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UK benefits from communications anytime, anywhere and at a lower cost
[news release]
http://ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2007/08/nr_20070823Yahoo and MSN agree to censor China blogs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/24/wblog124.xmlus: Pa. Court: Viewing Child Porn on Computer Enough for Possession
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1187859734533au: Student cracks $84m porn filter
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22304224-2,00.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462562907.htmlhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10459963Why Facebook Is the Future
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655722,00.htmluk: Privacy and law: 10 ways to win public trust in a surveillance society
http://out-law.com/page-8412nz: Privacy Commissioner boosts breach disclosure drive with guidelines
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/55C4F59E7E9F94A3CC257340007E7D52U.S. confirms telecoms' role in eavesdropping
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/news/spy.phpus: Internet Users Experience More Content, Less Talk
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802304Spam fighters hit criminals' weak spot [IDG]
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=17&articleId=9032522nz: Legislation won't stop spam, says
marketer [NZPA]
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4176903a28.htmlhttp://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200708261545/full_email_boxes_predicted_before_anti-spam_law_takes_affectnz: Firms 'overreact' to spam act
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4178348a28.htmlApple iPhone hacked wide open [Reuters]
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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UK benefits from communications anytime, anywhere and at a lower cost [news release]
Ofcom published its annual Communications Market Report 2007 which reveals new trends in the UK's £50bn electronic communications sector. UK consumers now spend 50 hours per week on the phone, surfing the internet, watching television or listening to the radio. Average daily internet use in 2006 (36 minutes) was up 158% on 2002 and time spent on the mobile phone (almost 4 minutes per day) was up 58%. Time spent watching TV was down 4% at 3 hours and 36 minutes, listening to radio was down 2% at 2 hours and 50 minutes and time spent on a fixed line phone was down 8% at 7 minutes.
http://ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2007/08/nr_20070823**********************
CENSORSHIP
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Yahoo and MSN agree to censor China blogs
Yahoo and MSN, the internet giants, have confirmed they had signed up to new attempts by the Chinese government to censor and control blogs behind the country?s ?Great Firewall?.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/24/wblog124.xmlBan gang videos, says British MP
Video clips glamorising gang culture posted on popular internet sites such as YouTube should be blocked, a government minister and a leading children's charity said last night. The calls come amid growing fears about the glorification of violence among young people sparked by the fatal shooting of
Rhys Jones, 11. He was shot dead last Wednesday in Croxteth Park, Liverpool, an area plagued by gangs.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2156545,00.htmlTurkey blocks access to blog site Wordpress.com
Turkey has blocked access to the blog site Wordpress.com due to an alleged insult directed at the Islamic creationist Adnan Oktar. This has been ordered by a court in Istanbul, reported one of Oktar's lawyers on Monday to the German Press Agency dpa in Ankara
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94686Malaysian minister likens bloggers to bad karaoke stars: report
Malaysia's information minister Friday compared the nation's Internet bloggers, under fire for their outspoken views, to washed-up karaoke singers who
have no influence, a report said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462547529.htmlby: Government creates working group to restrict online free _expression_
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about deputy information minister Alyaksandr Slabadchuk?s announcement on 20 August that a working group is being set up to look at the ?Internet?s legal regulation.? The announcement came two weeks after President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to put an end to ?anarchy? on the Internet.
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: Pa. Court: Viewing
Child Porn on Computer Enough for Possession
The Pennsylvania Superior Court isn't buying the argument that a man who viewed child pornography on his computer, but didn't save the images, couldn't be charged with possession of child pornography. A 7-2 en banc Superior Court panel in Commonwealth v. Diodoro reversed a prior three-judge panel that found there was not sufficient evidence to show Anthony Diodoro downloaded or saved the images of child pornography he viewed.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1187859734533au: Student cracks $84m porn filter
A Melbourne schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes. Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22304224-2,00.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462562907.htmlhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462562907.htmlhttp://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/27/2015813.htmhttp://idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8757http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Teen-cracks-AU-84-million-porn-filter-in-30-minutes/0,130061733,339281500,00.htmhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10459963nz: School girls cool off after hot gym pics posted online
Three girls at Hamilton's Fraser High School were stood down after taking suggestive photographs of themselves in school uniform and posting them on the internet.
