This person has never seen this before...it is all over the Middle East Gulf region...but in the US?  At a restaurant in Queens today an Asian woman lugging a suitcase goes from table to table offering DVDs for $5. Movies that are currently in the theaters. I had never seen this before. I found it disheartening. Calling this piracy is totally fair, imho. [Scripting News]

 

11:58:13 AM    

 

Make Your Next Phone Call Online. Voice over IP is cheap, easy and available. Find out how it works and where to get connected. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

 

11:55:44 AM    

 

On Your Mark, Get Set, Unwire!. Matt Adams, founder of a company that creates mobile multiplayer games fusing wireless virtual space with real space, talks about his current and future projects. Xeni Jardin reports from Madrid, Spain. [Wired News]

 

11:55:00 AM    

 

Digging Down Deep for Graffiti. A new website, Graffiti Archaeology, aims to chronicle the ever-changing walls of San Francisco. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

 

11:54:19 AM    

 

SonyEricsson follows Palm in RIM deal. Clean sweep [The Register]

 

11:52:57 AM    

 

A deeper look at voicemail and the voice interface...Useit.Com: From January 27, 2003; Voice Interfaces: Assessing the Potential [Tomalak's Realm]

 

11:49:40 AM    

 

Voicemail not good enough?  Wired News: The New Voice of Tech Support. The high cost of live support and a desire to provide better after-hours support led TiVo to sign a contract with TuVox in January 2003. Though the company already had hired an outside company to build a user-friendly, Web-based self-help service, Mortenson realized that wasn't enough. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

11:47:28 AM    

 

A DVD Face-Off Between the Official and the Homemade. Fans are creating their own DVD's about their favorite TV shows with commentary, episode summaries and visual mini-essays. By Emily Nussbaum. [New York Times: Technology]

 

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