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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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The DVD Copy Control Association has had its protection scheme approved by the DVD Forum who met near Japan for downloadable content that can be burnt on to DVDs. It will require a new disk that’s similar to a DVD-R disk which should work on most consumer DVD players.

Initially it’s expected the technology will be used in controlled environments such as kiosks rather than on PC’s, though if it works out it could be used on general PC systems.

Digit Online

Kaneva is sort of like Second Life, but a social networking (think MySpace) version.

Currently you can sign-up, but there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually be invited to participate in the 3D World. However on sign-in’ing up you’ll be inundated with “friend requests”.

There’s no real view of how they’re going to make money, maybe advertising in the 3D world itself, whether it competes with traditional
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Replicability: the regulation of BT’s retail business exchange line services | Ofcom

Ofcom is holding a consultation on whether BT can set its own pricing on certain business exchange line services to high value customers (ВЈ1m sales per annum).

Other telcos objected to this, as they still felt BT had SMP (significant market power) in this area. Ofcom has made BT change certain products so there is greater competition. Products affected are WLR (wholesale line rental), CPS (Carrier Preselect) amongst others.
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Licensing in the 71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 64-66 GHz bands | Ofcom

Ofcom is making these bands available for short-haul fixed links on 8th of March 2007. They could allow very high bandwidth point to point links.

Ofcom will maintain a database/registry of links so interference issues can be minimised, however it’s expected industry will self-regulate.

Unfortunately there’s very little radio equipment available that
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Tiggdo - Mobile personalization and other services for your mobile cell phone

Another site that want promotion. At least their service seems sensible and they’ve already worked with the BBC to offer mobile personalised news to WAP enabled mobile devices.

The have developed sites in multiple languages based on BBC news.

http://ara.tiggdo.com - Arabic
http://aze.tiggdo.com - Azeri
http://car.tiggdo.com - Caribbean
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Create your Free mobile website today with zinadoo - Create your FREE mobile service today.

A template driven mobile site generator. They keep SPAMing to write something about them so here it is.

Mobile sites are growing in popularity, but mainly for bigger operations and I’m not convinced there’s a big consumer market out there how want such a service. Zinadoo seem to make their money selling .mobi domains and SMS services (where links can be put on a site to text friends and such like).
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Ericsson is trying to buy Tandberg for $1.39bn, though ARRIS may yet up their bid.

Tandberg used to specialise in videoconferencing systems, though have moved in to the IPTV world and that’s where the big money is going to be. Everyone will be watching TV through an internet connected set top box and everyone wants to be in that space.

Cisco bought Scientific Atlanta for the same reason.

Though IPTV is in its infancy,
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