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...sites were connected through their shared username on Afraid.org. Both used the site as a free name server. A name server works like a phone book to look up an IP address for a domain name, for example, 74.125.19.99 for Google.com...
...company has banned night travel and given mandatory self-defense training to all researchers before they go out on the road. The company also maintains a strict “all hours” contact policy, under which a designated member of staff at headquarters mans an emergency cell phone 24/7. As an added measure, the staffer is barred from drinking alcohol and riding the T during their shift. Let’s Go has also had issues with publishing firms. After St. Martin’s Press terminated their 25-year relationship when internally commissioned focus groups evaluated...
...consumerism forever changed? First, I think there is a certain access to consumer information. Particularly as I shop durable goods, I can go down the aisle of a consumer electronics store and check the prices on my web enabled phone. So the whole pricing issue here is going to have to get much more transparent because consumers have much more access to information than they ever used to have. And that information isn't something that they need to get at home. They can get it on the fly. This is both exciting and frightening for the merchant...
...most curious and revealing part of the whole mess, however, was the media response to it: As the Chinese government struggled to suppress all footage of the incident (caused by their own TV personnel), blogs and tweets carried cell-phone photos and videos around the world. Ultimately, the government’s inability to stifle the flow of information encapsulates the internal inconsistencies and long-term inviability of the Chinese political system...
...officer, and the director of sales. As the staff geared up for a busy first night, guests were already having drinks at the attached restaurant’s bar. “It’s down to the last minute,” said Turkenkopf, who received three phone calls over the course of the interview. —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...