| Jangl Selects Level 3 to Support Voice Platform
BOSTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that Jangl is leveraging Level 3's wholesale voice and data services to provide converged communications to its customers by offering integrated wireline/wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Distributed directly to consumers at Jangl.com and through partnerships with leaders in social networking, social media and online personals communities, Jangl's service is a simple and easy-to-use way to let people initiate phone connections without sharing their personal information. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3(R) is providing Local Inbound, Voice Termination, International Voice Termination, Toll Free, and High Speed IP (HSIP) services to Jangl. Level 3 hands off the call to Jangl's platform, enabling Jangl to assign a new number that provides a way for consumers to interact with one another without divulging personal information like private phone numbers.
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta
Yahoo Messenger allows you to see when friends are online and you can send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have an upcoming meeting recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support; a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made; the ability to save and print your conversations; and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores. Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends even if they're not online when you are, a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and the Online Presence, a small HTML button you can put on your Web site to allow your Yahoo buddies to instantly see if you are currently online, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
Dating expert Wygant dishes on dating, food
Does your dating life need a makeover? David Wygant is a sought-after media personality, and has been featured as a dating expert on more than 2,000 radio shows. He's appeared on "E!," "Dateline," "CBS Good Morning," "Inside Edition," "Blind Date" and many other shows. His contemporary dating and relationship advice can also be found in publications such as Maxim, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. Online, he's worked with Match.com, Yahoo! Personals and Lavalife. Wygant is single for now, and currently works out of offices in Los Angeles and New York. To read his interactive daily blog go to: www.davidwygant.com. Q. You've met someone online. What next? .
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EUROPE NEWS AT 11530
Developing from 1400GMT news conference. By Jan Sliva. DENMARK-UNREST COPENHAGEN, Denmark _ Bands of youth set fire to cars and trash bins overnight in a fourth consecutive night of vandalism mostly in immigrant neighborhoods of the Danish capital. Moved. BUSINESS & FINANCE BRITAIN-BAE-SAUDI LONDON _ Britain's High Court begins a judicial review of the government's decision to stop an investigation into alleged corruption by BAE Systems PLC in an arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Developing. By Jane Wardell. FRANCE-RENAULT PARIS _ Renault SA says it beat its own profit margin target in 2007 _ a key goal of the French car maker's recovery plan _ even as it reports a drop in full-year net profit. Moved. By Emma Vandore. AP Photos. SWITZERLAND-ZURICH FINANCIAL ZURICH, Switzerland _ Zurich Financial Services AG says fourth-quarter net profit rose 13.5 percent to US$1.47 billion (1.01 billion) and that it is proposing a US$2 billion (1.4 billion) share buyback.
Federal case unveils inner workings of Azteca gang
For now, the arrests seem to have had a positive impact on El Paso street crime, police said. "It's been kind of quiet" since the indictments, said Sgt. Reginald Moton of the El Paso police Gang Unit. "They (Barrio Azteca members) controlled a lot of the drug activity. We had information they would charge other gangs quotas to .
Rolling with change: Pirelli CIO Dario Scagliotti
Dario Scagliotti believes that growth through mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and investment in new markets mean the business process and model must be 100 percent centralized and standardized. And Scagliotti, CIO of worldwide automotive manufacturer Pirelli, should know. Trucks, buses, sports cars, motorcycles and tractors from all the major automobile manufacturers use Pirelli tires, which are manufactured in 12 countries and sold in 120. Most of the tire division's €3 billion (2.17 billion) annual revenue comes from a worldwide network of 6,000 distributors and dealers. Pirelli has experienced phenomenal expansion and growth into new markets, some due to M&A. Keeping his tires on the ground, Scagliotti says: "At the end of the day, a tire is a tire.
CALDWELL'S WWE RAW REPORT 12/10: Ongoing virtual time coverage of 15 ...
