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Searching for success in a digital age
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/12/5

Africa fastest growing market in communication technology, says UN [news 
release]
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26639

Survey: 20% of Americans have never sent an email
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1603000633;fp;2;fpid;1

Google helps the web to go social
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7397470.stm

Google Wants to Help Web Sites Make New Friends
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/google-wants-to-help-web-sites-make-new-friends/

Japanese Internet satellite hits 1.2Gbps [IDG]
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1595487774

Mobile phones more important than wallets
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4526377a28.html

MySpace wins $230m payout from spammers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/myspace.socialnetworking

Africans Change the Face of Mobility [IDG]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145851/africans_change_the_face_of_mobility.html

The State of Cyber-Security: Forbes special report
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/14/security-privacy-cyberspace-tech-security08-cx_ag_0514security_land.html

us: Craigslist’s Countersuit Criticizes eBay’s Tactics
http://nytimes.com/2008/05/14/technology/14ebay.html

eu: Google blurs the privacy issue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/13/google.digitalmedia

Piracy growing as fewer fans buy downloads
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/piracy.digitalmusic

NZ rated third best for software piracy
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/AFA133C53145BA07CC25744A001476AD

We're watching the 'oppressors': ITU boss
http://news.smh.com.au/technology/were-watching-the-oppressors-world-telecoms-boss-20080514-2dxi.html

Appealing to Google - fight Chinese censorship
http://uncensor.com.au/uncensor/blog/appealing_to_google/

Australian budget tackles online safety
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,23696923-15306,00.html

au: ISP filtering to get Fed Govt subsidy: Budget 08
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/ISP-filtering-to-get-Fed-Govt-subsidy-Budget-08/0,130061744,339288964,00.htm

WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9085202


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INTERNET USE
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Searching for success in a digital age
... The preoccupation with Google as the "frenemy" and those tedious arguments 
over the indexing of copyrighted material have given way to a more constructive 
attitude. Times Online's editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, said that the 
relationship was now more symbiotic than competitive. Sixty per cent of her 
traffic comes from external links and from search engines, and 27% of that from 
Google. Times Online's search specialists are among her most valuable staff, 
she said, and would be involved in every editorial project.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/12/5

Africa fastest growing market in communication technology, says UN [news 
release]
Africa has been the fastest growing market worldwide in communication 
technology over the past three years and will continue to emerge as an 
important market for the industry, according to the head of the United Nations 
International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26639
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805130001.html

Google's website passes Yahoo's in popularity [AP]
Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular website in the U.S., 
according to Internet tracking firm ComScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of 
unique monthly visitors.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google15-2008may15,0,3546953.story

eBay's Aussie PayPal-Only Policy Raises Hackles
eBay has irked users yet again -- this time with plans to require that all 
transactions on its Australian site be done through its subsidiary, PayPal. A 
PayPal-only policy won't surface in the U.S., said company spokesperson Nichola 
Sharpe; however, it may happen in other countries.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/62970.html

US takes up Aussie broadband speed breakthrough
An Australian-developed signal processing technology has been licensed to a US 
company to deliver faster internet speeds with longer distance capabilities.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23687354-15321,00.html

ComScore pegs UK papers' traffic at 15m
Nearly 15 million UK internet users visited newspaper websites during March, 
according to the latest figures from web measurement firm ComScore. Sun Online 
was the most visited site, according to ComScore's metrics, recording 4.268 
million unique users, with guardian.co.uk in second place at 3.619 million. 
Telegraph.co.uk had 2.754 million users and Times Online 2.6 million.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/13/digitalmedia.pressandpublishing

The Sun Ranked as the Most Widely Read Online Newspaper in the U.K. in March 
[news release]
comScore released a study summarizing the usage of websites for major daily 
newspapers, based on data from comScore Media Metrix. The study revealed that 
14.8 million people in the U.K. visited a newspaper site in March, viewing a 
total of 448 million pages of newspaper content over the course of the month. 
The Sun Online was the most popular online newspaper in the U.K., attracting 
4.3 million visitors in March and accounting for nearly 30 percent of all pages 
viewed in the newspaper category. Guardian.co.uk had the second largest 
audience with 3.6 million visitors, followed by Telegraph Group Ltd (2.8 
million visitors), and the Times Online (2.6 million visitors).
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2225

