Tuesday, January 16, 2007

International telephone calls - Shadow Delegation Toils in Obscurity for D.C.'s Day in the Sun

Among the few perks of being the District's shadow senator is that occasionally someone calls you "senator." Symbolism counts for a lot, since you don't get to vote, you don't get paid and just about nobody has ever heard of you.
JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was set to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday after hearing insistent calls from Arab leaders for tangible progress in the Middle East peace process.
(RTTNews) - Monday, the head of the Asian Development Bank -ADB, Haruhiko Kuroda urged East Asian countries to form a regional free trade bloc and to increase financial cooperation.
SEOUL, South Korea A New Year's message from North Korea is calling for efforts to strengthen its defense capabilities. The annual message is a joint editorial by the country's three state-run newspapers.
By Jari Tanner Nokia Corp. is cooperating with a leading provider of Internet- based phone services to enable cell phone users to make wireless calls without using precious minutes.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

International telephone calls - Spain issued an international arrest warrant for three American soldiers accused of being responsible for the killing ...

Judge Santiago Pedraz of the Spanish National Court issued an international search-and-capture order for U.S. Sergeant Thomas Gibson, Captain Philip Wolford and Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) has reached agreements with five international NBA players to promote its international shipping capabilities in an advertising and marketing campaign titled Go Around the World with FedEx.
CPI International, Inc. , the parent company of Communications & Power Industries, Inc., a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications, expects to issue a press release regarding its financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended December 29, 2006, after the close of the Nasdaq ...
Gibraltar Consulting Group today announced the launch of the CIBC International Yield Deposit Note Series 3 and CIBC International Deposit Note Series 4 (Return on Capital).
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -Pete Sampras was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Wednesday.
Mobile operator 3 has announced that it is dropping most international roaming charges, and has challenged the rest of the industry to end what it calls the "international roaming rip-off".
CORNISH fishermen have been promoting their native Fal Oysters on an international stage thanks to help from the South West Rural Enterprise Gateway (SWREG) and Cornwall County Council.
Historic Bok Sanctuary in Lake Wales will present the 20th International Carillon Festival from Feb. 24 to March 4. Featured carillonneurs include Karel Keldermans of Springfield, Ill., Justin Ryan of Denver, Gordon Slater of Ottawa, Boudewijn Zwart of the Netherlands, William De Turk, sanctuary carillonneur, and Lee Cobb, sanctuary assistant carillonneur. Concerts will be at 1 and 3 p.m. daily.
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Pete Sampras, who won a men's record 14 Grand Slam singles titles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, a four-time major tournament champion, were voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Pete Sampras was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Wednesday. The owner of a record 14 men's singles Grand Slam championships is joined in the 2007 class by Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Sven Davidson and Russ Adams. They'll be inducted July 14, and Sampras will participate in an exhibition the next day.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Not So Secret (International telephone calls)

Slate - Angeles Times , and USA Today lead, and the Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox, with news the Bush administration will give a secret court jurisdiction over a National Security Agency program that eavesdrops on international telephone calls
Open Democracy - Other suggestions include taxing international telephone calls or commercial use of the radio frequency spectrum . The United States, European Union, Canada and Japan have all declared themselves against the idea, and suggest Africa would be better
PRWeb - Local Telephone Company Offers Free International Telephone Calls for Military Families GlobalEyes Telecommunications, a local telephone company located in Murphysboro, IL, is offering families of military personnel free telephone calls to their
Knoxville News Sentinel - The announcement ends several years in which the National Security Agency declined to get federal warrants when monitoring Americans making international telephone calls. "Any electronic surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist
New Zimbabwe.com - Econet receives an average 1,5-million minutes of international telephone calls a month, said Douglas Mboweni, chief executive officer of Econet (Zimbabwe), 70% of them from South Africa. Its current licence runs
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Bush had launched the controversial surveillance program in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks by ordering the National Security Agency to surreptitiously monitor international telephone calls and e-mail traffic without approval from the secret court

Sunday, January 21, 2007

911 service finally coming to Meigs County (International telephone calls)

For decades, the phone book faithfully has rested next to the telephone at the home of Edgar and Vica Jane Abbott in Meigs County. Its not that the retired couple has a great and regular need to look up numbers. The phone book is for emergencies.