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Front Door | Telecommunications | Search | One Week View http://www.news.com Free ride over for VoIP?By Ben CharnyStaff Writer, CNET News.comAugust 25, 2003, 4:00 AM PThttp://news.com.com/2100-1037-5067465.html A cheap, Internet-based alternative to traditional telephone service is facing a sudden regulatory backlash that could slow adoption of the fast-growing technology, raise prices and put financially shaky start-ups out of business.Two weeks ago, Minnesota drew first blood. It ordered so-called VoIP (voice over IP) provider Vonage Holdings to file for a telephone operator's license. Many see the move, the first attempt by a state public utilities commission to regulate an Internet telephony provider, as the beginning of a...

How chat rooms were used in the Iraq war Run silent, run chat By Doug Mohney: Monday 28 July 2003, 06:56 DURING IRAQI Freedom, twelve U.S. submarines lurked beneath the seas within Tomahawk cruise missile range of the unfortunate misbegotten country. Over the course of active hostilities, the sub fleet (plus two Brit subs) fired almost a third of the estimated 800 missiles used during the campaign. More remarkably, the US boats communicated with each other and higher command in real-time via four different chat rooms on a 24 x 7 basis, according to Rear Adm. Paul F. Sullivan, director...

While watching the Yankees this weekend, I couldn't help but notice the AQUAFINA commercials. And who to my surprise should be doing the voice over but: Anyway, I figured if a Freep is good for MCI and their Castro-lover, why not PEPSI?

Discussing now. North Korea provides the material Libya the facilities. Iraq the scientists. All based on CIA intercept of of Libya. That's why US wanted UN to interview outside of Iraq.

March 10, 2003 - Columbia TriStar has announced a June 3rd release date for the three-disc "Deluxe Edition" of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. The set will include anamorphic widescreen video, and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Here's the full rundown on the contents of the three discs directly from the studio: Disc One: Widescreen Presentation Commentary: Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer) & Ridley Scott (Director) Commentary: Mark Bowden (Author) & Ken Nolan (Screenwriter) Commentary: U.S. Special Forces Veterans ('93) Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video Audio: English, French, & Spanish 5.1 (Dolby Digital) Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Thai Filmographies Animated Menus...

Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003The Passion of Mel Gibson His Jesus film is bloody, bold — and in Aramaic. Here's an exclusive look ByRICHARD CORLISS; JEFF ISRAELY You may expect a certain tense solemnity when an Academy Award — winning director is shooting a film on the life and death of Jesus Christ. On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary. She is to enter the abandoned temple where her son has just been removed in chains on his way to...

Book NewsClancy goes prequel route for latest RYAN book Shortcuts dramatic corner he painted Ryan into by making him president Dateline: Thursday, May 2, 2002 By: CHRISTOPHER ALLAN SMITH By: News Editor Source: Putnam Publishing The release date has been set for Tom Clancy’s latest in the JACK RYAN series. Having written himself into a bit of a dramatic corner by making his hero the President of the United States in the last two books, is going the prequel route with RED RABBIT. RABBIT tells the story of an attempt by Yuri Andropov’s attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul...

Fresh off the grill after tonight's announcement..... The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Full specs and box art for the most eagerly awaited DVD of the summer! March 26, 2002 - New Line Cinema just announced the full specs and release date for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on DVD. The Disc will street on August 6 for a MSRP of $29.99 and will hold the following features in a two-disc set: 3 in-depth programs that reveal the secrets behind the production of this epic adventure, including: -"Welcome to Middle-earth" in-store...

U.S. Missile Defense Test Succeeds After Two Delays WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States military on Monday successfully carried out a twice-delayed test shoot-down of a missile warhead over the Pacific Ocean, advancing missile defense plans opposed by Moscow and Beijing.``The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) announced today (Monday) that it has successfully completed a test involving a planned intercept of an intercontinental ballistic missile target,'' the Defense Department said in a statement.In the test, a ``kill vehicle'' projectile fired from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific intercepted and destroyed the dummy warhead launched on a Minuteman-2 from Vandenberg Air Force ...

