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...users will be given local mobile numbers for each person they want to call abroad. Once connected, the recipient hangs up, redials a local number sent to his or her phone by text message, and is immediately reconnected via a broadband line. "This has definitely got the potential to upset the international-calling model," says Matt Hatton, a London-based analyst with consultants Yankee Group, who thinks the biggest loser could be international calls from fixed-line phones. VoIP is already making big inroads in the world of fixed lines. A report last week by JupiterResearch analyst Ian Fogg even...
Delighted to see that his son loved nature, Thee took him camping and encouraged his interest in biology and dissection. Mittie was not so enthusiastic. Dead-animal stink and the reeking chemicals used to preserve hides upset the decorum of her parlor. But nature and the science of nature were the solace of Roosevelt's invalid childhood, a refuge where he could achieve intellectual mastery at a young age. Under his father's loving tutelage, T.R. fashioned himself into a naturalist whose specimens can be viewed in museums today; scientists later welcomed him as an equal into their debates about...
...Another Surly Slugger Were you upset when Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run and passed Babe Ruth's career home-run total? Our Sept. 29, 1961, story on the New York Yankees' Roger Maris showed that even players who aren't accused of using steroids can rile the fans when Ruth's numbers are threatened...
...wanted to see Larry Summers and Mayor Menino," Dergacheva said. "I think that [Summers] is a great man and we are upset that he is gone...
...Hahahahahaha - think nothing of it. Wouldn't want to upset your charming beau...