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The newly hired political editor of HuffingtonPost.com"s soon-to-be-launched Washington bureau has some big plans. "I"m really interested in putting together an online presidential debate," Melinda Henneberger said in an interview. The interactive nature of the Internet should make for a lively exchange, she believes. "People would have to give real answers. There is no time limit," so they couldn"t get away with hitting talking points and not really answering questions.

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France"s Alcatel SA completed its $11.6 billion acquisition of Lucent Technologies Inc. Thursday, creating a new global telecom-equipment maker that can cash in on fast-growing “triple-play"" services offering phone, TV and Internet on a single wire.

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VeriSign Inc. got the green light Thursday from the U.S. Commerce Department to run the key directories that keep track of the Internet"s ".com" domain names.

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(InfoWorld) - Asustek Computer plans to launch two motherboards complete with phone jacks able to turn common household telephones into Internet phones using Skype"s popular VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) software.
The M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky motherboards both come with the Asus TeleSky telecom adaptor onboard, along with 60 SkypeOut minutes, which allow users to make voice calls directly to telephones. While calls to other PCs are free using Skype, users pay with SkypeOut for the ability to make paid calls to landlines and mobile phones.
Both boards will be shipping worldwide within the next three weeks, said Charles Chen, motherboard product manager at Asustek. Prices will vary by region, he said.
The new boards are yet another way Skype is gaining ground among users as the most popular Internet calling software. A number of companies have been marketing Skype handsets, both wireless and ones with USB (universal serial bus) plugs to hook up to [...]

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