From editor@telecom-digest.org Sun Oct 31 19:54:50 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id iA10snR29622; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:54:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:54:50 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200411010054.iA10snR29622@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #521 TELECOM Digest Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:55:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 521 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Smart Web to Usher in Host of New Services-Gartner (Lisa Minter) China Closes 1,600 Internet Cafes in Crackdown (Lisa Minter) Companies Scramble to Deal With Spyware (Lisa Minter) Users Often Invite Spyware Trouble (Monty Solomon) Sneaky Spyware Becomes Internet Scourge (Monty Solomon) VPN Over Vonage Router (Mike Kraley) Delphi, XM Unveil Handheld Satellite (Marcus Didius Falco) Re: Cybersquatter Update (Gary Breukman) Re: New Electronic Check Law Sinks 'Float' (DevilsPGD) Re: New Electronic Check Law Sinks 'Float' (Steve Sobol) Re: Yet Another Telco Tax Proposed (Tony P.) Re: Home Phones Face Uncertain Future (John Levine) Last Laugh! A Halloween Weekend Car Trip (Patrick Townson) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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A smarter Internet will allow consumers to collaborate to pay for services costing just a few cents, making a whole range of new offerings viable. "We can start selling products we could not sell before. iTunes (Apple's online music store where songs cost $0.99 apiece) is just the start," Linden said. Navigation systems which now offer only a rudimentary selection of road services such as fuel stations and tourist sights are just a beginning. Mobile users will one day be shown the way to the nearest doctor on weekend duty. Parents will be able to contact the nearest child minder to take over at a moment's notice. Consumers will be able to select and rate a wide range of services such as restaurants or shops. "It will influence competition. Companies will have to compete more on quality and location than brand," Linden said. Some Web sites already offer a glimpse of the future by having customers describe and rate restaurants they visit, in a real life version of what Google and Amazon.com do by tracking clicks and customer purchases. Consumers and businesses should expect this kind of Internet intelligence to come to the real world. There is also a new opportunity for investors. On the new Internet, they will not need expensive investment software to find and compare data from company financial reports. The building blocks for a more intelligent Internet are standardized data from a plethora of sources which can be recognized and connected. For now, we are in a technology cycle in which all kinds of information network are built and tied together for ubiquitous access to the Internet, Gartner says. It expects the distinction between fixed and mobile Internet to slowly disappear. The first signs of this can be seen in some Web sites which recognize how a consumer accesses a site, either by PC or cellphone. They adjust the size and content of the page accordingly and automatically. The next cycle of connectivity, where all systems understand each other, has barely started, while the following cycle -- in which this intelligence is embedded in every device -- is still a dream. "We always say we live in the information age. But in fact we live in an information wanna-be situation," Linden said. "It will take a century or more to get to ubiquitous intelligence." *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: China Closes 1,600 Internet Cafes in Crackdown Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:23:20 -0600 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&u=3D/nm/20041031/wr_nm/chin= a_internet_crackdown_dc=20 BEIJING (Reuters) - China shut 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed $12.1 million worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media said. Of 1.8 million Internet bars inspected, 18,000 were ordered "to stop operation for rectification," Xinhua news agency quoted Zhang Xinjian, deputy director of the Culture Ministry's market department, as saying. "Porn, gambling, violence and similar problems have adversely affected the healthy development of the Internet in China," Zhang was quoted as saying. The crackdown comes amid a nationwide push to limit violence and pornography on the Internet that has seen the government shut down hundreds of Web sites it deemed unsavory. China has some 87 million Internet users, over 50 percent of whom are under 24 and approximately 18 percent are minors. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance Reuters News Service. