http://www.telconews.com Telecom and VoIP Daily News Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. The internet has become a constant and inescapable part of ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/nigerian-web-first-timers-long-to-be-part-of-the-world/ European governments are not doing enough to improve online security - leaving the entire continent vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a new parliamentary investigation. A report from the House of Lords suggests that officials in Brussels have failed to boost the union's internet defences - creating a yawning gap between Nato, ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/europe-vulnerable-to-cyberattack-uk-internet-security-rated-among-europes-best/ 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 ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/google-in-italy-lessons-from-tobago/ 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. QQ.com game sceneThe warning by the company, which operates the world's most popular instant messaging service and online games with titles such as Dungeon & Fighter, is an early ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/beijing-warned-of-business-damage-from-text-crackdown/ The 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 ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/slow-steps-to-americas-high-speed-broadband-the-fccs-national-broadband-plan-has-the-right-goals-but-can-it-reach-them-fast-enough/ 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. The Unity Consortium, which consists of Google, Bharti Airtel, Global ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/googles-fast-pipe-to-asia-almost-ready/ A 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. The move has increased the pressure on the embattled company, where at least 44 members of staff have ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/18/france-telecom-faces-legal-action-over-suicide/ The growth of illegal file-sharing could cost European countries 1.2m jobs and €240bn (£215bn) by 2015, an industry report claims. The study, commissioned by an industry body and endorsed by trade unions, studied the impact of web piracy in Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain. It claims that without measures to curb ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/17/illegal-file-sharing-could-cost-europeans-billions-by-2015/ 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). Even though iiNet won the recent copyright court case ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/17/iinet-contests-cooper-australian-copyright-judgement/ 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. The move is an effort by Google and Intel to extend their dominance of computing to television, an arena where ... http://www.telconews.com/2010/03/17/google-and-partners-seek-tv-foothold/