"IPhone" could be music to Apple's ears, Reuters, Sept 11 2005

"IPhone" could be music to Apple's ears, Reuters, Sept 11 2005

“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With the help of Motorola Inc., Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Steve Jobs finally made good last week on his pledge to deliver a cellular phone that plays music like an iPod, Apple's wildly successful digital music player.”

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China Telecom said to block Skype (Reuters)

“SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Telecom has started blocking access to a popular Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue, according to local media reports and Internet postings.

China's largest fixed-line phone carrier recently began blocking access to service from Skype Technologies SA, a European-based Internet telecoms services provider, in the affluent southern city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong, according to the reports, including one in the Shanghai Daily.”

Full Story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050911/wr_nm/telecoms_china_chinatelecom_dc


Fraud Reveals Workings of Internet Theft

“WASHINGTON - The illicit haul arrived each day by e-mail, the personal details of computer users tricked by an Internet thief: a victim's name, credit card number, date of birth, Social Security number, mother's maiden name.”

Full Story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050911/ap_on_hi_te/anatomy_of_a_hack


VOIP to the Rescue, eweek.com, Sept 9 2005

“News Analysis: The American Red Cross uses VOIP for all of the same reasons you should, but for the Red Cross, the stakes are vastly higher.

Imagine what it must be like to attempt a phone call in the littered wasteland that was once the central Gulf Coast of the United States.

Not only are there no phones, there are no phone lines, no central offices, nothing.

While there is cell service—T-Mobile was apparently running at full capacity within a day or two—sites are swamped with high priority calls. Making a phone call can be nearly impossible.”

Full Story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1857523,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

What I Did at Google's Summer of Code, internetnews.com, Sept 9 2005

“Summer is a time for vacation, for introspection and for summer student internships. In 1967, it was about love. And in 2005, it was about code –- for Google, that is.

About 9,000 people applied to Google for the paid opportunity to participate in Google's Summer of Code program, an open source development project aimed at producing new and established open source programs.”

Full Story at: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3547611


IM Market Chat: From Text to VoIP, internetnews.com, Sept 9 2005

“With nearly a billion instant messaging accounts in use worldwide, what is the current state of instant messaging market and where does it go from here?

According to a panel of IM vendors including Microsoft, AOL, Akonix and IMLogic, enterprise adoption, IM security, the impact of Google's entrance are just a sampling of IM's horizon.”

Full Story at: http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3547446


Google and GEICO settle AdWords dispute, theregister.com, Sept 9 2005

“Google and car insurance firm GEICO have settled a trade mark dispute over the search engine's sale of sponsored search terms "Geico" and "Geico Direct". GEICO had claimed that this use was in breach of its trade mark rights.

Car insurance firm GEICO sued both Google and Yahoo! subsidiary Overture in May 2004 over the sale of its registered trade marks as sponsored search terms in the keyword advertising services of both search engines.”

Full Story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/google_geico_settlement/


Yahoo Says It Gave China Internet Data, washingtonpost.com, Sept 11 2005

“HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 10 -- A co-founder and senior executive of Yahoo Inc., the global Internet giant, confirmed Saturday that his company gave Chinese authorities information later used to convict a Chinese journalist now imprisoned for leaking state secrets.”

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