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Companies Scramble to Deal With Spyware Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:23:02 -0600 By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer SEATTLE - The people who call Dell Inc.'s customer service line often have no idea why their computers are running so slow. The ones who call America Online Inc. can't necessarily explain why Internet connections keep dropping. And those who file error reports with Microsoft Corp. don't always know why their computers inexplicably crash. Sometimes, the company that gets the complaint is rightly to blame. But with alarming frequency, officials at these and other technology companies say they are tracing customer problems back to one culprit: spyware. In the past year, spyware problems have become especially pernicious, leaving companies scrambling to respond to customers who don't necessarily realize they have spyware. Companies are concerned about the cost of dealing with such calls. But perhaps more worrisome, they fear customers will wrongly blame them. Spyware generally refers to programs that land on computers without their owners' knowledge. They can deliver hordes of pop-up ads, redirect people to unfamiliar search engines or, in rare cases, steal personal information. Users most often get them by downloading free games or file-sharing software -- and consenting to language buried deep within a licensing agreement. And because they consented, "in some ways it ties our hands because we can't legally interfere," said Mike George, head of Dell's U.S. consumer business. Russ Cooper, senior scientist with TruSecure Corp., said a longstanding fear of legal repercussions is likely one reason companies have only recently begun to address the problem. But now that spyware has become epidemic, he believes Microsoft and other companies ought to do much more to educate the public -- such as by running public-awareness commercials akin to the old Smokey Bear slogan "Only you can prevent forest fires." The industry's incentive is simple survival, Cooper said. "It's almost ridiculous," said Bill Bane, 33, a derivatives trader in New York. "You buy a computer. It's new, bright and shiny and looks great and three months down the road, it's infested with spyware." Though he recognizes he's partly to blame for his surfing habits, he believes his service provider and manufacturer share responsibility. "Either the Internet providers figure out a way to clean up the Net or people are just going to pull the plug at home," Bane said. "It ain't worth it." Microsoft officials blame unwanted software for up to one-third of application crashes on Windows XP computers. AOL estimates that just three such programs together cause some 300,000 Internet disconnections per day. Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn said a spyware-related support call can cost $15 to $45, and companies may lose business. "Security is a component of loyalty," Penn said. "People, they want all these various services, but they expect security to come with it." Some companies have begun offering spyware-detection tools -- Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)'s is free, while AOL and EarthLink Inc. limit key features to paid subscribers. Anti-spyware software that Hewlett-Packard Co. began shipping with new computers in June comes with a 30-day free trial; it's about $20 a year after that. Dell will have similar software by the holidays. Most tools leave it to users to decide what to do with any programs found. EarthLink's tool -- and AOL's by default -- will quarantine spyware without removing it completely. EarthLink spokesman Jerry Grasso said some users may decide that having spyware is worth the nuisance in exchange for the free program that came with it. Microsoft's Service Pack 2 security upgrade for Windows XP warns users of spyware and other unexpected programs before they are loaded. And the company plans spyware-specific tools to give users more control, said Paul Bryan, a director in the security, business and technology unit. He said it was too soon to say when they would be available. Advertisers are responding, too. After using the criticized delivery methods for nearly two years, Verizon Communications Inc. suspended those campaigns in July. "We realize it was being raised as a consumer issue," spokesman John Bonomo said. "We wanted to make sure we were keeping with the trust they place in us." *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:28:51 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Users Often Invite Spyware Trouble By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Tagalong software, generally known as spyware, is an especially tricky security threat because user carelessness is nearly always to blame. All Dennis McGrath wanted was to belong. Just about everyone else in his chat room began displaying new kinds of smiley faces with their messages. So he downloaded a free program to get some, too. Little did McGrath know he would also get a pesky toolbar that keeps reappearing no matter how he tries to disable it. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44636966 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:28:51 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Sneaky Spyware Becomes Internet Scourge By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Spyware, an amorphous class of software that mostly gets onto computers without their users' knowledge, has become epidemic in the past year as people spend more time online and spyware developers get more aggressive. The resource-hungry programs often render machines unusable. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44636941 ------------------------------ From: Mike Kraley Subject: VPN Over Vonage Router Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:50:13 -0400 I have a Linksys RT31P2 router for my Vonage VOIP connection. Everything else works fine, but I cannot establish a vanilla Microsoft VPN connection thru it. Topology is my computer to Linksys to cable modem thru internet to VPN server. I could easily establish a connection with my previous router (DLINK DI-624) where the Linksys is now. Now, however, I get hung at the "verifying username and password" prompt. Googling this says the likely culprit is that PPTP passthru is not enabled in the router; however, this router gives such an option in its menus and it is enabled. Any suggestions would be appreciated. ....Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:46:41 -0500 From: Marcus Didius Falco Subject: Delphi, XM Unveil Handheld Satellite A nice photo on the original main page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A610-2004Oct26.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A610-2004Oct26?language=3Dprinter http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Delphi, XM Unveil Handheld Satellite Radio Receiver By Annys Shin Washington Post Staff Writer XM Satellite Radio and radio manufacturer Delphi yesterday introduced the Delphi XM MyFi, a portable, handheld satellite radio receiver the companies hope will lure more consumers to a medium currently limited to car and home units. Along with giving its subscribers the convenience of a traditional transistor radio, the MyFi also offers a five-hour recording capacity to let listeners download favorite programs and songs. The MyFi is the latest entry in the highly competitive battle over digital music, a fight that pits XM against its immediate competitor, Sirius Satellite Radio, but more broadly against on-line music sources like Napster, and the makers of small, highly portable MP3 and other devices. It was unveiled at a New York nightclub on the same day that Apple Computer used rock superstars U2 to promote the release of a higher capacity iPod, and less than a month after Sirius announced it had signed popular radio personality Howard Stern to a five-year contract. Since it launched its service three years ago, XM has reached its 2.5 million subscribers through factory-installed receivers in automobiles, detachable units for other cars, and Delphi boomboxes. Over the past several weeks, it also announced a deal to pipe music into Starbucks stores, and to offer programming online for paid subscribers. But XM's service, along with that of Sirius, has lacked the portability of devices such as the iPod and MP3 players. Now, with the MyFi, subscribers can receive XM's more than 130 channels of talk, news, sports, and commercial-free music, on a device about the same size as a handheld organizer. Unlike Delphi's plug-and-play satellite radio receivers, the MyFi doesn't require an antenna and can be used with headphones. The device also comes with a docking station for recharging and accessories to hook it up to car stereos and home audio equipment. MyFi will be available in stores and through on-line retailers in December -- too late for the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush, but still in time for the holiday gift-buying season. The suggested retail price of $349.99 makes it a high-end item, said analysts. And consumers still have to pay $9.99 per month for programming. But XM officials and analysts said the product is likely to appeal to those who prefer to have disc jockeys serve up music instead of having to burn their own CDs or download music to MP3 players. Such "user-intensive" devices require consumers "to work too hard to get the freshest entertainment product," said Francisco Ordonez, president of Delphi Product and Service Solutions. Ordonez and XM Satellite Radio chief executive Hugh Panero unveiled the MyFi at the Chelsea nightclub in Manhattan before an audience of about 50 reporters and Delphi and XM staff, as they nibbled on potato-goat-cheese-and-wasabe dumplings and shrimp on skewers. In his remarks, Panero called the MyFi "the next big step" in the evolution of XM Satellite Radio. Ordonez called the MyFi "a change not just in the satellite radio category, but in consumer electronics," and likened its debut to the introduction of the transistor radio and the portable CD player. At the end of his remarks, Panero quipped, "We've gone Hollywood," and on cue, several "lifestyle" models -- a young male in a red hooded sweatshirt, a young woman in a pink track suit and a man in a business suit, among others -- descended a set of stairs, listening to the new radios. XM officials would not disclose how much they spent to develop MyFi or how much they intend to spend on marketing it. They did, however, preview a new television spot featuring singer Elton John hawking the MyFi and his new song, "Answer in the Sky." The roll out of MyFi caps a busy month for XM, which earlier this month debuted the "Bob Edwards Show," and shock jocks Opie and Anthony. On Oct. 20, the company also announced it had signed an 11-year, $650 million broadcasting and marketing deal with Major League Baseball. Shares of XM closed yesterday at $32.54, down slightly from $32.74. Even before the MyFi debut, XM Satellite Radio was on target to reach its goal of 3.1 million subscribers by year's end, said Janco Partners analyst April Horace. "Will [the new device] continue to drive subscription growth? Yes," Horace said. "Has XM expanded the marketplace once again? Yes." In a research note released yesterday, Legg Mason's Sean Butson wrote, "Although we are disappointed that the device will not be available until after Thanksgiving, we do believe it will be a game-changer and provide XM with a differentiated weapon in its retail arsenal." Copyright 2004 The Washington Post Company *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Gary Breuckman Subject: Re: Cybersquatter Update Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:13:47 -0600 Reply-To: gary@breuckman.com On 27 Oct 2004 22:45:48 GMT, Ed Clarke wrote: > Godaddy also has an "auto-renew" feature so that you don't > inadvertently lose your domain name. