Mobile phone operators to be forced to cut prices

"Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, said on Wednesday it planned to cut the prices that mobile phone operators can charge for connecting calls from rival networks or landlines. These changes would come into effect when the current regulation expires in March 2007. Ofcom said...

Miami, LA top list of cellphone chatterers (Reuters)

" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Look who's talking! People in Miami and Los Angeles chat on their cell phones more than any other Americans, according to a survey of cell phone use in major cities. People in Miami make and receive an average of 298 calls a month -- an average of...

Watching NASCAR Kills Six People Per Weekend, And No, It's Not Of Boredom (De...

" The Fire Department of New York came out with this neat little statistic yesterday: On average, six people die per weekend at a NASCAR race event . Six people per weekend! Six people DIE, on AVERAGE. What the hell goes on at these things? Do they let Ted Kennedy drive one...

Palo Alto Online

"After receiving "overwhelmingly positive" feedback from more than a thousand testers, Google this week launched its free, citywide Wi-Fi network in Mountain View. The network went live Wednesday morning. Documents were uploaded via e-mail, video was successfully downloaded,...

Glitch stops Nikkei updating (Reuters)

" By Risa Maeda and Fumiya Mizuno 2 hours, 40 minutes ago TOKYO (Reuters) - A computer glitch halted calculations of Japan's Nikkei share average for the first time ever on Monday, the latest technical problem to snarl Tokyo stock market trade. Publisher Nihon Keizai Shimbun,...

Sweltering July was 2nd hottest on record (AP)

" WASHINGTON - Folks who sweated through last month's blistering heat wave may be surprised to know it was only the second hottest July on record for the United States. More than 2,300 daily temperature records were broken from coast to coast, and the average temperature for...

U.S. says attacks in Iraq up 40 percent

"Iraq's top Shiite cleric urged his followers Thursday to refrain from reprisal violence against Sunnis, his strongest call yet for an end to increasing sectarian bloodshed. The statement by Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani came as U.S. military officials reported a 40 percent...

Scorching U.S.: First Half of 2006 Sets Heat Record (SPACE.com / LiveSci...

" Sara Goudarzi LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Fri Jul 14, 5:00 PM ET The average temperatures of the first half of 2006 were the highest ever recorded for the continental United States, scientists announced today. Temperatures for January through June were 3.4...

Gas prices up nearly 11 cents in 2 weeks (AP)

" CAMARILLO, Calif. - U.S. gas prices jumped nearly 11 cents per gallon in the past two weeks with the national average for self-serve regular just shy of $3 a gallon, according to a survey released Sunday. The average price for the grade was $2.995 per gallon Friday, up...

Fifa World Cup Site Attracts More Than 5 Million Visitors Worldwide on Openin...

"RESTON, VA, June 14, 2006 – comScore Networks, the leader in digital media measurement, today released an analysis of visitation to the official World Cup site during the opening days of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. On Friday, June 9, the opening day of the...

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