• Hot weather in California means no good news.
  • Ballmer making more noise than ever. He mentions that MSFT blundered in the search business.
  • Microsoft says no buying spree.
  • China says its ‘not investigating Microsoft’ story continues. All this means is that they ARE investigating.
  • Delta to use cell phones as boarding passes.
  • Firefox up to 14 million downloads. Its started to crash on me and give me weird errors.
  • FCC tells Sprint-Nextel to get out of 800 MHz band in 30 days, or else.
  • I recommend my own column in Marketwatch.

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  1. QB says:

    WestJet has been using cell phone boarding passes since last year. There’s also some airlines in Europe and Japan that do the same thing.

  2. Daniel says:

    Not to sound like a gripe. But is there a way to do the old style Tech5 imbed? I liked being able to adjust the volume on my browser, since it doesn’t play through my Metric Halo into my big speakers.. This is way too loud.

  3. QB says:

    pedro, I didn’t know Air Canada was doing it as well. I never use them, the abuse quotient is just too high.

  4. Ron Larson says:

    arrrgh… you new player setup doesn’t work! I takes me to a site that never finishes “loading” the program. Can you bring back the old player until you get the bugs worked out?

    I’m running a Mac OSX Tiger with FireFox 3.0.

  5. Cinaedh says:

    I’ve noticed the player in Cage Match for the ‘tech5 report’ always has the volume control feature:

    http://tinyurl.com/65eb62

  6. I don’t like the idea that there are some bias going on when it comes to prioritizing passengers on board. This sounds like an abuse to me.


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