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Facebook.com has resumed serious acquisition talks with Yahoo! to sell itself for a price tag that may approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday...
...presumed to be scanned?VoIP has also proven a relatively secure means of political networking. There, activists use VoIP to contact each other, take part in conference calls and live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. "Skype is like a miracle," says Tran Khue, a 70-year-old Vietnamese dissident in Ho Chi Minh City. Khue, who recently got out of jail after serving 19 months for "abusing democratic rights," says he regularly conducts VoIP democracy forums and uses Skype to call sympathizers...
...important, the Pearl is a model of consumer-friendly design. RIM says it's one of the smallest smart phones, and it's thinner than most dumb phones too. Our tests revealed surprisingly long battery life and surprisingly easy e-mail setup as well. We installed AIM, Gmail and Yahoo! and could view all incoming mail simultaneously or by account...
...corporate BlackBerrys, e-mails appear on the device as soon as they are received. Our only problem was that Microsoft's Hotmail was not compatible, although its MSN Messenger, like AIM and Yahoo!, could be accessed through the Pearl's instant-messaging program. The keyboard, which overlays QWERTY onto a standard-looking number pad, was remarkably good at anticipating what word or phrase we meant to type before we were done. With Bluetooth wireless connectivity, voice dialing and a new application that lets you zoom and swoop all over a U.S. road map, the complete package is so seductive...
...precedent, and, recognizing that the issue of child porn is a sensitive one, is anxious to play down the controversy. However, experts praise the company for taking a more principled stance than some of its rivals have. According to a Human Rights Watch report issued last month, Yahoo voluntarily handed over incriminating info that led to the arrest of four Chinese dissidents; Microsoft censored searches and deleted blogs in China; and Skype configured its Chinese software to censor certain words in its chat function...