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Apple to launch the iPhone 'nano' in time for Christmas
Apple to launch the iPhone 'nano' in time for Christmas
By SIMON FLUENDY
Apple is about to launch a 'nano' version of the hugely successful iPhone. It is expected to be in the shops in time for Christmas.
The product will be launched in the UK at up to £150 for pay-as-you-go customers by O2, the mobile phone group owned by Spain's Telefonica. 'This will be a big one,' said an industry source. Apple to launch the iPhone 'nano' in time for Christmas By SIMON FLUENDY ... more -
Le veline rubate dal web passate al Sismi
Sembra il copione di un film di Natale:)
Insomma, Cipriani truffava Telecom vendendogli per cose del Sismi notizie di dominio pubblico scaricabili da internet: questa è la verità assoluta e basta. Sembra il copione di un film di Natale:) ... more -
Obama down in polls after FISA flip
Obama's rapid drop comes at a strategically challenging moment for the Democratic candidate. Having vanquished Hillary Clinton in early June, Obama quickly went about repositioning himself for a general-election audience--an unpleasant task for any nominee emerging from the pander-heavy primary contests and particularly for a candidate who'd slogged through a vigorous primary challenge in most every contest from January until June. Obama's reversal on FISA legislation, his support of faith-based initiatives and his decision to opt out of the campaign public-financing system left him open to charges he was a flip-flopper. In the new poll, 53 percent of voters (and 50 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters) believe that Obama has changed his position on key issues in order to gain political advantage.
More seriously, some Obama supporters worry that the spectacle of their candidate eagerly embracing his old rival, Hillary Clinton, and traveling the country courting big donors at lavish fund-raisers, may have done lasting damage to his image as an arbiter of a new kind of politics. This is a major concern since Obama's outsider credentials, have, in the past, played a large part in his appeal to moderate, swing voters. In the new poll, McCain leads Obama among independents 41 percent to 34 percent, with 25 percent favoring neither candidate. In June's NEWSWEEK Poll, Obama bested McCain among independent voters, 48 percent to 36 percent. Obama's rapid drop comes at a strategically challenging moment for the Democratic candidate. Having vanquished Hillary Clinton in... more -
EFF vows FISA/TelCo fight only beginning.
The EFF released a statement on Friday concerning the recent FISA update, specifically concerning the retroactive immunity for 4th Amendment violations committed by telephone companies that cooperated with the Bush Administration during and before 9/11.
"Our long war against warrantless wiretapping has only just begun, and we will not stop until we get that legal ruling we’ve been fighting for. Wednesday we only lost a battle, not the war, and EFF’s struggle to hold the White House and the telecoms accountable for their lawbreaking will continue on multiple fronts — starting with a constitutional challenge to the immunity provisions...
While duking it out over immunity in the courts, EFF will also continue its fight in Washington, working in the next session of Congress — a Congress likely to be much different in its composition than today’s, and working with a different president — to wipe the stain of the FAA’s immunity provisions off the books." The EFF released a statement on Friday concerning the recent FISA update, specifically concerning the retroactive immunity for 4th Ame... more -
Obama Supporter Criticizes Obama on Obama's Own Website
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/davidg/gGxDzP
Obama may have just lost my vote
I had high hopes for the candidate of change, but at the end of the day it's politics as usual.
After today's vote for the FISA bill, I am seriously reconsidering my support for Barrack Obama and the democratic party altogether. There is no longer a populist party. We have one party masquerading as two. Our government has been bought and paid for by large corporations and lobbyists.
Congress' approval rating is at an all time low as is the approval of the president yet nothing changes.
I'm afraid real change will only come when the economy slips into a depression (the ball is already rolling). People are tired of this fascist two party monopoly of our government and media.
Shame on you Barrack Obama!
Shame on you for supporting the telecom industry at the expense of the 4th amendment of the constitution.
Shame on you for supporting the brutal Israeli regime.
Shame on you for your tough rhetoric regarding Iran. They have EVERY legal right to use Uranium for peaceful purposes. The US and Israel have violated UN charter by threatening them with war. We've tried to freeze their assets, which is an act of war and this country wonders why they are now test firing missiles. HELLO!
There is one country, however, in the middle east who has NO legal right to enrich uranium for ANY purposes yet they have 200 nuclear bombs and are in violation of more UN resolutions than ANY nation on earth. I'm speaking, of course, of Israel.
No "logic" being presented by the corporate media to invade Iran can do so without begging the question - Why not invade the country who is truly in violation of international agreements, the world court, UN charter and the 4th Geneva Convention.
