Etisalat is set to offer latest in 3G services - UAE

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MCI mulls latest Qwest offer

MCI mulls latest Qwest offer 04/04/2005 08:22 AM
More sweeteners than Tate & Lyle

Workers reject latest Caterpillar offer

Workers reject latest Caterpillar offer 08/18/2004 12:53 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Aug 16, 06:42 am GMT

PeopleSoft rejects latest Oracle offer

PeopleSoft rejects latest Oracle offer 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
PeopleSoft's board said the latest offer from Oracle "is inadequate and does not reflect PeopleSoft's real value."

Sources: EU Nixes Latest Microsoft Offer

Sources: EU Nixes Latest Microsoft Offer 02/17/2004 01:10 PM
Yahoo! Feb 17 2004 5:21PM GMT

PeopleSoft board rejects Oracle's latest
offer

PeopleSoft board rejects Oracle's latest
offer 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 9 2004 2:43PM GMT

Sources: EU rejects latest Microsoft
offer to settle

Sources: EU rejects latest Microsoft
offer to settle 02/17/2004 09:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 17 2004 2:31PM GMT

EU Rejects Latest Microsoft Offer To
Settle Antitrust Claims

EU Rejects Latest Microsoft Offer To
Settle Antitrust Claims 02/17/2004 11:35 AM
European Union regulators have rejected as insufficient Microsoft's latest offer to settle long-running antitrust charges but are continuing talks, sources said Tuesday. With a verdict due this spring, the U.S. software giant has been scrambling to avert what could be a far-reaching order to change the way it packages its dominant Windows desktop operation system and reveal more of its underlying code to rival manufacturers.

Latest Version of Web Services
Specification Submitted to W3c

Latest Version of Web Services
Specification Submitted to W3c 08/11/2004 12:12 PM
CRM Assist Aug 11 2004 3:42PM GMT

What the download services offer

What the download services offer 06/16/2004 12:32 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Jun 15, 02:23 pm GMT

PeopleSoft Settles Class Action Suit;
Board Rejects Latest Oracle Tender Offer

PeopleSoft Settles Class Action Suit;
Board Rejects Latest Oracle Tender Offer 05/26/2004 11:56 AM
PeopleSoft settles the dispute with shareholders over its controversial Customer Assurance Program and announces its board is once again rejecting Oracle's latest tender offer.

ICANN's latest challenge tests new
Internet services

ICANN's latest challenge tests new
Internet services 05/13/2004 09:16 PM
San Francisco Chronicle May 14 2004 1:14AM GMT

Latest Web services spec tackles
application flaws

Latest Web services spec tackles
application flaws 06/24/2004 04:40 PM

HP, BT to offer integrated IT and
telecom services

HP, BT to offer integrated IT and
telecom services 05/04/2004 04:38 PM
The $1.5 billion outsourcing agreement announced today will allow the two companies to combine offerings and service-level agreements.

Motorola to Offer Services Via Pelephone

Motorola to Offer Services Via Pelephone 07/05/2004 03:52 PM
Forbes Jul 5 2004 7:38PM GMT

AOL to offer phone, Web conference
services

AOL to offer phone, Web conference
services 06/10/2004 04:43 AM
Boston Globe Jun 10 2004 9:10AM GMT

Mac-1 Internet to offer UK broadband
services

Mac-1 Internet to offer UK broadband
services 11/17/2003 05:32 PM
UK Mac users in areas that aren't served by broadband have been promised satellite broadband by Mac-1 Internet, according to Macwor ld UK. The company says it will launch its Mac-ready one-way satellite broadband system in the next few weeks.

MCI to Offer Managed Security Services

MCI to Offer Managed Security Services 04/27/2004 11:54 AM
MCI is expected to announce a new set of managed security services, including an intrusion prevention system.

