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Time Warner Cable Offers Internet Service Priced by Consumption

Time Warner Cable Inc. is stepping again into the highly charged topic of consumption-based pricing for broadband service, giving its customers the option of paying less each month in exchange for a cap on their Internet use.

Two Little Laptops With a Lot to Offer Their Core Users

Walt Mossberg reviews Dell’s M11x and Sony’s Vaio X, two diminutive laptops aimed at radically different customers.
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Verizon to Bust a Cap in Your Asymmetric Bandwidth

Get ready for metered broadband. Speaking at the FTTH Conference and Expo in Houston Tuesday, Verizon Communications CTO Richard Lynch said the broadband industry is headed toward a pricing paradigm shift that will see it embrace the usage-based pricing common to the wireless broadband industry.
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