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Nov 2007 |
Private undersea cable company Seacom has formed an alliance with Telecom Egypt to buy a system-within-a-system that will allow it to land in Marseilles, France. The deal is mooted to be worth $90 million (R602.1 million).
According to a Seacom spokesperson, the alliance will allow Seacom to land its east African undersea cable on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, connect with Telecom Egypt's overland route, and then into the Mediterranean Sea and to eventually land in France.
“This is termed a ‘system-with... |
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Nov 2007 |
Telstra lawyers in the high court are arguing that the telco is not being properly compensated for being “forced” to allow rival internet providers access to its broadband network.
The court is hearing a challenge aimed at overturning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's power to regulate the amount it can charge rivals to use thee broadband infrastructure - currently restricted to $3.20 per customer per month.... |
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Nov 2007 |
In an interview with the BBC a few weeks ago, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated in the UK. He then called on ISPs to take a "more activist role" in the problem of illegal file-sharing and said that ""If we can't get voluntary arrangements we will legislate."
Now it seems that new data obtained by The Register form a large UK ISP may actually mean that the proposed initiative will largely ... |
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Nov 2007 |
AN AUSTRALIAN researcher has found a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.
University of Melbourne research fellow John Papandriopoulos is moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections.
Most ADSL services are effectively limited to speeds between 1 Mbps to 20 Mbps, but if Dr Papandriopoulos' technology succeeds this will be closer to 100 Mbps.
Stanford University's John Cioffi was one of the ext... |
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Nov 2007 |
Google is set to give the mobile phone business a body blow today - the second punch in the guts it's had this year.
Apple delivered the first blow, by turning the operators' subsidy model upside down - as well as making rival manufacturers look like knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. But Google's arrival may prove to be more dramatic and far reaching for the business.
Google is expected to give away the platform required to create a sophisticated smartphone to OEMs. Its strategy is to extend its digital ... |
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5
Nov 2007 |
Samsung announces the SPH-M4650 Windows running touchscreen smartphone.
The 14mm thin Samsung SPH-M4650 runs on the 624MHz high-PXA300 CPU from Marvell Corp. and Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.
Samsung highlights the vibration touch feedback feature of the SPH-M4650.
Other features of the SPH-M4650 include 2.8 inch LCD screen and a DMB TV tuner.
The Samsung SPH-M4650 is going to be available from AnyCall in Korea.
Windows Smartphones are ganging up on the iPhone slowly but surely. The new... |
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Nov 2007 |
A moratorium on Internet access taxes got a last-minute extension Wednesday, one day before it would have expired.
The White House said President Bush would sign legislation approved by Congress to extend the ban for seven more years.
There was strong support in both the House and Senate for a permanent moratorium, but concerns over the potential long-term impact on state and local governments forced a compromise.
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Nov 2007 |
The use of the internet for health purposes is increasing across the continent, a survey of seven European countries has found.
Northern European countries led the use of the internet for health, followed by Eastern and Southern Europe.
Of 7,022 interviewed over the telephone in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Greece and Portugal, over half said they use the internet for health research.
The survey found the total number of internet health users increased from 44% in 2005 to 54% in 200... |
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Oct 2007 |
An ambitious attempt by the OECD to analyse why broadband uptake is higher in some countries suggests the price of broadband services may be more important than previously thought.
However, people's income and competition between technologies does not seem to have much of a bearing.
Countries that had unbundled the local loop early appeared to have higher uptake of broadband, but the link was not clear-cut.
The statistical study found the size of the market, the degree of urbanisation and the ave... |
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Oct 2007 |
New Zealand looks set to remain in 21st place when the OECD issues its broadband world rankings this week and, on current trends, its ranking is unlikely to change before next year's election.
Statistics supplied by Telecom and Portuguese telecommunications regulator Anacom show New Zealand had 15.7 broadband connections per hundred people at the end of June, one more than Portugal. But data compiled by European researcher Point Topic suggests it is a long way from overhauling either Italy or Spain.
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Oct 2007 |
More often than we'd like, we're a bit behind the tech curve here in the US. These 20 products from overseas are hand-picked by our experts as the best in design and cutting-edge features.
We see it every day on our favorite gadget and tech blogs: A great new MP3 player or cell phone with killer styling and cutting-edge components. Then we read on, and our hearts sink when the phrase "only in Japan" jumps off the computer screen. Sigh.
Stranded over here in the price-point-driven US market, we're not ... |
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Oct 2007 |
For years, the broadband wars have been largely fought over download speeds, but Verizon has just thrown down the gauntlet and declared that it's going to fight over upstream speeds too, and in a big way. How does 20Mbps sound?
Related StoriesVerizon denies neglecting copper infrastructure in favor of fiber
Verizon CEO: FiOS and EV-DO expensive, but oh so worth it
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Verizon quarterly earnings: FiOS is rockin'
Some residents of New York, Conn... |
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Oct 2007 |
After years of promises, Verizon Communications Inc. is making significant headway with its $18 billion effort to roll out television and faster Internet service, posing a difficult new competitive threat for the cable industry.
Two years after launching its FiOS service, Verizon has signed up half a million TV subscribers and, as of the second quarter, was adding 2,600 customers per business day, the company says. In the parts of the Dallas area where FiOS service is offered, a quarter of households are... |
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Oct 2007 |
Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who -- by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors -- display the mettle of the national character.
For instance: The Dillinger Gang, robbing banks (and destroying mortgages) when banks were foreclosing on the poor. Stephanie St. Clair, matron of the numbers racket during the Harlem Renaissance, striking a (dubious) blow for both gender and racial equality. Junior Johnson bootlegging liquor during Prohibition (the benefits of which were self-evident).
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Oct 2007 |
Sony announced today in Japan 40GB Sony PS3 consoles. As a treat Japanese customers can get a ceramic white Sony PS3 console.
As in Europe, Japan gets now lower priced 40GB Sony PS3 consoles. The price in Japan is 39,980 Yen (~$340).
Sony will start shipping the new white and the new black 40GB Sony PS3 on November 11th. Now we have something desirable again to import from Japan - a shiny white Sony PS3.
The SKU for the black Japanese 40GB PS3 is CECHH00 and CECHH00 CW for the white PS3.
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