FAQ: Inside the FCC's High-Stakes 700-MHz-Spectrum Auction (Wired)

The FCC's 700-MHz-spectrum auction, now set for January 16, 2008, has the potential to affect everything from the cost of your wireless service to the competitive landscape among U.S. mobile providers for years to come.
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Going Topless at 170 MPH in the Porsche Turbo Cabriolet (Wired)

The Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet is certainly not just the 911 coupe with the roof sawed off. Plenty has been added: The model drives like a hard top, except you can blast up to 192 mph in open air.
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Windows Worm Targets Skype Users (Wired Compiler)

The VoIP service, Skype, is warning users about a new Windows worm spreading through the company's chat message service. A post on Skype's Heartbeat Blog says that computers already infected by the worm will send a chat message to other users, which, according to Skype, is "cleverly written and may appear to be a legitimate chat message."
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Drexel Hosts 'PodCamp Philly' on New Media Apps (Campus Technology)

Drexel University hosted a conference last week on new media applications, a "PodCamp" to "promote the use of new media to television, newspapers, radio, businesses, educators, and individuals." The conference was free to "podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in new media."
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Apple iPhone Sales Hit 1M (eWEEK)

The milestone comes just 74 days after its launch and three weeks ahead of schedule.
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Engineering a new curriculum (CNET News.com)

Engineering and social sciences--it sounds like a bad mix for a dinner party. But S. Shankar Sastry, the dean of the college of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, says it's the wave of the future.
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