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Depending on your long-distance provider, that stranger with the thick accent may not be a telemarketer or a prank caller. Skype, whose software lets users make free phone calls over the Internet, has become the hot download among young Asians--with 45,000 new Chinese users signing on each day. And many of them are practicing their English by making random calls to fellow Skype users in the U.S. The company, which has 66 million registered subscribers in more than 200 countries, includes language preferences in every user's profile, and last year started offering a "Skype Me" mode...
...when he was 3, believes the police could "convince my son to sign anything." But again, his DNA didn't match, and Dick gave the police more names, one of which led to Tice. "In the light of day, you say you wouldn't confess," says Tice over the phone from prison, "but in that room with [the detectives] standing over you, you get worn down...
Customers of ATMs long ago decided they could do without a teller. Now Steven Atkinson has a bolder idea: they can also do without the cash. His company mobileATM has developed secure software that allows cell-phone owners in Britain to check their bank balances using their handsets. That may sound trivial, but 37 banks in Britain, including First Direct (the roughly $12 billion phone and PC division of giant HSBC) and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), have approved...
...provide a truly compelling service, shouldn't it also allow users to move cash around? "You have to walk before you can run," says Richard Kimber, chief executive of First Direct, who notes that consumers will be able to buy top-up credit for pay-as-you-go mobile phones. He also envisions a day when British commuters might be able to purchase subway rides using their mobileATM, the next step in turning your phone into your wallet...
...senior fellow of the Corporation, James R. Houghton ’56, did not return a phone call seeking comment. He praised King as "a person of extraordinarily broad intellectual and professional interests" in a statement released today...