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Cellular Video Calls: reality that never happened? 2008-04-27 10:06:00 Hi allI recently started working for Comverse - the company supplies solutions for telephony providers, mainly cellular ones. Our product lies in the core of the operator's network and manages all or some of the services provided by the operator, such as Voice Mail, SMS, MMS, Video Calls, etc. Our system can provide a complete solution or integrate its parts with other available solutions in the market.As I'm having an educational process now, I got an interesting thought during the studies. I got an insinuation from some of the cellular operators in last years, that video calls ability was the major drive behind the transition to fast networks, such as 3G, 3.5G and next generations. While it is true for some cases, I am not that sure that it is completely valuable.Just think about it: wou Read more:reality
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Hackers Now Target Firefox and Safari
Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel more secure, the shift has also opened new doors for bad guys.Case in point: We have no IE bugs to report this month, but both Firefox and Safari have been hit hard.
Sex Chat Gone Wrong
You get what you pay for...LOL!
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Cellular Video Calls: reality that never happened?
Why does no one make video calls on cellular phones?
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Running tests on Windows. 2008-05-04 08:47:00 Hi allI need a free tool for testing a GUI application. Something in lines with Mercury's WinRunner.Does anyone knows something like that?Thanks
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Firefox3 RC1 2008-05-20 12:52:00 I cannot believe its happening to me.I've updated to RC1 as expected by suggested update. Now the thing crashes on me almost constantly!!! Even in Gmail!Anyone knows whats going on?Beta 5 was so solid compared to RC....
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Universal Tracker 2008-06-02 03:08:00 Hi AllMy friend started a new project for the Android platform: the universal tracker called "Unit".Cited his definition:Unit is a mobile application for tracking lists of owned, loaned and borrowed assets (such as books, CDs, DVDs or board games) using Android mobile platform.Here's a demo screenshot:He's currently looking for help developing the application, so if you like this, join him!!Thanks Read more:Universal
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Why you want a Linux Live CD
For the most part, on this blog, I try to convince readers to do something defensive on their computers - like a parent nagging a child to eat their vegetables. Only once have I put my foot down, so to speak, saying unequivocally last year that all Windows XP users
FireFox 3 Now Sells Home Business Secrets
As many of you know FireFox 3 is a smash hit. The team at Moz Read more:Digg
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the most cutest animal...
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is planning to punish Comcast for blocking Internet content . If Martin fines Comcast, it will be the first time the agency is punishing an Internet provider for violating F.C.C. open-access – or Net Neutrality – rules.
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Apple's App Store launches with more than 500 apps
More than 500 native applications are now available on the iPhone's App Store for use with the new iPhone 3G that goes on sale tomorrow. A good number of the 500 applications are free downloads.
iPhone App Impressions Liveblog
There are a total of 552 different apps in the iPhone App Store right now. We're going to do live impressions of the bes Read more:Digg
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Theory: Why EMC Gave VMWare to Microsoft (Employee)
Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year
Red Hat Replaces RHGB With Plymouth
Providing a graphical boot process going back to the old Red Hat Linux days has been rhgb, or Red Hat Graphical Boot. The Red Hat Graphical Boot process uses an X server to display information about services starting, et Read more:Digg
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What Do 12 Terabytes-Worth of Data Look Like?
In the ongoing $1 billion legal lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom, a federal judge has recently ordered the Google to turn over records of all users and videos ever viewed on YouTube. Privacy concern aside, that’s 12 terabytes of information.Well, it sounds enormous … but what exactly do 12 terabytes-worth of information look like?
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Bell's internet throttling illegal, Google says
Google Inc. says Bell Canada Inc. is breaking Canadian telecommunications law by slowing certain internet traffic, and is urging the CRTC to take action against the company.
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KDE4 fork mumbo-jumbo 2008-07-07 09:34:00 I just keep stumbling into this online. Why is it so maddening people?
If you don't like KDE4 (in any of its iterations), don't use it. KDE3 is still around.
What's all the fuss??
4th of July 2008-07-04 09:19:00 To all Americans among you:
Happy 4th of July!!!
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Opera is 66% faster than IE7 and I have numbers to prove it!
As it is clear from the results, Opera 9.5 caches web content most effectively, performing 3-times less disk operations that Internet Explorer 7. FireFox 3 coming on the second place with a minor -12.87% disadvantage. Safari 3.1.2 is on the third place with 6,991 accumulated disk operations.
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Opera 9.5 is 66% faster than IE7 - and I have numbers to prove it! 2008-07-03 08:05:00 Hi All
I just found an interesting study, that compares cache efficiency of Opera, IE7, FF3 and Safari (on Windows) and finds, that Opera is the best one, leading 66% over IE7. From the site:
As it is clear from the results, Opera 9.5 caches web content most effectively, performing 3-times less disk operations that Internet Explorer 7. FireFox 3 coming on the second place with a minor -12.87% dis
The new computer 2008-07-01 08:39:00 Hi all
I've purchased a new computer couple of weeks ago. I made a research on my locale market, and found that I want the following configuration:
CPU: Intel Q9450
MB: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
Memory: Mushkin CL4 4Gb
HD: Western Digital WD5001ABYS
Case: Antec Sonata Plus 550
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT Silent 512Mb
All in all, it came in about $1630.
Currently, my main work requires
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