http://stuff.co.nz/4177240a10.htmlhttp://newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=123133http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=76212http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=123157**********************
SOCIAL NETWORKING
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'Facebook scares me': One man explains how his use of a social-networking website spun out of control
I woke up one morning with fear in my bones, because the first thing I wanted to do wasn't to have a cup of tea ? but check my Facebook," recalls one recovering social-networking enthusiast, Sam Devito-French.
Rather like heroin use, the first heady days of Facebook membership can be lost in a hazy love affair with inboxes full of
"friend" requests and flirtatious messages ("pokes"). But like many addictions, it can leave you slumped on a mattress with nothing but your laptop, a few mouldy coffee cups and a sense of exhaustion, fear, and self-loathing. "I gave up when I realised that I didn't need a social network to have a fulfilling life ? I'd much rather meet up with someone over a pint," says 27-year-old Sam.
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2889424.eceCan Businesses Get a Second Life?
As a number of sober-suited executives assemble for a meeting in a plush conference room, they do so safe in the knowledge that no one can eavesdrop on their conversation. This is no ordinary meeting. In reality the executives are sitting at different points around the globe: it is their avatars, internet versions of themselves that are meeting in a virtual world
known as Second Life.
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/can-businesses-get-a-second-life-1064315.htmlFacebook to open goldmine of data to advertisers
Facebook is preparing an advertising model that would allow advertisers to target its users based on information that they reveal about themselves on the social networking website.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2317509.ece'Second Life': The promise and paradox
In Second Life, avatars can fly with the push of a button. Maybe that's why it seems like the virtual world's enthusiasts sometimes have trouble staying grounded. At this weekend's Second Life
Community Convention, Philip Rosedale--founder of Second Life creator Linden Lab--ambitiously declared as he often does that "this is something that everybody on Earth is going to use," that the virtual world will be "bigger than the Web."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6204524.htmlhttp://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-6204524.htmlAn Unmanageable Circle of Friends
Social networking sites have changed the way millions of people connect, but some are becoming overwhelmed by the demands: Jason Calacanis wishes he could be your Facebook friend, but he just can't. The Internet entrepreneur loves networking; the New Yorker magazine once wrote a profile of him called "The Connector." When people want to get from point A to point B, he's A and a half. But Calacanis now
has several thousand friends, with more requests streaming in daily. He's tired. So on his blog this summer, Calacanis, 37, declared a Facebook moratorium. In the future he'll outsource his friend management to an intern.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082400481.htmlWhy Facebook Is the Future
On Aug. 14 a computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. It's a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Mart's Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655722,00.htmlConsumers have voice on Web 2.0
Two weeks ago, a Facebook member in Manchester, England, added her name to an online campaign to bring back a chocolate bar called Wispa, discontinued by its maker, Cadbury, four years ago.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/26/business/brands27.phpA Web site shows quirky side of Russia
The wedding seemed peaceful until the first punch was thrown. Then the camera jumped between various fights, capturing men chasing one another and finally focusing on someone lying unconscious - and then the video faded to black. Welcome to the world of EnglishRussia.com, the brainchild of a young Web designer that has become one of the most popular blogs on
the Internet in less than a year.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/26/business/russnet27.phpWeb 2.0's Place in the Enterprise
The recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston served as a coming-out party, if you will, for all things Web 2.0. For many attendees, however, as well as those who followed the event on the countless blogs covering the conference, the term Web 2.0 has created as much confusion as hype. Still, the ideas and concepts that make up Web 2.0 offer enterprises real opportunities to improve collaboration and communication.