Before I get attacked by AIPAC, know that I am jewish (Though capable of thinking) http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/davidg/gGxDzP Obama may have just lost my vote ... more -
Bush: Telecom Immunity More Important Than Surveillance Powers | Electronic Fronti...
Today the Bush Administration released a letter threatening to veto the upcoming FISA legislation if it included the Bingaman Amendment, which puts both telecom immunity and the court cases on hold until after the Inspector General reports about the warrantless wiretapping program. If given the choice between new surveillance powers without immunity for telcos on the one hand, or surveillance under the existing law on the other, the Bush Administration said its choice was clear: keep with the existing law.
Even though the White House "strongly support[s]" the FISA bill, and contends it is necessary to provide "our intelligence professionals the tools they need to keep our Nation safe," and urges the Senate "to act as soon as it returns from its recess," the Bush Administration is willing to veto the legislation and forgo these tools unless the telecom immunity is given effect immediately.
The Administration has said "[t]hat the failure to enact long-term FISA modernization legislation is costly and dangerous is beyond any serious dispute," contending that "[i]t's vital that our intelligence community has the ability to learn who the terrorists are talking to, what they're saying, and what they are planning."
However, according to today's veto threat, none of this is as important as immediate immunity for the telecommunications carriers. Even if the President gets an unprecedented expansion of government surveillance power, and the bill merely delays telecom immunity until Congress has more information, this, Bush contends, is not better than continued surveillance under the current version of FISA.
Assuming that the President would not put the financial interests of large corporations ahead of the safety of the American people, today's veto threat puts the lie to the dire warnings put forth by the Bush Administration. Alternatively, if the government is being honest about the need for immediate legislation, today's veto threat shows a callous indifference to that purported danger, favoring special interests over security.
Senator Kennedy addressed this issue in his floor statement back in December:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retroactive immunity. No immunity, no new FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he is willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies. The President’s insistence on immunity as a precondition for any FISA reform is yet another example of his disrespect for honest dialogue and for the rule of law.
It’s painfully clear what the President’s request for retroactive immunity is really about. It’s a self-serving attempt to avoid legal and political accountability and keep the American public in the dark about this whole shameful episode.
The Senate is set to vote on the FISA bill and the Bingaman Amendment this week. Please call your Senators and ask them to call the President's bluff by supporting the Bingaman Amendment and to vote against the unconstitutional FISA bill. Today the Bush Administration released a letter threatening to veto the upcoming FISA legislation if it included the Bingaman Amendmen... more -
Iphone conquest of Africa
Apple is going after the emerging markets of Africa where 70 million new subscribers were added to the existing pool of 200+ million.The African indutry commitment, to invest over 50 billion USD in the next five years in order to improve infrastructure,coverage and , is certainly a strong signal not ignored by Apple[Nasdaq:AAPL;Lse:OHDZ;Fwb:APC].
Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, and South Africa.
Orange[Euronext:FTE;Nyse:FTE ] will be the official carrier for the following markets: Madagascar,Guinea Bissau,Egypt,Republic Centrafricaine,Cameroon,Botswana,Senegal,Mali,Mauritius,Kenya,Reunion.
Vodafone[Lse:VOD;Nyse:VOD;FWB:VOD] will be the official carrier in Egypt Apple is going after the emerging markets of Africa where 70 million new subscribers were added to the existing pool of 200+ million.T... more -
Telecom paying off Democrats to get immunity?
More of the telecom pie goes to the Democrats who caved on immunization. The dollar *is* the all-mighty.
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Burma blocks emergency telecoms
Two teams of foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been forced to leave cyclone-hit Burma.
The members of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) left the country after attempts to reach affected areas were blocked.
The charity, which described the situation as "unprecedented", said it had no other choice but to leave.
TSF finally reached Burma on 1 June after waiting nearly a month to be granted visas to enter the country.
"The frustration is that we were allowed into the country but not allowed to deploy," TSF spokesman Oisin Walton told BBC News.
Many international charities were allowed into Burma following a visit to the area by UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon.
But repeated attempts to get the necessary authorisation to visit affected areas such as the Irrawaddy Delta, were met with a wall of silence.
"We got no reply at all," said Mr Walton.
Time lags
TSF is a specialist agency which works with the UN to provide communication support to aid agencies and local people. Its presence was requested by Unicef following Cyclone Nargis on 2 May. Two teams of foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been forced to leave cyclone-hit Bu... more -
Da oggi cambiare operatore è indolore
È stato approvato dall’autorithy un provvedimento che finalmente dovrebbe mettere fine ai problemi che gli utenti hanno sempre avuto nel cambio di una connessione ADSL e in particolare nel cambio operatore da alternativo ad alternativo o di nuovo verso Telecom.
