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TELECOM Digest Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:59:00 EST Volume 24 : Issue 560 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Yahoo Offers Moveable Type For Bloggers (Eric Auchard) Court Refuses to Hear National Geographic CD-ROM Case (Reuters News Wire) MCI Tests Ultra Long-Haul Technology (USTelecom dailyLead ) Cellular-News for Monday 12th December 2005 (Cellular-News) Wage Laws, was Holiday Observances (was Re: Kennedy) (Danny Burstein) Re: FTC Do Not Call List (Lena) Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell (Lisa Hancock) Parental Electronic Supervision of Teens - Good or Bad? (Lisa Hancock) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. 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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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Yahoo Offers Moveable Type For Bloggers Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:26:10 -0600 By Eric Auchard Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type -- the most popular software used to create professional blogs -- said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses. The partnership is the latest in a string of deals by the world's largest Internet media company as it seeks to embrace so-called "social media," the new generation of Web sites that encourage Internet users to share written text, photos and videos. On Friday, Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us, a site for users to share their favorite Web links. Earlier this year, it acquired Flickr, which offers a way to annotate and share photos. Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type for small business users, taking advantage of its scale and efficiency, Anil Dash, vice president of professional products for San Francisco-based Six Apart, said in a phone interview. "This is going to be our recommended (sales) channel for small business," he said. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said it will offer commercial blogs based on Movable Type as part of its existing small business Web-site management service. Yahoo provides customers with a unique Web address, blogging tools and business-class e-mail services with spam and virus protections for less than $12 a month. Movable Type is commonly used by businesses, Web designers and professional bloggers to create easily updated Web sites. Other blog software such as Google Inc.'s Blogger, WordPress, Xanga and Six Apart's own Live Journal, are more often used to create blogs for individuals. Yahoo hosts roughly 30 million individual Web sites, including hundreds of thousands of small business sites, said Rich Riley, general manager of Yahoo's small business unit. One in eight U.S. online stores are hosted by Yahoo, he said. Yahoo is one of the world's largest suppliers of hosted Web sites, which refers to Web sites set and maintained for customers by Yahoo for a monthly subscription fee. Six Apart said it had optimized the underlying software in Movable Type so that it responds twice as fast as the same software offered by Six Apart's own Web site. Six Apart continues to develop versions of Movable Type designed to run inside big businesses, along with its consumer-oriented Live Journal software and a quick set-up version of Movable Type known as TypePad. Separately, Dash said Six Apart's Japanese unit is developing a version of Movable Type to run on Oracle database software, in a bid to encourage wider use of blogs among big businesses. Six Apart was developed to run on open source database software originally. Privately-held Six Apart, founded four years ago by husband-and-wife team Ben and Mena Trott, counts 100 employees worldwide. It has received nearly $12 million in funding from backers Neoteny Co. Ltd. and August Capital, Dash said. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html ------------------------------ From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Court Won't Hear National Geographic CD-ROM Case Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:17 -0600 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that copyright law authorized a publisher to reproduce a collective work in CD-ROM format, even if some new materials have been added. The justices declined to review a dispute involving National Geographic magazine and whether it had to pay freelance writers and photographers additional compensation for using their work in the electronic compilation. In 1997, the National Geographic Society began selling a CD-ROM set containing digitally scanned copies of all past issues dating back 108 years. The 30-disc set depicted an exact electronic image of the original bound magazines, with pages presented two at a time in the very same sequence as in the original paper format. The user would see the articles, photographs and advertisements exactly as they had appeared in the original paper copies. Numerous freelance writers and photographers sued for copyright infringement and said they were entitled to additional compensation. But a federal judge and U.S. appeals court in New York ruled against the freelance contributors. The appeals court ruled that the CDs represented an "electronic replica" of the magazine and were a permissible "revision" under copyright law, even if some new copyrightable materials, such as an introductory sequence and a computer software program, had been added. The freelance contributors appealed to the Supreme Court to hear the case. But the justices rejected the appeal without any comment or recorded dissent. