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Michael Shanks Online, as well as a Stargate fan web site, are reporting that Shanks is joining 24 in a "recurring role" and is filming scenes this week.No word on whether he'll be able to apply Dr. Jackson's linguistic and cultural expertise to help Chloe O'Brian with her social awkwardness issues.

From WorseThanFailure (aka DailyWTF): What was your worst production failure? Missing WHERE clause in a certain DELETE query that resulted in the deletion of all 6,000+ rows instead of just one. Whoops. Had it been in an environment like Adam's, would have deferred to someone with more expertise or, at the very least, been much more careful.

More than a quarter of U.S. businesses are unprepared for the fact that millions of baby boomers will retire in the coming decade and create a worker shortage and a deficit in expertise and talent, a new national study reports.

Through joip’s VoIP offering and Panasonic’s consumer electronics expertise, the two companies aim to create a global community by providing free calling between joip-enabled GLOBARANGE phones in all regions of the world.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is buying privately held speech recognition maker Tellme Networks in a deal believed to be in the range of $800 million. With the deal, Microsoft gains a company with deep expertise in speech recognition and the intersection of voice and data, an area of keen interest to the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant.