RSS (Real Simple Syndication)

What is RSS?
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is an XML specification that allows content providers (basically anybody with a web site) to provide a portion or all of their content via text files that can be easily re-formatted by others. RSS facilitates the ability to pull content from a variety of different content providers and provide that content to you via email. This way, you can have the latest information updated on your website without the need to update the information by yourself or your web master. This saves you time and effort for research, write ups and upload to the website.

What is RSS used for?
Publishers of content (such as CNN, ESPN, NPR and over a million other web sites) as well as personal and professional web logs (or blogs) provide a mechanism for their information to be syndicated by other web sites through the use of RSS. You can think of RSS as a specification standard for sharing information on the Internet.
RSS allows for sites such as My Yahoo to aggregate the content of a dozen different web sites and provide them on a single page. It can also facilitate news alerts and other information that's delivered directly to your email through services such as Squeet.com.

Examples of RSS Feeds: Check our Business News page at: http://www.vbnf.com/business_news.php. Select the news source to see the news.

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Local Number Portability (LNP)

What is LNP?
Local Number Portability (LNP) is the ability of a telephone customer in the North America to retain their local phone number if they switch to another local telephone service provider. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 required that the local exchange carriers (LECs) in the 100 largest metropolitan markets provide this capability by the end of 1998. The idea is that by removing the personal inconvenience of having to get a new phone number when changing service providers, competition among providers will be increased. LNP is one of the prices that local carriers must pay in order to be allowed to compete as well in the long-distance market.

LNP is made possible by the Location Routing Number (LRN). In the future, phone number portability may be extended so that customers can retain their phone number when they move to another locality. LNPs and LRNs are supervised by the Number Portability Administration Center, operated by Lockheed Martin under the appointment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). When a customer moves their local service to a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), a new LRN is assigned to the telephone number being ported. Each local exchange and long distance carrier needs to know what that new LRN is so when someone in another area dials the number being ported, the carrier knows what LRN to route to. This is accomplished through Local Service Management System (LSMS) databases distributed among the exchange carriers. The NPAC updates all of these databases with the newly assigned LRN. Thus, when the call is made from another area, that carrier refers to its LSMS database to obtain the current LRN for the number dialed.

How to get LNP in Canada?
Netfone offers Local Number Portability (switch your landline phone service to NetFone and keep the same number and save over 70% monthly charges) in most Richmond, Vancouver, and Burnaby areas.

Many business owners were waiting for cheaper phone service but needs to keep their regular phone number. Well their questions were answered. Get Netfone at $12.95 a month with Free LD call s to major cities in Canada and Free calling features including voice messaging, calling number Display, Call Waiting, etc. while you using the Cable Internet connection. To find out if your telephone number can be portable to Netfone, please check the spreadsheet 604-NXX numbers for availabilities. For example: 604 -422-8878 = 604-NXX-8878, NXX = 422

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