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY &
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Hacking Germany's New Computer Crime Law
Be careful what you joke about at the water cooler in Germany these days -- even a dig about a password stuck to a PC monitor could be considered breaking a new anti-hacker law that went into effect this month. Under the new law, such a joke could be construed as making the password "accessible." And that's just the beginning. If a customer tells a sales clerk at a German office supply store that he's going to use his newly-purchased Windows XP software to hack into a bank, the clerk could get busted for selling him the OS.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132255Slammer, Other Older Threats Making A Comeback
If you think Slammer is dead and you're immune, think again: The 2003 worm is actually alive and well and more widespread than in its heyday in
2003, researchers say.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132301http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/08/23/ibm-ie-networks-tech-cx_0823darkreading.htmlHow to case high-profile targets without really trying
We've been hearing for years that MySpace and other social networking sites can represent a gaping chink in an otherwise hardened corporate network. Now a London-based security consultant has created a tool that proves it.
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PRIVACY
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uk: Privacy and law: 10 ways to win public trust in a surveillance society
OPINION: The Data Protection Act is not strong enough to protect privacy in today's surveillance society. Dr Chris Pounder proposes 10 universal standards to buttress the Act and create balance whenever there is interference in private and family life.
http://out-law.com/page-8412nz: Privacy Commissioner boosts breach disclosure drive with guidelines
Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff will today announce a draft guide for the management of data breaches in business and government, in what could be the first step towards introducing data breach disclosure laws to New
Zealand.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/55C4F59E7E9F94A3CC257340007E7D52The Monster.com Mess
The last thing you need when you're unemployed is a bank account that's suddenly emptied. But that's exactly what some unwary users of employment search site Monster.com faced after identity thieves made off with the personal information of more than a million people looking for jobs.
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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U.S. confirms telecoms' role in eavesdropping
The Bush administration has confirmed for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a key role in the National Security
Agency's domestic eavesdropping program after asserting for nearly two years that any role played by the companies was a "state secret."
The acknowledgment came in an interview that Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, conducted with The El Paso Times last week in which he discussed a number of sensitive issues that the administration has long insisted were classified and has refused to discuss publicly.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/news/spy.phphttp://nytimes.com/2007/08/24/washington/24nsa.htmlBill On Broadcast Media Had Many Draconian Clauses
Information and Communications minister Mutahi Kagwe made a bold move on Wednesday when he declared his intention to withdraw the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill from
Parliament.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708231170.htmlnz: Govt releases rural broadband proposals
Rural New Zealanders may get better access to the internet under proposals released by the Government.
http://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=18783au: PM 'not behind Wikipedia edits'
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet says Prime Minister John Howard did not ask any of his staff to edit online public encyclopedia Wikipedia.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/24/2013984.htmPM's staff edited Wikipedia
STAFF in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have been editing Wikipedia to remove details that might be damaging
to the Government. WikiScanner points to the department as the source of 126 edits on subjects ranging from the children overboard affair to the Treasurer, Peter Costello.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/23/1187462441687.htmlAustralian government caught editing Wikipedia
Australian Prime Minister John Howard's staff were Friday accused of editing entries in the online Wikipedia to remove potentially damaging details. A spokesman for the prime minister said Howard had never asked staff to remove unfavourable comments from the website, which allows anyone to make contributions.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/24/1187462501800.htmlau: Iemma's Wiki wipeout
If you believe the NSW Premier's Department's version of
history, a profanity-laden outburst Morris Iemma had at a media conference last year never happened.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/24/1187462487818.htmlnz: Clark has Wikipedia page protected
As Australia's Prime Minister cops flak over alleged changes to his page in an online-encylopedia, Helen Clark has had references to herself on the site protected.
