SeMissourian: While water skiing with her friends at Lake Wappapello in the summer of 1970, Judy McMullin lost her brand-new high school class ring. "I had only had it a month," said McMullin, a graduate of Central High School who now lives in Chaffee, Mo. "I was so disappointed that I'd lost it so soon." Now, 37 years later, McMullin has her ring back...read more

Dear semo.net users, Over the past year, IMS and semo.net have been merging networks in an effort to keep costs down for both companies. In January, Bob Mielke and I agreed that it was time to completely merge both networks. Today, Poplar Bluff Internet purchased the business assets of IMS. Part of our agreement was to keep the downtown IMS office open. Our IT staff will move their offices downtown to share office space with Denise Magruder from IMS and over the course of the next year, we have plans to move many of our servers from our semo.net Westwood location down to the IMS downtown location. Our customer support and billing teams will stay at Westwood Blvd next to

UPDATE: Windstream has installed additional network capacity and full service has been restored. We thank them for their help in this matter. Dear user, As you've probably noticed, many customers are experiencing reduced DSL peformance in Windstream service areas. We have been working with Windstream to determine the source of this problem, and now can report to you that the Windstream network uplink in the area has reached its maximum capacity. This is a problem with Windstream's network, and affects all DSL customers in the area, not just semo.net customers. Windstream tells us that they are working on installing additional network capacity, but they have not given us a due date for this yet. We will keep you informed as

After 36 years and billions of sales, the floppy disk is to join the video player, cassette deck and film camera on technology's scrapheap. The 9cm piece of plastic will no longer be available from Britain's biggest computer retailer. PC World announced last night it would stop selling the disks when stocks ran out. via Metro.co.uk

Wal-Mart is applying its famous price rollback strategy to health care by announcing it will make nearly 300 generic drugs available to customers and employees for only $4 per prescription. The change in pricing affects both customers with and without insurance. Those with insurance will pay a co-pay of $4.00. Wal-Mart says they will still file with your insurance company, but will not charge them. The program began in September of 2006, and is expanding each month with new additions to the list of offered prescriptions. Visit the Wal-mart Pharmacy Website for more information.

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