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:41:28 EST From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: MCI Tests Ultra Long-Haul Technology USTelecom dailyLead December 12, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/zSvMatagCAnewhoZKp TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * MCI tests ultra long-haul technology BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Juniper targets service assurance * BellSouth offers residential VoIP via deal with 8x8 * Columnist: Don't sweat a BlackBerry shutdown * AT&T reaches tentative contract deal with unions * Cable operators open to family tier, but programmers resist * Internet video is red hot USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * You're getting USTelecom dailyLead, but are you missing part of the story? HOT TOPICS * Alltel to spin off landline business * Verizon to unload directory unit * Telecoms turn focus to converged services * Free Wi-Fi becomes the norm * Mobile WiMAX standards approved TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Philips brings TV-on-mobile chipset to U.S. * Sprint Nextel to offer full-length movie, TV downloads Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/zSvMatagCAnewhoZKp ------------------------------ Subject: Cellular-News for Monday 12th December 2005 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:38:56 -0600 From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news-mail.com> Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com [[Financial News]] Australia's Telstra: Hong Kong CSL, New World To Merge http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15177.php Australia's Telstra Corp. said Friday that it has agreed to merge its Hong Kong mobile business CSL with New World Mobile Holdings Ltd., creating Hong Kong's largest mobile operator. ... Singapore MobileOne Confirms Tie-Up With PLDT, SMART http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15179.php MobileOne Ltd. confirmed Friday it will be entering into an agreement with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., or PLDT, and its unit. ... Alltel To Spin Off Wireline Operations In $9.1 Billion Deal http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15180.php LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)--Alltel Corp., one of the nation's largest telecom service providers to rural areas, on Friday said it plans to become a pure wireless company by spinning off its wireline business and merging those operations with Valor Commun... NTL: Virgin Mobile Offer Better Value For Shareholders http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15184.php NTL Inc. said Friday that it continues to believe that its potential offer at 323 pence per Virgin Mobile share represents better value, for all Virgin Mobile shareholders, than Virgin Mobile's stand-alone alternatives. ... Potential Buyers Seen Unlikely To Step Up For Alltel http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15185.php While Alltel Corp. may appear to be an attractive acquisition target, few buyers are likely to step up in the near term. ... Analyst says Russian mobile operators’ Jan-Sep revenue up 38% http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15187.php The total revenue of Russia’s mobile operators rose 38% on the year to U.S. $7.57 billion in January-September, iKS-Consulting analytical agency said in a report Friday. ... EA Games buys Jamdat Mobile http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15199.php The console games firm, Electronic Arts and the mobile phone games developer, JAMDAT have entered into a merger agreement under which EA will acquire JAMDAT for a total of approximately US$680 million. EA and JAMDAT together plan to publish over 50 g... [[Handsets News]] Samsung To Start Making Handsets In India By March http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15182.php PREMIUM - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Friday said it will start producing cellular handsets in India by March. ... Panasonic Withdraws from GSM Handset Market http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15197.php Panasonic Mobile says that it will phase out development of GSM mobile phones due to severe global competition. By concentrating resources into next-generation mobile terminal technologies, as well as unifying platforms and core technologies for the ... [[Legal News]] Russian antitrust still undecided on Alfa, Telenor stakes in VimpelCom http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15183.php Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is yet to decide on applications from both Russia's Alfa Group and Norway's Telenor to increase their respective stakes in Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom, FAS Director Igor Artye... Brazil's Wireless Co Claro Resumes Operations In Minas http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15186.php Brazilian wireless operator Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America Movil SA, will resume operations in the southeast state of Minas Gerais on Saturday, after a local court overturned an injunction that forced the firm to halt operations a week ago... Verizon Wireless Wins Lawsuit Against Telemarketers http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15188.php TRENTON, N.J. (AP)--Verizon Wireless has won two legal skirmishes against telemarketers who made unwanted sales calls to its customers, and said it has launched a new offensive against unsolicited text messages. ... [[Messaging News]] MMS Interconnection for Pakistan http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15196.php Pakistan's three GSM network operators, Telenor, Ufone and Warid Telecom have launched a MMS interconnection service. This would enable the subscribers of all three operators to exchange MMS or multimedia messages with zero interconnect charges. This... [[Mobile Content News]] Students Ready to Accept Cell Phone Ads - For a Price http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15190.php Advertisers are increasingly using cell phones to reach college students, and they are finding a receptive audience, says a new study by Ball State University. A survey of 669 students at Ball State in November found a third of students are receiving... [[Network Contracts News]] Ericsson Gets 3 Contracts In West Africa From Investcom http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15181.php Telefon AB LM Ericsson said Friday it has received three contracts in West Africa from the international operator Investcom LLc. ... Israeli Operator Orders Fixed/Mobile Platform http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15193.php Israel's iDEN operator, MiRS has ordered a core