Using the nickname Selena, Mai Linh has been learning English on Paltalk - an Internet service that allows users to communicate via instant messaging, voice and video chat - for six months.She is among a growing number of Vietnamese who use the free service to improve their English proficiency.A student in Ho Chi Minh City, Linh is improving her spoken English with the help of online 'teachers' on Paltalk who are either native speakers or Vietnamese living in an English-speaking country.She first joined the online classes - known as 'rooms' on Paltalk which are set up and operated by volunteer ...
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You're done whispering sweet nothings to Siri. You want the real thing.Now you can creep on potential hookups without giving up your cover.Vumber is a new service that gives you a second, anonymous, untraceable phone number on your current cellphone.Just pick an area code, and Vumber supplies a new number. When people dial your Vumber number, it'll go right to your everyday cellphone.Answer it, send it to voicemail, or pull sneaky stunts like giving them a busy signal or a "this number has been disconnected" recording."But what about calling back," you ask? You can place calls from your Vumber as ...
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With the 2011 New York Comic Con now rapidly fading away in our collective rearview mirrors, here's one more chance to get a sense of what the show was like, thanks to the good folks at Paltalk.com, who sent correspondent Diana Falzone down to the big show to interview creators and fans alike. Take a look, won't you? Falzone does a good job on the interviews and doesn't resort to the insulting kind of snarky nerdbaiting you so often see when the non-fanboy media attends this sort of thing. I'm not sure what kind of service Paltalk.com is selling over at ...
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