New Website To Offer Expanded Web Design
Services

New Website To Offer Expanded Web Design
Services 06/02/2004 02:32 AM
Vermillien Multimedia announces the launch of their new website, http://www.vermillien-web-design.com. This new site will offer web design services and web site maintenance packages. The new web site includes a portfolio of their latest projects, developers forums, link exchange area and ability to submit articles and downloads for registered users. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

Web services software vendors offer SOA
package

Web services software vendors offer SOA
package 09/20/2004 12:34 PM
Web services software vendors AmberPoint and Systinet are now selling an integrated suite of software for service-oriented architectures, featuring products from both companies.

Software Services Firm Is Latest in
India to Plan Initial Offering

Software Services Firm Is Latest in
India to Plan Initial Offering 07/27/2004 06:13 PM
The initial public offering of India's premier software services firm, Tata Consultancy Services, is expected to be in great demand.

Sega To Offer Online Game Services In
China In '05

Sega To Offer Online Game Services In
China In '05 08/03/2004 11:16 PM
Nni.nikkei.co.jp - Tue Aug 3, 07:15 pm GMT

Kyivstar GSM to offer GPRS services
across Ukraine before fall

Kyivstar GSM to offer GPRS services
across Ukraine before fall 07/14/2004 09:53 AM
Interfax Information Agency Jul 14 2004 1:53PM GMT

BYU Students Offer Web Development
Services During Fall eBusiness
Competition

BYU Students Offer Web Development
Services During Fall eBusiness
Competition 09/20/2004 02:48 AM
Brigham Young University will again hold its eBusiness Competition, pairing students with sponsoring businesses in a competition to design the best Web site or e-business solution. The cost to companies sponsoring a project typically ranges from $3,000 to $5,000. All of the corporate sponsorship money is used for student prize money. Project proposals are being considered for the fall competition, which will begin Oct. 1. Companies interested in participating should call 801-422-2815 or send an e-mail to ebusiness@byu.edu. [PRWEB Sep 20, 2004]

Phone Companies Want to Offer New
Digital TV Services Via Microsoft
Products

Phone Companies Want to Offer New
Digital TV Services Via Microsoft
Products 04/07/2005 10:42 PM
Telephone companies are looking to use software and hardware from Microsoft Corp. to bring new digital television services to consumers. IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, "basically enables telephone companies now to deliver a digital TV entertainment experience," said Kevin Johnson, group vice president for worldwide sales, marketing and services for Microsoft. Johnson was in Denver on Tuesday, speaking to students at the University of Denver.

FedEx to use Kinko's stores to offer
e-services to enterprise customers

FedEx to use Kinko's stores to offer
e-services to enterprise customers 01/02/2004 06:18 PM
FedEx views its $2.4 billion acquisition of Kinko's as a way for it to provide Internet access, videoconferencing and document management services to enterprise customers.

Brulant, BlueBridge Partner to Offer
Broader Range of Services

Brulant, BlueBridge Partner to Offer
Broader Range of Services 03/30/2005 03:30 AM
Alliance delivers a comprehensive suite of IT Consulting and Business Continuity services to firms throughout the Midwest. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Intertain Media and Prepaid Internet to
offer music services in Europe

Intertain Media and Prepaid Internet to
offer music services in Europe 04/10/2004 08:54 AM
Canadian Press Apr 10 2004 1:21PM GMT

PRESS: SMARTS, Tele2 Russia start
company to offer 3G services

PRESS: SMARTS, Tele2 Russia start
company to offer 3G services 09/23/2004 07:01 AM
PRIME-TASS Sep 23 2004 11:21AM GMT

Airbus to offer in-flight mobile phone
and broadband internet services

Airbus to offer in-flight mobile phone
and broadband internet services 07/25/2004 05:33 PM
Utusan Online Jul 25 2004 8:42PM GMT

YA.COM Signs An Agreement With SES ASTRA
To Offer Satellite Broadband Internet
Services

YA.COM Signs An Agreement With SES ASTRA
To Offer Satellite Broadband Internet
Services 06/04/2004 10:15 PM
EMAILWIRE.com Jun 5 2004 2:10AM GMT

Gullickson Incorporated plans to offer
added services to domestic &
international companies.

