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Comment Re:Yes I use it and it is great (Score 1) 206

Yes - you can "call out" from either your phone access to grandcentral voicemail (call your own number, hit star, type a pin - then hit 2 after a message to call the person back, I think - which will return you to your voicemail when the call is done!) or click a "call" button online which rings the phone of your choice, then your chosen contact. This is the bit they say they might charge for once out of beta, since it's basically like a skype-out (you can add a Gizmo sip address as a line)

Windows

Submission + - Sacrificing the Windows stability gains

PassMark writes: "An article discussing increased levels of application instability due to Windows programs interfering with each other, reminiscent of the early DOS and Windows 95 development era. Leading to the sacrificing of gains in stability made over the last 20 years. Concluding that, many of the Anti-BadStuff and monitoring tools on the market cause more problems than they solve and we have more pain to come with wide availability of Kernel API hooking kits."
Security

Submission + - Hard drive data eradication

Creighton Bildstein writes: "I'd like to know how businesses are dealing with their sensitive data-containing hard drives at the end of the technology lifecycle in their PCs, laptops and servers. Do they: A) Format the drives and sell or donate the machines B) Wipe the drives with Dept. of Defense software and then sell or donate the machines C) Completely destroy the drives via a shredder or something similar and dispose of the PC, laptop or server in an environmentally- friendly manner"
Media

Submission + - Fluendo selling legal proprietary codecs for Linux

amitti writes: "Ars Technica reports that Fluendo is now selling legal media codecs for Linux for Windows Media, MPEG2, MPEG4, VC-1, MP3, and others. "Fluendo's codecs could potentially provide better integration for streaming Windows Media playback in Linux web browsers as well as through GStreamer-based desktop applications like Totem." I'm not certain that this will catch on, but this may be a great help to those folks for don't run i386. Most of their codecs are available for both i386, x86_64, PPC and Sparc."
Windows

Submission + - Vista Family Pack

DesertBlade writes: After years of wishing it, looks like with Vista Ultimate you may be able to purchase additional family licenses for between $49-$99. By having an affordable option, will this help reduce piracy? I know I would pay $50 for an additional license for my laptop or kids computer.
Handhelds

Submission + - Sega to stop GD-ROM production

Joan Cross writes: Sega of Japan plans to discontinue production of GD-ROM media in February, 2007. This media is used almost exclusively by the Sega Dreamcast home console, and the NAOMI arcade system. By stopping production, future official games (licensed by Sega) on the Dreamcast or NAOMI will not be possible. The Dreamcast Community are asking all fans past and present to help keep alive the Dream.

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