http://www.telconews.com Telecom and VoIP Daily News Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The phone manufacturer's concept would harness the energy created as a person moves around, through the use of piezoelectric crystals You're at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night's television. Suddenly, you realise the phone's battery is about to run out. It's a very modern disaster, ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/11/nokia-patents-first-self-charging-phone/ Lower internet prices and unlimited downloads for home connections are predicted to be the result of a new high-speed link planned between New Zealand, Australia and the United States. The project would build a $900 million, 13,000km high-speed link within three years. The "Pacific Fibre" project is backed by some of New ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/11/900m-plan-for-high-speed-nz-australia-us-internet-link/ Manchester United have signed a five-year sponsorship agreement with Telekom Malaysia, continuing the strategy of trying to widen United's sponsorship base and hoping to tap into the club's fan base in the country. To read this report in The Guardian in full, see: www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/11/manchester-united-sponsorship-telekom-malaysia http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/11/manchester-united-sign-sponsorship-deal-with-malaysian-telecom-company/ The latest scandal to break in the world of Italian telecoms provides an interesting test for the Roman judge overseeing the case. The affair involves an alleged value added tax scam at Telecom Italia’s wholesale division Sparkle and broadband competitor Fastweb that apparently generated hundreds of millions of euros that were ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/11/telecom-scandals-important-call-for-italys-legal-system/ The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The number of nominations surpasses last year's record of 205 nominations. The internet's nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus". To read this BBC News ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/10/internet-in-running-for-nobel-peace-prize/ Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ. To read this BBC ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/10/mobile-that-allows-bosses-to-snoop-on-staff-developed/ The old order is under threat at the world's billionaires club. Traditionally dominated by Americans and Europeans, the top ranks of the world's richest people have been infiltrated by scores of ultra-rich entrepreneurs from the developing world - capped by the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim. Today, Slim, the titan of ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/10/forbes-rich-list-topped-by-mexican-mobile-phone-titan-carlos-slim/ The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm's request that German publisher Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps. Springer-owned tabloid Bild's "Shake the Bild Girl" app allows iPhone users to undress a model. Each time ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/10/german-publisher-in-row-with-apple-over-pin-ups-in-iphone-app/ Plans to force internet providers to block sites carrying pirated music and films "threaten freedom of speech and the open internet", the largest internet and telecom companies operating in the UK said. In a letter published in the Financial Times on Wednesday, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Ebay, along with the UK's ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/10/britains-digital-economy-bill-threatens-free-speech/ The UK music downloads market could generate up to £200m a year for internet service providers such as BSkyB and Virgin Media within three years, according to a new report. British music industry trade body the BPI estimates that the UK's major ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB, O2, Orange and ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/08/british-isps-could-make-up-to-200m-from-legal-downloads/