Gullickson Incorporated plans to offer
added services to domestic &
international companies. 09/17/2004 02:34 AM
Among the Gullickson Incorporated’s mid and long term goals are plans to offer value added services to domestic & international companies expanding to different areas of the globe. Additionally, it plans to market products such as prepaid calling cards, wireless services, residential and commercial phone service, WI-FI services to the hospitality industry and bandwidth deployment throughout the world. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Airbus, SITA INC and Tenzing to Jointly
Offer In-flight Mobile Phone and
Broadband Internet Services

Airbus, SITA INC and Tenzing to Jointly
Offer In-flight Mobile Phone and
Broadband Internet Services 07/21/2004 11:11 AM
Belga Direct Press Releases Jul 21 2004 2:08PM GMT

Strategic Ranking, LLC Partners with
PRWeb and SEO-PR to Offer Press Release
Optimization and Online News
Distribution Services to Clients

Strategic Ranking, LLC Partners with
PRWeb and SEO-PR to Offer Press Release
Optimization and Online News
Distribution Services to Clients 03/30/2005 03:29 AM
Strategic Ranking, LLC partners with PRWeb and SEO-PR enabling the Richmond Virginia area-based national search engine marketing consulting company to provide premier cost-effective press release optimization and online news distribution services to clients. Introductory 10% discount offered to clients at http://www.strategic-ranking.com/pressreleaseoptimization.htm [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

SageLogic Software and Bill Correctors
Inc. have joined forces to offer clients
greater services, increases savings, and
value within the telecom cost management
arena.

SageLogic Software and Bill Correctors
Inc. have joined forces to offer clients
greater services, increases savings, and
value within the telecom cost management
arena. 08/15/2004 02:35 AM
SageLogic Software Inc. (SageLogic) The Telecom Cost Management (TCM) technology leader in providing a comprehensive enterprise telecom software management solutions, announced today that it has concluded an agreement with Bill Correctors Inc. (BCI), a leading telecommunications consulting firm. The two organizations joined forces in order to provide “Service Bureau” level audit, optimization, and telecom bill management services to enterprises of almost any size. [PRWEB Aug 15, 2004]

Etisalat Intros 3G

Etisalat Intros 3G 12/29/2003 02:58 PM
Unstrung.com Dec 29 2003 12:34PM ET

Etisalat 3G, only 5,000 sign-up

Etisalat 3G, only 5,000 sign-up 07/22/2004 01:09 AM
AME Info Jul 22 2004 4:37AM GMT

VCG Staffing Software to Offer Turn-key
Disaster-Recovery Services to Staffing
Clients.

VCG Staffing Software to Offer Turn-key
Disaster-Recovery Services to Staffing
Clients. 12/22/2004 01:58 AM
New disaster recovery services from VCG staffing software enables staffing firms to anticipate 'worst case' disasters and remain operational, reducing disruptions to business and loss of critical data. [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

Etisalat unveils 3G strategy

Etisalat unveils 3G strategy 01/25/2004 12:49 AM
AME Info Jan 25 2004 4:32AM GMT

Etisalat set to take 3G connection
indoors

Etisalat set to take 3G connection
indoors 05/31/2004 01:12 AM
Gulf News May 31 2004 4:57AM GMT
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Mobily to Launch 3G Service - KSA

Mobily to Launch 3G Service - KSA 03/27/2005 02:58 AM
MENAFN Mar 27 2005 5:13AM GMT

Mobily to Launch 3G Service

Mobily to Launch 3G Service 03/26/2005 09:31 PM
Arab News Mar 27 2005 1:07AM GMT

Mobily to begin 3G Service next month -
KSA

Mobily to begin 3G Service next month -
KSA 03/27/2005 06:04 AM
MENAFN Mar 27 2005 10:30AM GMT

Colour Schemes

Colour Schemes 05/14/2004 03:13 PM

A designer's 'style' is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results.

