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• Man clocks up 27k phone bill
  Thursday 3 January 2008 – 05:40 in Mobile
  Remember the Canadian man who used his phone as a modem, racked up a $80,000 bill and prompted such reader comments as,
• Man receives $81,000 phone bill
  Thursday 13 December 2007 – 06:30 in Mobile
  A Canadian man who recently received a phone bill for $81,000 has refused to pay because he insists he didn’t know he was clocking up such a high bill.
• Sex offenders must register online identities under new bill
  Thursday 1 February 2007 – 02:03
  A new bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives and the Senate that will force convicted sex offenders to register their email and instant messaging addresses to a federal database. Social networking sites could then check the databases and either notify authorities or kick the offenders out. The bill was sponsored by Senators and Representatives from both parties and is endorsed by major social network sites like MySpace and Facebook.
• Viewers Preferred the Bill and Jerry Show
  Thursday 9 October 2008 – 10:10 in Business
  Strangely enough, viewers actually liked the eccentric relationship between Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfield, even better than the yawn-a-thon "I'm a PC" commercial that replaced them.
• Proposed Bill to Limit DHS Electronic Searches
  Friday 3 October 2008 – 10:20 in Business
  Last week members of the senate proposed a bill that, if passed, would see the Department of Homeland Security require reasonable suspicion before confiscating your laptop or other device capable of storing information.

• You Let Me Down, Bill - Keynote Analysis*
  Monday 8 January 2007 – 06:17
  We don't have much time left with Bill Gates. In fact, Gates' keynote address for CES 2007 is most likely his penultimate speech for the trade show. In fact, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman admitted as much.
• Bill Gates: 40 million Vista copies sold*
  Thursday 17 May 2007 – 01:50
  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his last keynote at the WinHEC conference earlier this morning and outlined the success of the Windows Vista operating system. ...
• CES 2007: Bill Gates announces Windows Home Server*
  Monday 8 January 2007 – 09:47
  You probably have computers with gigabytes maybe terabytes of pictures, songs and videos, but how do you manage it all? In his traditional CES opening keynote, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced the Windows Home Server and explained how the technology automatically backs up your data and makes it available through the Internet.
• Attempts fail to alter Senate DTV transition plan with budget bill amendments*
  Thursday 3 November 2005 – 06:38
  The digital television transition date in the US of 7 April 2009 faces the first of numerous challenges this afternoon, as two amendments to be voted on today may not only move the date forward one year, but reduce subsidies for set-top converter boxes.
• No net neutrality in Internet franchise bill passing Stevens' committee*
  Friday 30 June 2006 – 12:57
  To the surprise of very few, language from a net neutrality bill offered as an amendment to a House bill on national Internet franchise licensing, was defeated in a Senate Commerce Committee vote. But it was not a sound defeat - 11 yea, 11 nay - indicating that a debate may ensue on the floor of the full Senate.