TELECOM Digest     Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:56:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 18

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight (Raphael G. Satter, AP)
    Teens' Families Sue MySpace (Reuters News Wire)
    U.S. NETeller Arrests DealBlow to Net Gambling (Pete Harrison, Reuters)
    Microsoft, Nortel Tackle Unified Messaging (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Verizon in MA (Rick Merrill)
    Re: California Spammer Convicted via the Can-Spam Law (Rick Merrill)
    Re: If Truth be Told: Dating Web Sites on the Internet (www.Queensbridge)
    Re: XM and Sirius Consider Merger (Klay Anderson)
    Re: XM and Sirius Consider Merger (Gene S. Berkowitz)
    Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs (Ron Kritzman)
    Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs (Rick Merrill)

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:39:35 -0600
From: Raphael G. Satter, AP  <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight


By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer

The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a
group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand
of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.

The clock, which was set two minutes forward to 11:55, represents the
likelihood of a global cataclysm. Its ticks have given the clock's
keepers a chance to speak out on the dangers they see threatening
Earth.

It was the fourth time since the Soviet collapse in 1991 that the
clock ticked forward amid fears over what the scientists describe as
"a second nuclear age" prompted largely by standoffs with Iran and
North Korea.  But urgent warnings of climate change also played a
role.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the clock, was
founded in 1945 as a newsletter distributed among nuclear physicists
concerned about nuclear war, and midnight originally symbolized a
widespread nuclear conflict. The bulletin has grown into an
organization focused more generally on manmade threats to human
civilization.

"The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed
by nuclear weapons," said Kennette Benedict, director of the bulletin.

Stephen W. Hawking, the renowned cosmologist and mathematician, told
The Associated Press that global warming has eclipsed other threats to
the planet, such as terrorism.

"Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people," Hawking said.
"Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global
warming rather than the war on terror."

This is the first time the bulletin has explicitly addressed the threat 
from climate change.

"We are transforming, even ravaging the entire biosphere. These 
environmentally driven threats -- threats without enemies -- should loom 
as large as did the East-West divide during the Cold War era," said 
Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society, Britain's academy of science.

"Unless they rise higher on international agendas, remedial action may 
come too late," he added.

There is no actual Doomsday Clock in keeping with the bulletin's
symbolic exercise. But the group has used several makeshift clocks or
replicas over the years in logos, images and publications.

Since it was set to seven minutes to midnight in 1947, the Doomsday
Clock has been moved 18 times, including Wednesday's adjustment. It
came closest to midnight -- just two minutes away -- in 1953 after the
successful test of a hydrogen bomb by the United States. It has been
as far away as 17 minutes, set there in 1991 following the demise of
the Soviet Union.

The decision to move the clock is made by the bulletin's board,
composed of scientists and policy experts, in coordination with the
group's sponsors, who include Hawking and science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clarke.

Despite the organization's new focus on global warming, the prospect
of nuclear war remained its primary concern, the bulletin's editor,
Mark Strauss, told The AP.

"It's important to emphasize 50 of today's nuclear weapons could kill 
200 million people," he said. That is a small portion of the weaponry
held by the United States.

The organization floated a variety of proposals to help control the
threat of nuclear prolifernation and repeated a call to nuclear nations
to whittle down their arsenals and reduce the launch readiness of
their weapons.

Panelist Lawrence Krauss, a physics professor at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, criticized the use of military means to deal
with nuclear proliferation and emphasized the use of diplomacy.

"If we want to address proliferation we want to do it in a unified
way, and not with the sole country acting pre-emptively," he said.

On the Net:

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But he is incorrect above when he
speaks about the War on Global Warming as being a 'war with no
enemies'. As Pogo Possum once said, "We have met the enemy and he
is us."  PAT]

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:42:27 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Teens' Families Sue MySpace


The families of five teenaged girls who were sexually assaulted by
predators they met on MySpace, the popular Internet social network,
have sued owner News Corp. for negligence and fraud, lawyers for the
families said.

The families from New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
filed suits in state Superior Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The
girls, ages 14 and 15, were lured to meetings with older MySpace
members and sexually assaulted, according to the lawyers, and they
are reviewing the possibility of a class-action lawsuit, naming all
the victims of MySpace's negligence. 

One 15-year-old girl was drugged and assaulted in 2006 by an older
MySpace user, the lawyers said. The user pleaded guilty to sexual
assault and is serving a 10-year sentence, they said.

