Thursday, November 16, 2006

Skype Unleashed on to Cell Phones. An anonymous reader writes "Today Hutchinson announced that it would provide unlimited cell phone to cell phone Skype calls via a 3G connection. This new service, called X-series, is part of a new alliance made up of Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson. According to the article, users will also be able to 'search Google and Yahoo, send MSN instant messages to their friends, watch their TVs from a Slingbox, access their computer at home with Orb and buy or sell stuff on eBay.' Users will only get charged a monthly fee for access, in a similar way to broadband charges."[Slashdot] 6:49:53 PM      Google It!.

New Phone Uses GPS to Locate Your Contacts. Salvance writes "Palo Alto-based Loopt Inc. has announced an agreement with Sprint Nextel to immediately begin offering their cell phone mapping service to all 3.8 Million Sprint Boost subscribers (Sprint Boost is a service specifically targeting the under 25 market). This service will notify users when another subscriber in their contact list is within 25 miles, providing a real time map displaying their contacts' locations. According to the article, the only apparent privacy safeguard is to provide users the option to 'temporarily cut out from being spotted by their friends'. Given a retailer's propensity to package together extra services, and the average user's lack of knowledge regarding their phone's capabilities, this new service seems ripe for abuse."[Slashdot] 1:37:32 PM      Google It!.

Google and Yahoo! Working Together on Better Web Indexing. Karzz1 writes "In an exclusive video interview with WebProNews, Yahoo and Google announced a collaborative site called sitemaps.org. Yahoo!'s Tim Mayer states in the video, "This is something we are announcing tonight at around 9 PM tonight (Las Vegas) Google and Yahoo have gotten together to provide webmasters and publishers a unified way to send their content ... let our search engines know about new and existing content.""[Slashdot] 10:35:55 AM      Google It!.

THE DENIAL MACHINE Wednesday November 15  at 9pm and midnight on CBC-TV, THE DENIAL MACHINE In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This crucial scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. Bob McKeown investigates why a debate that some say could determine the very future of our planet has become a partisan battleground. The Denial Machine follows a small but powerful group of scientists who argue, among other claims, that global warming may be a good thing and it investigates their links to the oil and coal industries. READ MORE ABOUT THIS STORY AND WATCH IT ONLINE Watch a promo. Runs 0:45 Friday November 17 at 10pm ET Saturday November 18 at 1 am, 4am & 9am ET Sunday November 19 at6 am & 7pm ET Tuesday November 21 at 4am ET 10:27:40 AM      Google It!.