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LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospitality industry wakes up to TravelTalk(SM) part of a range of network based services designed specifically for the Hospitality industry. Clasix is delighted to announce the launch of TravelTalk, an integrated managed service solution slashing the cost of in room national and international calling by the hotel guest. The flagship, flat rate telephone service provides low cost high quality calling to countries around the world....

New technology has already helped catch pedophiles in Europe LOS ANGELES, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nexicon (Pink Sheets: NXCO), a developer of next generation digital media protection and intelligence solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Univer-$ale to co-develop and market Nexicon's MARC(TM) technology platform that tracks and monetizes illegal uploads and downloads on the Internet. Nexicon and Univer-$ale co-developed DigitalRanger-Law Enforcement specifically...

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- To be a person of conviction is not unique. One encounters people of conviction every day. But just how far are most people willing to go to follow their convictions? "Living with Animals: Hardy's Justice" (published by iUniverse), by Nellis C. Boyer, follows the exploits of a rural California veterinarian as he champions the cause of animal rights. To the outside world Dr. Hardy Johns is the typical James Harriet-esque rural veterinarian. He...

LAFAYETTE, Colo., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- APconnections, a leading supplier of plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products and the creator of the NetEqualizer, today announced it would begin offering a network access control management services with no upfront costs. The services will be targeted toward networks that typically see a high degree of turnover among users, such as airports, hotels, and Internet cafes. For qualifying customers, APconnections will remotely manage access to Internet...

PARIS, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Former US President Jimmy Carter, former Irish President Mary Robinson, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other members of The Elders (http://www.theelders.org) gathered in Paris at a celebration Dec. 6 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to honor the 30 international winners of the Internews-sponsored 'Every Human Has Rights' Media Awards (http://media-awards.everyhumanhasrights.org) When it comes to human...

T first glance, the Government's plan to create a continuous 2,500-mile trail around England's coastline appears laudable enough. Part of a manifesto pledge made in 2005, the rationale is that the coast offers a diverse range of recreational activities but around 30 per cent has no access at all, and of the remaining 70 per cent, access is often fragmented. The plan is to invest pounds50 million over the next 10 years to fill in these gaps and create a continuous managed route, aimed mainly...

By Jeremy Wagstaff In Bangladesh, where less than 1 percent of the population has Internet access and where the rare broadband connection is prohibitively expensive, bridging the digital divide may require new approaches. A group of Bangladeshi expatriates think they have found one that could work - a plan to bring affordable Internet access to their homeland through a blend of high-end wireless technology and social entrepreneurship. The service, a joint venture between several...

SARCASM ON: It's a good thing the future of information and education - as well as the U.S. economy - won't have anything to do with the Internet. Otherwise, the emerging trend to start charging people for how much they use would be bad news indeed. Sarcasm off: For years now, the United States has fallen further behind in important measures of Internet facility. The capacity of the average American connection - bandwidth - is slower, there are fewer of them, and they cost more. The result...

By Ghoshray, Saby The biosphere is a biosphere because it is a hydrosphere. The planet's hydrological cycle is a water democracy-a system of distributing water for all species-for the rain forest in the Amazon, the desert life in the Sahara. Nature does not distribute water uniformly. It distributes it equitably. Uniformity would mean each part of the planet has the same amount of precipitation, in the same quantity, and the same pattern. It would mean the same plants grow across the planet,...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations elected 44 of the initial 47 members of its new Human Rights Council in a first round of voting on Tuesday, including five nations named by rights groups as among the world's worst abusers. Russia, China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, identified by New York-based Human Rights Watch as unworthy of membership on the new U.N. body, were among those winning seats. But two others on the group's list, Iran and Azerbaijan failed to win...