London's hotspots unfit for voice
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Two-thirds won't give you a decent line Most of London's wireless hotspots can't support more than one voice-over-IP call at a time, according to a survey by WLAN analysis specialist AirMagnet.â¦
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"It's a real shame that Brits are avoiding visiting certain countries around the world due to language barriers and are therefore missing out on experiencing diverse cultures"  Britons avoid going on holiday to places where they cannot speak the language, a study said Friday, reporting sometimes embarrassingly low linguistic skills. via Middle East Times
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The Agile Iconoclast goes solo Column  The streets of London are busy, especially at lunchtime. Strolling along dodging the slow-moving pedestrians occasionally makes me wonder: how do these people ever get anywhere? And how do they cope with the glacial slowness of taking all day just to reach the far street corner, without their heads exploding from the anticipation?â¦
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We all love Wi-Fi A survey of 253 Wi-Fi users by polling company YouGov has discovered that users would like more hotspots in more locations: half of them want Wi-Fi-equipped trains and a quarter want access on the tube, though with 86 per cent of them using laptops it's not clear how useful such connectivity would be during rush hour.â¦
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To the outside world, Londoners are cold, brusque and unimpressed at the prospect of millions of people turning up on their doorstep to watch the 2012 Olympics.
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Inform, educate and rip off The BBC has suspended all phone-in competitions across its television, radio, internet and interactive services following a damning internal inquiry into editorial failures.â¦
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Police cordoned off a London tourist hotspot Friday after making safe what they called a &quot;potentially viable explosive device&quot;.
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LONDON -- A teenager is forbidden to say &quot;grass.&quot; A great-grandfather is banned from being sarcastic. And two record companies are told not to put up advertising posters.
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Big city's WLAN okay. Little towns not so lucky
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Billboard) - It's perfectly legal, but it will still seem to some listeners like the sound of someone making off with England's crown jewels.
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London will be equipped with vending machines that sell individual songs.    Also: Adobe Reader 7.0 lets viewers edit text on Acrobat & hellip;.  Yahoo competes with rivals by expanding its free e-mail storage space  & hellip;. and more.
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Those wishing to be the first to worship at London&#39;s latest temple of technology will doubtless be huddled in sleeping bags tonight outside the Apple Store in Regent Street.
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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Britain's political establishment has never been short of political scandal. While the latest tale to grip London's political and media circles lacks the titillating, sometimes bizarre, features of other public ...
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UK regulator Ofcom decided to make geographic and non-geographic numbers available for VoIP (voice over IP) services. Non-geographic VoIP numbers will have a 056 prefix code, and will be available to all &quot;local
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KGAUTSWANE, South Africa  - Lucy Mhlapo had noticed people in the nearby town chattering into tiny metal boxes pressed to their ears, but she never dreamed she'd use one of the devices herself.
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British Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton has warned against London being awarded the 2012 Games because she fears the city will be left an expensive &quot;white elephant&quot; of disused sites.