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Mexican Phone Users Can Keep Numbers, Increasing Competition - Bloomberg (Matt's blog)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Mexican Phone Users Can Keep Numbers, Increasing Competition Bloomberg - 10 hours ago America Movil's Telcel unit controls three-quarters of the Mexican mobile - phone market . Smaller competitors include Grupo Iusacell SA and Spain's Telefonica ... Mexicans Can Seek Phone Number Portability Tomorrow (Update2) Bloomberg all 3 news articles

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The end of the Internet as we know it? (Angry in the Great White North)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:43:16 GMT

Imagine that your ISP blocked access to every site on the Internet. Then as a subscriber, you paid a monthly fee for access to basic blocks of sites, as well as extra fees for other sites not in the basic package. Apparently this will define access to the Internet for Canadians in 2010. I know, it sounds nuts. Part of me wonders if I was directed to this story by someone wanting to embarrass me. But...

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Explore : Internet, Internet Service Providers, Technology

Banks clear the way for BCE buy-out (Financial Time)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

The closely watched buy-out of BCE, the Montreal telecommunications group, is set to proceed with its key terms intact following an agreement, announced yesterday...

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Microsoft to Offer Office, Security Suite Subscription For $70 a Year (Daily Tech)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:52:00 GMT

Microsoft hopes to lure bargain hunters with new subscription model, perhaps hints at changing business plan

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Reliance shares recover ahead of update on MTN alliance (Financial Time)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Reliance Communications staged a sharp recovery on India's stock markets yesterday as investors readied for a possible announcement over the weekend or early next week...

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Solve your health related problems (Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:03:00 GMT

Here's where you can save up to % on top selling prescriptions! Visit our store now! Windows Live Customer Support | Hotmail Support FAQs | Newsletter feedback Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 As a Windows Live member you have received this e-mail to inform you of updates, changes to the service, or special news and information vital to the service. Our policy is to send...

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Hearing Impaired Help by Nokia Loopset for People with Hearing Aids (Wireless and Mobile News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:35 GMT

Nokia announced the Nokia Wireless Loopset, designed specifically for improved mobile communications for people with hearing aids. With a T-coil equipped hearing aid or cochlear implant, the Loopset can help hearing aid users enjoy great audio quality and handsfree operation...

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Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal (Cnet)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:52:00 GMT

Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.

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Be not paranoid, young paduan grasshopper (Maggie's Farm)

nospam@example.com (Dr. Mercury) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:45:00 GMT

There's been a lot of jabber about the Viacom/YouTube suit over the past day, and a lot of induced paranoia. Let me see if I can sum up a few things: The only "personal" information a web site can garner from a visit is your computer's IP address. However, only your ISP knows who that number goes to, and — having battled invasive practices for two decades — they'll be loathe to give it up. It would...

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Orbitz.com, ebookers.com to become MSN’s travel provider in U.S. and UK (901am)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:21 GMT

Orbitz.com and its affiliated online travel brand ebookers.com in the United Kingdom have signed a multi-year deal with Microsoft to serve as the online travel agency for MSN.com’s travel portal in the U.S. and United Kingdom, respectively. Orbitz.com and ebookers.com will power all of MSN Travel’s offerings, including air, hotel, vacation package, cruise and car rental [...]

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McAfee conducts spam experiment, nothing really discovered (TechSpot)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:00 GMT

McAfee recently conducted its S.P.A.M (Spammed Persistently All Month) experiment in which 50 people from around the world surfed the web, filled forms, and responded to unsolicited emails for 30 days. Over the course of the month McAfee was able to make some groundbreaking discoveries: spam is linked to cyber crime and spammers are as active as ever that was sarcasm by the way.

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GEORGIA - SOUTH OSSETIA: Tense standoff in South Ossetia (France 24)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:35:16 GMT

Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia mobilised reservists on Friday and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in heavy exchanges of fire overnight.

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Instant WidSets for Over 300 Nokia Phones (Wireless and Mobile News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:57:44 GMT

WidSets, a mobile content consumption, creation and sharing service is getting a boost from Forum Nokia, Nokia's global developer program. Developers can easily develop widgets for WidSets and instantly make them available for download to a rapidly growing user base....

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Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360 Gameplay Movie (Voodoo Extreme)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:54:00 GMT

Many minutes of Unreal Tournament III Xbox 360 gameplay: Midway Games Ltd., a subsidiary of...

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Specs For Telus' HTC Touch Diamond Revealed (UberPhones)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:38:50 GMT

It hasn’t been too long since the announcement that Telus will be offering the HTC Touch Diamond to its Canadian customers, but the official specification list of the device is already available, and provides all the juicy details regarding the phone. In terms of features, it’s obviously the standard Touch Diamond fare, but the main difference is that this iteration will have an EV-DO Rev. A radio,...

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July Cell Phone Courtesy Month (Wireless and Mobile News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:38:35 GMT

Okay its time to check you cell phone take the Cell Phone Etiquitte Quiz because July is Cell Phone Courtesy Month. Correct answers are in bold. When talking on a wireless phone in public, you: Talk loudly. Cell phone connections...

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AT&T Stores Open @ 8:00 am on July 11 for iPhone Sales (Wireless and Mobile News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:13:19 GMT

AT&T retail stores will open at 8 a.m. local time next Friday, July 11, when the iPhone 3G goes on sale. The early opening should help avoid the massive crowds and lines that happened last year at the iPhone launch....

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How to open more than one MSN account in one pc (http://www.lirent.net/feed/)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:02:22 GMT

MSN Messenger only allows you to run once instance at a time, and that one instance can only log in as a single user but as you see in the image I have open more than one windows live messenger accounts on my computer. There are many ways how to do this. I will [...]

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MTS and MySpace Russia Partner to Develop New Services (Red Orbit )

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:21 GMT

Mobile TeleSystems, a mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, and MySpace Russia, the local version of international social network, have announced a partnership to develop and promote solutions for the subscribers of MTS Russia.

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Report: Microsoft Seeks Help for Another Yahoo Bid (Sci-Tech Today)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:44:16 GMT

Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's shares to rise more than 3 percent in Wednesday's sinking stock market, even though the chances of a deal getting done still seemed remote. If nothing else, the enthusiastic...

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