Lawler asked. [Commercial Break] [Q5] Tomorrow night on ECW, Batista makes a guest appearance to face Elijah Burke again. Lilian Garcia then introduced the original four members of Evolution. Ric Flair's music hit first and Flair came out dressed to wrestle. Triple H's music hit and he came out second. Hunter and Flair hugged before Hunter did his water spitting from the apron. Batista came out next with the World Title belt around his waist. He quickly embraced Flair before hugging Hunter. Batista posed, then Randy Orton's music hit to a round of boos. Lawler asked if this is really going to happen. Orton stopped on the stage with a mic in hand and the WWE Title over his shoulder. Orton said he's not joining them. He said he is the WWE champion and he is a the pinnacle of his career. Orton said the only reason why they want him out there is to ride the coattails of his current success.
Speeding up love at first site
If a match is found, you get an e-mail with a very brief physical description of your date, and a suggested location chosen from a standing list of bars and coffee shops. Once you accept, there's no going back. I had never tried online dating, with the exception of a few quasi-dates way back in the age of Friendster. On the other hand, I have been on plenty of blind dates before. To ease the pressure, I follow this advice: Treat your date like an interview for a job you don't want. With that in mind I usually enjoy myself. .
State Confirms Beef Was Sent To Md. Schools
Schools across Maryland received beef from the company at the center of one of the largest recalls in U.S. history.Kathryn Brown reports Baltimore City and seven counties in Maryland received the recalled beef.Now parents are concerned over the safety of school lunches and lawmakers demand major changes.Schools across the country and many here in Maryland are scrambling to clear their shelves of thousands of pounds of potentially contaminated beef."I heard it was in the schools and that just made me not want to eat school lunch right now until they say something different," said high school senior Kennisha Connaway.More than 143 million pounds of beef dating back two years was recalled this week.Undercover Humane Society video features cows too weak or sick to move being shoved and prodded with forklifts at a Southern California slaughterhouse.The plant supplies meat to the federal school lunch program and here in Maryland, seven counties and Baltimore City confirm they receive the meat."We contacted schools immediately, as well as our distributor to place it on administrative hold," said Jodi Reese with Anne Arundel County Schools.Because so much of the meat ended up in Maryland schools, many parents are now asking questions about where the meat comes from before it ends up in cafeterias."You've got kids coming in here, and they're trusting that the food that's being brought into them is of good quality.
San Marcos girls buckle down to empowerment
"I Am ... Enough" seminar held to inform students of their right to make good choices When asked by keynote speaker Jennifer Seitel, many of the more than 200 teenage girls in attendance Saturday at the "I Am ... Enough" seminar at San Marcos High School raised a hand to acknowledge that they had not used a seat belt in the past month.The response didn't surprise Seitel, 30, who tours the country warning students of the tragic results of not buckling up. As a 16-year-old, Seitel was injured in an automobile crash that left her a paraplegic. Her appearance at the seminar and her no-holds-barred presentation illustrated ---- sometimes graphically ---- the consequences of unwise decisions made by too many young people. Lisa Stout, a counselor at the school and an event organizer, said the focus of "I Am ...
Suburbs to dominate the stage on 'Wheel of Fortune' in March
The local contestants were chosen from hundreds who auditioned for the show when the Wheelmobile rolled into Rosemont in October. To see who wins big money, you'll have to wait until April; tickets to sit in the live studio audience sold out weeks ago. -- Jamie Sotonoff .
Ice Follies 2008 Announced
Ice Hut #1 – Christine Charette is a “process-oriented" artist who manipulates pop cultural artefacts, i.e. found objects, drawings, low-tech printing materials, and fabrics to create myths and stories. Jeremy Bean is a builder and artist living in North Bay. He is also extremely influenced by architectural accident and makes holistic structures that reflect his awareness of global power systems. The Charette/Bean ice hut will consist of a wooden representation of a crystalline mound “a pod frozen in time", and a figure in silhouette. Inside the structure explorers will find mini-exhibits sealed in niches and crèches. Rewind in Fast Forward will explore themes of story, myth, historical artefacts and the wonder of discovery. The display cubes are “packed with relics from different eras, remarkable objects, without rhyme or reason, a sort of collection trying to make sense of earth's human and imagined past".Ice Hut #2 - Jeannie Thib – Model Landscape includes a model built inside an ice fishing hut.
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