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netizenx writes:
Using voice recognition technology a company will offer free phone calls in exchange for advertising. Is this the future of communication?
Startup "Pudding Media today announced pioneering technology that will speed the transition to free calling by displaying fun, entertaining and valuable information and offers on any computer or handset screen or inbox based on relevant keywords spoken in a phone call." http://puddingmedia.com/news/press/pr20070924.html
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Plutonite writes:
The BBC is running a story on UK schools reportedly being told to fight what they call "cyberbullying", or bullying with the aid of (network-based)technology. They have been told to confiscate mobile phones, and — slightly more controversial — to investigate and get material removed from personal social-networking sites. Are schools supposed to be doing this as an extension of their duty to prevent physical bullying in school, or is this is yet another example of governmental intervention where it is not due? Should British youth be brought up knowing that their life on the web is being documented and controlled by people other than their parents?
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Damocles the Elder writes:
Apparently Boston remains a place where you shouldn't show off your computer parts. According to a pair of local news outlets, an MIT student was arrested for wearing what's being called "fake bomb art" in a Boston airport. FTA:
Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport. "She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day," Pare said at a news conference. Simpson was "extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used...[s]he's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."
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KGBear writes:
Daniel Lyons, who has been covering the SCO lawsuits for Forbes.com, feels the need to write his "mea culpa". From the article: "I reported what they said. Turns out I was getting played (...) I got it wrong. The nerds got it right (...) Someday soon the SCO lawsuits will go away, and I will never have to write another article about SCO ever again. I can't wait."
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msblack writes:
As you all predicted after SCO lost their rights to the Unix trademark to Novell, the ax has fallen. On Friday night,
SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after unanimous vote from their board. SCOX
fell 43% on Friday. The end of an era is coming soon.
255775
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msblack writes:
In a counter culture move against outsourcing and non-interactive customer support,
Netflix has forsaken e-mail as a means of customer support. According to the New York Times article, Netflix set up the call center in Portland OR, shunning other popular US call center cities or off-shoring. "It's very interesting and counter to everything anybody else is doing," said Tom Adams, the president of Adams Media Research, a market research firm in Carmel, Calif. "Everyone else is making it almost impossible to find a human."
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feed_me_cereal writes:
While performing at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vetter inserted the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home" into a rendition of "Daughter" sang to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall". Those lyrics were censored out of the Lollapalooza webcast from AT&T's "Blue Room". AT&T denies willful culpability, citing this incident as a "mistake". One wonders what implications this will have in the net neutrality debate.
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Technician writes:
I have been following the fall of SCO stock. When I checked their stock tonight I found the anouncement of the delisting instead of a chart.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX
"SCOX has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)."