Technical

A 'technical' method of colour-selection involves choosing one or two dominant colours from the colour wheel, to be used with a small set of complementary colours. Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary and triadic colour schemes offer a wide range of variation, particularly when you start throwing in shades, tints, and saturation adjustments.

Pro: An easy way to start with good, workable colour. Con: being too technical can lead to dull and uninspired colour choice.

Matching

Matching involves starting with an image or an object (usually a photograph) and picking colours from within to generate a colour scheme. Boxes and Arrows ran a great article a while ago about selecting colours from nature.

Pro: Naturalistic, familiar-feeling colour schemes that appeal. Con: it's easy to select the wrong colours from a photo.

Intuition

Probably my most frequently-used method. I begin with a blank canvas and fill it with whatever colours seem appropriate. Naturally my mind computes the corresponding compliementary and similar colours on the fly, but now and then I'll ignore solid colour theory just to see where it gets me. Hence this site's colour scheme, among others.

Pro: Fresh and surprising colour schemes. Con: dangerous without a solid knowledge of colour theory. Dangerous even with.

These are a few of my own methods, and what influences my design sensibility. Others will differ, of course. Tell me about your own methods, comments are open.

Cybercrooks step up schemes

Cybercrooks step up schemes 09/08/2004 03:27 AM
USA Today Sep 8 2004 7:35AM GMT

A Different Take On PC Manus'
'Recycling' Schemes

A Different Take On PC Manus'
'Recycling' Schemes 05/22/2004 07:58 PM

Spam Pyramid Schemes

Spam Pyramid Schemes 04/12/2004 07:33 PM
It's a bit depressing to see the details of how a spamming operation works. This article describes a spamming pyramid scheme where people are recruited by spam to sign up to spam others to recruit them to spam, and so on. It's a typical pyramid scheme with a spam twist. What's actually happening is that they're signing up the same set of gullible folks over and over again, and everyone else getting spammed is collateral damage. The article finds a few people down the pyramid who complain about not getting a single response out of the millions of email they send out. What's scary about the article is that those who fall for it don't seem to question anything that they're told. They're told that the millions of email addresses they receive are "opt-in" so they assume it must be legal. They're given the chance (for an extra fee, of course) to send out spam messages via proxy, and never question why they might need to do that. There is one guy (who didn't receive any responses to his spam messages) who begins to realize that this is all a scam when it occurs to him that the folks running the top of the pyramid change the name of their company every month or so, and it dawns on him that people who opt-out of one company aren't considered opted-out of any other. The really scary quote, though, comes from one woman who didn't make any money on the last pyramid scheme, but is joining up with a new one: "I have tried multilevel marketing as far back as the 1970s, but I've never made any money on it," she said. "But if everybody did what they agreed to do, I would be very wealthy." That's right, blame those people you're bugging for not signing up.

Report: Jack Campbell Schemes

Report: Jack Campbell Schemes 03/30/2005 11:47 AM
SightFlex experience

Major boost to apprenticeship schemes
for the UK

Major boost to apprenticeship schemes
for the UK 05/11/2004 02:03 AM
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Linking Schemes for Achieving Google
Rankings

Linking Schemes for Achieving Google
Rankings 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 30 2004 10:19PM GMT

How beneficial are multi-factor
authentication schemes?

How beneficial are multi-factor
authentication schemes? 06/16/2004 03:56 AM
Are passwords passé? A couple of weeks ago, the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" ran an Associated Press story that described various multi-factor authentication schemes, such as password-plus-biometric and smartcard-plus-password.

Groups Work on Schemes to Stop
Hurricanes (AP)

Groups Work on Schemes to Stop
Hurricanes (AP) 09/12/2004 09:46 PM
AP - Amateur hurricane-busters have come up with any number of crackpot ideas to spare Florida from ferocious storms. Among them: blowing hurricanes away with giant fans or blowing them up with nuclear warheads.

