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Wireless broadband coverage claims fall short
<http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?
id=3D147034>
Wireless broadband may be a potentially huge differentiator for 3G
cellcos, but trials in Singapore reveal that the cost and performance
of wireless broadband solutions don=B9t always live up to the marketing
hype from vendors.
Patrick Scodeller, CTO of Singaporean cellco MobileOne, said wireless
broadband has the potential to give the cellco a competitive edge over
rivals SingTel and StarHub, which also have fixed-line broadband
services.
  M1 has been evaluating three wireless broadband technologies =AD none of
which are WiMAX, which it intends to evaluate later in the year =AD and
so far has found Wi-Fi hotspot services too costly to deploy in terms
of backhaul, installation and labor costs.

Database giant gives access to fake firms
ChoicePoint warns more than 30,000 they may be at risk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/>
Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal
data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of
background information on virtually every U.S. citizen, MSNBC.com has=
 learned.
The incident involves a wide swath of consumer data, including names,
addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports and other information.
ChoicePoint aggregates and sells such personal information to government
agencies and private companies.
Last week, the company notified between 30,000 and 35,000 consumers in
California that their personal data may have been accessed by "unauthorized
third parties," according to ChoicePoint spokesman James Lee.

Annonymous -
Since November 2003 the web music merchant http://www.allofmp3.com, operated
by the Russian company Media Services, has been openly selling some of
the most popular western music at a fraction of the cost of widely
touted American sites, such as Apple's hugely successful iTunes,
Rhapsody, MusicMatch, Napster, Sony Connect. Clients can select from a
wide variety of encoding options (e.g., AAC, MP3, OGG, WMA 9 Lossless,
Monkey's Audio, OptimFROG and FLAC) starting at rates of 128kbps all
the way to full CD (.wav files).  Unlike its major competitors
Allofmp3 sells the tracks by the megabyte.  Beginning in January rates
were doubled to USD 0.02/MB.  Instead of paying USD 1.00 per track
AllofMP3 users pay less than USD 0.10 and less the USD 2.00 per album.
Currently the site boasts almost 30,000 albums from all genre and it
all appears legal for the moment.
http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm
As for giving a Russian site my credit card number,
my strategy has been to use MBNA's "shop safe" service.
If you aren't familiar with it, they have a system whereby
you can log into their website and generate a new, unique
credit card number, with a credit limit and expiration
date set by you. Thereafter, the first company to post a
charge to that number is maintained as the *only* company
allowed to charge to that number; you need to generate a
new number for each payee.  With Media Services, I've found
that I need to call MBNA each time to verbally authorize
a Russian company to bill my account, but I don't have to
worry about my real cc number floating around Russia.

"In Court: Hollywood Gets P2P Hub's Server Logs"
A Dallas federal-court judge has ordered LokiTorrent, a
clearinghouse for links to pirated movies, songs, and software,
to shut down and hand over its user logs to movie-industry
lawyers. The file-sharing hub's Web site now features a stern
message to would-be pirates: "You can click but you can't hide."
<http://news.com.com/Court+Hollywood+gets+P2P+giants+server+logs/2100-1025_3
-5571782.html?tag=3Dnefd.top2222>

The False Mathematics of the RIAA
<http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/02/the_false_mathe.html>
MUSIC And COPYRIGHT LAW
How much do you understand about what you can download
and use in the classroom. Do you know what fair use is?
Find out the issues, ethics and procedures
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/Home_MUSIC.html>
Why File Sharing is Not Theft
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw4.html


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