Last year, the parents of a 14-year-old girl in Austin, Texas, sued
MySpace for $30 million after she was sexually assaulted by a
19-year-old man she met on the Web site.

"In our view, MySpace waited entirely too long to attempt to institute
meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of
their underage users," Jason Itkin, an attorney at Arnold & Itkin LLP,
one of the firms representing the families, said in a statement.

Last April, MySpace hired Hemanshu Nigam, a former prosecutor in the
Internet child exploitation unit for the U.S. Justice Department, as
chief security officer. The site has also instituted new procedures to
protect users.

The minimum age to register on MySpace is 14. Last year, the service
made it impossible for members 18 or older to contact 14- to
15-year-old members unless they know the younger person's e-mail
address beforehand.  The company also is in the process of offering
new parental notification software.

Nigam said MySpace takes proactive measures to protect its members and
offers tools to users to encourage a safer online experience.

"Ultimately, Internet safety is a shared responsibility," Nigam said
in a statement. "We encourage everyone to apply common sense offline
safety lessons in their online experiences and engage in open family
dialogue about smart web practices."

Critics of the service have said the measures were too little too late.

"Blaming the families of abuse victims who were solicited online, as
some have done, is a cynical excuse that ignores the fact that social
networking sites can lead to heinous abuse by Internet predators,"
said Adam Loewy, an attorney at Barry & Loewy LLP, which is also
representing the families.

The firm represented the family of the 14-year-old Austin girl in
their suit last year.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:45:48 -0600
From: Pete Harrison, Reuters <reuters@teleocom-digest.org>
Subject: U.S. NETeller Arrests DealBlow to Net Gambling


By Pete Harrison

U.S. prosecutors have delivered a severe blow to online gambling
companies that are flouting a U.S. ban on Internet gambling by
arresting two founders of payment processor NETeller.

Britain's NETeller closed its U.S. Internet gambling services on
Thursday, wiping out over 65 percent of its business, after two of its
founders were arrested there this week.

NETeller is the latest target of a U.S. crackdown on online gaming,
which began with the arrest of BETonSPORTS Chief Executive David
Carruthers in Texas last July.

NETeller's two founders, Canadians Stephen Lawrence, 46, and John
Lefebvre, 55, have been charged with handling billions of dollars in
illegal gambling proceeds. Both face a maximum sentence of 20 years in
prison.

Online gaming giants such as PartyGaming and Sportingbet pulled out
ahead of the U.S. ban last November, but privately owned rivals such
as Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker and Bodog carried on taking wagers
illegally, often using NETeller to process their payments.

"This is the first piece of news that will really hurt the likes of
Pokerstars and Full Tilt," said analyst Tejinder Randhawa at Evolution
Securities.

"If you look at the gambling chat rooms, you'll see NETeller was one
of the main payment methods," he added.

According to gambling portal Gambling911.com, Full Tilt Poker depended
on NETeller for 75 percent of transactions, and the world's biggest
site, Pokerstars, used NETeller for around 60 percent of wagers.

BUSINESS MAY SHIFT

Canada's ESI Entertainment said on Wednesday its Citadel payment
processing unit was also pulling out of the United States.

Online gambling companies use roughly a dozen payment processors that
are smaller than NETeller.

Pokerstars declined to comment, and executives at Full Tilt could not 
immediately be reached.

Online gaming companies have been doing business for many years in the
United States, where the law was discouraging but ambiguous until a
full ban in November. They were usually listed in London and located
in offshore jurisdictions such as Antigua and Costa Rica.

Money transfer companies such as NETeller, based in the Isle of Man,
allow gambling companies to transfer money collected from
U.S. gamblers to bank accounts outside the United States.

As U.S. gamblers abandon Pokerstars and other privately owned sites,
the remaining Europeans and Asians on those sites may start drifting
back to listed rivals PartyGaming and Sportingbet, analysts said.

"PartyGaming previously lost a lot of higher yielding
non-U.S. players, who saw higher liquidity on the higher limit tables
and tournaments on Pokerstars," said analyst Andrew Lee at Dresdner
Kleinwort.

"PokerStars may now start to lose some of these players, given the
payment processing restrictions and struggle to stimulate growth," he
added. "This could be good for PartyGaming by shifting
non-U.S. players back."

