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Instead of using a ATA box like traditional VoIP companies such as Vonage, EarthLink’s service will plug directly into the subscribers traditional phone lines.

“They will experience their phone service in the same way they do from Verizon, SBC, or other traditional phone services,” EarthLink’s Director of Voice Services Jim Bagnato told BetaNews in an interview. The service launched in San Francisco, Dallas and Seattle last month.
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A museum that supporters say will feature the achievements of African-Americans as well as painful moments in their history will be built on the National Mall not far from the Washington Monument.

The Smithsonian Institution will operate the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The prominent location, announced Monday, promotes the concept that African-American life is a part of mainstream American life, said Rep. John Lewis (news, bio, voting record), D-Ga., who has been pushing for the museum for about 20 years. (Related video: Site for African-American museum)
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Dap: Booker Rising

The newspaper industry, the world over, has decided to come against Google for its free news aggregator service.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content.

The move comes as the newspaper industry’s traditional business model is under pressure with advertising spending shifting away from print and toward the Internet.
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The rational of the newspaper industry:

“They’re building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content,” Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview.

“The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article — it’s for the courts to decide whether that’s a copyright violation or not.”

Seems like the same sort of thing when search engines in general became popular. Website owners complained that Yahoo, and other search engines where profiting from the content provided by the sites they indexed. It is amazing that in the with so much content out there site like Google are not just convenient they are a necessity if the user is ever going to be in touch with the information he wants or needs. This is SO early nineties