Survey: 20% of Americans have never sent an email
Roughly one-fifth of all US households are disconnected from the Internet and 
have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051308-e-mail-use.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1603000633;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1603000633;fp;2;fpid;1

20 million US households have no web access: One-fifth of household heads has 
never used email
Some 20 million US households are without internet access, forthcoming research 
will reveal. Parks Associates' National Technology Scan will report that just 
seven per cent of these 20 million "disconnected" homes plans to get an 
internet subscription within the next 12 months.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2216571/million-households-web-access
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2216571/million-households-web-access

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Google helps the web to go social
Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to 
enable people to interact with their friends.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7397470.stm

Google Wants to Help Web Sites Make New Friends
If you run a Web site, you may have a lot of new friends. Last week, site 
owners learned they could add information about their users from MySpace and 
Facebook. On Monday, Google introduced its take on the same phenomenon, Google 
Friend Connect.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/google-wants-to-help-web-sites-make-new-friends/

Google to Connect Friends Across the Web
To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month visit 
networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. But what if the Web itself 
operated as a social network? Google announced yesterday another step in what 
its engineers see as that inevitable evolution. A new, free service from the 
Mountain View, Calif., tech giant will allow any Web site to become a social 
site. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051200823.html

Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
As expected, Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add 
social features to a Web site without programming.
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9941411-80.html

Welcome to the social mess?
Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenID, 
DataPortability: Managing a bunch of different log-ins and passwords suddenly 
seems easy and straightforward.
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9941984-36.html

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Japanese Internet satellite hits 1.2Gbps [IDG]
Engineers testing a recently launched Japanese data communications satellite 
have succeeded in establishing a two-way Internet link running at 1.2G bps 
(bits per second) each way, they announced this week.
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1595487774

Mobile phones more important than wallets
More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their 
wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 
24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN1336793620080513
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4526377a28.html

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SPAM
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MySpace wins $230m payout from spammers
MySpace has won a record $230m (£118m) legal judgment over junk messages sent 
to its members by a team of notorious American internet spammers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/myspace.socialnetworking

MySpace wins bumper spam payout
MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to 
members of the social networking site. Victory in the case was awarded to 
MySpace after Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, the men behind the junk mail, 
failed to show up in court.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7399868.stm

MySpace wins $230M spam judgment believed to be largest ever; defendants 
include 'spam king' [AP]
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a US$230 million (€148.65 million) 
judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the 
largest anti-spam award ever.
http://news.smh.com.au/technology/myspace-wins-230m-spam-judgment-believed-to-be-largest-ever-defendants-include-spam-king-20080514-2e1q.html
http://news.theage.com.au/technology/myspace-wins-230m-spam-judgment-believed-to-be-largest-ever-defendants-include-spam-king-20080514-2e1q.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302301.html

Spam King does a runner after $306m fine
MySpace.com, the social networking website owned by Rupert Murdoch's News 
Corporation, has won $234 million (NZ$306m) in damages over junk email sent to 
its members, in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam ruling ever.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10510354

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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my: Conquering the divide WCIT 2008
Is enough being done to bridge the digital divide? Multimedia Development Corp 
(MDeC), ­caretaker of the MSC Malaysia initiative, shares its views on the 
issue as WCIT 2008 rounds the corner
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2008/5/13/itfeature/1194713&sec=itfeature

Africans Change the Face of Mobility [IDG]
Mobile money transfers, payments, how to charge customers and e-health are some 
of the areas where the rest of the world can look to Africa for inspiration.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145851/africans_change_the_face_of_mobility.html

1bn Africans to Get Satellite Connectivity
One billion Africans located in under-served rural and urban areas across the 
continent are set to benefit from an initiative powered by a non profit 
association of the international satellite industry called Global VSAT Forum to 
double the number of earth station terminals operating in Africa by 2012.
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=111536