U.S. Death Penalty Stops Spain Extraditing Suspects MADRID (Reuters) - Spain cannot extradite suspected Islamic extremists to the United States while the death penalty is in force there, judicial sources said on Thursday.Eight suspected members of a radical Spanish Islamic group were detained in Spain last week, accused of involvement in the September 11 hijacked aircraft attacks on the United States.High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon said in a committal order that the men, mostly Spanish citizens of Arab origin, had links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group.The United States accuses bin Laden of masterminding the attacks on New York ...

Emmys May Go on at Military Base 10/09/2001 11:38 PM EDT  Email this StoryBy LYNN ELBER The show may go on for the twice-postponed Emmy Awards, and a military base is among the new locations being proposed for the ceremony, award show sources said Tuesday.CBS and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are working on a plan for a ceremony to air before the end of the year, although details remain unsettled, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.A wide variety of plans are under consideration, including one that would turn the TV ceremony into entertainment for ...

Bin Laden tied to Mogadishu massacre Somalia trail may provide clues to leaks of top-secret U.S. codes Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com When U.S. and United Nations soldiers got bogged down in a guerrilla war in Somalia in 1993-94, it wasn't just the rebel leader Mohammed ...

Tuesday June 26 6:11 PM ET ABC to Edit 'Tampering With Nature' ABC to Edit 'Tampering With Nature' By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - ABC agreed Tuesday to edit a special on the environment to remove interviews with several California children after their parents complained about the line of questioning by correspondent John Stossel.The five-minute segment in Friday's special, ``Tampering with Nature,'' will be replaced by a discussion of the parents' complaints, ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.The parents, from the affluent Los Angeles section of Pacific Palisades, accused Stossel and his staff of misrepresenting the nature ...

Bum tweak kills Gameboy screens By Eurogamer.net Posted: 22/06/2001 at 10:01 GMT An unfortunate high profile news post on pocket.ign.com may have led to a number of Americans permanently damaging their GameBoy Advance consoles. Complaints arose recently that the display was a bit dark, and inquisitive fiddlers on the IGN message boards put their thinking hats on trying to work out how to overcome this. The discovery came a couple of days ago when one poster uncovered a little adjustment hole at the back of the console which, when tweaked, seemed to act as a contrast control. IGN then ...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least one mystery about "The X-Files" has been solved. The Fox television thriller will definitely be back next season, a network spokesman said on Wednesday. After a repeat of last year's down-to-the-wire negotiations with "X-Files" creator-producer Chris Carter about the show's future, Fox has locked in the series for a ninth season as part of the network's upcoming fall schedule. "The X-Files will be on the schedule that we're announcing (Thursday)" at the network's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York, the spokesman said. He added that "X-Files" star David Duchovny, ...

Why Iraq's buying up Sony PlayStation 2s Intelligence experts fear games bundled for military applications by Joseph Farah   Many American kids may be disappointed on Christmas morning because the Sony PlayStation 2 they wanted wound up in Iraq. Both the U.S. Customs Service and the FBI are investigating the apparent transfer of large numbers of Sony PlayStation 2s to Iraq, according to military intelligence sources. A secret Defense Intelligence Agency report states that as many as 4,000 of the popular video game units have been purchased in the United States and shipped to Iraq in the last two to ...

Is this a sign of the apocalypse? Robert Wexler, on O'Reilly, just issued those very words! It must really be over, or maybe I'm still dreaming. Waiting for the pinch.

I thought we could start a list of those Democrats we have deemed respectable throughout this never-ending election process. I know the list will definitely be short, but I'll start. Barry Richard Judge N. Sanders Sauls Judge Charles Burton Judge Terry Lewis (keeping my fingers crossed) Feel free to add no matter how difficult.

US to deploy 690,000 troops in any new Korean conflict: report US to deploy 690,000 troops in any new Korean conflict: report SEOUL, Dec 4 (AFP) - The United States would deploy up to 690,000 troops on the Korean peninsula if a new war breaks, according to a South Korean defense ministry white paper published Monday.The United States, which has 37,000 troops permanently in the South, remains concerned about North Korea's military strength despite the North-South reconciliation process launched this year.US defense chiefs have considerably increased the number of troops that would be deployed in any new Korean conflict. The ...