Fino a ieri infatti non esisteva alcuna regolamentazione in merito e non era possibile passare da un operatore alternativo a un altro se non perdendo il proprio numero, come non era possibile cambiare ADSL se non attendendo la scadenza naturale del contratto, o pagando penale o comunque finché il vecchio operatore lasciava libera la linea.
Da oggi cambia tutto, sarà possibile passare da un operatore alternativo a un altro o verso Telecom senza perdere il proprio numero, i due operatori, saranno infatti obbligati a seguire determinate procedure che non daranno disguidi all’utente e che ne garantiranno il passaggio indolore senza la perdita del numero, come avviene oggi da Telecom verso altri.
Lo stesso principio viene adottato per il cambio ADSL, l’utente invierà la richiesta di attivazione e di disdetta al nuovo operatore, il nuovo provider provvederà a contattare il vecchio e accordandosi troveranno una data utile per il cambio ADSL, che in seguito verrà comunicata all’utente che nel peggiore dei casi, si troverà senza servizio per qualche ora.
La procedura dovrà durare al massimo 30 giorni dalla richiesta dell’utente (che comunque resta con la linea fino al momento del passaggio e poi conserva il numero telefonico).
Tutti i principali operatori hanno gia firmato l’accordo per facilitare l’adozione delle nuove procedure. È stato approvato dall’autorithy un provvedimento che finalmente dovrebbe mettere fine ai problemi che gli utenti hanno sempre avuto n... more -
Stop Telecom companies from SPYING on YOU.
Outrageous spying bill
"It’s okay to break the law if the President tells you it’s okay."
That’s the outrageous proposition at the heart of a new spying “compromise” that Republican Senator Christopher Bond is pushing on Capitol Hill.
His goal: to let off the hook telecommunications companies that willfully cooperated with illegal spying.
Senator Bond wants to bury lawsuits filed against telecom companies in a secret court. And, when they get there, he wants cases dismissed if the companies can show that the President gave them a note saying his request for customer information was legal.
He just might get away with it unless we can convince Congress to reject his proposal.
Tell your representative: Just because the president says it's legal doesn't make it so! Take action at:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage... Outrageous spying bill "It’s okay to break the law if the President tells you it’s okay." ... more -
Telecom Italia, Luca Luciani come Napoleone a Waterloo!? Il Video in rete.
http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=18978Ma come parla questo quà? E’ tutto un dire “incazzato”,”cazzo”, “gnente”, peggio dei peggiori burini de’Roma!Nel video parla sicuramente ad un convegno di dirigenti dell’azienda, e cerca di stimolare i suoi ricordando più volte che Napoleone, a Waterloo, fece il suo capolavoro di strategia. Si tratta di Luca Luciani, direttore generale di Telecom Italia. Come c’è arrivato lì?
Ma quanto li pagano per dire queste stronzate?
Da Repubblica:
[..]Il caso Telecom, da anni è il Bengodi dei compensi made in Italy, è emblematico. Il titolo è in caduta libera (-7,8% nel 2007), gli utili frenano (-18%), il dividendo è stato drasticamente tagliato. Eppure Riccardo Ruggiero, l’ad uscito di scena con una busta paga di oltre 17 milioni, si è raddoppiato a 3,7 milioni il bonus per le performance aziendali.[..]
La pubblicazione del video non è andata giù a qualcuno, e prontamente il filmato è stato rimosso da YouTube. Come prevedibile, alla rimozione è seguito il suo re-inserimento da parte di numerosi utenti, tra cui uno che vi proponiamo sotto, con tanto di sottotitoli in inglese.
Tj http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=18978Ma come parla questo quà? E’ tutto un dire “incazzato”,”cazzo”,... more -
Telecom Italia, Luca Luciani come Napoleone a Waterloo!? Il Video in rete.
da: VideoDocg.wordpress.com
Ecco i nuovi manager dell’ex-azienda telefonica di Stato.
http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&a... come parla questo quà? E’ tutto un dire “incazzato”,”cazzo”, “gnente”, peggio dei peggiori burini de’Roma!Nel video parla sicuramente ad un convegno di dirigenti dell’azienda, e cerca di stimolare i suoi ricordando più volte che Napoleone, a Waterloo, fece il suo capolavoro di strategia. Si tratta di Luca Luciani, direttore generale di Telecom Italia. Come c’è arrivato lì?
