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Ofcom are holding an auction for a license in Northern Ireland for spectrum in 1785-1805 MHz.

Applications must be submitted to Ofcom on 21st march 2007 between 10.00 and 15.00. They can be made to Ofcom’s London office at

Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA

or their Northern Ireland office at

Landmark House, 5 Cromac Quay, The Gasworks, Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 2JD

Ofcom statement

Ofcom has published a statement that will force all operators of sexual entertainment services (SES) to move from 08 numbers to a new 098 number range.

Currently there are also SES running on 0908 and 0909. Existing services can remain on those numbers, though the numbering of the range will facilitate migrating to the new numer range. No new SES will be allocated on 0908 and 0909.

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The IEEE 802.11 working group has reached consensus after 2 months of balloting by achieving over 75% majority.

Now that the draft is approved, it will go on sale by the IEEE and companies can start to modify existing equipment to ensure compliance.

Though the draft was approved there were 3,163 comments to the draft of which 1,441 are editorial and another 1,635 technical. This means that the draft is sound, though some changes
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‘Online Photoshop’ details emerge News - PC Advisor: “‘Online Photoshop’ “

Adobe is planning an on-line version of Photoshop, though it’s aimed at consumers not professionals.

They’ve also announced their Remix service for video users.

Digit Online

Sony has announced a Walkman that can play video. It comes in 2, 4 and 8GB versions.

It supports ATRAC and MP3, though battery life is better with ATRAC and it comes with software to convert various formats into ATRAC.

Videowise it supports MPEG4 (H.264/AVC) and has a QVGA 240 pixels by 320 pixels display.

The 2GB version costs around ВЈ120, the 4GB ВЈ155 and 8GB ВЈ200.

Adobe has said it will release Creative Suite v3 on the 27th of March, however no details have been given about what will be in CS3.

They’ve been running a web video (available on YouTube) called “What’s in the Box” for a while.

Currently standard Adobe CS2 contains Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Version Cue CS2 and Bridge and the Premium version adds adds Acrobat 8, GoLive CS2 and Dreamweaver 8.

Availability of Numbering Resource | Ofcom

Ofcom are holding a consultation on reducing the number block allocations on certain exchanges were numbers are running out.

Ofcom normally allocate blocks of 10,000 numbers. Ofcom are proposing to reduce this to allocations of 1,000 numbers where numbers are becoming scarce.

This affects 59 new geographics codes (as well as the 79 existing conservation areas). There are also another 32 that, though are not at risk at present will be in the future.
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BT Public Call Boxes | Ofcom

BT have to provide call boxes under their Universal Service Obligations, this is something they’d rather not do.

Some call boxes are situated in remote regions and BT wish to trial varying pricing depending on the location of the phone box itself.

BT will have to publish what they are going to do in the trial and proposed tarrifs.

Ofcom wish to allow BT to trial this but are
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Proposal to make the Radio Frequency Identification Equipment (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 | Ofcom

Ofcom is holding a consultation with regards the 865-868 MHz band which is used for RFID systems. Ofcom have previously made this band license exempt and CEPT (EU ITU) wants member states to make this permanent, which requires a law change.

Ofcom as part as CEPT (and under EU harmonisation rules) is proposing to make
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Digit Online

PNY had released the Quadro FX4600 which is an upgraded version of the FX 4500. It has 128 parallel 1.35GHz cores and 768MB of RAM a core clock speed of 500MHz and memory speed of 600MHz and the memory interface is not 384-bit.

The chip supports Vista’s DirectX 10 graphics system. It also supports CUDA, nVidia’s computing platform (where the GPU can be used for computational tasks, that may not be graphics related).
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