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Alan Reiter writes: “An Italian tobacconist saw two suspicious characters outside his shop in Rome. He used his camera phone to send a photo of the pair and a text message to the police. The police checked their records, found the two people were wanted for robberies and sent a squad car. [...]

World Cup Cricket 2003 is in full swing in South Africa. Sure this is an event which does not get headlines like the SuperBowl or the Major League Baseball, but when it comes to viewership, more than 1.75 billion people tune into the games. In India where Cricket is only second to religion, the winning, [...]

Jeff Pulver, one of the few pundits to throw his considerable weight behind the internet protocol telephony wants no government regulation in the new emerging technology for voice over the Internet. On February 5th he filed a petition with the FCC on behalf of Free World Dialup, asking for a Declatory Ruling that Internet Telephony [...]

From Power Page :: How to Lose a Man in 10 Days featured more iMacs and PowerBooks than an Apple Store on steroids, and for me, was one of the most redeeming aspects of the “razzie”-worthy film. I’m wondering now, just how much Apple contributes to films like this one. The formulas seem [...]

From The New York Times :: New Jersey legislator, Shirley K. Turner, introduced a bill that would require that workers hired under state contracts be American citizens or legal aliens or they occupy some specialty niche that American workers cannot be found to fill. ” `I say it’s time to bring ‘em back [...]

From News.Com :: Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said Thursday.well that was the problem with the managed hosting services and other shared infrastructure type services. Why doesn’t it surprise me that corporations are reluctant to [...]