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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The State of Cyber-Security: Forbes special report
We live in what the economist Fritz Machlup called in 1962 an "information 
society." Data and information fuel corporate competition, separate the haves 
and have-nots and even define political power. Bits and bytes have truly become 
a battleground.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/14/security-privacy-cyberspace-tech-security08-cx_ag_0514security_land.html

How Your Cellphone Can Stop Cybercrime
As devices like the iPhone have demonstrated, a phone today is more than a 
phone: Beyond simple calls, handsets play music, take photos and serve up Web 
video of skateboarding dogs. Now banks and security researchers are hoping to 
squeeze another function into the wireless devices that people all over the 
world now carry: putting an end to identity theft.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/13/identity-theft-gadgets-tech-security08-cx_ag_0514idtheft.html

Hacker Posts Chilean Government Data on 6 Million [IDG]
An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents 
on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145789/hacker_posts_chilean_government_data_on_6_million.html

us: Actors don't want to lose grip on Web clips
Few things are more precious to actors than control over their images. A stark 
reminder of that came last week when the studios suspended contract talks with 
the Screen Actors Guild after three weeks of negotiations. A cause for the 
logjam: Actors balked at a studio proposal that would allow the studios to sell 
or license excerpts of TV shows and movies for use on the Internet, cellphones 
and other new-media devices -- without the actors' consent.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-clips15-2008may15,0,2261497.story

eu: Consumers: 50% of misleading airline websites corrected [news release]
EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva today published the mid term report on 
an EU wide enforcement investigation - involving 15 EU national authorities as 
well as Norway – against misleading advertising and unfair practices on airline 
ticket selling websites. The report shows that there are "serious and 
persistent consumer problems" throughout the airline industry as a whole. 1 in 
3 websites surveyed (137 out of 386 originally checked by the 13 reporting 
countries) have had to be followed up with enforcement action over the last 7 
months for breaches of EU consumer law. Over 50% of those websites have been 
corrected during this time.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/722

us: Craigslist’s Countersuit Criticizes eBay’s Tactics
Craigslist, the online classified ad company, filed a countersuit Tuesday 
against its minority owner eBay, accusing it of unfair competition, false 
advertising, trademark infringement and diluting the value of the Craigslist 
trademark.
http://nytimes.com/2008/05/14/technology/14ebay.html

Craigslist countersues EBay over alleged unfair practices [Reuters]
Online classifieds leader Craigslist.com filed a countersuit Tuesday against 
business rival EBay Inc., alleging that EBay had used its minority stake in 
Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN1333683520080514
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-craigslist14-2008may14,0,2075410.story

Silver lining in report on software piracy
Software piracy cost global businesses $47.8 billion in lost revenue last year, 
up 20 percent from 2006, according to a study to be published Wednesday by an 
industry trade group. But the rate of unauthorized copying actually declined in 
more than half the countries measured, including some previous pirate havens 
like Russia, as the authorities took steps to crack down on the practice.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/05/13/technology/piracy.php

eu: One in three airline sites breaks consumer laws
One in three European airline ticket websites is breaking consumer protection 
laws, the European Commission has said. It said that almost 60% of investigated 
sites published misleading pricing details.
http://out-law.com/page-9113

Website design was stolen, says US jury
A man has been found liable for stealing a company's website design in order to 
then pursue that same company's customers. A US court found the man liable for 
copyright infringement and in breach of contract in his property business.
http://out-law.com/page-9116

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au: ACS supports privacy laws, calls for e-mail safeguards
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to enforce rigid 
privacy laws on organisations which intercept employee e-mails.
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;54868354;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;54868354;fp;2;fpid;1

eu: Google blurs the privacy issue
Google is hoping to avoid a fight with European privacy campaigners as it 
prepares to launch its controversial Street View service this side of the 
Atlantic later in the year, by introducing new technology that blurs the faces 
of people its cameras inadvertently snap while scanning the streets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/13/google.digitalmedia

