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Depending on your long-distance provider, that stranger with the thick accent may not be a telemarketer or a prank caller. Skype, whose software lets users make free phone calls over the Internet, has become the hot download among young Asians--with 45,000 new Chinese users signing on each day. And many of them are practicing their English by making random calls to fellow Skype users in the U.S. The company, which has 66 million registered subscribers in more than 200 countries, includes language preferences in every user's profile, and last year started offering a "Skype Me" mode...
...everything from her penchant for orgies and Internet dating to her skepticism toward marriage when it means staying faithful to one man. This fall the Beijing resident posted a recording of her own lovemaking sounds that would make Paris Hilton blush. More than 50,000 people simultaneously tried to download the 25-minute podcast, crashing the host server. Despite government attempts to censor it, the sex diary is so popular that Li's pen name is intermittently the most searched keyword on China's top search engine. "I express my freedom through sex," says Li, unapologetically. "It's my life...
...that coursepacks are too expensive and actually suggests a solution. It’s not unusual for coursepacks to cost over $100 largely because the Coop, Gnomon Copy, and XanEdu have a monopoly on the printing and distribution of coursepacks. Magnus and Tom pledge to make coursepacks available for download as PDF files so that students can print relevant articles on their own printers...
...Student interest is so low that there were not even enough candidates immediately on the ballot in many houses for September’s UC elections. Magnus and Tom will recruit students with web experience to redesign and maintain the UC website, make videos of UC meetings available for download on the web, and encourage more candidates to get on the ballot for UC elections. They will also institute a semiannual survey of all undergraduates to find out what students really want and publish a monthly UC newsletter to improve communication with the student body...
Instead, the lack of reliable file-sharing programs for the Macintosh platform and the terrible lethargy of contemporary dial-up download times were enough to convince me to abstain from music sharing altogether. I borrowed compact discs from friends and listened to them the not-so-old-fashioned...