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BBC Uses Skype Links In Murder Hunt 193

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 18, 2006 @12:12AM from the free-and-anonymous dept.

Nico M writes "The highly publicized UK murder hunt for the serial killer(s) of five young sex workers in Suffolk is using Skype to ask the public for information. BBC News is embedding freephone Skype links to both the police incident room and Crimestoppers UK. Is this the first time Skype has been used in this way?"

Internet2 Turns 10 and Upgrades 84

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @12:11PM from the something-new-gets-old dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As an update to a previous story, Internet2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Chicago this week at it's fall conference. In addition, they're announcing the initial stages of their second significant network upgrade of their backbone network. Engineers are providing daily blog updates on the network install process as the old network is transitioned to the new. In addition to changing to a Level3-managed and Internet2-provisioned DWDM transport system for backbone capacity, I2 is implementing a new connection-oriented backbone network based on the Ciena CoreDirector platform in concert with the routed IP network."

Comment Slashdot | News for Nerds... (Score 1) 578

by tricknology on Friday January 21, 2005 @01:09AM (#11428785) Attached to: Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year

Pseudoscience that matters.

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