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TELECOM Digest Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:10:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 10
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Web Mail Tests Without End (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
NY Times Editorial: Protecting Internet Democracy (NY Times Editorial)
ADDING and REPLACING DISH Network Offers Free High Definition DVR (Solomon)
Apple iPhone (Monty Solomon)
Apple Chooses Cingular as Exclusive US Carrier for Its (Monty Solomon)
Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone (Monty Solomon)
Apple TV Coming to Your Living Room (Monty Solomon)
Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme with 802.11n (Monty Solomon)
Bill Gates CES Keynote (Monty Solomon)
Yahoo! Steps up Mobile Search (USTelecom dailyLead)
Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide: [Movie, Texting, Cell Phones] (Ranck)
Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide: [Movie, Texting, Cell Phones] (Wright)
Re: ICANN Will Create '.xxx' Porn Domain (Rick Merrill)
Re: HTML Newsletter (was Re: Telecom Update #561 (Canada) (Joseph Singer)
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:18:51 -0600
From: Rob Pegoraro <washpost@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Web Mail Tests Without End
By Rob Pegoraro
How is 2007 just like 2006 -- and 2005? Google's Gmail site is still
in beta, as is Microsoft's Live Mail and the new version of Yahoo
Mail.
Gmail ( http://gmail.com ) has now spent 33 months in this testing
phase, while Yahoo Mail ( http://mail.yahoo.com ) and the Hotmail
successor Live Mail ( http://mail.live.com ) have lasted about 16 and
14 months, respectively.
Apparently, it now takes more time to finish developing a Web site
than a Web browser -- or even an entire operating system. (Not even
Windows Vista has undergone such a lengthy public audition.)
The fact that these three companies don't consider their free Web-mail
sites housebroken doesn't mean that they don't want you to use them.
They've got ads to sell. And time you spend reading and writing e-mail
at these sites translates into money they can make off your activity.
The beta-testing status of these sites means each company's sales
pitch often amounts to "trust us": Trust us that we'll add new
features, fix the things that you dislike and catch up to whatever
options our competitors already provide.
The developers of these Web-mail sites may have infinite patience, but
you shouldn't. Choose a Web-mail site based on how it works today, not
on how they say it'll work tomorrow, next month, next year or whenever
they finally abandon the b-word.
By that standard, your choice should be easy: Use Gmail.
Google's Web-mail has the cleanest interface -- dominated either by a
simple vertical list of messages or the message you're reading or
writing -- and loads the quickest. In comparison, Yahoo suffers a
distracting delay after you log in, then wastes so much of the screen
with a vertical ad banner that you must scroll sideways to read most
messages; Live Mail works faster but has an equally inefficient layout
that also requires frequent side-to-side scrolling.
Gmail is smarter about organizing messages, too. It groups related
replies into "conversations" and lets you sort old e-mail by "tagging"
it by topic -- in effect, filing it in two or more places at once. It
takes a little getting used to, but this tagging system works much
better for large volumes of mail than the conventional folders Yahoo and
Live Mail provide.
Gmail's absurdly high quota -- you can squirrel away almost three
gigabytes' worth of mail, compared to one each for Live Mail and Yahoo
-- often draws attention. But unless you're a compulsive hoarder, you'll
may never approach any service's storage limits.
If a fellow Gmail user is logged on at the same time as you, Gmail
lets you sidestep the lag of e-mail altogether and open an
instant-messaging chat session in the same browser window. (Yahoo and
Microsoft say they will add similar features to their Web-mail
services later on.)
Gmail is also the most compatible service around: If you use any
modern browser -- Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera -- you get
the same Gmail. Yahoo forces users of Safari and Opera to stick with
its old interface.
Live Mail is even more exclusive. To use the service at all, you first
need to upgrade a Hotmail account by signing in at
http://ideas.live.com then wait anywhere from a day to two weeks for
it to be converted. Even then, Live Mail is missing some features in
non-IE browsers.
Unlike its competitors, Gmail provides more than minimal access over
Internet-connected cellphones. Its mobile-Web version allows you to
view most attached documents right on the phone's screen, since Google
extracts and displays their text for you -- a feature also available
in its full-size identity.
If you want even faster access to Gmail on the go, you can install and
run a separate, free Gmail program on many smartphones. Yahoo and Live
Mail have nothing comparable.