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Piracy growing as fewer fans buy downloads
Record labels are losing their battle with digital piracy as the number of 
people who regularly download songs legally falls back, research will claim 
today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/piracy.digitalmusic

UK software piracy rate declines
For the first time in three years the amount of pirated business software on UK 
computers has fallen. The Business Software Alliance's (BSA) annual survey 
shows a 1% drop in UK piracy rates to 26%.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7400260.stm

NZ rated third best for software piracy
The use of pirated software dropped in 67 countries, according to new research
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/AFA133C53145BA07CC25744A001476AD

How Apple is changing DRM
As more stores and record labels abandon digital rights management, Apple may 
have an alternative plan for subscription services, writes The Guardian's Tim 
Anderson: When Apple approached record companies about selling their music 
digitally five years ago, they "were extremely cautious and required Apple to 
protect their music from being illegally copied", according to Steve Jobs's 
recollection of the process. That meant using digital rights management (DRM) - 
a software wrapper - to protect songs from unlimited copying. Jobs says it is 
crucial to the contract: "If our DRM system is compromised and their music 
becomes playable on unauthorized devices, we have only a small number of weeks 
to fix the problem or they can withdraw their entire music catalog from our 
iTunes store."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

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CENSORSHIP
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We're watching the 'oppressors': ITU boss
The head of the world telecoms body said on Tuesday that oppressive regimes are 
increasingly using their control over the Internet to deprive citizens of 
information but that those governments are being watched as well.
http://news.theage.com.au/technology/were-watching-the-oppressors-world-telecoms-boss-20080514-2dxi.html
http://news.smh.com.au/technology/were-watching-the-oppressors-world-telecoms-boss-20080514-2dxi.html

Appealing to Google - fight Chinese censorship
Google has just held its annual stockholders' meeting at its corporate 
headquarters in California. And Amnesty International’s US section used the 
meeting to put forward a shareholder motion calling for the company to do more 
to fight censorship in China.
http://uncensor.com.au/uncensor/blog/appealing_to_google/

10 ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced 
"The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the 
world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. This 
article summarizes 10 key differences in the way China's internet is operated 
and controlled compared to North America (or most places on the planet).
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=48400

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Australian budget tackles online safety
THE Rudd Government has committed $49 million to cracking down on child sexual 
exploitation on the internet as part of new budget measures announced yesterday.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,23696923-15306,00.html

au: ISP filtering to get Fed Govt subsidy: Budget 08
Internet Service Providers will be granted a one-off Government subsidy towards 
the cost of installing filtering technology, as part of the Rudd Government's 
AU$125.8 million Cyber-safety plan.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/ISP-filtering-to-get-Fed-Govt-subsidy-Budget-08/0,130061744,339288964,00.htm

Budget provides policing for internet safety [news release]
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator 
Stephen Conroy, today announced a targeted plan to create a safer online 
environment for Australian children. “Although the internet has opened up a 
world of possibilities and benefits to Australian children, it has also exposed 
them to continually emerging and evolving dangers that did not previously 
exist,” Senator Conroy said.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/033

Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet [IDG]
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial 
national content filtering scheme with a $125.8 million budget allocation 
announced today.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1437589201
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1437589201
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1437589201

$129m to keep Australian children safe from cyberporn
The Federal Budget has allocated $128.9 million over four years "to create a 
safer online environment for Australian children." Law enforcement alone will 
get $49m and the government will press ahead with its controversial ISP 
filtering plans, but has stopped not confirmed earlier suggestions that this 
would be mandatory.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18206/127/

Consultative Working Group to improve Cyber-Safety [news release]
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator 
Stephen Conroy, today announced the members of the Cyber-Safety Consultative 
Working Group as part of the Government's $125.8 million program to improve 
online safety for children.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/035

EFA decries money wasted on Internet Filtering [news release]
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today expressed its disappointment at the 
Federal Government’s decision to fund its mandatory “clean-feed” Internet in 
the 2008-09 federal budget.
http://www.efa.org.au/2008/05/15/efa-decries-money-wasted-on-internet-filtering/

