What's to love about LinkedIn?

I prefer face to face meetings, rather than internet meeting. But then that's me. What about you?" What's to love about LinkedIn? Melanie Lindner, Forbes Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 In the Internet age,...

Tsvangirai rejects 'sham' ballot

Morgan Tsvangirai has described Zimbabwe's election run-off as "an excercise in mass intimidation". "Mr Tsvangirai, who boycotted the poll because of violence, said people across Zimbabwe had been forced to take...

Facebook Asks Users to Specify Gender

Facebook will soon ask its users to specify their gender as either male or female, so that the social networking site can more accurately reflect its members' status and profile updates to be grammatically...

Bell Cries Wolf on File Sharing and Congestion Numbers

Bell might just have gotten called out on crying wolf regarding P2P and file-sharing congestion rates. On June 24, they were forced by the CRTC to release their data proving their claim that high-usage customers...

RI warned of toxic waste from Japan

Way the go. Finally, the govt realized how danger toxic waste for environment. Save our nation" Environmental groups have warned that Japan could "dispose waste" in Indonesia under an Economic Partnership...

Bell defends throttling practices

Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada's defence of its throttling policies.  Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high.  "The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...

27 arrests in Quebec child porn ring bust

"MONTREAL -- 27 arrests in Quebec child porn ring bust Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 An extensive child pornography ring has been cracked with the arrest of 27 people, Quebec provincial...

Free Mobile Service in Germany, Spain and Belgium

Nononowait, this isn't spam. A company called Blyk finances its network through targeted ads. Basically, subscribers get a handful of free minutes and a bunch of free texts if they agree to receive targeted ads....

Alhurra, Federal Funded Arabic Channel, Paid Former Government Aides, Jour...

"Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic news channel, paid former Bush and Clinton administration officials, lobbyists and high-profile Washington journalists tens of thousands of dollars in U.S. taxpayer...

Laura Ingraham Locked out of Talk Radio for 3 Weeks

Laura Ingraham Locked out of Talk Radio for 3 Weeks and The Fairness Doctrine tries to rise from the Dead.By Albert N. Milliron, OP-EDLast week, Politisite wrote a story to NowPublic about the most popular woman...

Bell Ordered By CRTC to Publicly Prove Internet Congestion

Bell Canada has been left scrambling after a CRTC ruling ordered them to make public documents 'proving' Bell's claims that net congestion was forcing them to throttle users. Bell gave the CRTC a confidential...

Australia ire over chef's f-words

"Australia ire over chef's f-words Ramsay is notorious for his expletive-filled tirades The oaths and expletives for which colourful British TV...

MySpace Gets a Makeover, Do We Care?

In Canada, at least, despite rampant pokes and zombie attacks, Facebook has become the de facto must-join social network. But for much of the (western) world, MySpace still retains a stranglehold on the tween to...

Drilon on ordeal: A ‘sobering experience’

" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...

EU cell phone consumers to pay for calls - incoming and outgoing

" The European Union will not oppose plans by telecommunications companies to have mobile phone users begin paying for calls they receive. But politicians warned that consumers could oppose the move. Some European telecommunications companies would like to begin charging...

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