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Today's Topics:
1. [Fwd: [Wildfeeds] NASCAR Practice Hi Def] (Greg Williams)
2. [Fwd: FCC Rules That Rural Carriers Must Connect VoIP Calls]
(Greg Williams)
3. Test - back on twiar.org (Greg Williams)
4. Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit (Rob)
5. Robot serves tea just the way Japanese like it (Rob)
6. Motorola CEO Got $13.2M as Profits Fell (George Antunes)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:55:08 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] [Fwd: [Wildfeeds] NASCAR Practice Hi Def]
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:56:10 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] [Fwd: FCC Rules That Rural Carriers Must Connect
VoIP Calls]
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March 2, 2007
F.C.C. Rules That Rural Carriers Must Connect Internet Calls
By DOW JONES
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/technology/02fcc.html?pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Dow Jones) ? Rural telephone carriers must connect
calls made by voice-over-Internet Protocol customers, the Federal
Communications Commission ruled Thursday in a decision that marks the
breaking down of one of the last barriers to allowing VoIP to fully compete
with traditional phone carriers.
The F.C.C. said that rural service providers in two states, Nebraska and
South Carolina, must connect telephone calls made by customers of Time
Warner?s VoIP service.
Regulators in the two states argued that because the FCC had not deemed
VoIP providers as telecom services, the local telephone companies did not
have to honor their phone calls.
?This decision will enable Time Warner Cable to deploy its digital phone
service in areas that until now have been denied the benefits of
competition because of state decisions,? said Mark Harrad, a spokesman for
the company.
?By increasing competition in the telephone sector, this action encourages
the deployment of broadband facilities and ensures that consumers in all
areas of the country reap the benefits of competition in the form of lower
prices, innovative services and more choice,? the F.C.C. chairman, Kevin J.
Martin, said in a statement.
The move by Mr. Martin to rule in favor of the cable industry in a dispute
with telecom providers is a rare one. In a recent series of high-profile
decisions, Mr. Martin sided with the telecom industry, provoking the ire of
the cable industry.
The decision is limited in its scope because in most parts of the country,
incumbent telephone companies already voluntarily connect VoIP customers?
calls.
As a result of the decision, VoIP providers such as Time Warner will be
able to offer truly national service.
Some VoIP companies, like Time Warner, contract their phone service to a
third party provider. In Time Warner?s case, Sprint Nextel is the actual
phone provider. Others, like Vonage, offer phone service without the
assistance of a traditional phone carrier.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Greg Williams
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:02:58 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Test - back on twiar.org
To: medianews@twiar.org, wildfeeds@twiar.org
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Testing #1
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:48:26 -0600
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit
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Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070302/tc_nm/microsoft_alcatellucent_dc_1
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's
(ALU.PA)(NYSE:ALU - news) patent claim against Microsoft Corp.
(Nasdaq:MSFT - news) over technology that converts speech into text, the
two companies said on Friday.
The ruling made late Thursday comes one week after a jury found that the
world's largest software maker infringed on audio patents held by
Alcatel-Lucent and ordered the company to pay $1.52 billion in damages.
U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego dismissed all of
Alcatel-Lucent's claims in a summary judgment, meaning that the jury
trial set to begin on March 19 will not take place. Alcatel-Lucent said
it plans to appeal the ruling.
"We've made strong arguments supporting our view," said Alcatel-Lucent
spokeswoman Joan Campion. "We're comfortable with our chances of success."
Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent are locked in a number of patent disputes
including a suit over the video-coding technology in Microsoft's
Xbox 360 video game console.
"This ruling reaffirms our confidence that once there's judicial review
of these complex patent cases, these Alcatel-Lucent claims ultimately
won't stand up," said Tom Burt, Microsoft's deputy general counsel.
Last week's $1.52 billion award for Alcatel-Lucent was the largest ever
in a U.S. patent case. The award is expected to fuel a push by computer
and software makers to overhaul the U.S. patent system.
Microsoft has said it plans to ask a judge to knock down the award and
will appeal if necessary.
(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York)
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:54:28 -0600
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Robot serves tea just the way Japanese like it
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Robot serves tea just the way Japanese like it
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/02/robot.tea.ap/index.html
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the
droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese
custom of serving tea.
Fortunately, researchers at the University of Tokyo are exploring just
that. In a demonstration this week, a humanoid with camera eyes made by
Kawada Industries Inc. poured tea from a bottle into a cup.
Then another robot on wheels delivered the cup of tea in an experimental
room that has sensors embedded in the floor and sofa as well as cameras
on the ceiling, to simulate life with robot technology.
"A human being may be faster, but you'd have to say 'Thank you,"' said
University of Tokyo professor Tomomasa Sato. "That's the best part about
a robot. You don't have to feel bad about asking it to do things."
Sato believes Japan, a rapidly aging society where more than a fifth of
the population is 65 or older, will lead the world in designing robots
to care for the elderly, sick and bedridden.
Already, monitoring technologies, such as sensors that automatically
turn on lights when people enter a room, are becoming widespread in Japan.
The walking, child-size Asimo from Honda Motor Co. greets people at
showrooms. NEC Corp. has developed a smaller companion robot-on-wheels
called Papero. A seal robot available since 2004 can entertain the
elderly and others in need of fuzzy companionship.
Sato says his experimental room is raising awareness about privacy
questions that may arise when electronic devices monitor a person's
movements down to the smallest detail.
On the bright side, the tea-pouring humanoid has been programmed to do
the dishes.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:05:59 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Motorola CEO Got $13.2M as Profits Fell
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Motorola CEO Got $13.2M as Profits Fell
Associated Press
Saturday March 3, 2007 1:17 AM EST
http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8nkh6do0&;
CHICAGO (AP) ? Motorola Inc. Chief Executive Ed Zander received $13.2
million in compensation in 2006, according to a proxy statement filed
Friday, for a year in which the cell-phone maker boosted sales and market
share but saw profits decline under pressure from rivals.
Zander was paid $1.5 million in salary and $2.2 million in other
compensation. He also was given stock or option awards worth $9.5 million.
As part of overall compensation, he received perks costing the company
$430,000, including about $351,000 for personal use of company aircraft and
$56,000 for personal use of car and driver.
Motorola said Zander's compensation was based in part on its
pay-for-performance program for all employees, and on the company having
exceeded certain business targets for the year. It said his base salary has
not changed since his hiring on Jan. 5, 2004.
The Associated Press calculates total pay by including executives' salary,
bonus, incentives, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and
the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension
benefits.
The world's No. 2 cell-phone manufacturer, behind Nokia Corp., had net
earnings in 2006 of $3.67 billion, down 20 percent from 2005, even as sales
rose 22 percent to $42.9 billion.
Motorola also boosted its global market share to about 22 percent in 2006,
up from 14 percent in 2003. But the latest gains came at the expense of
profit margins, as it cut prices of its popular Razr and other high-end
phones sharply, especially in emerging markets.
Zander has since called the obsessive focus on gaining market share a
mistake and says it will take until the second half of 2007 to return the
company to double-digit operating profitability.
"I think we got carried away with being No. 1," he told analysts Thursday
at a conference in Las Vegas.
Motorola shares fell 19 cents to close at $18.64 on the New York Stock
Exchange, down 9 percent this year after a 9 percent drop in 2006.
???
On the Net:
http://www.motorola.com
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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