TELECOM Digest     Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:15:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 14

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    ITU Not Interested in Internet Control (Frank Jordans, Associated Press)
    New Telecom Giant to Settle in Shanghai (Shanghai Daily News)
    Cell to Cell Tap ... (Susan)
    Apple's New Calling: The iPhone (Monty Solomon)
    Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs (Monty Solomon)
    Apple Waves Its Wand at the Phone (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International (RJ)
    Re: Making Voice Mail More Like Email (Rick Merrill)
    Re: NY Times Plans Major Job Cutback (Lisa Hancock)
    Last Laugh! The Sickest Phish Yet! (Stella)

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:44:15 -0600
From: Frank Jordans, AP  <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: ITU Not Interested in Internet Control


FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press

GENEVA - The United Nations will not try to take the lead in
determining the future of the Internet, the head of the
U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday.

Hamadoun Toure, a Malian who was elected director-general of the
International Telecommunication Union in November, said the agency
would be just one of many organizations involved in shaping the
Internet's development.

"It is not my intention to take over the governance of the Internet,"
Toure told reporters in Geneva at his first press conference. "There
is no one single issue that can be dealt with by one organization
alone."

He said the ITU would work with other agencies such as the
quasi-independent Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
or ICANN, which manages the day-to-day flow of data across the
Internet from its Marina del Rey, Calif., headquarters and oversees
key rules that govern how computers communicate.

Control over these rules has been a major point of contention between
governments, with some developing countries demanding complete
independence of ICANN from the U.S. government, perhaps with the
U.N.-affiliated body taking control.

Other countries have threatened to set up a parallel infrastructure
that could lead to multiple, incompatible Internets.

"We have to avoid a 'cyberwar' between governments," Toure said,
adding that regulation should be as light as possible and adapt to
local conditions.

He praised the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as a model
regulatory body, saying the FCC was "one of our very dynamic members
 ... with a very positive attitude" toward solving technical issues.

Toure's four-year term begins as the U.N. increases its efforts to
make communication technology part of its global development plans and
bridge the so-called "information divide" between rich and poor
countries.

Two ITU summits in 2003 and 2005 proposed expanding telephone access
to at least half the world's population by 2012. But the meetings
grappled with the question of Internet governance, with neither
providing a lasting solution.

Toure said a second priority during his leadership would be to
increase security of the Internet against hackers, spammers and other
cybercriminals -- increasingly important as the world's dependence on
telecommunication technology grows.

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:48:10 -0600
From: Shanghai Daily News <shanghai@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: New Telecom Giant to Settle in Shanghai


Alcatel-Lucent, the result of a recent merger between the two telecom
giants, said yesterday it would open its Asia Pacific headquarters in
Shanghai.

Frederic Rose, former Alcatel Asia Pacific's president, has been
appointed Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific president. Gerald Dega, Alcatel
Shanghai Bell's (ASB) president, is in charge of the new company's
business in China.

"We choose Shanghai because of the investment-friendly environment in
Pudong and we will expand business in China through the platform ASB,"
Rose said in a Chinese-language statement.

In 2000, Alcatel was the first multinational company to set up an Asia
Pacific headquarters in Shanghai. Before the merger, Lucent's Asia
Pacific headquarters was in Singapore.

The two companies completed their merger in December. Their combined
revenue was 18.6 billion euros (US$23.9 billion) in 2005, the latest
figures available.

"More Asia Pacific headquarters and innovation centers have moved into
Shanghai and that shows the city's strong positions in the investment
environment and other conditions," said Zhou Yupeng, Shanghai's vice
mayor, who also attended the opening ceremony.

More than 500 regional headquarters, investment firms and research
centers have moved into Shanghai, according to Zhou without providing
comparative figures.

In the global telecom industry, several huge-scale mergers have
happened, such as Alcatel and Lucent, Nokia and Siemens' networks
division and BenQ and Siemens' mobile phone units.

China, with 455 million mobile phone users, is expected to launch 3G
licenses this year and telecom equipment makers, including
Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia-Siemens and Huawei, all hope to grab more market
share in the multi-billion-dollar market.
 
Source:Shanghai Daily  
Copyright 2007 Associated Press

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From: Susan <susan_2007_new@yahoo.com>
Subject: Cell to Cell Tap
Date: 14 Jan 2007 11:00:11 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Hi guys!

Where can I read about cell to cell wiretap ?  I need to diagnose a
problem which I have been having and I think some people played a
trick.