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INTERNET USE
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us: Internet Users Experience More Content, Less Talk
As of May 2007, Internet users spent 47% of their time online consuming content, compared with 34% in 2003, according to the Center for Media Research.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802304Google turns its attention to the stars
Google, having brought the earth into the living room, has turned its eye to the heavens to bring the sky at night indoors. ... The internet facility has now been expanded to offer a glimpse of 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies as part of the Google Sky initiative.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2308536.eceuk: It's arrived: the feminisation of the net
Forget the 20-something man playing online fantasy football and selling motorbike parts on eBay. The internet has a new user. For years cyberspace has been tailored to an audience of mainly young men but for the first time women
webusers have taken the lead in key age groups. At the same time an army of silver surfers has emerged and the over 65s are spending more hours online than any other age group.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2154494,00.htmlhttp://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2154392,00.htmlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/23/ofcom_annual_report_2007/uk: Silver surfers take over the internet
The internet is now dominated by silver surfers who spend more time online than any other group, according to a comprehensive study by the communications watchdog. The over-65s spend 42 hours a week online, four hours more than the
most active users who are aged between 18 and 24, according to Ofcom?s annual report into the industry.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/23/nofcom123.xmluk: Move over geeks, women are top web users
Women aged between 25 and 49 are now spending more time on the internet than men as they become hooked on keeping in touch with friends online, according to figures published yesterday by the communications regulator Ofcom. The figures are particularly pronounced in the 25 to 34 age group, in which women now account for 55 per cent of time spent online ? demon-strating that the medium once thought of as dominated by solitary, glass-wearing male nerds is rapidly being feminised.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2310548.eceBritain enjoying 'digital boom'
The net, mobile phones and MP3 players are revolutionising how Britons spend their time, says Ofcom's annual report. It reveals that older media such as TV, radio and even DVDs are being abandoned in favour of more modern technology.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6959864.stmInternet's killing the TV star: survey
Personal time that consumers spend on the internet is rivaling their TV time, with user generated content (UGC) and networking sites among the most popular destinations for entertainment seekers.
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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uk: Mobile phones 'eroding landlines'
Mobile phone use is continuing to reduce the amount of time people spend using landlines, according to a report by the UK communications watchdog. For the first time, calls from mobiles now account for more than a third of time spent on phone calls, Ofcom said.
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SPAM
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Spam fighters hit criminals' weak spot [IDG]
Is the fight against spam horribly misguided? For years, spam haters have relied on junk-mail filters and Internet blacklists, but lately, some are saying it's time for a change in tactics. Their
answer: follow the money. And that means going after the Web sites where spammers sell their pharmaceuticals and watches and male enhancement products.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=17&articleId=9032522http://cio.com/article/132904/Spam_Fighters_Hit_Criminals_Weak_Spothttp://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;224654651;fp;4;fpid;1398720840nz: Legislation won't stop spam, says marketer [NZPA]
An email marketer says new anti-spam legislation will not have much impact in New Zealand because most of the spam is
coming from overseas.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4176903a28.htmlhttp://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200708261545/full_email_boxes_predicted_before_anti-spam_law_takes_affectnz: Firms 'overreact' to spam act
An anti-spam law that makes it illegal to send any unsolicited commercial e-mails comes into effect on Wednesday next week but Keith Norris, executive director of the Marketing Association, says most businesses have no need to panic.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4178348a28.htmlau: Email scam targets ACT Office of Fair Trading
Hoax email that claims to originate from the ACT Office of Fair Trading targets
recipients for identity theft.
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Tiny E-Estonia big on the internet
Estonia has a landmass that is similar to Switzerland but its population is one of the smallest in the European Union - just 1.4 million. But it is a good place to start if you have a business-driven desire to do some potentially rewarding foundation studies on the post-Cold War Europe.