UK's e-government schemes 'lack depth'

UK's e-government schemes 'lack depth' 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 7 2005 9:22AM GMT

Building our confidence in the security
of e-voting schemes

Building our confidence in the security
of e-voting schemes 12/31/2003 05:00 AM
Site of electronic voting firm hacked .. Assocated Press' article

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OpenNetwork Bridges Liberty, Passport
Identity Schemes

OpenNetwork Bridges Liberty, Passport
Identity Schemes 03/13/2003 10:24 AM

MT backup/restores and broken permalink
naming schemes

MT backup/restores and broken permalink
naming schemes 01/07/2004 05:24 PM

I've had to deal with weblog backups and restores, and I'll tell ya, it isn't pretty. It is a problem that can be prevented. I'll explain.

This weekend, I converted my blog from MT 2.21 to 2.65, and in the meantime, I moved over to a SQL backend for the blog. Basically, I'm using a more robust database to hold all of the information on the weblog. In order to do this, I had to do something that most hope they never have to do: A backup and restore. A backup to save my old data, and a restore to seed the new database.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the conversion of the blog to MT 2.65 and to the MySQL backend. I mean, it worked, first time around. No lost data. That isn't always the case with more general backup solutions, like Norton or Macafee. There were some problems, however. The most glaring is around permalinks. For some reason, the MT permalink scheme is the following:

http://BLOGURL/archives/ENTRY_ID.html

For example, the permalink for this post is http://www.sif ry.com/alerts/archives/000321.html, given that this is ENTRY_ID # 321. Everything is honky dory as long as I'm internally consistent. Therein lies the problem.

When I upgraded the weblog to use a new storage subsystem, I exported all of my entries to a big text file (as MT suggests), but the ENTRY_IDs are not exported. So, when I re-imported the entries into my new shiny blog implementation, all of the ENTRY_IDs were different.

This meant that all my permalinks were broken, and people pointing to the site were now pointing to broken or incorrect URLs. Grrr, that's bad design.

There are two ways to avoid this problem: The first is, to use a more natural permalink methodology, like date and time, for example. these are invarient no matter what kind of storage system I use. Gotta hand it to Dave Winer and the folks at Userland, that's how they handle permalinks by default, and it is a smart (and intuatively informative) permalink method. You can actually tell from the URL when something was posted.

The other way to do it is to actually store the ENTRY_ID inside the blog export, so that the correct ID can be added to the database during the import. This is probably the simplest to implement within the MT framework.

In the end, I did neither to fix the problem. Fortunately, I saved the archives from the old weblog, and wrote a script to go through the weblog posts one by one, find out the mapping between the old ENTRY_ID and the new one, and then automatically make the changes to the SQL database - remember, I told you there was a reason to use a more robust database, scriptability is one of those reasons. It is pretty raw, but if you have the same problem, you can reuse my script to convert your MT blog as well. Run it from within a directory containing all of your old archives in the following way:

$ for i in `ls -1r 0*.html`; do perl convertblog.pl $i; done

That should convert all but the most stubborn entries, which you can do by hand. Make sure to edit the script with your own information - it should be pretty self-documenting.

One thing that you may need to do beforehand: If there is overlap between your old blog ENTRY_IDs and new blog ENTRY_IDs, you should probably do a little trick on the database before you import your backup file. Do the following from mysql:

mysql> insert into mt_entry (entry_id) VALUES (30000);

That'll put all of your backup files into the database starting at ENTRY_ID 30000, which should be high enough to not conflict. When you're done, you shouldn't have any entries above 30000, if the conversion went successfully.

Good luck - and Ben, if you're reading this, prehaps adding ENTRY_ID to the export and import process would be useful - it would certainly prevent all of this hassle.

