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Gen-i, a Telecom New Zealand subsidiary is calling on the Australian Federal Government to force Telstra and Optus to separate their retail and wholesale operations. "The Australian Telecoms market is dominated by Telstra and Optus, who effectively compete between themselves for the vast majority of the business market," Gen-i Australia's general manager Phil Varney told ZDNet.com.au
A man from Wisconsin, USA is facing a prison term and a hefty fine for allegedly making threats against President-Elect Barack Obama on an internet forum. "Threats against the President-Elect will be taken very seriously," said U.S. Attorney Lampton. "Use of internet chat rooms to express those threats is as much a crime as uttering the words. Threats of this nature will be pursued swiftly and vigorously."
And speaking of President-Elect Barack Obama, apparently he refuses to surrender his blackberry. Having said that the mobile device dilemma may have inadvertently been solved on Friday, as Obama's Blackberry tumbled from his belt as he got out of his limousine and onto his plane in Washington. A Secret Service agent hurried to pick up the pieces, gathering the Blackberry and battery off the frigid tarmac.
Ars Technica says that 37% of P2P users will ignore disconnection threats from their ISP's for illegally downloading music. The success of "graduated response" programs in the US, UK, France, New Zealand, and elsewhere around the world may depend, in large part, on just how quickly file-sharers will buckle. If most will quit after a simple warning, the campaign to enlist ISPs (and back down on the mass legal threats) may be a huge success.
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is facing extradition and 70 years in a maximum security jail for hacking into US government computers in 2001/2002, searching for information about UFOs. Computer hacker Gary McKinnon should know within four weeks whether his attempts to fight extradition to the US have any chance of success. Mr McKinnon was joined by his supporters and advisers in London to repeat their call for a UK trial rather than extradition.
There is speculation that Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs recent medical leave of absence may be due to recurring pancreatic cancer for which he was treated back in 2004. Doctors who have not treated Jobs say they can only speculate without hard information, but they said the tumor he was treated for in 2004 could have spread to another organ or resurfaced in the pancreas, requiring surgery or other treatment.
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