Ma quanto li pagano per dire queste stronzate?
Da Repubblica:
[..]Il caso Telecom, da anni è il Bengodi dei compensi made in Italy, è emblematico. Il titolo è in caduta libera (-7,8% nel 2007), gli utili frenano (-18%), il dividendo è stato drasticamente tagliato. Eppure Riccardo Ruggiero, l’ad uscito di scena con una busta paga di oltre 17 milioni, si è raddoppiato a 3,7 milioni il bonus per le performance aziendali.[..]
La pubblicazione del video non è andata giù a qualcuno, e prontamente il filmato è stato rimosso da YouTube. Come prevedibile, alla rimozione è seguito il suo re-inserimento da parte di numerosi utenti, tra cui uno che vi proponiamo sotto, con tanto di sottotitoli in inglese.
Tj
VideoDocg.wordpress.com da: VideoDocg.wordpress.com Ecco i nuovi manager dell’ex-azienda telefonica di Stato. ... more -
U.S. House passes surveillance bill stripping telecoms of immunity. Bush, Senate ...
"The Democratic plan would allow telecommunications companies to be sued for their role in the administration's much-disputed warrantless surveillance program .
The bill now goes to the Senate, but both the Senate and President Bush have made it clear they will not support the bill without the immunity provision."
We need more Democrats in office, people! Obama or Clinton, let's get this thing moving! "The Democratic plan would allow telecommunications companies to be sued for their role in the administration's much-dispute... more -
Pakistan crashes YouTube
A Pakistani telecom caused much of the world to experience a YouTube outage for several hours on Sunday. One erroneous route established by one of Pakistan's telecoms was picked up by one of the largest data carriers in the world and propagated around the internet. A Pakistani telecom caused much of the world to experience a YouTube outage for several hours on Sunday. One erroneous route establis... more
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A look back at why Net nuetrality matters, courtesy of Senator Ted Stevens
"My email got all tangled up by comercial entities! These comercail entities use fed ex and they want to use the internet, its not something you just dump on, its a series of tubes!" "My email got all tangled up by comercial entities! These comercail entities use fed ex and they want to use the internet, its no... more
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URGENT: Oppose Telecom Immunity and Tell Your Senator to Vote "No on Cloture&...
The EFF would like to thank everyone for standing with EFF in opposing telecom immunity in the past. It's time to contact your Senators once again. As early as next Monday, the Administration and its allies are trying to end Senate debate on FISA and telecom immunity and force a vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee's bill -- a bill that would broadly expand the executive branch's spying powers while granting immunity to telecoms that broke the law and assisted in the NSA's illegal domestic spying.
Now is the time to urge your Senators to vote no on "cloture" in order to keep the debate going!
http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=357
Every time you've taken action to fight against immunity, it's made a huge difference. In November, your calls helped to ensure that the Senate Judiciary Committee did not include telecom amnesty in its surveillance bill, and in December your calls helped convince Harry Reid to delay the vote until January. Both times, the pundits assumed we didn't stand a chance, and both times we proved them wrong.
It's time to beat the odds again. Visit the EFF Action Center now. The EFF would like to thank everyone for standing with EFF in opposing telecom immunity in the past. It's time to contact your Se... more -
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs
This NY Times story giving new details on the telecom carriers' cooperation with secret NSA (and other) domestic spying programs. One revelation is that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a program since the 1990s to collect the phone records of calls from US citizens to Latin America in order to catch narcotics traffickers. Another revelation is what exactly the NSA asked for in 2001 that Qwest balked at supplying. According to the article, it was access to the company's most localized communications switches, which primarily carry domestic calls. This NY Times story giving new details on the telecom carriers' cooperation with secret NSA (and other) domestic spying programs.... more
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AT&T to hang up its pay phones
AT&T -- or whatever company it is that's going by that name these days -- has decided to pull the plug on its pay phone business, over 100 years after the first coin-operated model was installed in Chicago. Currently, the telecom giant owns and operates public telephones in 13 states. With the number of pay phones having more than halved since 1998 -- due in large part to BellSouth's exit in 2001 -- AT&T clearly thinks that the sidewalk stalwart is at the end of its rope, although it will continue to provide related services until the dial tones go silent at the end of 2008. While public reaction to the announcement has so far been mostly tepid, several groups have raised their voices in protest, most notably the Justice League of America, which calls the impending lack of changing stations "a national crisis." AT&T -- or whatever company it is that's going by that name these days -- has decided to pull the plug on its pay phone busin... more
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