Finally, Gmail is the only service of these three that lets you
download your messages to any standard e-mail program, such as Outlook
or Thunderbird, at no charge. (AOL's free Web-mail service, though
unremarkable in many other respects, includes this option, too.)
To enjoy all these advantages, you merely need to let Google's computers
read through all your e-mail.
While other Web-mail sites serve up large graphical ads on every
screen, targeted only in broad demographic terms, Google displays
text-only ads to the right of each e-mail -- picked automatically by
its software to match the content of each message.
So, for instance, an update from a local farmers' market featured ads
alongside for cookbooks, diets and somebody's "Infused Avocado Oil."
Not to depress Google's advertisers, but I had to scroll sideways to
read these ads at all -- they're normally cut off by the right edge of
my browser window.
The prospect of strange computers scanning your mail to match up ads
may be unsettling, even though Google pledges that it doesn't sell or
share any of this data with other companies.
But you shouldn't let it bug you unless, maybe, you fall into one
category of Web-mail use.
If you only employ Web-mail as a secondary inbox for commercial
correspondence -- an address you hand out when you shop online or
register at sites -- you're not subjecting any personal secrets to
Gmail's automated scrutiny anyway.
If you keep a Web-mail account as a backup for your regular home or
work address, the same situation applies. (You might, however, avoid
Live Mail in this case: If you don't log into your account for 120
days, Microsoft will deactivate your address and erase your e-mail
until you log back in and reactivate it.)
But what if you plan to employ a Web-mail account as your primary e-mail
address? That can be a complicated value judgment. Gmail's ads are
generally in good taste, but do you want every bit of personal
correspondence to arrive with its own marketing payload?
There's also the nagging issue of Gmail's developers not considering
the service "done" after 33 months of effort -- thought it may be
comforting to learn that Google employees themselves use Gmail.
But the real sticking point may be whether you want to trust your most
important messages to any free service at all.
Living with technology, or trying to? E-mail Rob Pegoraro
atrobp@washpost.com.
Copyright 2007 The Washington Post Company
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:14:22 -0600
From: NY Times Editorial Desk <nytimes@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: NY Times Editorial: Protecting Internet Democracy
Protecting Internet Democracy
One of the big winners in the last election may turn out to be the
principle, known as net neutrality, that Internet service providers
should not be able to favor some content over others. Democrats who are
moving into the majority in Congress -- led by Ron Wyden in the Senate
and Edward Markey in the House -- say they plan to fight hard to pass a
net neutrality bill, and we hope that they do. It is vital to preserve
the Internet's role in promoting entrepreneurship and free expression.
Internet users now get access to any Web site on an equal basis. Foreign
and domestic sites, big corporate home pages and little-guy blogs all
show up on a user's screen in the same way when their addresses are
typed into a browser. Anyone who puts up a Web page can broadcast it to
the world.
Cable and telephone companies are talking, however, about creating a
two-tiered Internet with a fast lane and a slow lane. Companies that pay
hefty fees would have their Web pages delivered to Internet users in the
current speedy fashion. Companies and individuals that do not would be
relegated to the slow lane.
Creating these sorts of tiers would destroy the democratic quality of
the Internet. Big, wealthy voices would start to overpower the smaller,
poorer ones. Innovation would be threatened if start-ups and small
companies could not afford the new fees. The next eBay or Google might
never be born.
A net neutrality law would require cable and telephone companies to
continue to provide Web sites to Internet users on an equal basis. Mr.
Markey, of Massachusetts, will be taking over a key subcommittee that
handles Internet issues. He has promised to hold hearings to educate
Congress and the public, and to reintroduce his strong net neutrality
bill. Mr. Wyden, of Oregon, plans to reintroduce an equally solid bill
in the Senate.
Passing the legislation will not be easy. The cable and telephone
companies have fought net neutrality with a lavishly financed and
misleading lobbying campaign, because they stand to gain an enormous
windfall. But there is growing support from individuals and groups
across the political spectrum, from MoveOn.org to the Gun Owners of
America, who worry about what will happen to their free speech if
Internet service providers are allowed to pick and choose the traffic
they carry.
In the last week, there was a limited but important victory for net
neutrality. As a condition of approving the AT&T-BellSouth merger, the
Federal Communications Commission required AT&T to guarantee net
neutrality on its broadband service for the next two years. The
commission was right to extract this concession, but it should not be
necessary to negotiate separate deals like this one. On the information
superhighway, net neutrality should be a basic rule of the road.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:27:24 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: ADDING and REPLACING DISH Network Offers Free High Definition DVR
ADDING and REPLACING DISH Network Offers Free High Definition DVR
- Jan 8, 2007 07:56 PM (BusinessWire)
LAS VEGAS, Jan 08, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Add to first sentence of first graph: starting Feb. 1, 2007.
