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Ah, good old UKTV and their channel rebrands. In amongst their stupidly named channel relaunches from the past few years (UKTVG2, UKTVG2+1 quite possibly the ugliest name ever given to a digital channel, Dave, Blighty, Gee Oh Ell Dee), theyll occasionally chuck in the odd proper name (Eden, Yesterday, thats about it).

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Google Voice’s Phone Spam feature allows users to tag a phone call as spam, blocking the caller’s number from contacting the user’s phone or phones. Google Voice, rolled out as a preview on March 11, offers telephony features such as voice mail transcription and GOOG-411 integration.
– Google
announced March 20 that Google
Voice, its new phone-based application, has the ability to block phone
spam.
By tagging a phone call as spam, users effectively block the caller’s number
from ringing their various phones or leaving e-mails. However, the marked calls
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With their show largely consisting of jokes based on the differing body shapes of the pair, stereotypically camp gay characters and characters from popular culture transplanted into comically unsuitable movie franchises, its fair to say the antics of Horne and Corden could be equally at home in the Saturday night schedule of ITV from the early 1980s. With this in mind weve come up with a new yardstick for measuring the success of BBC Threes flagship comedy show. Its time for:

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ePhoneNumbers has amassed 750,000 thousand local and toll-free numbers and says you have as much right to choose your phone number as you do to select a phone carrier for a price, of course. If CASH-MNY is the phone number for you, you’re in luck. The numbers can be used for land-line, wireless or VOIP telephony connections, and some money goes to charity.
– A good phone number is simple to remember, but not easy to come by. Until
now ePhoneNumbers is a newly launched public company that will sell you a phone
number of your choice. The better the number, the higher the price.

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According to MediaGuardian, the first episode of Horne & Corden was a huge hit, attracting 817,000 viewers to the opening show of their heavily promoted sketch-based comedy. Six days later, the same website declares Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle to have started poorly, after it gathered just, erm, 1.1million viewers.

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Savi Office, from Plantronics, offers more than a wireless headset solution with simultaneous connection to both a desk phone and PC. Savi Office also offers the PerSono software suite for controlling device behavior and for bridging content between communications channel. However, the flexible solution comes at a steep price and is not yet enterprise-ready. And it can only be used with Microsoft Windows-based PCs, though Plantronics says users of Apple Macs will be able to use the Savi Office devices as headsets.
– With its new Savi Office line of wireless desktop headsets, Plantronics
looks to solve the last 10 feet of unified communications deployments,
providing users with an easy way to blend and bridge the audio from both the PC
and the desktop phone.
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For days after the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer discomfort-fest, as one might expect, the US news networks were falling over themselves to get people chattering inanely about it. One of the people all too willing to chip in on CNNs Reliable Sources show was former CNN pundit Tucker Carlson. Now, Carlson has a bit of previous with Jon Stewart, with the following exchange having taken place on an episode of Carlsons CNN show Crossfire in 2004. Tucker Carlson is the 35 year old man wearing a bow tie, and for the eight people on the internet who havent seen this clip before, its pretty much like the away fixture of Stewart/Cramer:

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