Thanks.

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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:29:47 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple's New Calling: The iPhone


By Lev Grossman

If you've ever wondered how it works, this is how it works: I don't
call Steve, Steve calls me. Or more accurately, someone in Steve
Jobs's office calls someone in my office -- someone at a much higher
pay grade -- to say that he has something cool. I then fly to the
metastasized strip mall called Cupertino, Calif. where Apple lives,
sign some legal confidentiality stuff and am escorted to a conference
room which contains Jobs, some associates, and some lumps concealed
under some black towels. I stare at what was under the towels.
Everybody else stares at me.

This is how Apple, and nobody else, introduces new products to the
press. It can be awkward, because Jobs is high strung and he expects
you to be impressed. I was, fortunately, and with good reason.
Apple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did
to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the
weight of its own superiority. This is unfortunate for anybody else
who makes cell phones, but it's good news for those of us who use
them.

It's also good news for Jobs. Apple has had some explaining to do 
lately about back-dated stock options it issued to Jobs and some 
other senior Apple executives. An internal investigation has cleared 
Jobs, but a federal investigation and a shareholder lawsuit are still 
going forward. Sure, backdating options is common in Silicon Valley, 
but the essence of Apple's identity is that it's an uncorporate 
corporation: a glossy white iPod-colored company, the kind that 
doesn't get mixed up in this kind of thing. When Jobs calls the 
iPhone "the most important product Apple has ever announced, with the 
possible exception of the Apple II and the Macintosh," he means, 
technologically. But now is not a terrible time to be hitting a home 
run.

The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false 
start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were 
being spent -- particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area-on 
what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a 
touchscreen instead of a mouse-and-keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, 
figured he could do better, so he had Apple engineers noodle around 
with a tablet PC. When they showed him the touchscreen they came up 
with, he got excited. So excited he forgot all about tablet computers.

Jobs had just led Apple on a triumphant rampage through a new market
sector, portable music players, and he was looking around for more
technology to conquer. Cell phones are perfect because even grandma
has one: consumers bought nearly a billion of them last year. Break
off just 1% of that and you can buy yourself a lot of black
turtlenecks. Cell phones do all kinds of stuff-calling, text
messaging, web browsing, contact management, music playback, photos
and video-but they do it very badly, by forcing you to press lots of
tiny buttons, navigate diverse heterogeneous interfaces and squint at
a tiny screen. "Everybody hates their phone," Jobs says, "and that's
not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there." To Jobs's
perfectionist eyes, phones are broken. Jobs likes things that are
broken. It means he can make something that isn't and sell it to you
for a premium price.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1575410-1,00.html

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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:40:01 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs


DIGITAL DOMAIN
By RANDALL STROSS

STEVE JOBS, Apple's showman nonpareil, provided the first public
glimpse of the iPhone last week -- gorgeous, feature-laden and pricey.
While following the master magician's gestures, it was easy to
overlook a most disappointing aspect: like its slimmer iPod siblings,
the iPhone's music-playing function will be limited by factory-
installed "crippleware."

If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the 
euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple 
officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.

The term "crippleware" comes from the plaintiff in a class-action 
lawsuit, Melanie Tucker v. Apple Computer Inc., that is making its 
way through Federal District Court in Northern California. The suit 
contends that Apple unfairly restricts consumer choice because it 
does not load onto the iPod the software needed to play music that 
uses Microsoft's copy-protection standard, in addition to Apple's own.

Ms. Tucker's core argument is that the absence of another company's
software on the iPod constitutes "crippleware." I disagree. It is
Apple's own copy-protection software itself that cripples the device.

Here is how FairPlay works: When you buy songs at the iTunes Music 
Store, you can play them on one -- and only one -- line of portable 
player, the iPod. And when you buy an iPod, you can play 
copy-protected songs bought from one -- and only one -- online music 
store, the iTunes Music Store.

The only legal way around this built-in limitation is to strip out 
the copy protection by burning a CD with the tracks, then uploading 
the music back to the computer. If you're willing to go to that 
trouble, you can play the music where and how you choose -- the 
equivalent to rights that would have been granted automatically at 
the cash register if you had bought the same music on a CD in the 
first place.

