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The National Do Not Call Registry is open for business
The Federal Government created the national registry to make it easier and more efficient for you to stop getting telemarketing sales calls you don’t want.
IPv6 will allow an expansion from the Internet’s current limitation of 4 billion addresses which is large enough to supply each person living today with more than 4 billion addresses each.
It also provide encryption for security and quality of service for multimedia
Tecore Wireless Systems (www.tecore.com), a private company in Columbia, Maryland, said it would lay the groundwork for phone companies to offer wireless in Iraq.
Tecore sells cellular infrastructure and software to carriers in Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates and other parts of the Middle East. It plans to begin building a distribution center in Iraq by the end of summer, the company said.
U.S. government awarded WorldCom a $45 million contract to build a cell network in Iraq
Pentagon also gave Motorola a $10 to $25 million contract — depending on options the company exercises — to install radio communications for security forces in Baghdad.
Iraq has never had a cell-phone system, but analysts say it would be easy and cheap to install.
Microsoft’s telephone support for the seven year-old system will end this month.
In addition, from July 1 onward there will be no new hotfixes for workstation versions of NT 4.
Remaining (die-hard) NT 4 users will have to make do with basic online self-help support until the official expiry date of the product on June 30 2004.
Most corporations have gone to Windows 2000 already and skipped XP.
Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Denny Strigl said Tuesday that unlike rivals, Verizon won’t collect monthly or one-time fees from subscribers who want to keep their original telephone number after switching carriers.
This is a real about face for Verizon after their stinger court defeat. Kudo to the leadership
Now the other telcos should follow suit and not charge
Representatives for AT&T Wireless, Nextel Communications and Sprint PCS said their companies have no plans to stop collecting LNP (Local Number Portability) fees.
AT&T is $1.75 per month
Nextel is $1.55 per month
Sprint will begin collecting an unspecified LNP fee in July
Verizon now believes the implementation costs work out to about 15 cents per customer per month, small enough for the carriers to try to absorb?especially if they have reciprocal agreements.
A Microsoft worker has been charged with stealing $17 million of software from Microsoft’s internal store in the second case of its type in recent months
Richard Gregg, 43, and a Windows program coordinator, has pleaded not guilty to 62 counts of mail and computer fraud, Gregg, who denies the charges, has been released on bail.
From January to October 2002, Gregg allegedly ordered 5,436 copies of software such as Windows XP, SQL Server, Exchange and Office with retail prices over $17 million which he subsequently resold.