• The founding editor of the BBC's Ceefax service - the world's first teletext service - has died at the age of 85.

    BBC: Ceefax founding editor Colin McIntyre dies at 85

  • And that's not the only modern first for the NHS. This winter the NHS will be the world's first health service - indeed the world's only - health service capable of providing the new meningitis vaccine to the groups most at risk.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Frank Dobson's speech in full

  • If you think it's a legitimate call from your bank, hang up and call the institution's customer-service number yourself.

    WSJ: Phishing Bank Scams Are on the Rise

  • Poppyscotland, the charity which runs the appeal, uses all the money raised to support Scotland's ex-service members and their families.

    BBC: Susan Boyle launches Scottish poppy appeal

  • But Mr Pfeiffer doubts whether Dell's self-service approach can ever completely satisfy customers wrestling with wide-area networks and the Internet.

    ECONOMIST: Personal computers

  • Changes to Delta's self-service check-in kiosk designs were launched across all worldwide locations in September on more than 2, 500 individual kiosks.

    ENGADGET: Delta introduces Fly Delta app for iPad, iOS 6 Passbook integration

  • Some in the media industry reckon that after the dispute ends, Canada's public-service broadcaster may be badly diminished or even doomed.

    ECONOMIST: A lockout at a controversial icon

  • As Britain's public-service broadcaster, funded by a licence fee paid by viewers, the corporation has always prided itself on the high quality and independence of its reporting.

    ECONOMIST: The battles back home | The

  • He undermined Mr Blair's public-service reforms, with the result that the government has failed to deliver improvements in education and the health service sharp enough to meet voters' rising expectations.

    ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown

  • BBC's public-service operations were cross-subsidising its commercial activities.

    ECONOMIST: The BBC

  • The head of the BBC's External Service - later renamed the World Service - called the articles "a fantastic example of secret police propaganda".

    BBC: The 'secret agents' of the UK press

  • Though e-mail been a success for Japan's NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode service, some observers are skeptical about the breadth of unified messaging's appeal.

    CNN: Technology - Phone.com and Software.com plan merger to provide unified messaging

  • Rory Collins, co-director of Oxford University's clinical-trials service unit (which demonstrated the efficacy of aspirin against heart disease) has managed to piggy-back on a commercial trial in order to test the notion that folic acid, a food-supplement commonly given to pregnant women, may also prevent heart attacks.

    ECONOMIST: Trial and error

  • CD-quality sound on the company's instant-messaging service could provoke even steamier gossip around the coffee pot.

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR: Instant messaging joins the firm | The

  • He also is talking with Comcast's Internet-access service, Yahoo Japan, Microsoft's MSNonline service and wireless carriers about distributing the RipeTVformat to an international audience that, he insists, could include 300million homes and cell phones by 2006.

    FORBES: Attention Deficit Television

  • It's been suspected that the secret ingredient in KNP's service-throttling sauce was DPI, but it was finally confirmed in a presentation to investors recently.

    ENGADGET: Dutch telco KPN using deep packet inspection to monitor mobile customers, throttle services

  • All told, this will give WorldCom more than 500, 000 local modem-access lines, making it the world's largest Internet-service provider.

    ECONOMIST: Mississippi fibre king

  • According to ComScore Media Metrix, in July, AOL's instant-messaging service had over 41 million users in the U.S. alone, Yahoo!

    FORBES: Google's Big Bet: Beyond Instant Messaging

  • DoCoMo's I-Mode service has twelve million subscribers, compared with AOL's 440, 000 subscribers.

    BBC: AOL eyes Japan alliance

  • Company officials believe that by raising the expectations of Chinese customers, Caterpillar can steer China's equipment industry toward a new business model that favors Caterpillar's service-oriented approach.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Now you have Xbox Live Marketplace which, by all accounts, is doing very well -- it's beating Amazon's service for downloadable movies -- and you're adding IPTV.

    ENGADGET: A lunchtime chat with Bill Gates at CES

  • She just learned how to use J-Phone's Internet service, J-Sky, which allows her to exchange messages with any e-mail user.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Japan's Mobile-Phone Culture

  • Google Talk requires users to register with a username from Gmail, the company's e-mail service, and uses that mail address as the user's IM log in.

    FORBES

  • Mr. K's -- The most pampering service in town.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).

    FORBES: Through the Rockies In Style

  • Softtek positions itself as the "near-shore" answer to India's offshore information-technology service providers, more convenient than India because Mexico is within U.S. time zones and is a much shorter flight than to India.

    FORBES: Mexico Meets Silicon Valley

  • Steam's Big Picture Mode -- a TV- and controller-friendly version of Valve's widely used digital gaming service -- is the first volley in Valve's big living room push.

    ENGADGET

  • FiOS, Verizon's fiber-optic solution, and Exede, ViaSat's high-bandwidth satellite service -- two common secondary offerings -- happen to be the two frontrunners in the FCC's latest broadband performance report, which rates companies based on actual download and upload speeds compared to advertised bandwidth, among other metrics.

    ENGADGET

  • It's just that the Democratic Senate's version offers civil-service protection to the department's 170, 000 employees.

    CNN: How the Hill got its mojo back

  • Beginning soon, you may be able to charge your compatible smartphone at European McDonald's restaurants, too -- the food service giant's support comes courtesy of Helsinki-based PowerKiss, which is now ditching Qi in favor of the PMA. The move is arguably the Alliance's most significant to date, and it could bring confidence to organizations currently considering their own strategies.

    ENGADGET

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