The corrected release reads:
DISH NETWORK OFFERS FREE HIGH DEFINITION DVR
Industry-leading ViP622 DVR(TM) Receiver Available Without Charge
No Rebates, No Upgrade Fees, No Upfront Costs
EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:DISH) and its DISH
Network(TM) satellite TV service announced today that starting Feb. 1,
2007, it will offer new DISH Network customers the highly-acclaimed,
high definition ViP622 DVR(TM) receiver for free as part of the
Digital Home Advantage Program. The ViP622 DVR is the first HD DVR in
the satellite industry to be offered with no upfront cost to new
subscribers, giving viewers a unique opportunity to experience the
exciting world of HD and commercial-free TV.
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63220922
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:32:32 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple iPhone
iPhone combines three products -- a revolutionary mobile phone,
a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet
communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps,
and searching -- into one small and lightweight handheld device.
iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large
multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control
everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software
power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device,
completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:35:13 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple Chooses Cingular as Exclusive US Carrier for Its
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX
News Network/ --
Apple(R) and Cingular announced that Cingular, the largest wireless
carrier in the US, will be Apple's exclusive US carrier partner for
Apple's revolutionary iPhone unveiled today. As part of this
multi-year partnership, Apple and Cingular are working together to
provide innovative new features to mobile phone users, such as
iPhone's pioneering and unique Visual Voicemail, a first on any mobile
phone in the world.
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63236994
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:34:43 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX
News Network/ --
Apple(R) today introduced iPhone, combining three products-a
revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod(R) with touch controls,
and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class
email, web browsing, searching and maps-into one small and lightweight
handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface
based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software,
letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. iPhone also
ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before
seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do
on their mobile phones.
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63236952
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:37:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple TV Coming to Your Living Room
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX
News Network/ --
Apple(R) today premiered Apple TV(TM), an easy to use and fun way to
wirelessly play all your favorite iTunes(R) content from your Mac(R)
or PC on your widescreen TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos
and podcasts. Using Apple TV's stunning new interface, anyone can
quickly browse and view their entire collection of digital media from
across the room using the simple and intuitive Apple Remote. Apple TV
easily connects to almost all modern widescreen televisions, and will
be shipping in February for just $299.
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63237068
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:39:05 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme with 802.11n
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX
News Network/ --
Apple(R) today introduced the new AirPort Extreme(R), a simple and
elegant wireless networking solution delivering up to five times the
performance and twice the range of the previous AirPort Extreme. Based
on 802.11n,* AirPort Extreme extends a wireless network to even more
areas in a home or office and makes streaming digital content and
transferring large files faster and easier. The new AirPort Extreme
Base Station features a sleek, new design with connections for
networked computers, printers and a USB hard drive to quickly and
easily share files or back up valuable data and content.
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63237186
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:10:26 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Bill Gates CES Keynote
Bill Gates: 2007 International Electronics Show
2007 International Consumer Electronics Show
Bill Gates Keynote
Las Vegas, Nevada
January 7, 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/01-07ces.mspx
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:14:31 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Yahoo! Steps up Mobile Search
USTelecom dailyLead
January 9, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fUtEfDtusXjBuFCibuddlyHG
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Yahoo! steps up mobile search
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Nokia embraces Skype
* Sprint announces initial WiMAX cities
* Ericsson signs on to upgrade network in Bangladesh
* Podcast: Alcatel-Lucent looks ahead
* Vodafone wants to talk Hutchison Essar with Indian minister
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Rapid Telecom Training and eLearning Thursday, Jan. 11, noon (ET)
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Electronics revenue estimated at $155 billion for 2007
* Study: Music-enabled mobile phones gain in popularity
* Modeo launches beta service in New York
* Networks look to send shows to TV via Web
VOIP DOWNLOAD
* Internet stands out as venue of choice for VoIP sales
* Dual-mode phones support Skype voice services
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Europe greenlights Motorola buy
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fUtEfDtusXjBuFCibuddlyHG
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From: ranck@vt.edu
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide: [Movie, Texting, Cell Phones]
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:28:34 UTC
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> Historically, I understand that the landline telephone system of
> Europe was never as developed as that of the U.S. Telephone service
With the exception of France which had incorporated digital directory
service into their phone system in the 1980's. Even in the early 90's
when I lived there the French phone system had some real advantages
over the US and others. True, getting a new phone line could be
difficult and slow, but the functionality was better than anything in
the rest of the world once you got a connection. Some of the phones
could even act as a 24X80 terminal connecting to a dial-up service.