convergence switching solution from Tekelec. The solution enables MiRS' transition to the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture and enables next-generation capabilities, including fi... [[Network Operators News]] GSM Expansion for Kosovo http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15195.php Kosovo's GSM network operator, Vala 900 says that it has engaged in its 4th expansion phase and is planning to expand coverage to 99% of the population by adding 284 new base stations. The company will also increase network capacity to 700,000 custom... [[Offbeat News]] Vodacom Sponsors Mobile Health Initiative http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15200.php Vodacom Tanzania has launched a mobile health clinic in partnership with Marie Stopes, an international NGO, and medical service provider Managed Mobile Health Clinic (MMHC). Vodacom has supplied the bus for the Mobile Health Clinic with all the nece... [[Regulatory News]] China Could Loose 60 Million Phone Users in 6 Months http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15192.php China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced plans to require all PrePay phone users to register their handsets, or face having them disconnected. China currently has approximately 200 million PrePay users out of a total of some 380 m... [[Statistics News]] AC&M says Ukraine's total mobile subscriber base up 5.8% in Nov http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15189.php The total subscriber base of Ukraine's mobile operators rose 5.8% in November to 26.36 million people as of November 30, Advanced Communications & Media (AC&M) said in a statement Friday. ... Australian PrePay Usage Jumps This Year http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15191.php Australia's Communications and Media Authority has issued a report that gives an overview of the Australian telecoms market. The report notes that during 2004-05 mobile services increased by 12% to 18.42 million, with the penetration rate of mobile p... [[Technology News]] S Korea KT Corp, Alcatel Enter Mobile Broadband Devt Pact http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15178.php South Korea's KT Corp. said Friday it has entered into an alliance with France's Alcatel to cooperate in developing mobile broadband applications. ... SIM Cards That Talk to Each Other http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15194.php Italy's TIM has announced the Italian launch of the first SIM Card that allows mobile phones to "communicate" with TV set-top boxes, computers, household appliances and a host of home electronics devices. The new Z-SIM" SIM Card is a Telecom Italia G... CDMA/EV-DO 450 Scanner Solution http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15198.php PCTEL has announced the commercial availability of a new SeeGull DMA/EV-DO scanner solution for the 450MHz frequency band. PCTEL's CDMA/EV-DO 450 scanner solution addresses the drive testing and RF measurement needs of wireless carriers who are dep... ------------------------------ From: Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: Wage Laws, was Holiday Observances Phone Rates (was Re: Kennedy) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC In <telecom24.559.7@telecom-digest.org> sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes: [ snip ] > According to the "Your Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act" > poster (as posted in every workplace), you get time and a half after > 40 hours worked in a week. It doesn't say anything about holidays. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not only for more than 40 hours in > one week, but also more than 8 hours in one day. PAT] While many people believe that, I'm not aware of any such daily requirement. And that 40 hr/week overtime line is fuzzy, with _plenty_ of exceptions. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ From: Lena <lenagainster@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FTC Do Not Call List Date: 12 Dec 2005 04:12:19 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lena wrote: >>> I think an amendment to the Telemarketing Laws is in order, to >>> prohibit any telemarketer, calling on behalf of any charity or >>> political organization, from calling any number more than once a year. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But Lena, when you limit those people > to 'one call per year', wouldn't that be like saying spammers and > scammers and phishermen should be limited to one spam, scam or phish > per year? Are you trying to dictate what people can talk about on > their phone? PAT] I'm trying to dictate what people can call me on MY phone. I don't want telemarketers calling me at all, but the ones who have exceptions to the rule, those calling on behalf of charities and political organizations are rude. They won't leave a message on the answeing machine, but will hang up, and then call over and over again. That is why I suggest limiting them to one call per year; perhaps they will leave their message and go away. As far as spammers and scammers and phishermen go, they should all be taken out and drawn and quartered. Lena [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I quite agree with your assessment, but my point was what makes _your_ telephone any more sancrosanct than _my_ computer. If _you_ have the right to dictate who can call you on _your_ phone, then _I_ should have the right to dictate what kind of messages come through on _my_ computer. And let's face it, spam-scam and phishing is far worse than telemarketers ever have been. Imagine, if you will, several hundred telemarketers ringing your phone without ceasing all day and all night, and your only recourse, according to the so-called 'experts' was to rely on screening attempts, and many of the spammer-scammers managed to trick their way around that. Sounds like a lot of fun, doesn't it? PAT] ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell Date: 12 Dec 2005 09:57:29 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Arthur Kamlet wrote: > Except that AT&T fought for and succeeded in keeping the name: > Bell Laboratories. At the time of