Even if you are ready to pledge a lifetime commitment to the iPod as
your only brand of portable music player or to the iPhone as your only
cellphone once it is released, you may find that FairPlay copy
protection will, sooner or later, cause you grief. You are always
going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever. Because your
iTunes will not play on anyone else's hardware.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/business/yourmoney/14digi.html?ex=1326430800&en=2c5efe51f9d74dd8&ei=5090

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:08:20 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple Waves Its Wand at the Phone


STATE OF THE ART
By DAVID POGUE
SAN FRANCISCO

Remember the fairy godmother in "Cinderella"? She'd wave her wand and
turn some homely and utilitarian object, like a pumpkin or a mouse,
into something glamorous and amazing, like a carriage or fully
accessorized coachman.

Evidently, she lives in some back room at Apple.

Every time Steve Jobs spies some hopelessly ugly, complex machine 
that cries out for the Apple touch -- computers, say, or music players 
 -- he lets her out.

At the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Mr. Jobs demonstrated
the latest result of godmother wand-waving. He granted the wishes of
millions of Apple followers and rumormongers by turning the ordinary
cellphone into ... the iPhone.

At the moment, the iPhone is in an advanced prototype stage, which I
was allowed to play with for only an hour; the finished product won't
be available in the United States until June, or in Europe until the
fourth quarter. So this column is a preview, not a review.

Already, though, one thing is clear: the name iPhone may be doing 
Apple a disservice. This machine is so packed with possibilities that 
the cellphone may actually be the least interesting part.
As Mr. Jobs pointed out in his keynote presentation, the iPhone is at 
least three products merged into one: a phone, a wide-screen iPod and 
a wireless, touch-screen Internet communicator. That helps to explain 
its price: $499 or $599 (with four or eight gigabytes of storage).

As you'd expect of Apple, the iPhone is gorgeous. Its face is shiny
black, rimmed by mirror-finish stainless steel. The back is textured
aluminum, interrupted only by the lens of a two-megapixel camera and a
mirrored Apple logo. The phone is slightly taller and wider than a
Palm Treo, but much thinner (4.5 by 2.4 by 0.46 inches).

You won't complain about too many buttons on this phone; it comes very
close to having none at all. The front is dominated by a touch screen
(320 by 480 pixels) operated by finger alone. The only physical
buttons, in fact, are volume up/down, ringer on/off (hurrah!),
sleep/wake and, beneath the screen, a Home button.

The iPhone's beauty alone would be enough to prompt certain members of
the iPod cult to dig for their credit cards. But its Mac OS X-based
software makes it not so much a smartphone as something out of
"Minority Report."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11pogue.html?ex=1326171600&en=ed06c461a822eeb8&ei=5090

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From: RJ <rj_nospam@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:12:11 -0500


On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:37:44 GMT, Gary Breuckman <puma@catbox.com>
wrote:

>> 1. Find a beat up old PC that used to run Windows 98.
>> 2. Buy a SATA card and two SATA 160GB HD's for under $250
>> 3. Install in system obtained in step 1
>> 4. Download Debian Sarge (Or Centos if your tastes run Red Hat)
>> 5. If Debian, apt-get install samba
>> 6. Setup your Samba shares.

> I'm not sure you would even need a server anymore, look into the many
> small NAS (Network Assisted Storage) boxes out there now.  Use the
> box, hard drives, and connect to the network.

The server solution is okay, but when I had the chance to get a LAN
server case for a 3.5 HD for $50 I jumped on it.  Much better, with
around a 1x6" footprint on my work table.

RJ

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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:28:36 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Making Voice Mail More Like Email


Monty Solomon wrote:

> BY KATHERINE BOEHRET

> Despite spam and other problems, email is highly useful and
> effective. You can quickly send and receive messages, delete or
> forward them, and save them for reading at a later time. A glance at
> your inbox can tell you a lot about each message, including its
> subject, sender and the time it was received.

> But voice mail lags behind in key ways. A voice mail still doesn't
> tell you the caller's name or reason for calling unless you listen to
> at least part of it. You usually can't reply to a voice mail with a
> message of your own, as with email; instead, you must call the person
> back. And you can't easily jump from the most recent voice mail to the
> 10th without listening to every message in between.

I get "voice mail" from ATT CallVantage and it ID's the person
and the phone number by sending the WAV file as an email attachment.

> Still, voice mail has its place. A phone call is much more personal
> than an email, and lets you use vocal inflection to express your

That's just tautological!

