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Jan 2008 |
Documents released by WikiLeaks last week appear to support earlier reports that Germany's federal police plan to use Trojan horse malware to conduct surreptitious searches of targeted computers, including Skype communication and encrypted SSL traffic.
According to one of the documents, which are unverified and were first published by the German political party PiratenPartei (Pirate Party), the Bavarian police appear to have commissioned a German security company to create a Trojan horse for capturing Sk... |
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Jan 2008 |
Great Media technical director Malcolm Ramsay has told Bizcommunity.com that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will not stop Free2view from broadcasting in SA as the regulator's authority and ‘ policing' only apply to SA. [Vote in our poll]
“ICASA only has jurisdiction in SA; we are up linked in France by EutelSat, who are licensed by the regulatory authority to provide a service globally,” Ramsay said.
“If CNBC Africa can broadcast into Africa with SA operators, it prov... |
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Jan 2008 |
Virgin Media has announced plans to begin the first part of a major broadband upgrade programme.
Customers on Virgin Media's "L" tier broadband package will be upgraded for free, taking their service from 4MB to 10MB.
The upgrade will roll out by regions from late February and Virgin say, on the new 10MB service, a customer will be able to download a typical music track in just 4 seconds, an album in under a minute or a TV show in around 5 minutes.
The upgrade will be completed by late summer, b... |
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Jan 2008 |
VSNL acquired a stake in Africa’s cable consortium group Eassy which is expected to be 10,000 km long and will link more than 20 African countries with the rest of the world at a cost of $ 235 million. "VSNL are a big company with operations worldwide and obviously they want capacity for their own and capacity to sell as well, that''s why they are in Eassy," said Sammy Kirui, the consortium Chairman.
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Jan 2008 |
Telkom Kenya Limited expects to roll out its Global System for Mobile Communications-GSM-services in the country before the end of the year.
The new TKL managing director Dominic Saint-Jean says that they are putting in place all the necessary measures to roll the services to the public.
Telkom Kenya became the first telephony company to launch Code-Division Multiple Access, CDMA services in the country last year.
The service, which has more than 40 thousand registered subscribers, has witnessed... |
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Jan 2008 |
If you're an AT&T DSL customer with a connection 1.5Mbps or faster, you've now got free, unlimited access to AT&T's network of 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. AT&T customers, who already got discounted access to the Wi-Fi network, should save about $60 annually from the deal. Non-AT&T customers would normally pay $240 yearly for access to the Wi-Fi network. It's a smart way for AT&T to add competitive value to their DSL service, and is a perk they were already offering higher speed (3Mbps+) customers.
AT&T's Wi-... |
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Jan 2008 |
The idea of laying fibre along sewer lines has been sloshing around the networking business for years. Now a UK firm claims today's broadband will seem a trickle compared to the torrents of data it'll soon offer.
It's always been hard to argue with the logic. Sewers are deep underground where cable would be protected from clumsy drilling. They also run into the heart of virtually every building in Britain.
Best of all, they were dug in the 19th century when Irish labour was cheap, and planning and saf... |
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Jan 2008 |
The idea of laying fibre along sewer lines has been sloshing around the networking business for years. Now a UK firm claims today's broadband will seem a trickle compared to the torrents of data it'll soon offer.
It's always been hard to argue with the logic. Sewers are deep underground where cable would be protected from clumsy drilling. They also run into the heart of virtually every building in Britain.
Best of all, they were dug in the 19th century when Irish labour was cheap, and planning and saf... |
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Jan 2008 |
Broadband and mobile behemoth O2 says Brits are still incredibly frustrated by broadband providers, with a fifth of us having to contact providers over three times to sort out service wobbles. O2 adds that over a million households are spending at least six hours setting up their broadband service.
Of course, all these soundbitey stats come from one of those lovely surveys - this time of 1,500 broadband users.
Connection speeds and customer support bother us most (what else is there?) while a quarter ... |
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Jan 2008 |
Even as Sprint tentatively rolls out the XOHM network here in the States, the largest Indian telecom company is planning to build a mobile WiMax network covering three states on the subcontinent capable of serving 250 million people. State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is leaning on Soma Networks to build the broadband-speed network in response to government requirement that 20 million broadband lines be in service by 2010. The WiMax rollout will first hit the largest and most-connected states, but BSN... |
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Jan 2008 |
The specifications for the upcoming fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) have been finalized, the wireless standards group 3GPP says. In its final form, the 4G cellular technology will use the same basic multiple-in, multiple-out antenna concept as 802.11n Wi-Fi to greatly improve the bandwidth over today's 3G technology. By piecing together multiple signals the technology can achieve as much as 326 megabits per second in downloads on a 20MHz slice of the wireless spectrum; uploads peak at 86MHz, say... |
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Jan 2008 |
About 2 million of HTC's Touch smartphone sold during its time on the market in 2007, the company announced today. The touchscreen device achieved the figure after beginning sales first in Europe and expanding later to North America during the fall. These sales were some of the strongest yet for any individual phone from the line and pushed sales up to 11.8 million total, according to HTC. The year's past results represent a 12 percent increase over the year before.
The first quarter of this year also p... |
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Jan 2008 |
In a move announced last week, Yahoo opened its mobile platform so outside programmers can develop new applications for Yahoo pages accessed on mobile handsets. Yahoo hopes the mini-applications, known as "widgets," will help attract more on-the-go users, which will bring the company more money from advertising.
The Sunnyvale-based company also unveiled a redesigned home page for cellphones that includes more content and enables visitors to designate material they want highlighted.
And it released an ... |
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Jan 2008 |
Light Reading lists the world's top ten largest IPTV deployments, and no U.S. companies make the list. AT&T's U-Verse, which hasn't yet passed the tenth-ranked provider at 170,000, should probably make the list shortly -- given they had 126,000 subscribers at the end of the third quarter. Verizon FiOS is not listed because technically, the service is a fiber/coaxial hybrid, though Verizon will likely eventually migrate to all IP.
Seven European countries make the top ten. Three of the top ten IPTV provi... |
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Jan 2008 |
Arun Sarin, the head of Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research), is hankering after deals in Africa, but he could be in for a long wait if control of South African joint venture Vodacom remains top of his list.
Sarin, a U.S. citizen expected to return to California one day, said this week he had unfinished business as head of the world's largest mobile phone company.
"If you were to think about the things we have to do in 2008: there are important acquisitions in Asia and Africa that we h... |
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