divesture everyone thought the "Bell" name had major value, thus the fight to keep it. A lot of things turned out differently that what was expected in 1984 thanks to technology and regulatory changes. Former strengths evaporated, former weaknesses grew strong. However, as it turned out, the Bell name became of little value, indeed, almost a negative. I thought Bell Atlantic was foolish when it changed its name to Verizon, but it turned out to be a smart decision. The future -- high profits -- were in new technologies not associated with the stodgy old Bell System basic black 500 set. Even though Bell developed a great many technical things, using the trade name Verizon on new and modern ads just seems to fit better. I just can't see an ad by the Bell System featuring Gwen Stefani rockin' along as Verizon uses for its cell phones, or Motorola's ad showing a woman squeezing into skintight slacks that still has room for her slimphone*. Indeed, I'm not even sure they're using James Earl Jones as their spokesman anymore. The big profit money (unregulated new services) is with the young people who get cell phones galore, use them a lot (note T-Mobile's ads with the talking cheerleader), text message, download everything, heavy duty Internet service, etc. These people never heard of and could care less of the old Bell System, the guys struggling in snow shoes up the mountain in the blizzard to maintain the microwave tower, operators on duty as flood waters creep up to their floor, etc. In the unregulated world, I think Verizon is doing quite well with that stuff, especially without the regulatory burdens of serving the poor, rate filings, etc. I suspect the kids (and adults) lose their phones regularly and spend big bucks to get out of the contracts, which is pure profit for them. They would never let a regulated company do that. Verizon sticks the old Bell logo on the _side_ of payphone mounts, probably just to reassure old geezers like myself. Admittedly I still prefer to use a "real" payphone rather than an "imitation", although any call beyond the local area will be terribly costly, and some imitation phones are actually cheaper for such calls. (Many traditional real payphones still have the "Bell System Property Not For Sale" on the cover of the coin return slot.) *In the old days, a slimphone was the Trimline set, offered at a premium price. ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Parental Electronic Supervision of Teens - Good or Bad? Date: 12 Dec 2005 10:12:58 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com There are more and more devices coming onto the affordable marketplace that allow parents to monitor their teenagers' whereabout and activities. Is this a good or bad thing? One is a video camera in the car which monitors their driving. It can see whether they use their seatbelts (kids often forget) and whether they drive carefully or not (samples show kids, even knowing of the device, get distracted easily). Another is a GPS device for car or cell phone so they know where the kid is at all times. I have very mixed feelings about these devices and this kind of supervision. Sometimes I think the stricter the parents with this stuff and various house rules, the more wild the kid will end up as they figure out ways to circumvent them or just lie to cover up. In other words, sometimes I think a more flexible structure and some trust works out better. If I were a kid I'd be furious if my parents used such devices on me, and I wouldn't be keen if a friend's parents did so. Admittedly, myself and my friends were a pretty tame (lame?) crowd. But on the flip side, some kids out there are pretty wild and do need more structure. I knew a girl whose parents were terribly strict with her, but this girl was in the fast lane and I could see the parents not wanting to be grandparents too early. Some kids hit puberty and become totally different people, with tons of energy and restlessness, and a desire to be as adventerous as possible. Plenty of 14 y/o girls lie to their parents and seek out college boys to date (and lie to them as well). Plenty of new drivers (either gender) make the Indianapolis 500 look tame and get killed in the process. So I don't know what the ethical answer is. I am very grateful they didn't have this kind of monitoring when I was kid, as well as no metal detectors to go into high school. Indeed, in my high school they abolished the hall pass system and the halls became _quieter_ than before. I will note one big change from my teen days is that (1) parents today seem to be more involved in their own lives than in my day, that is, they don't have the time to really know their kids' day-to-day activities and friends since both parents work long hours or aren't even there. (2) more kids have their very own cars at age 16 and the freedom that goes with them. I didn't get my own car until I was 21, in my younger years a parent would drive kids out on their dates (not a lot of fun, but it did act as a damper). Borrowing the parents' car first means the car must be available and it not always is in a one-car household, and secondly requires a explanation of need, destination, etc. When a kid has their very own car it's a lot easier to just take off. [public replies please] [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: When I was in high school (1956-60) there were no metal detectors to walk through either, nor any of the other 'security' devices so prevalent these days. Somehow, we managed to survive. My friends, and the people who administer my household (Margaret [the meals on wheels lady]; the nurse and the SRS housekeeper who come around now and then, etc) always seem so amazed to hear me humming [or listening to a recording of] my favorite musical composition, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 'Come Sweet Death, Come Blest Repose'. Don't you want to live forever, they ask. Hell no, is my reply. When my time comes for a _natural_ death, I will be so happy to be gone. PAT] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications 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'. 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