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Nigerian web first-timers long to be ‘part of the world’

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

The world has become smaller. The connections established by e-mail and websites have significantly shortened the distances between people. We can live in London and shop in Johannesburg; we can be based in Brussels and run a business out of Bombay. … more

Posted in Mobile, Telecom |

Europe ‘vulnerable to cyberattack’; UK internet security rated among Europe’s best

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

European governments are not doing enough to improve online security - leaving the entire continent vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a new parliamentary investigation. … more

Posted in Telecom |

Google In Italy: Lessons from Tobago

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

As a student of the Yale Law School more than 40 years ago, I audited a course in conflicts of laws taught by the Israeli academic Avigdor Levontin. His course began with the 1808 English case of Buchanan v Rucker, in which the plaintiff sued a nonresident of Tobago in Tobago courts by posting a summons near the Tobago court house door. … more

Posted in Telecom |

Beijing warned of business damage from text crackdown

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

Tencent, the world’s third-largest internet company by market capitalisation, said China’s crackdown on mobile text messaging was starting to hurt its business. … more

Posted in Mobile |

Slow steps to America’s high-speed broadband: the FCC’s National Broadband Plan has the right goals, but can it reach them fast enough?

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

Federal Communications Commission - FCC - logoThe National Broadband Plan that the Federal Communications Commission released Tuesday is ambitious in the right way, staking out such immodest national goals as building the most innovative and fastest wireless networks on the planet and vastly improving the wired infrastructure within a decade. But the commission moved so cautiously toward those goals, it’s hard to see at this point how it’s going to reach them. … more

Posted in Broadband, Telecom |

Google’s fast pipe to Asia almost ready

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

Google and a group of telecommunications companies are about ready to turn on a fast Internet cable running under the Pacific Ocean from the U.S. to Japan, increasing bandwidth by about 20 percent and giving Google its own connection to Asia. … more

Posted in Broadband, Telecom |

France Télécom faces legal action over suicide

time March 18th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

France Télécom logoA spate of suicides at France Télécom has left the telecommunications company facing legal action after a prosecutor opened a manslaughter investigation in connection with the death of a technician in eastern France. … more

Posted in Telecom |

Illegal-file sharing could cost Europeans billions by 2015

time March 17th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

The growth of illegal file-sharing could cost European countries 1.2m jobs and €240bn (£215bn) by 2015, an industry report claims. … more

Posted in Telecom |

iiNet contests Cooper Australian copyright judgement

time March 17th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

iiNet has lodged a “notice of contention” with the Federal Court in the hope of clarifying two of its defences that were rejected by Federal Court Judge Dennis Cowdroy in its recent legal battle against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). … more

Posted in Telecom |

Google and Partners Seek TV Foothold

time March 17th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. … more

Posted in Convergence, IPTV |

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