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Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah
Yahoo Inc. is outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah. Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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'Dear George': a personal memoir from a fanboy
George - can I call you George? I think I will call you George - I am writing you because I am an avid reader of your comments on The Daily Toreador's Web site. I must say, this has never been by choice, because I am the former online editor of The DT. My responsibilities, as you can imagine, are everything related to the Web site - that includes reading every comment on the site and making sure ...
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States faulted over privacy breaches
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million people. A disk with similar information disappeared in Rhode Island. While some of the biggest and most spectacular privacy breaches in ...
North Platte Telegraph |
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Winning Cyberspace in '08 (in Mediacheck)
What we can learn from Obama's new digital politics.
The Tyee |
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Upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV shifts to high gear
Niko Bellic will be able to do just about anything gamers want him to do. For the scruffy leading man in “Grand Theft Auto IV,” that includes blowing stuff up, driving drunk, meeting someone online, going on a date, hailing a cab, listening to the radio, killing innocent bystanders, patronizing strip clubs, flying helicopters, earning cash for criminal activities, running from the police and, of ...
The State |
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Indian It Exports To Mideast Will Grow 30 Pc: ESC
DUBAI, April 29 (Bernama) -- India's IT exports to the Middle East are expected to cross US$1.30 billion in 2008, an increase of 30 percent compared to US$1 billion last year, Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council of India (E.S.C.) as saying.
Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) |
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Qwest Launches Two New, Super High-Speed Fiber-Optic Internet Services
Qwest Communications International Inc. recently launched a new generation of fiber-optic Internet services that provide unprecedented speed, value and capabilities to residential and small-business customers
FiberOpticsOnline |
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OpVista Partners With VECTOR To Expand Metro And Regional Optical Networks Throughout Eastern Europe
OpVista, Inc. recently announced that it has signed a comprehensive sales and support agreement with VECTOR to use the complete OpVista2000 Optical Transport System product line in optical networking projects throughout Eastern Europe, effective immediately
FiberOpticsOnline |
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Trump Organization's Visionary Fiber-Optic Network Earns Cornerstone Award From Broadband Properties Summit
Donald Trump's company, the Trump Organization, will receive one of the prestigious Cornerstone Awards at the April 28-30 Broadband Properties Summit here, in recognition of its visionary deployment of a high-speed fiber-optic network in two of the organization's showplace properties in New York City
FiberOpticsOnline |
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'Downloads are ruining us'
Nation's top acts feature in documentary trying to stop people obtaining music illegally.
The Age |
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AUSTRALIA: Music industry opens new front on piracy
Australia's largest internet provider has shrugged off threats of legal action by the music industry as record labels overseas continue to drag ISPs through the courts in a desperate battle to stop music piracy.
AsiaMedia |
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SKorea vows 'diplomatic measures' over Chinese torch violence
SEOUL (AFP) - Violence by Chinese students at the weekend Beijing Olympic torch relay injured South Korea's national pride and "legal and diplomatic measures are necessary," Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo said Tuesday.
AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News |
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Bollywood film legend Bachchan turns blogger
MUMBAI (AFP) - Indian film megastar Amitabh Bachchan has reached out to fans in cyberspace, launching a blog about his life which has triggered a flood of responses from around the world.
AFP via Yahoo! Canada News |
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New Web Community Brings Together Parents of Visually Impaired Children
When parents learn their child has a visual impairment, it can be overwhelming. Parents wonder, Will my child fall behind at school? or Will my child make friends? or Will my child have a successful career? With only 93,600 visually impaired school-aged children in the U.S., over half of whom have additional disabilities, its easy for families facing vision loss to feel alone.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News |
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AT&T U-verse Expands in Atlanta
More Atlanta-area residents now have a new -- and better -- choice for their television and communications services. AT&T Inc. today announced the expanded availability of AT&T U-verse TV and U-verse enabled AT&T High Speed Internet in parts of local Atlanta communities.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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CinemaNow and uVuMobile Launch First Service to Instantly Deliver Large Catalogue of Movies to Mobile Phone Users
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. & ATLANTA----CinemaNow , the digital entertainment innovator in delivering high-quality Hollywood movies and TV shows across multiple platforms, and uVuMobile™, , a mobility software and services company that offers content providers, carriers, and entertainment brands a full suite of products to effectively deliver video and audio content to mobile handsets, announced ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 21st Oct 2005 04:38 UTC, submitted by Todays_User
It's release time again for OpenBSD! The upcoming 3.8 will include some wonderful features for network gurus (trunking, tracking wireless roaming users, interface groups, a new ipsec configuration tool, and failover of ipsec links), a great rework of malloc() that will provide further security protections by default, and the first version of bioctl--a universal RAID management interface.
OS News |
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Vancouver police go to YouTube and Facebook to recruit
VANCOUVER - Desperate times for call for desperate measures, so the Vancouver Police Department is starting a recruitment drive on YouTube and Facebook.
Vancouver Province |
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Grand Theft Auto IV Review [PlayStation 3 Xbox 360]
A superb single-player story mode and online support for up to 16 players make this the best Grand Theft Auto game yet.
GameSpot |
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OUTLOOK Poland's TPSA to report small fall in Q1 revenue, net profit jump
WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland's largest telecom, TPSA, should report a minimal fall in revenues but an almost 9 percent year-on-year rise in net profit in the first quarter, driven by strong results for its mobile arm, an analysts poll showed.
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New wireless email service offered to mobile phone users
MANILA, Philippines - Mobile carrier Globe Telecom has introduced a new service that target users who want to have wireless email delivered via their phones.
GMA News |
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Dealing with China's changing image
My office assistant just received a packet of T-shirts that she ordered from Taobao, an online retailer. One of the T-shirts reads: Chinese people are not easily bullied!
McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News |
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Deals: late iMacs, Apple refurbs discounted
In light of Apple's updates to the iMac line, MacMall is running a few specials on late model iMacs, both the 20- and 24-inch versions. The 24-inch iMac comes with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Superdrive and an ATI Radeon 2600 Pro. MacMall is also bundling Parallels Desktop 3.0 with the purchase of a 24-in...
MacNN |
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Microsoft Cuts Xbox 360 Prices in Four Asian Markets (Update1)
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. cut prices of its Xbox 360 game console in four Asian markets to help fend off market-share declines against Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp.
Bloomberg.com |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Oct 2005 10:35 UTC
"What would help the most is to eliminate both the dependency on expensive commercial software and also eliminate the company-owned computer. If, like master mechanics in machine shops, the employee owned his or her own tools, none of this would be an issue.
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