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Comcast Agrees To Work With Vonage
Comcast, as part of its campaign to show that the private sector can address Internet management issues without government intervention, announced Wednesday a “collaborative agreement” with Vonage Holdings to ensure the MSO’s network-management techniques don’t disrupt the voice-over-Internet provider’s services.
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Actors union ratifies deal with studios
LOS ANGELES — Members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have ratified a new contract with Hollywood studios that boosts payments for actors whose work appears on the Internet, the union said Tuesday.
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Ratatat Branch Out and Gear Up
Last fall, while you were still debating whether LCD Soundsystem or Battles was the best electro-rock band of 2007, Ratatat— Brooklyn's other white meat—were upstate in Catskill, holed up at an old mansion where former president Martin Van Buren got married. It's not a destination sit...
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Clover Club fails To Exhilarate; Ninjasonik Inexplicably Does
And the award for the most over-hyped bar to open in the last month goes to . . . Clover Club, the fancy-pants cocktail lounge that opened its doors mid-June as the latest addition to Brooklyn's Smith Street scene. Blogs are nuts for Julie Reiner's new baby (her old baby: Flatiron Lounge), and pr...
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Infonetics Research: Ethernet, MPLS continue to eat into legacy services; mid-band Ethernet grows 120% by 2011
CAMPBELL, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/09/08 -- Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that organizations around the world are increasingly replacing their legacy frame relay, ATM, and private line legacy services with Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN services.
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Abe Vigoda, Alive and Funky
As recently as five years ago, polyrhythms in indie rock were about as common as Qs in Scrabble, and less valuable. IDM promised glitchy abstraction, and the occasional lap-pop record offered computer- assisted syncopation, but anything more advanced than a two-and-four backbeat from a sentient d...
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Channel Bee Selects Move Networks as its Internet Television Services Provider
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, BUSINESS WIRE -- Move Networks, a leading provider of Internet television services, today announced it has been chosen by Channel Bee, a new London-based Internet television station, to help broadcast a series of 10 live concerts in high definition via the Internet.
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VAS providers want ‘fair’ revenue sharing
New Delhi, July 9 Mobile value-added service providers including Google, Times Internet and Netcore have sought the telecom regulator’s intervention in determining the revenue sharing formula with cellular operators.
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Google Invites Avatar Banter in Lively Chat Rooms
If you already thought it was a Google world and we're all just living in it -- well, now you can with the introduction of Lively, Google's free 3-D virtual world application that brings game-like qualities to the concept of Internet chat. "The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the Web," Niniane Wang, a Google engineering manager, wrote in a post on the Official ...
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Beijing Recyclers Discarded in Games Security Sweep
BEIJING - Liu Yang is among tens of thousands of migrant workers who scour Beijing bins for sellable scraps. But he won't be recycling any trash this August as Beijing's garbage pickers are being pushed out of town.
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NJ Republican Club takes Obama-O.J. slogan off Web site
TRENTON, N.J. - A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole." The Pemberton...
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Cloudworks Offers Cloud Computing Tips for Going Green
Mike Eaton, the founder and CEO of Cloudworks, provides five tips for companies watching their bottom line in a tight economy to enhance the remote access for mobile professionals through cloud computing.
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The Hindu Business Line : ‘The newsstand’s coming alive’
In the days of the Internet and television where every byte and second is content, there is some good news for the purists. Yes, the print media is coming back, and in grand style. In the past one year, some international brand or the other has tied up with some biggie in the Indian print space.
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Serial rabbit killer uses Google maps to find victims
The roll call of victims is growing longer by the day. They have names like Rocco, Fussel, Marianne and Fluffy — and a special five-man police unit has a file on each and every one of the unfortunate animals.
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TCS is top exporter
New Delhi, July 9 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has maintained its position as the country’s top IT software and services exporter for FY08, followed by Infosys and Wipro.
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Samsung 128GB SSDs Hit Mass Production
Samsung announced its 128GB solid state drive back in January , and has now announced that the drives have now gone into volume production . They use multi-level cell technology, which is cheaper than the alternative single-level cell, but Samsung are claiming read speeds of 90MB/s and write speeds of 70MB/s, which competes in performance terms. Samsung are also touting the long life and low ...
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Prescription drugs easily purchased online - study
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite new efforts to regulate Internet pharmacies, 85 percent of sites selling controlled drugs do not require a prescription, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Internet provider now offering Free WiFi Hotspots
Global BroadBand (GLBB) customers are now free of their computer internet cables, able to wander to many points across Okinawa using wireless connections.
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Josh Hartnett in August
August plays out almost entirely in the testing fire of crisis, as the brothers Sterling fight to keep their NYC-based Internet startup afloat. Josh (Adam Scott) is the visionary designer, a family man and amiable pushover. Tom (Josh Hartnett) is the company's avatar, a double-donged s.o.b. L...
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NJ GOP Club takes Obama-O.J. slogan off Web site
Wed, Jul 9, 2008 (11:33 a.m.) A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole."
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Man powers up PC to pop popcorn
Hot Butter revival? Video Given the number of film fanatics who watch movies on their laptops, popcorn by your PC is probably just what the doctor ordered. One DIY hardware pioneer has worked out how to make your very own USB-powered popcorn maker.…
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Markets (July 09)
OUTLOOK: Software, services revenue to grow at 21-24% to $62 b Nasscom pegs target a tad lower due to slowdown. New Delhi, July 9 India’s software and services revenue is poised to grow between 21 and 24 per cent during 2008-09 to touch $62-64 billion.
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Google Invites Avatar Banter in Lively Chat Rooms
If you already thought it was a Google world and we're all just living in it -- well, now you can with the introduction of Lively, Google's free 3-D virtual world application that brings game-like qualities to the concept of Internet chat. "The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the Web," Niniane Wang, a Google engineering manager, wrote in a post on the Official ...
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New Take On Temperature
No global temperature change for ten years sounds too good to be true. The researchers base these predictions on a computer model they developed after the natural cycle of ocean temperatures called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). The AMO is closely linked to currents bringing tropical heat north, and appears to occur every 60 to 70 years.
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