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Society RSS FeedsFacebook To Launch Dating Site? - Is Facebook planning to launch a dating site? It certainly would make a lot of sense. Let's look at the evidence. First, did you see the recent announcement of Amazon's new social feature integrating Facebook into your Amazon recommendations? This feature enables a Amazon Facebook page showing you the most popular books, DVDs, and more that are listed in your friend's Facebook profile. So if you like Journey, you can see which one of your friend...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Xirrus - "Cut the Cord. No Wire to the Desktop - 100% wireless" - Rich Tehrani has an excellent interview with wireless visionary, serial entrepreneur and CEO of both Xircom and Xirrus, Dirk Gates in the TMC Newsroom. Xirrus Arrays provide super high-capacity 802.11 access points by utilizing cell phone tower technology used by wireless carriers and are capable of sending signals in three directions. TMC uses Xirrus XN8 to provide full coverage in TMC's office. As CTO I made the decision to go with Xirrus after... Jailbreaking and Ripping DVDs Now Legal in One Fell Swoop! - The copyright overlords have shined brightly this day upon us jailbreakers, phone unlockers, and DVD rippers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today won three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions, which will bring a smile to those that enjoy the freedom to do with their legally owned iPhones and DVDs/Blurays as they please. In short, you have the right to: jailbreak your phone, install an... Microsoft Releases some Updates for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 - Microsoft just released some patches/updates to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. First up is KB 968802, which includes the following updates: loadTOCNode(2, 'moreinformation');
Update for Application Host 967832 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967832/ ) Description of the update package for Communications Server 2007 R2 Application Host: ... Citi Launches Citi Text Banking - Today, Citibank launched Citi Text Banking, which gives you quick updates on your Citibank and Citi credit card accounts. All you have to do is send a short command to 692484 (MYCITI) and get account information on demand. Pretty cool feature. Now you don't have to logon via a mobile phone or PC browser to get a quick balance. Though Citi also has the iPhone Citibank app and that's pretty fast - though it requires a 5 digit PIN to logon.I just tr... Google Voice Adds Faster dialing on Android and Blackberry devices - Google has some new updates to their Google Voice mobile apps for your Android and Blackberry phone fans (sorry iPhone fans - no update today for you!).According to Google:At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you're calling via Google Voice or not.Today we are laun... Skype for iPhone Multitasks & Drops Planned 3G Fee - Rich has the goods on the new Skype for iPhone app, which finally adds multitasking support to the iPhone iOS 4 operating system. Of course, there still isn't any video support. Get on that, will ya Skype? I'd use fring to make video calls over Skype, but we know what happened there. Interestingl... Attention All Startups in the VoIP Industry! - I thought I'd share some TMC news about a very cool opportunity TMC is providing to startup companies. At the next Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO), TMC will offer startup companies the ability to pitch their products and services. It was very successful at the last ITEXPO and so we decided to do it again. Here's the full news release including news about the keynote speaker: TMC and Embrase Business Consulting Announce Keynote S... trixbox CE Training at ITEXPO - Kerry Garrison, formerly with Fonality, but now with 888VoipStore, is going to be part of the trixbox CE training that is happening at the next ITEXPO in Los Angeles. It's a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and learn the ins and outs of trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based distro. ITEXPO has been doing trixbox training for some time now, and it's always well attended.According to Kerry: Titled "FtOCC CE Technician", the course provides telep... XO Communications Offers SIP Savings Estimator Tool - Today XO Communications launched their XO Enterprise SIP Savings Estimator, an online calculator to show users just how much money they can save by switching to SIP trunks. The online tool demonstrates how XO Enterprise SIP "Simplifies, Streamlines and Reduces Costs of Managing Voice Services Across Distributed Enterprise Networks".It's a useful tool, though the calculator is a bit strict in its assumptions and doesn't provide the maximum flexib... Blind Research Study Says Skype Users Prefer ooVoo - ooVoo told me they had recently commissioned a study with some interesting results, which will be released on Monday. A blind study conducted by a third party research firm revealed that ooVoo was preferred by 8 our of 10 Skype users.I couldn't help but reminded of the famous Trident slogan/study which said 4 out of 5 dentists preferred sugarless gum. In fact, it's exactly double! So is this study legit or manufactured? Was this study done by a... Sign into Multiple Google Accounts Feature Coming! - Google is testing a new feature that allows you to sign in to multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Sweet! I hate signing out of one account and switching to another. Or worse, leaving Firefox and having to use Internet Explorer to sign onto another account. I suppose I could use Chrome. Still, it's a pain to toggle between Google accounts. Multiple sign-in only works for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Sites ... SkypeKit SDK Comes to Windows & Mac - Linux got the first from Skype when they launched the SkypeKit SDK on Linux before any other operating system. Today, Skype announced SkypeKit availability for both Mac and Windows. This enables almost any desktop application to offer Skype capabilities, including video, voice, and text without the need for users to separately download Skype software. As I've stated before, think of SkypeKit as a "headless" version of Skype - tha... fring vs. Skype War - A war between fring and Skype is heating up. fring fired the first salvo when they put out a release claiming Skype was blocking fring. fring wrote:For 4 years we have led mobile communication innovation, most recently with video calling on any advanced Smartphone and network.Now that fring expanded capacity to s... Kids take photos of Earth's curvature using Balloon and Help from iPad - Oh kids these days get all the fun! I wish my science class (back in the day) offered our class a challenge to fly a cellphone with GPS & camera up into the stratosphere to take photos of the Earth's curvature. Alas, the closest I came was an egg drop contest, which was designed to teach about gravity, mass, and seat belt safety (don't ask). A firetruck ladder would drop our eggs in our homemade egg protection cases and see whose eggs survive... Faith healers plead not guilty to criminal mistreatment of their infant daughter - Two members of an Oregon City faith-healing church were charged Thursday with first-degree criminal mistreatment for failing to provide medical care for their infant daughter. Child-protection authorities took custody of the couple's 7-month-old daughter, Alayna, after she developed a growth over her left eye that ballooned over several months to the size of a tennis ball and threatens her vision.... Killer to die for butchering children - A jury Thursday sentenced a Brownsville man to die for killing and beheading three young children he was raising with their mother. Rubio and his wife told police they thought the children were possessed and butchered them in an attempt to rid the demons.... Texas, feds wait turns in polygamist cult leader cases - A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs' 2007 criminal conviction won't automatically make him a free man.
Even if Utah doesn't retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their own cases.... Pastor in Russian Republic of Dagestan Killed - A pastor in the Russian republic of Dagestan known for founding the biggest Protestant church in the region and for successfully reaching out to Muslims has been killed by unidentified gunmen, local authorities have confirmed. The identity of the shooters remains unclear, but in the weeks leading up to the killing, Dagestan media broadcast calls for people to take measures against Suleimanov because he was too ?active? and converted ethnic Musl... Jury to decide if John Allen Rubio will get death in beheadings - A jury that already rejected an insanity defense and convicted a south Texas man of beheading his common-law wife's three children will next decide whether he will get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life behind bars. Rubio said he believed the children were possessed and tried to smother and stab them before ultimately decapitating them.... A Polygamist?s Victory: Will Texas Have Better Luck with Warren Jeffs? - The best bet for those in pursuit of Jeffs may be the pending Eldorado charges in Texas, where he is facing trial for bigamy, sexual assault of a child and aggravated assault.
Texas prosecutors have been racking up a list of successful prosecutions against 12 FLDS members, based on evidence obtained in the Eldorado raid and DNA samples from FLDS children ta... Utah court tosses FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs? conviction - Jeffs, 54, once was listed among the FBI's most-wanted fugitives and faced criminal prosecutions related to child rapes in three states.
Assistant Utah Attorney General Laura Dupaix told CNN affiliate KSTU that the opinion is "going to make it difficult, I think, for us to do future prosecutions in cases where some of these men in positions of power -- almost complete power, like Warren Jeffs is -- to prosecute them for forcing young girls into... Supreme Court: FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs gets new trial - The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs? conviction on two counts of rape as an accomplice and sent the case back for a new trial, saying there were ?serious errors? in instructions given to the jury that deprived Jeffs of a fair hearing. The justices unanimously ruled 5th District Judge James Shumate erred when he rejected a defense request to instruct jurors that in order to convict, they must find tha... Televangelists Benny Hinn and Paula White deny affair - Without Walls International Church senior pastor Paula White and worldwide televangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn posted statements on their websites recently denying a National Enquirer report that they are romantically involved. The tabloid's article includes photos identified as Hinn and White holding hands on a supposed "romantic trip to Rome."... Tyke, 3, raised as shady guru?s ?son? - A motherless, 3-year-old boy is living in near-isolation at an upstate "cult" compound ? as the heir of the group?s shady svengali, who feeds off the Seagram?s booze fortune, sources told The New York Post.
He was brought to Keith Raniere ? the controversial leader of the Albany-based "behavior modification" group NXIVM that counts two Seagram heiresses among its devotees ? by a longtime member who claimed that she was given guardianship when t... Copyright © 2010, Self Help Info Now. All Rights Reserved. |