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: NY Times Plans Major Job Cutback
Date: 13 Jan 2007 12:52:30 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Mark Crispin wrote:

> I would claim that a more important factor is that many long-time
> subscribers (such as myself) grew weary of being spoon fed ideological
> pablum and dropped our subscriptions en masse.  Jayson Blair is a
> symptom of a much more far-reaching problem at the Grey Lady (and
> other once-reputable newspapers).

I disagree that the NYT or other major traditional newspapers give out
"ideological pablum"

> It's convenient to blame the Internet and other alternative media; it
> avoids having to take a hard self-examination.

I don't deny that a hard self-examination is necessary, and I would
agree that _some_  subscription loss may be for ideological reasons.
But I think there's a much broader problem of papers not selling that
needs to be properly researched.

When I was a kid almost every household got the daily paper.  Some
households got two.  That is no longer true; many homes today don't
get any daily paper at all.  Why is that?  That must be ascertained.

I don't know all the reasons, but I would submit some reasons are:

1) People drive to work instead of transit and they aren't reading the
paper on the train/bus as they used to.

2) Both parents work these days (assuming there even is two parents)
and there is little time left over to relax and read the paper at
night.  Mother isn't home during the day to pause and read it and in
the evening Father has his chores to do and can't read it.

3) Far more people live in the suburbs and just don't care about the
big city issues anymore, the stuff that was the bread 'n butter of a
city newspaper.  Suburbanites without any city connection -- as many are
today -- don't care about City Hall or inner city issues.
Unfortunately, it's a lot harder for a newspaper to cover every tiny
town meeting of the suburbs, where many towns can be just a few square
miles.

4) The cost of covering a much larger developed area and distributing
the newspaper to said area is considerably more.

5) If you compare a newspaper today to one say of 1974, you'll find
the 1974 edition much smaller.  Over the years they've added many
features to the newspaper that weren't there in the past.  This is a
cost.

6) TV always was the enemy of print.  With cable, there's so much more
on TV now (though mostly garbage*) and people watch instead of read.

*Cable TV now seems to be recycled sitcoms loaded down with frequent
commercials.

> All newspapers have an editorial viewpoint; that is the purpose of the
> editorial page.  However, when the newspaper taints its hard news
> reporting with that viewpoint, particularly when it reaches the
> extreme of inventing quotes and incidents to match, then it ceases to
> anything more than a propaganda organ.

> The Times was once the paper that both dogmatic rightist and equally
> dogmatic leftist read to get the hard facts, even as both vehemently
> disagreed with the editorial.  The Times had "all the news that's fit
> to print", even when that news was inconvenient for its editorial
> viewpoint; and it was respected and trusted for that.

> Sadly, that has not been the case for many years.

> The Times has fallen quite low, little better than the tabloids.  It
> will take a good deal of work to bring it back.  I see little sign of
> that happening.

>  -- Mark --

> http://panda.com/mrc
> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do either of you -- Mark or Lisa --
remember when the Sunday New York Times first weighed in at five
pounds? Five pounds of newspaper every Sunday. There was an article
about it in the NY Times the next day ... Does _anyone_ actually read
all of the Sunday paper? Not just the Times, but any Sunday paper?  PAT]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:59:37 -0600
From: Stella <rajeshsharma7778@rediffmail.com>
Subject: Last Laugh! The Sickest Phish Yet!


SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam
analysis centers, have warned of a spammed-out email that pretends to
come from a professional hitman, hired to kill the recipient, but are
really interested in stealing money.

The emails claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired
assassin for 10 days, but that the hitman is prepared to drop the
contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Upon receiving an initial
advance payment of $20,000 the hitman claims that he will produce
taped evidence of the contract to kill the reader of the email.

Part of the email, which start with a cheery greeting of "Good day"
and can have a subject line of "Read this to be safe and a new life in
this new year", reads:

"This is surely one of the sickest phishes yet seen -- the intention of 
this email is quite clearly to frighten the recipient into coughing up a 
substantial amount of money or, at the very least, their bank account 
details," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. 
"Innocent, vulnerable people could be scared into believing that the 
contents of the email are truthful, while the not-so-innocent are 
arguably even more likely to be hoodwinked. It may be hugely unnerving 
to receive such threats, but the only way to stop the distribution of 
these messages is for users to stop responding."

If you wish to see what this phish looks like, please follow this
link:  

Scam Email Blackmails With Death Threat
http://www.network-analyzer.blogspot.com

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