http://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=18815The iPhone bill that?s as thick as a novel
It is one of the most sophisticated communications devices on the market, and yet the almost one million Americans who bought an iPhone
since its launch in June are astonished by the weight of paper it generates. Thanks to an archaic billing system one customer received a 300-page, double-sided invoice. The bill - which had twice as many pages as The Great Gatsby, and almost three times as many pages as the iPhone manual - chronicled in scientific detail every last bite of information uploaded or downloaded from her phone.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article2317395.eceWith Software and Soldering, a Non-AT&T iPhone
AT&T is paying millions to be the exclusive United States provider of Apple?s much-hyped and glowingly reviewed gadget, the iPhone. It took 17-year-old George Hotz two months of work to undermine AT&T?s investment. Mr. Hotz, a resident of Glen Rock, N.J., published
detailed instructions online this week that he says will let iPhone owners abandon AT&T?s service and use their phones on some competing cellular networks.
http://nytimes.com/2007/08/25/technology/25iphone.htmlhttp://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article2326835.ecehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6963696.stmNJ teen untethers iPhone from AT&T network [AP]
A 17-year-old hacker has broken the lock that ties Apple Inc.'s iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cellphone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas
ones.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-iphone25aug25,1,223100.storyhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462541816.htmlhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/25/1187462563517.htmlApple iPhone hacked wide open [Reuters]
Hackers have found a way to use Apple's iPhone on networks other than AT&T's, opening up the coveted device to rival carriers and overseas customers, according to a web report. A group called iPhoneSIMfree.com said it had developed a piece of software that, when installed on an iPhone
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10459834http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN2436004320070824iPhone Unlockers Lining up [IDG]
Two software-based hacks, as well as one that involves hardware modifications, are set to allow iPhone owners to swap in SIM cards from providers other than AT&T.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136371-c,iphone/article.htmlNZ World Summit e-Content entrants announced
New Zealand will compete in all eight categories of the 2007 World Summit Awards - a bi-annual global initiative launched by the United Nations to select and promote the world's best
e-Content.
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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nz: Telecom slammed by Chamber of Commerce [NZPA]
Businesses deserve better than what Telecom is offering, Auckland Chamber of Commerce says.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4175496a6430.htmleu: Commission boost for mobile satellite services paves the way for EU-wide high speed data communications [news release]
The Commission today has adopted a proposal to select systems for mobile satellite services at European level. If adopted by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Telecom Ministers, this new
selection mechanism will allow innovative services, such as mobile TV, broadband data and emergency communications to develop smoothly throughout Europe as of 2009.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3554Southern Cross Cable capacity to double
The Southern Cross Cable that carries most telecommunications traffic to and from New Zealand, Australia and the United States will be nearly doubled in capacity to cope with a surge in demand for bandwidth from video-hungry broadband users.
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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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The Road To WiMAX
How Intel's Sean Maloney shepherded through the technology that's poised to rewrite the
rules of wireless
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VoIP
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cn: Small VoIP players gain foothold
VoIP services are eventually expected to become more mainstream in China, but current offerings are dominated by smaller virtual VoIP providers operating in regional markets, thanks to confusion and uncertainty about government regulations and loopholes that can be exploited. According to a report from CCID Consulting, a research, consulting and IT outsourcing firm, the continued economic growth and advances in technology are leading telecom operators to grapple with a new challenge: how to utilize new technology to provide users with better and cheaper voice and broadband services. CCID notes that VoIP services have started appearing within certain areas in China. So
far, the largest impact from VoIP has been in diverting users from traditional long-distance telephone services. China Telecom alone has an estimated 800 million to 2 billion yuan diverted away each year by VoIP.
http://telecomasia.net/article.php?id_article=5296http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2174816,00.aspCan small business count on VoIP? - news analysis
Shawna Hampton, a small business owner from Kansas, knows she always needs to have a backup for her Skype Internet telephone service.
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nz: Child pornography most objectionable one could imagine - judge
A 37-year-old Christchurch man says he was overwhelmed after accessing internet pornography and eventually took to viewing images of children in sex acts. Christopher John Thomson was identified as a child pornography user by the German state police as part of their Operation Smasher. They passed the information to the New Zealand police who confiscated two laptops from Thomson on May 22.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10459688http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10459688http://nz.news.yahoo.com/070824/3/1f72.html+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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