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Wireless World: 'The Thumbdance Channel'
Submitted by: UPI / 10 Feb 2006 Publisher: UPI
Obssesive compulsive capitalists try to foist entertainment on you wherever you are. CHICAGO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- You've heard of the "Sundance Channel," the independent movie network on cable TV founded by Robert Redford. Someday you may be hearing more about the "Thumbdance Channel" and other mobile-phone nets, from FreemantleMedia, and other producers of alternative, wireless content, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. To reference another Redford project, once this trend takes off in the coming years, we may never remember the way we were. By Gene Koprowski
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Networking: Not-so-secret documents
Submitted by: UPI / 08 Feb 2006 Publisher: UPI
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Last fall a controversy erupted when the details of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were revealed in a United Nations report -- after a cunning reader spotted a "track changes" mistake in the layout of the document. That political controversy is one of the latest tempests to emerge over "metadata," or data about data, contained in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents, easily accessible by millions of readers over public networks like the Internet, experts tell United Press International's Networking. By clicking on the "track changes" feature in Word, readers can see who wrote a particular document, when it was written, what edits were made and comments made by editors and redactors -- something government officials, working with official secrets, or confidential information, most definitely don't want released for review in the court of public opinion. By deleting text blocks -- used to blacken out information in PDF files -- readers can see what was originally written there. By Gene Koprowski
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Networking: Not-so-secret documents
Submitted by: UPI / 08 Feb 2006 Publisher: UPI
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Last fall a controversy erupted when the details of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were revealed in a United Nations report -- after a cunning reader spotted a "track changes" mistake in the layout of the document. That political controversy is one of the latest tempests to emerge over "metadata," or data about data, contained in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF documents, easily accessible by millions of readers over public networks like the Internet, experts tell United Press International's Networking. By clicking on the "track changes" feature in Word, readers can see who wrote a particular document, when it was written, what edits were made and comments made by editors and redactors -- something government officials, working with official secrets, or confidential information, most definitely don't want released for review in the court of public opinion. By deleting text blocks -- used to blacken out information in PDF files -- readers can see what was originally written there. By Gene Koprowski The government can track what's in your word processing files if you don't watch it.
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The Web: Traffic 'toll' contentious
Submitted by: UPI / 01 Feb 2006 Publisher: UPI
CHICAGO, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The surviving Baby Bells -- Verizon, Bell South and AT&T;/SBC -- have disclosed that they may someday charge new fees to digital businesses, sites like Google and Yahoo!, that generate substantial traffic on the Internet. The explicit rationale? These firms are taking up too much bandwidth. But telecom experts tell United Press International's The Web that they are worried that such a "toll road" could take a toll on the future growth of the Internet. "The mere mention of the words 'toll road' sound like government regulation is right behind," Chris Consorte, president and chief executive officer of Integrated Direct LLC, an interactive online ad agency based in New York, told The Web. "The minute we're talking about a bandwidth fee is the minute entrepreneurs begin to second-think great ideas and developing their businesses." By Gene Koprowski b
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Wireless World: Enormous innovation, but big challenges
Submitted by: UPI / 27 Jan 2006 Publisher: UPI
Rapacious capitalists don't think there is enough profit from the Internet. A record number of mobile phones were shipped last year, and analysts and investors are now saying that the promises made 10 years ago about the potential for the wireless economy are truly being realized. Still, some of the foremost investors and analysts tell United Press International's Wireless World that they are nervous that the United States may not maintain its competitive edge in the global information economy unless certain changes are made -- by federal policymakers and business leaders -- soon. "There is enormous innovation in our economy -- no doubt," said James Melcher, founder of the New York City-based hedge fund, Balestra Capital Management, in an interview with Wireless World. "It's incredible. But there are problems. Why are countries with only 40 percent of the world's population (e.g., China) graduating ten times as many engineers and scientists as we are? Why are our schools pumping out so many lawyers? There is no value-added in legal work." By Gene Koprowski .
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The Web: Working hard or hardly working?
Submitted by: UPI / 25 Jan 2006 Publisher: UPI
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Are you wasting time when online? Or working? A new study released this week showed that about 20 percent of government staff, while on the job, in one Malaysian state utilized the Internet for purely personal activities -- like downloading porn, games and music. This was one of the main causes of poor work performance in the Johor state, Bernama, the state news agency there said, quoting a top government official, Norsiah Harun. Experts tell United Press International's The Web that the Internet productivity problem is global, and that cultural changes are needed to ensure that people are hard at work, rather than hardly working, as our parents' generation used to say. By Gene Koprowski
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Networking: Sales skyrocket overseas
Submitted by: UPI / 23 Jan 2006 Publisher: UPI
Imperialists take over the Internet in third world nations. CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Sales of networking equipment -- routers, switches and the like -- are soaring overseas at major, multinational companies, indicating signs of a global expansion in the technology economy, experts tell United Press International's Networking. One study, just released by the Reading, U.K.-based research consultancy Canalys, indicates that U.S. companies like Cisco and Juniper are leading the charge as the overall value of the market increased by an astounding 76.3 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA. By Gene Koprowski
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News: Civil & Human Rights : Housing : Poverty
VIDEO > Housing Rights for New Orleans Hurricane Survivors
Submitted by: Iman / 22 Jan 2006 Publisher: FluxRostrum
This video includes interviews from evacuees in NY and those who've returned to New Orleans. This issue is currently effecting the lives of thousands of people and it's still not too late to help put pressure where it needs to be put to force the goverenment to deal with these people properly.
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