remote...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...
...Chicago, the catering trucks were starting to pull up alongside the vans hawking flags from just about every Latino country stretching from Mexico south, the mothers with large grocery bags to keep their kids well fed during a long march and a long day, and the dozens of media trucks parked around Union Park on Chicago?s Near West Side. Some had been here all night; some were just rushing to join friends and strangers...
...could not catch BU, as the varsity eight was edged by 1.6 seconds in posting a time of 6:29.0.“We gained a boat length in the first 1000, but then the boat fell apart,” Martin said. “We tried to pull it back together at the end but could not make it.”The varsity eight could not come together in part because the combination on Saturday had never raced together. In addition to an injury on the boat, the Black and White had also brought...