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- Serving around 12 million subscribers, J-Phone is a major telecoms player in Japan and a serious rival to the countrys other operators DoCoMo, KDDI, and TU-KA. With such a high reputation, J-Phones decision to expand its network into 3G services meant there was much at stake. To add to the pressure, the time schedule for integration was extremely tight. In addition all eyes in the telecoms world were watching - Japan is a major market for 3G - and 3G is also Erikssons key to the future. |
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- In 2001, in a New Year's speech to the nation, Danish Prime Minister Poul Rasmussen presented his vision of Denmark as a world leader in IT. Within a year, the Danish Parliament put these words into practice by implementing a unique mobile communications solution for their 179 Members. Today, Denmark's politicians have full access to email, schedules, Intranet updates, documents, and colleagues - whether they are at their desks, on the road, or working from home. |
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- "The Pentagon said yesterday that it will end an arrangement with Halliburton Corp. to import fuel to Iraq, a contract that had been criticized by government auditors and Democratic members of Congress. A military unit that already supplies fuel to the armed forces in Iraq will assume control of the import and distribution of gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas into the country and will find new private contractors through competitive bidding, the Defense Energy Support Center announced." (12/31/ |
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- "An uninitiated observer could be forgiven for thinking a full-blown marijuana movement had sprung up in famously conservative New Hampshire. And that, said activist Aaron Houston of the Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project, was the point. 'Everyone is paying attention now, and it gives us the opportunity to get our message out,' he said. As the Jan. 27 presidential primary here nears, Houston's crew has plenty of company along New Hampshire's other campaign trail. |
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- "States leading the drive for legal purchases of lower-cost medicines from Canada are not backing down despite threats by federal regulators. One state health official accuses the Bush administration of raising 'bogus' safety concerns to protect drugmakers' profits." (12/30/03) |
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- "The government on Tuesday announced the strongest measures yet to safeguard the USA's beef supply, including an immediate ban on using sick or lame cattle like one discovered last week in Washington state with mad cow disease. Seeking to boost consumer confidence, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said the ban will cover about 130,000 sick or 'downer' cattle each year ..." (12/30/03) |
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- "Iraqi doctors took good care of captured Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch and labored hard but unsuccessfully to save her best friend, according to Iraqi television videotape shot during the soldiers’ captivity in Iraq last spring. The tape, which was never aired in Iraq but has been obtained by NBC News, provides a new look at the treatment the Iraqis gave Lynch and other members of the Army's 507th Maintenance Co. after they were ambushed March 23." (12/30/03) |
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- Jewelry in the news: Jewelry-store heist suspect arrested.... |
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- Via D. Keith Robinson, LinkedIn is a social software system that works kind of like Friendster but is targetted at professionals. You sign up, create a profile that includes your industry and geographical area and it provides you with a number of tools to find other people with similar interests. More importantly, it lets you build up a network of contacts through which you can access other people. If nothing else, it's a great way of maintaining your CV. |
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- Adrian Holovaty and I spent some time today figuring out how to get the psycopg Postgres module to install on Red Hat 9. It took a while, but eventually we tweaked the spec file and used it to compile our own RPM. I've posted our modified spec file to the psycopg mailing list. More for my own record than anything else, the arcane incantations needed to create the RPM went roughly as follows: Copy the modified psycopg. |
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- Official Busking "trial" will carry onDelighted to hear that the busking santa 1 and 2, top busking chick, Dimitri, the Pop Idol buskers and various other official buskers will be continuing into 2004. Sadly this won't make a jot of difference to unofficial buskers like the Losing My Religion busker who will carry on playing in their "merry" way.A spokesman for Carling, the drinks company behind making London Underground buskers official in May, said:"At least one person is in what look to be the final stages of negotiations with a major record label after she was spotted on the Tube, and we're expecting other people to be successful too. " I wonder if it was top busking chick? |
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- "Families stuffing hundreds of dollars into jars or under a mattress sounds like a scene from a black and... |
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- Silk 2.0.5 is out. Last day of year, new-ish release. Fixes a permissions problem that would cause Silk not to load under some users accounts. |
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Silk 2.0.5 (Dec 31 2003 05:00 GMT) - Silk 2.0.5 is out. Last day of year, new-ish release. Fixes a permissions problem that would cause Silk not to load under some users accounts. |
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