The limitation was mostly screen size. The basic phones only had a
few lines of text available, but even the most basic phones had it.
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.
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From: B. Wright <bmwright@xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:57:38 UTC
Organization: XMission Internet http://www.xmission.com
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide: [Movie, Texting, Cell Phones]
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> OFF TOPIC (mostly)
> Just like here, the kids all had their cell phones. A girl and a boy
> met and were texting each other every day.
> Could anyone comment on the state of wireless and landline telephone
> services in Western Europe?
Almost all kids seemed to have mobile phones there far sooner than it
happened in the US. The pre-paid plans in euroland are a lot better
and were easier to find than in the US. A lot of that probably has to
do with the fact that all incoming calls are free (but the caller gets
raped on the charges). With very little cost you can have an incoming
phone line and cheap two way texting (which probably also explains why
SMS took off a lot more outside of the US).
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:39:16 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ICANN Will Create '.xxx' Porn Domain
Dan Lanciani wrote:
> ap@telecom-digest.org (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press) wrote:
>> ICM believes the domain would help the $12 billion online porn
>> industry clean up its act, as those using it must abide by rules
>> designed to bar such trickery as spamming and malicious scripts.
> It's a shame we can't have rules like that for existing domains ...
Why the fuss about "domains"? There's tons of free stuff on Usenet
and no one wants to regulate that.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, yes we do, if the 'free stuff on
Usenet' amounts to secret, hidden viruses or spam built into the 'free
stuff'. But, the vast majority of the 'free stuff on Usenet' only
applies to the recipient of same, where 'domains' on the other hand
sre specifically intended as places for others to visit. I can (not
as easily as I would like) control what 'free stuff' does to my own
computer, where when I choose to visit a 'domain' if there is any
malevolent stuff hidden there, it often times gets installed without
asking me to do anything, i.e. no 'tip off' about what is coming next.
Now, as I stated here yesterday, ICANN and its various supporters
_could_ crack down severely on all the domains and the crapola which
is sent out to the public, but they don't want to, and they'll (or
mainly their supporters) can give you thousands of reasons why ICANN
should not be held to account for the general mess we refer to as the
'net' these days, but believe me, if any of them gave an iota one way
or another (and didn't have their own vested interests) things would
be a lot different. PAT]
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 07:23:48 PST
From: Mr Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HTML newsletter (was Re: Telecom Update #561 (Canada))
jmeissen@aracnet.com 7 Jan 2007 08:25:04 GMT wrote:
> OUR NEW LOOK: Beginning with this issue, the e-mail edition of
> Telecom Update will be published in HTML instead of plain text. We
> will fine-tune the design over the next few weeks, to make
> Canada's most-widely-read telecom publication even more readable
> and usable. We welcome your comments and suggestions: please
> email them to ianangus@angustel.ca.
> Big mistake. HTML email is a primary vehicle for spam and phishing.
> Some organizations are going as far as banning HTML email.
> I for one will never subscribe to a newsletter which does not provide
> a text-only option.
> John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Nor will I, and I have suggested to Ian
> Angus that this may be a mistake by their company. PAT]
I'm really at a loss why people think that "dressing up" a piece of
information makes the information better or more valuable.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There are some advantages to 'dressing
up' the information. For example, having the ability to change type
faces and fonts as desired within the text. Also, being able to add
links to supplemental information where applicable. Like Ian Angus, I
have thought about converting TELECOM Digest to an 'all-html' style
publication, but upon further reflection have decided the potential
troubles with same would outweigh the good points. Unlike Ian Angus,
my decision several years ago was to primarily concentrate on text
and build my html output around that, but maintaining the 'text only'
version as well. If you chose to look at http://telecom-digest.org for
example, in many ways it winds up looking 'better' than this text
edition, particularly if you see how the supplementary links are woven
right in with the text itself. And, there is a more pleasant
background to the pages, IMO. If you look at http://telecom-digest.org
I think you will be able to see that the 'original build' was text
rather than html, which is how I like it. PAT]
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