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Hello to all the people whove visited here from the link on UK Resistance. This might not be the best update to try and judge the worth of the blog as a whole, because were going to spend an update thrashing around frantically in the waters of global politics. Were normally more interesting probably isnt the right word. Sarcastic would be closer. Anyway, pull up a chair, and please think twice before leaving a comment saying how we dont know anything. We already know that.

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Mainly because were a bit annoying, we love it when a television series makes you do a bit of mental legwork before you can properly appreciate it. Quite often, its obvious when this is happening for example, every other person on the web seems to be going on about The Wire, and how you need to sit through about six hours of it before you can really begin to enjoy it, as if its an Xbox 360 game where you need to unlock the good levels by playing through a load of infuriating ones first. But when it comes to Lost (not to be confused with the 2001 Channel Four reality-series-cum-gameshow, of course), it really seemed like it was a colourful exciting caper that everyone could enjoy right from the off. The first episode attracted a huge 8.5 million viewers in the UK, despite it being promoted via a slightly annoying trailer specially shot for UK cinemas, which saw the Lost characters gyrating artistically to a gratingly pretentious cast voiceover (one of us is a killer, one of us is a cop [] one of us is a sinner, one of us is a saint [] all of us are Lost), giving the impression of the series being the most expensive Calvin Klein commercial ever. Since then, viewing figures have remained high (for an imported series), with it currently the most-watched show on Sky1 admittedly on a figure well down on the first season, but still extraordinarily high for Sky1, with 1.4 million tuning in for the start of the final season. Even in this multidigital age, its still rare for a programme on Sky1 to get more than a million viewers, and Lost smashed that barrier quite comprehensively.

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Earlier in the week, Microsoft showed off its attractive new mobile platform. The new operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series, promises a radical change in the world of Microsoft-powered phones, but one thing that remains the same, the company confirmed, is that phone manufacturers will still have to pay to license the software. With Android (and now Symbian) open source, and the BlackBerry and iPhone software not available to third parties at all, this means that Windows Phone will be the only major smartphone OS available on a paid basis.

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Texting while driving can be dangerous, and 19 states already prohibit the practice. The Governors Highway Safety Association has spoken out in support of such bans, and President Obama has banned texting while driving for all federal employees. A group of researchers at Clemson University’s Human-Centered Computing Lab hopes to make texting by voice a “less-distracted,” safer alternative.

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VoxOx has baked a Universal Translator directly into is Web communications platform, providing foreign language messaging translation for text messages, instant messaging, e-mail and messaging communications via Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The neat trick here is that only one person need be using VoxOx to have a conversation that is translated between two parties, making it a boon for efficiency. Such translation capabilities should help VoxOx pick up a number of users, which is important for a product competing with Skype, Google Voice (which will likely offer Web calling capabilities this year) and other VOIP solutions such as BT’s Ribbit.
– VoxOx, which fancies
itself as an alternative to Skype and Google Voice by letting users make phone
calls via the Web, has integrated a language translation capability directly
into its service.
VoxOx gives users a dedicated number and lets them make calls
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