Friday, April 05, 2002

To avoid unsolicited phone calls in Missouri sign up here. http://www.ago.state.mo.us/nocall/ 9:30:01 AM

Two New Web Privacy Tools Out. Coming on the heels of a slew of news regarding how e-businesses are changing users' privacy preferences, IBM and AT & T are releasing automated programs. [Wired News]   I downloaded both of these.  If I install them I will post and let you know what I find out.    9:19:48 AM

Norah Vincent: "Web logs are infuriating because they are thoughtful alternatives to the self-important New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and their toady satellites, much of whose reporting has become hardly less biased than the bloggers'. Bloggers at least have the honesty to admit their biases up front."  [Scripting News] I spent time at the St Louis Post-Dispatch subsidiary Pulitzer Technologies, Inc. developing the business and system that publishes the contents of the newspaper on the internet. I quickly came to realize that Newspapers don't really know how to embrace technology.  I think the days of newsprint are numbered and the glory days of internet syndicated columnists are around the corner.  GO Bloggers!   9:18:32 AM

Telephony in India: Satyam Infoway, one of India's largest Internet services firm, began its Internet-based telephone service on a limited basis on Tuesday, a company spokesman said. Satyam Infoway (SIFY) is charging users $0.16 per minute during peak time for a call over the Internet to the United States, a good 80 percent lower than the regular peak time phone tariff of $0.80 per minute, he said. India opened Internet telephony on April 1 to existing Internet service providers such as Satyam Infoway, which are now allowed to offer the drastically cheaper but lower quality telephony service without having to pay any entry fees. 8:34:46 AM