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This was taken this afternoon from WPMI-DT, Mobile, Ala. with several stores about the Carnival Triumph. Notice anything odd?

The Banner ad for Costa Crociere? A subsidiary owned by Carnival, which made headlines last year when 32 people were killed when a rock pierced the Costa Concordia and partially sunk of the coast of Italy.

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Anonymous hacks Endymion.

If you only thought Anonymous was only for computer hacking, they also specialize in social engineering.

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UPS has the ability to send a packing from West Columbia, South Carolina to Louisville, Kentucky (507 miles) in an hour! (and 6 minutes). Now if only they have to ability to send that package to my house in an hour instead of 9AM to 9PM!

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CNBC's Darren Rovell: Online streaming might have caused dip in Super Bowl TV ratings - http://danpatrick.com/2012/02/06/darren-rovell-overnight-super-bowl-ratings-equal-to-las-year/

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Steve Jobs leaves behind an incredible legacy

On December 8, 1980, Howard Cosell announced to the audience watching the New England Patriots battle the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football that John Lennon, one of the lead-members of the Beatles, was shot and killed while walking outside his apartment in New York City. Radio Stations across the country played his music and fans flocked to his apartment to mourn his death.

On October 5, 2011, news broke on social networks that Apple CEO Steve Jobs passed away at the age 56. His death becomes this generations' John Lennon as people flocked at Apple stores across the country to mourn and leave messages of how his products have changed their lives.

Both Steve Jobs and John Lennon have a lot in common: they had a huge impact on society, had followers that had a cult-like atmosphere and people tried to imitate them.

Steve Jobs joins a long list of innovators that change society - from Johannes Gutenberg to Henry Ford. He will be remembered as a revolutionist innovator: someone that has change society by re-inventing a previous-released product.

He revolutionize the way we use computers, how we buy and listen to music, the way we buy applications and the way we consume media - even though Apple wasn't the first to mass-produce a MP3 music player, a computer, a tablet PC or a smartphone.

Jobs will also be remembered as an arrogant and somewhat unpleasant, shrewd businessman. Some have described Jobs as "short-tempered", "acted like the smartest person in the world", "secretive" and "controlling". Steve Jobs has also been known for only inviting members of the press to Apple keynotes that have written positive reviews on Apple keynotes and ending relationships with the press that have written negative articles about Apple. Former Gizmodo Editor Brian Lam shares his experiences dealing with Steve Jobs after the gadget blog found an unreleased iPhone 4 in a bar (NSFW).

As we've seen with other high-profile deaths, the positives always outweigh the negatives. And Steve Jobs will be remembered not only as a shrewd businessman that dropped out of college but as a very respected CEO that came back after being fired from a company he founded and turned Apple from the brink of bankruptcy into the most powerful company in the world.

And his power has attracted a cult-like atmosphere, much like John Lennon did.

When his death was announced, I have never seen so many people express how much an Apple product or Steve Jobs himself has changed their lives or profession as well as how much media attention the death of Mr. Jobs has attracted. Would CNN devote hours of live coverage to the death of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? Would the President of the United States issue a press release mourning the death of Best Buy founder Richard M. Schulze? Would ESPN inlcude a link to ABC News announcing the death of Intel CEO Paul Otellini? Would AT&T and Verizon Wireless CEOs issue condolences to the commissioner of the FCC?

Steve Jobs left an incredible legacy on the world. We didn't want to believe that the end was coming when he announced his resignation last August.

And now we can't picture Apple without Steve Jobs.

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Retooling AltTV.net

After much consideration (and that nobody is visiting the site and that I'm not updating the site often), AltTV will be undergoing a re-tooling of the site as well as the equipment we use to make content for the site. We hope to be operational sometime in October 2011.

There are so many features that we are working on that it should make us a prominent media outlet in the gulf coast region.

In the meantime, this will be our temporary home for AltTV.net. We will still maintain our Twitter feed and Facebook page but most of our posts will be on Tumblr.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused on our readers.

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Microsoft opened a store in Houston today. Looks like I came to visit at the right time - http://bit.ly/l6jlIF

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Lafayette Advertiser: Is LITE in trouble? - http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20110605/NEWS01/106050345/LITE-feeling-heat?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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500,000 people at the Indy 500 and AT&T works. Wt TH?!?! bazzaroworld

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Can Windows Phone 7 save Microsoft?

Microsoft newest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, became available for sale today on AT&T and T-Mobile networks and can be bought at Microsoft retail stores and Dell.

This marks Microsoft return to the mobile landscape since the company released Windows Mobile 6 in 2007.

CNET gave the HTC HD7 a decent review while Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal was very critical of WP7.

Do you plan on switching to Windows Phone 7 from Blackberry, Android or Apple? What are the main features that made your decision? What don't you like about WP7? Was Microsoft too late in releasing a mobile OS?

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Do you experience with social network overload?

My apologizes for not publishing for two weeks. I was bitten by a severe cold that kept me off the Internet for two weeks. Now I'm better and back at work.

How many of you experience with a bombardment of social networks? How many of you have more than one account in Twitter and Facebook? Do you want to delete yourself off the Internet? If you want to, what's keep you from getting off the grid?

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Are you impressed with Google Instant?

Google's big Wednesday announcement was the unveiling of instant search that displays search results as users type what they're searching for.

Some were impressed while others were not.

What do you think? Like it or not?

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How many gadgets do you bring on vacation?

It's labor day weekend; a three-day vacation that becomes the unofficial end to Summer. And to celebrate the end of Summer, many people celebrate by going on vacation. If your going on vacation, how many gadgets do you bring on vacation (this includes the notebook)? Or do you shut down and leave the electronics at home?

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What do you think of Apple's new lineup of gadgets?

A new shuffle, new nano, new iPod Touch, new iTunes, new iTunes social network and a revamped Apple TV were the latest Apple gadgets to get a refresh.

What do you think of the newest line of Apple products?

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What technology lessons did you learn from Hurricane Katrina?

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina not only became the 6th strongiest storm to hit the Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama coastline; become the one of the five most deadly hurricanes as well as the most destritrucive storm to hit the United States, casung $81 billion in damages.

Hurricane Katrina also showed how fragile the communications network can easily break down during a major disaster. Long distance lines were damaged in the region and many cell towers in New Orleans, Mobile and the Mississippi Gulf coast were either destroyed by the storm or stopped working after generators that powered the cell towers can out of fuel.

TV and radio stations also went dark as the storm surged from Katrina knocked all but two TV and four New Orleans radio stations off the air.

As the five year anniversitry approaches, what ahve you done to make sure your communication needs will continue to work during a national crisis? If you have emergency communication plans, what are they? Or are you absolutely sure that the wireless networks will continue to function during a crisis?