...federal do-not-call went into operation this week..."Most telemarketers cannot call your telephone number if it is in the National Do Not Call Registry. You can register your home and mobile phone numbers for free. Your registration will be effective for five years."
Telemarketing opt-out site swamped
A crush of consumers rushes a federal Web site launched Friday to let people
opt out of telemarketing calls, crippling the site's servers and slowing access
to a crawl. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/932304.asp
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School launches herculean hot spot By Rupert Goodwins Special to CNET News.com June 17, 2003, 5:38 AM PT The University of Twente in the Netherlands has launched a unique, campuswide wireless hot spot, claimed to be the biggest in Europe.
The Next Killer Ap in Education -- RSS Feeds - by Mary Harrsch "Like many technology specialists, I have been looking for the next "killer app" for quite some time. I define a killer application as a program that gives average people the capability to use technology to solve everyday problems and enrich their lives. E-mail was the first killer app. Its usefulness has been demonstrated clearly by its being embraced across the entire spectrum of computer users."
Way cool! Thanks to Dave Winer of Scripting News and Wytheville Community College News Center
Combine this...with this (explained here)
and get this...which is explained here.
LiveWeb - insert and update web pages real-time in PowerPoint Use LiveWeb to insert web pages into a PowerPoint slide and refresh the pages real-time. No coding required. LiveWeb encapsulates the need to insert a web browser control manually and write code to update the web pages within the control during the slide show. It consists of two components.
1. Wizard component - Create a list of web sites which you wish to add to the slides.
2. Real-time update component - Automatically refreshes the page every time you visit the slide which contains the web browser control.
With LiveWeb you can display Java applets, VRML etc within the slide show real-time.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against Verizon Wireless and a cell phone trade group, upholding a rule passed by the Federal Communications Commission that allows cell phone consumers to change carriers but keep their phone numbers. Reuters, 6 June 2003
CALTECH Researchers Speed Up Download.. Fast TCP researchers have achieved speeds of more than 8.6 gigabits per second, or 6000 times the capacity of ordinary broadband. ZDNet, 6 June 2003