Barrcuda Networks Protects Against
Phishing Schemes with New Anti-Spoofing
Technique

Barrcuda Networks Protects Against
Phishing Schemes with New Anti-Spoofing
Technique 06/16/2004 02:09 AM
Barracuda Networks, announces plans to enhance the Barracuda Spam Firewall Family of solutions with new anti-spoofing techniques geared to increase protection against phishing schemes. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2004]

Internet Gift Economies: Voluntary
Payment Schemes as Tangible Reciprocity

Internet Gift Economies: Voluntary
Payment Schemes as Tangible Reciprocity 12/02/2003 11:05 AM
Internet Gift Economies: Voluntary Payment Schemes as Tangible Reciprocity by Kylie J. Veale
http://firstmond ay.org/issues/issue8_12/veale/

Abstract:

Internet Gift Economies: Voluntary Payment Schemes as Tangible Reciprocity by Kylie J. Veale

The Internet today is a mix of the ‘free and the fee’, though it still remains in part a gift economy. Personal and organisational sharing of free information, products and software continues to flourish as a circle of gifts for returned intangible reward. Though a perceived lack of these rewards, due in part to an inability to quantify them, has resulted in givers seeking more for their efforts. What are their revised motivations? What now are their rewards?

Confronted with this development, I suggest their rewards are voluntary payments as forms of tangible reciprocity. This paper therefore outlines the Internet as a gift economy. It suggests a conceptual path through gift economy principles to reveal voluntary payments as tangible reciprocity. It also documents an analysis of voluntary payment schemes as evidence of operationalising tangible reciprocity. I also introduce monetary, content and purpose gifting mechanisms as tangible reciprocity.

the President was forced to start
planning a war with Iraq and share his
plans with Saudi Arabia after 9/11
because when those Saudi hijackers took
Prince Bandar's money and killed 3,00o
americans with it, we realized that Iraq
was the greatest threat to

the President was forced to start
planning a war with Iraq and share his
plans with Saudi Arabia after 9/11
because when those Saudi hijackers took
Prince Bandar's money and killed 3,00o
americans with it, we realized that Iraq
was the greatest threat to 04/19/2004 09:43 AM

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mezzoblue  §  Colour
Schemes

mezzoblue  §  Colour
Schemes 05/17/2004 04:32 AM
mezzoblue: »Colour Schemes«

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Over and Out, by Cellphone

Over and Out, by Cellphone 12/31/2003 10:48 PM
New York Times Dec 31 2003 9:16PM ET

Rip Streaming Radio!

Rip Streaming Radio! 04/21/2004 06:19 PM
Techdirt has a great article about Stream Ripping with the RIAA playing hardball people are looking to get away from...

Streaming More Mainstream

Streaming More Mainstream 04/16/2004 09:08 PM
Internet.com Apr 17 2004 1:25AM GMT

this streaming site

this streaming site 07/16/2004 03:42 AM
speech

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Streaming on a Shoestring

Streaming on a Shoestring 02/16/2004 02:36 PM
theWHIR Feb 16 2004 6:11PM GMT

MP3 Streaming DownSampler for PHP 2.0

MP3 Streaming DownSampler for PHP 2.0 04/30/2004 05:51 PM
Stream downsampled versions of MP3 files dynamically from a Web server.

Streaming For Dollars

Streaming For Dollars 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Coke Via Cellphone

Coke Via Cellphone 08/19/2004 07:12 PM

So to encourage Japanese people to actually spend 120 yen (about $1.09) on a single can of soda, Coca-Cola today announced the "Cmode 2" vending machine, which allows customers with cellular phones to purchase drinks "cashlessly" one of three ways - two-dimensional barcodes, infrared, and the FeliCa contactless IC system. Though cashless "Cmode" vending machines have been in various places throughout Japan since April of 2002, these are the first vending machines to support contactless IC as a method of transfer.

With drink names like "Qoo," "SCORPION," and "Lovebody," who could resist?

Read - Press Release [Coca-ColaJP]

Use a cellphone, get suspended from the
NFL

Use a cellphone, get suspended from the
NFL 12/16/2003 01:38 PM
The NFL is thinking about fining or even suspending Joe Horn, that football player for the New Orleans Saints who in the middle of a...

Cellphone gun in action

Cellphone gun in action 01/27/2004 11:32 AM
Fascinating (and a somewhat unsettling, when you think about it) video clip of an actual cellphone gun in action. View [Thanks, Alex]...

Etisalat is set to offer latest in 3G services - UAE

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