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Rubberduck launches Mobile TV for Tele2 Estonia
10 10 2008 Norway-based Rubberduck, a subsidiary of Swedish mobile services group Aspiro, has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide ‘white label’ Mobile TV services for cellco Tele2 Estonia; the deal will see Rubberduck manage all aspects of Tele2’s Mobile...
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YouTube Adds Commerce Links
09 10 2008 YouTube on Tuesday added links to online stores in a move crafted to pump more money from the hot video-sharing website Google bought nearly two years ago in a 1.65 billion dollar stock deal. "Click-to-buy" links are being discretely placed...
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Millicom Reports 7.6 mil. African GSM Subscribers
09 10 2008 Millicom reported a 92% year-on-year increase to 7.58 million subscribers from its seven African operations as at 30 June 2008. Africa continues to be Millicom's fastest-growing region, and the operator says that with 160 million people under licence, the region...
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Google to launch European Parliament election service
08 10 2008 Google News is to launching a special service covering the European Parliament elections next June. Drawing on the experience from a similar new service in the US presidential elections, the search engine giant is currently considering its approach to the...
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Chinese Government Requires Telcos to Share Network Infrastructure
08 10 2008 The move is aimed at curbing duplicated infrastructure investments, as the Chinese telcos move towards integrated service operations and 3G roll-outs. The Chinese authorities have required three major telecoms carriers to share and jointly construct core passive infrastructure. The scheme...
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EU plans uniform protections for Internet shoppers
08 10 2008 Efforts to spur more Europeans to shop online and across national boundaries will be stepped up Wednesday with plans for a new law to guarantee consumer rights across the 27-nation bloc. The proposed legislation would oblige retailers to make product...
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Spam Volume Down In September
08 10 2008 Spam decreased 8 percent during September, according to a report released yesterday by MessageLabs. Among other reasons behind the decrease, the security company cited the apparent demise of California-based Intercage, an Internet service provider alleged to have possibly been used...
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UK: Freedom of Information Act generates 1,000 stories in two years
08 10 2008 The Freedom of Information Act has led to the media publishing more than 1,000 stories based on disclosures by public authorities in just two years, according to a new report. The disclosures, made under the UK and Scottish legislation, demonstrated...
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BBC to launch six new YouTube channels
08 10 2008 BBC Global News has extended its relationship with YouTube, by signing an agreement to add six BBC video news channels in Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu to its existing BBC World News channel. In what is the first...
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Indicators for media in a democracy
08 10 2008 Resolution 1636 (2008)1 1. The Parliamentary Assembly recalls the importance of media freedom. Freedom of expression and information in the media is an essential requirement of democracy. Public participation in the democratic decision-making process requires that the public is well...
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UNESCO creates wiki on journalism curricula
03 10 2008 Following the publication of the Model Curricula for Journalism Education last year, UNESCO has created an interactive wiki platform to adapt it to teaching journalism in Arabic and French. Wiki on the Journalism Education Curricula gives access to the main...
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The Sweden Personal Data Protection Act 1998
03 10 2008 Ira Piltz, Greenpoint Technologies Sweden enacted the Personal Data Act 1998 (PDA) to incorporate the provisions of the European Union’s (EU) Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) into Swedish law. The PDA regulates the establishment and use, in both the public and...
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Skype Admits Joint Venture in China Monitoring Users' Communications
03 10 2008 The revelation that a Skype joint-venture in China has been monitoring and storing its users' text messages is adding to the controversy over communications interception. Skype has admitted breaching customer privacy with its Chinese joint-venture. Several internet companies, including Google...
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Right to Information law passed in Bangladesh
03 10 2008 Bangladesh's government approved a Right to Information (RTI) Ordinance, which aims to ensure the free flow of information in the country. The law requires officials to provide information on a person's life and death, arrest and release from jail to...
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Google launches ‘Google News for blogs’
03 10 2008 Six years after Google Inc. launched Google News by applying its search technology to breaking news stories, the company has moved to apply its technology to a similar service to track new blog posts. Google's updated Google Blog Search tool...
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UK: Government sets up online child safety watchdog
03 10 2008 The Government has established a body to advise it on how it can increase the protection from dangers posed by the internet. The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) will police websites containing inappropriate content, write industry codes of...
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77% of Koreans use Web
02 10 2008 Some 77 percent of Koreans use the internet, spending an average of 13.7 hours online each week, a government poll showed yesterday. http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=98237
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Road test: Does WiMAX work in the real world?
02 10 2008 Just a couple short years ago, many people were abuzz over metro Wi-Fi experiments in Philadelphia, Houston, and San Francisco, only to see those efforts largely collapse as slow speeds, expensive deployments, and economic tussles between carriers and municipalities resulted...
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EU Calls for Europe-Wide Broadband with Web 3.0
02 10 2008 The European Commission has said high-speed broadband is the key to making Europe the leader in the next generation of the internet. The European Union (EU) body is considering the implications of Web 3.0., which will rely on high-performance broadband...
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Video dictionary: Word wide web
01 10 2008 A quarter-millennium after Dr Johnson published the first-ever English dictionary in 1755, 'the world's first democratically compiled, multimedia online dictionary' has just been launched in Johnson's house in London's Gough Square. The everyone-join-in dictionary is called wordia.com, and is the...
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ISOC-ECC warns of disproportionate outcomes in proposed European copyright laws
01 10 2008 The European Chapters Coordinating Council (ISOC-ECC) has made an important contribution to lawmakers in the European Commission debating changes to intellectual property law. In 2007, the EU Commission conducted a public consultation into intellectual property issues, prompted by concerns about...
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ISOC announces Ambassadors for IGF 2008
01 10 2008 ISOC is pleased to announce the list of candidates chosen as ISOC Ambassadors for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting to be held in Hyderabad, India in December. The Ambassador program is designed to involve members in ISOC's policy activities,...
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"Europe, personally" radio project launched
30 09 2008 'Europe, Personally' is a project originated by RTVSLO/Slovenia, which has received the support of the Radio Development Fund. The project has now been launched. The long-term aim of this project is to establish a network of European radio stations within...
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EU call for 'universal' broadband
30 09 2008 Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in...
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EU: eLearning Papers calls for contributions on Digital Literacy
30 09 2008 Digital publication ‘eLearning Papers’ is calling for contributions to enhance the European learning communities’ approach to the 21st century Literacies’ Agenda. The deadline for the submission of the articles is 10 November 2008. eLearning Papers invites the members of the...
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