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So the Public Interest Registry *could* > do the same thing if they felt like it; either 'renew' or put a short > hold on a URL pending a final notice to the owner. The registrar that I use, dotregistrar.com, does this. They put expiring domains on a 30-day hold. If you want them back, it does cost more than just the renewal would, but you can get them back, at least for a while. They also will auto-renew domains, if you wish that, and they send renewal reminders by email starting about 30 days prior to expiration. -- Gary Breuckman [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That seems fair enough, and one does not mind a small extra charge for that courtesy service, but PIR (the Public Interest Registry, an ICANN thing) would probably tell you it is more profitable to let the porn sites have it and share with them whatever ransom can be extracted from the guy who lost the site. PAT] ------------------------------ From: DevilsPGD Subject: Re: New Electronic Check Law Sinks 'Float' Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:43:57 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Rick Merrill wrote: > IF these images were accessed it would give criminals access to an > image of the customer's signature. Said criminal could then use a > laser printer with 640 dpi resolution to print checks that would be > indistinguishable from the photo check after a 240 dpi Scan!? I'm curious, is there a requirement that the bank which accepted the cheque store it for any period of time? Hey, it's the female man. -- Bart Simpson ------------------------------ From: Steve Sobol Subject: Re: New Electronic Check Law Sinks 'Float' Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:26:11 -0700 Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com AES/newspost wrote: > In article , Lisa Minter > wrote: >> Consumers are unlikely to get their cancelled checks back, although >> some banks had already stopped this practice. > Not sure what the practice is in other places, but at my Credit Union > you can view a scanned image of any of your cleared checks online > (only after logging in to your personal account, of course). At my bank, too (Bank of America). They only keep images online for (I think) two months, though. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/ Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED) Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids. ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: Yet Another Telco Tax proposed Organization: ATCC Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:02:52 -0400 In article , spamtrap100@ comcast.net says: > hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote: >> 1) One is the ever increasing demand for government services. All >> of us are guilty of that even though we all blame someone else. > At the federal level and at most local levels, the "ever increasing > demand" is primarily social transfer taxes, not roads or other classic > government responsibilities. > The single largest component of my local tax bill is the county > hospital. Don't tell me we do not have government mandated universal > healthcare in the US. I pay thousands every year to cover the > uninsured. Close to 75% of local taxes here go to the schools. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Oct 2004 03:12:08 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Home Phones Face Uncertain Future Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > What do land lines provide? Security. Predictable service. Almost > unlimited bandwidth. ... Virtually every building in these towns > are being rewired with direct fiber optic cables -- from CO to every > building. That means VoIP, massive data transfers, security, the > reliability not provided, yet, by cell phones, and a host of other > yet to be discovered features. Fiber has bandwidth, but unlike copper, it can't power the phones. An important parts of the reliability of POTS is that the phones are powered from the phone line, so you don't depend on the power company or batteries. John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl@iecc.com, Mayor, http://johnlevine.com, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ------------------------------ From: Patrick Townson Subject: Last Laugh! Our Weekend Auto Trip Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:14:16 -0600 Over this Halloweeen holiday weekend, I took a ride with some friends through the countryside, and made a little movie for you to see. I thought you might like to see it, and just in time for Halloween and last night's blood red full moon eclipse. Be sure and have your speakers turned up when you play the movie, you don't want to miss any of it. Watch it and about halfway through, as the car emerges from the clump of trees, look and you will see something interesting, Be sure to have your sound turned up, since the people are speaking sort of quietly. Here is the link to the movie: Just click it and it should open up. It's about 4M so it's not huge, but might take a few seconds on a really slow dial up connection. When it starts, watch it and listen very closely. http://63.78.183.81/temp/j/Classic_Auto_1.mpeg Oh, and happy Halloween to all of you. I assume you *did* get your clocks set back an hour sometime last night or today. PAT ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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