From Jonathan Edelstein: Welcome to the second annual Arrival Day Blogburst, commemorating the arrival of the first Jews in New Amsterdam on September 7, 1654. As I explained last year, Arrival Day is a holiday of the American Jewish people rather than the Jewish religion – a celebration of the Jewish community and its contributions [...]
As of December 2003, 247,966 Taiwanese had married foreigners, most of these were men marrying women from Mainland China (over 50%), Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. Most of these women are less educated and younger than the average Taiwanese bride. More importantly, many of these women don’t speak Chinese. In fact, many are not even literate [...]
With Skype’s SkypeOut service, internet telephony has truly arrived, but this brings with it a whole set of questions. Most importantly, will VoIP be regulated? Aswath Rao thinks it will have to be, and he even submitted his views to the FCC: There is one aspect that did not come up in the Forum that [...]