Q&A with Parry Aftab: A passion for protecting kids
Parry Aftab wants to make the Internet safer--one social network at a time. 
Founder of Wired Safety, a global Internet kids-safety nonprofit, Aftab is 
turning her passion for protecting kids online into a consulting business for 
the fast-changing world of Web 2.0 widgets, social networks, and virtual 
worlds. In July, she plans to launch Wired Trust, an Internet security business 
and certification program designed to act like an insurance policy for social 
sites.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9942447-7.html

Penguins offer safer surfing
The founders of Club Penguin, Lane Merrifield, Lance Priebe and Dave Krysko, 
are possibly some of the nicest guys in the internet business. They give 
millions of dollars a year to children's charities and are fierce advocates of 
family values.
http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto051120081332533409

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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British Agency Shifts Microsoft Antitrust Complaint to EC
A British government agency has complained to the European Commission about the 
lack of interoperability in some of Microsoft's applications, but regulators 
are reportedly not opening a new formal inquiry on the complaint.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/British-Agency-Shifts-Microsoft-Antitrust-Complaint-to-EC-62993.html

New York State seeks Internet violence law [AP]
A proposal in New York would make a felony of committing violent acts for 
display on Internet video sites. The state Senate's Republican majority on 
Tuesday is expected to introduce a bill that would make a felony of violent 
acts like the brutal beating of a girl in Florida and subsequent attack of a 
12-year-old in Indiana.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/12/2008-05-12_state_seeks_internet_violence_law_.html

U.S. bill would require captioning for Internet video
Nearly two decades after the U.S. government began requiring television 
networks to provide text captions for hearing-impaired viewers, there is a move 
afoot to set the same standard for Internet video.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/05/13/technology/captions.php

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Icahn Is Said to Weigh a Proxy Fight at Yahoo
Carl C. Icahn is said to have asked about new merger talks. Carl C. Icahn, the 
billionaire investor and activist shareholder, is considering a proxy fight for 
seats on the Yahoo board in hopes of pushing the company to restart talks to 
sell itself to Microsoft, people who have held discussions with him said on 
Tuesday.
http://nytimes.com/2008/05/14/technology/14yahoo.html

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Rivals can't follow Telstra's map
Progress towards the federal Government's circa $10 billion fibre network is 
likely to be delayed while Telstra is told to improve the details on its 
existing network map.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23701823-5013038,00.html

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Kuala Lumpur the wireless online metropolitan
With the launch of the Kuala Lumpur wireless metropolitan project at the City 
Hall headquarters yesterday, the entire capital city will be covered by a 
wireless broadband access network in the near future.
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/5/13/central/21227814&sec=central

Big China quake takes out mobile network in Chengdu [IDG]
An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale knocked out mobile phone 
service in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, although fixed-line networks 
remained up and running, Chinese state television reported today.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9084982
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/2F71772C040774CECC25744700774B27
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;798050759;fp;2;fpid;1

WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin
A long-term battle is brewing between two emerging high-speed wireless 
technologies, WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Each would more than 
quadruple existing wireless wide-area access speeds for users.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9085202

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VoIP
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Identity fraud hits net telephony
A new type of identity fraud, which sees hackers tapping into voice-over IP 
telephony accounts, has been highlighted by a VoIP equipment maker. Usernames 
and passwords from voice-over IP (VoIP) phone accounts are selling online for 
more than stolen credit cards, Newport Networks has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7398676.stm

VoIP to dominate SME use by 2010
A recent Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) report found that 
a majority of businesses still use a fixed-line phone service as their main 
form of voice communication, but one observer has claimed that VoIP will be 
prevalent across SMEs by 2010.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/VoIP-to-dominate-SME-use-by-2010/0,130061791,339288858,00.htm

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David Goldstein
address: 4/3 Abbott Street
COOGEE NSW 2034
AUSTRALIA
email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au
phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile); +61 2 9665 5773 (home)


"Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. Every time you 
forgo fossil fuels, you're being part of the solution" - Dr Tim Flannery



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