Skype signs VoIP JV in China, theregister.co.uk, Sept 5 2005

Skype signs VoIP JV in China, theregister.co.uk, Sept 5 2005

“Skype is looking to make inroads into the potentially lucrative Chinese market after inking a joint venture (JV) agreement with wireless internet operator TOM Online.
The two companies are already buddies having forged an agreement to develop a simplified Chinese version of Skype's internet telephony software. Ten months on and the software has attracted 3.4m registered users and Skype reckons now is the right time to plug the service to TOM's 70m punters.”

Full story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/skype_tom/


'Islamic Trojan' disrupts smut surfing, theregister.co.uk, Sept 5 2005

“Virus writers have created a Trojan horse which tries to disrupt visits the pornographic websites by displaying messages from the Koran.

The low-risk Yusufali-A Trojan horse monitors the websites Windows users are visiting. If the malware sees one of a set of trigger words (such as "teen", "sex" or "penis") in the url it minimises the window so the user cannot see its content and displays a message from the Koran instead. The message, partly written in Arabic, contains the following English text:

Yusufali: Know, therefore, that there is no god but Allah, and ask forgiveness for they fault, and for the men and women who believe: for Allah knows how ye move about and how ye dwell in your homes.”

Full Story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/smut_censoring_trojan/


Big bucks back next mobile frontier: Broadcast TV, Yahoo! News, Sept 5 2005

“SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Want to watch TV on your mobile phone? The wireless industry is betting billions that you do. And they're not talking about just downloading or streaming on-demand videoclips to your phone. Efforts are afoot to broadcast TV programming nationwide to a new generation of mobile phones that can tune in, just like an at-home TV.”

Full Story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050905/tc_nm/mobile_dc


Skype and Tom Online create Chinese joint venture (Reuters), Yahoo! News, Sept 5 2005

“PARIS (Reuters) - Free Internet telephone software provider Skype has formed a joint venture with China-focused Internet portal Tom Online, in a bid to boost its subscriber base in the fast-growing Asian market.”

Full Story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050905/wr_nm/telecoms_skype_dc
Cisco's new IOS brings true process modularity to the core (InfoWorld), Yahoo! News, Sept 5 2005

“San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems' upgrade of its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software for the Catalyst 6500 core switch is a major step in core-switching redundancy. The new IOS can separate core processes to reside within their own memory space, permitting traffic to flow through the switch even when certain subsystems are offline. If successful, this release will be a watershed event in the core-switching industry.”

Full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/infoworld/20050905/tc_infoworld/67695


BBC may introduce internet rating, BBC News, Sept 5 2005

“The BBC could bring in an internet TV rating system to help people decide what to watch online. The internet labelling system will let viewers know if BBC programmes available over the internet contain sex, strong language or violence.”

Full Story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4214100.stm


Microsoft-Google battle heats up, BBC News, Sept 4 2005

“Microsoft's chief executive vowed to "kill Google" in an expletive-laden tirade against the firm, according to US court documents filed by Google.
The claim was made in a sworn statement by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft employee who quit for Google in 2004.”

Full Story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4213466.stm


RSS Feeds, Secured For Enterprise, theinternetnews.com, Sept 5 2005

“Reactivity is kicking off what could be a snowballing trend in the next year, configuring its XML servers to accommodate the burgeoning market for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) (define) content feeds.”

Full Story at: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3532051