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:51:30 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Microsoft, Nortel Tackle Unified Messaging


USTelecom dailyLead
January 18, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fXfYfDtusXknwzCibudddvNJ

TODAY'S HEADLINES

NEWS OF THE DAY
* Microsoft, Nortel tackle unified messaging together
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Sprint's 4G approach aims to take down the wall
* Telecom vendor Ciena eyes cable market
* Deutsche Telekom mulls Internet TV expansion
* Verizon Wireless purchases California spectrum license
* Fox News Channel goes live on mobile phones
* Brightcove lands new funding
* Time Warner Cable to take marketing campaign on road
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Intel's WiMAX plans include smaller UMPC devices
* Alltel retools user interface
* Analysis: Qualcomm invests in a diversified future
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* FCC's Martin calls for action on cable caps

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fXfYfDtusXknwzCibudddvNJ

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:12:50 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Verizon in MA


Here is an abbreviated letter from a friend of public access TV - RM

Hi All,

I won't be able to come as planned, but I wanted to share this info I
got yesterday regarding Verizon from our attorney, Bill xxx:

"She (Verizon's PR front Carol ----) said Peter ---, the Verizon guy
in charge of franchising, has put Northborough, Boylston, Stow,
Grafton and several other municipalities on hold.  She said it had to
(do) with their not having video distribution plant slated for those
(and some other) areas under the current capital plan. "  That's the
scoop, straight from the horse's mouth.  I have no idea if it is the
truth or they are stalling until legislation goes through.  Have a
good meeting!

Kathy ---, North---

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:04:43 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: California Spammer Convicted via the Can-Spam Law


Danny Burstein wrote:

> ( and note that this was a real trial, not a default/no-show )

> " An Azusa man who defrauded users of Time Warner Inc.'s America
> Online unit by sending e-mails requesting credit data became the first
> defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring
> Internet spam.

> " Jeffrey Goodin, 45, was convicted under the 2003
> Can-Spam Act, the U.S. attorney's office in Los
> Angeles said Tuesday. The statute prohibits sending
> unsolicited e-mail messages with falsified header,
> or return address, information ...

Excellent news!

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From: www.Queensbridge.us <NOTvalid@Queensbridge.us>
Subject: Re: If Truth be Told: Dating Web Sites on the Internet
Date: 18 Jan 2007 14:23:38 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Here is a site re datingscams:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams/

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From: Klay Anderson <klay@klay.com.remove>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:45:04 -0700
Organization: Klay Anderson Audio, Inc.
Subject: Re: XM and Sirius Consider Merger


In article <telecom26.17.5@telecom-digest.org>, Neal McLain
<nmclain@annsgarden.com> wrote:

> PARIS -- The two big U.S. satellite-radio companies, XM and Sirius,
> reported sharply contrasting performance in 2006 but agree that a
> merger would result in substantial cost savings and might even pass
> muster with U.S. regulators.

Yeah, but the FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says not according to US laws:

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alWomkStRxIg&refer=home>


Regards,

Klay Anderson
http://www.klay.com
+801-942-8346

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From: Gene S. Berkowitz <first.last@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: XM and Sirius Consider Merger
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:21:56 -0500


In article <telecom26.17.5@telecom-digest.org>, nmclain@annsgarden.com 
says:

> XM and Sirius Consider Merger

> By Peter B. de Selding
> Space News Staff Writer

> PARIS -- The two big U.S. satellite-radio companies, XM and Sirius,
> reported sharply contrasting performance in 2006 but agree that a
> merger would result in substantial cost savings and might even pass
> muster with U.S. regulators.

> http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_070115.html

> Comment: As long-time Telecom-Digest readers know, I've long been an
> advocate of classical music radio.  During my years in the cable TV
> industry, I argued in favor of carrying classical-music FM stations
> (particularly WFMT) on cable FM.  I never had much success with that
> argument, and by the 1990s, cable FM was all but dead.  Most cable
> systems now carry one of the two digital audio services, DMX Music or
> Music Choice.

> http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/reports/cable-fm-wfmt-mcclain

> DBS companies carried those same digital audio services for several
> years: DirecTV carried Music Choice and Sirius carried DMX Music.  A
> year or so ago, both companies switched to satellite radio: DirecTV
> switched to XM and Echostar (Dish Network) switched to Sirius.  As a
> DirecTV subscriber, I ended up with XM.

> After listening to XM's two classical channels (VOX and XM Classics)
> for the past year, I've become a fan of sorts.  Their announcers
> generally sound like they know what they're talking about, and they
> usually pronounce foreign languages correctly.  In great contrast to
> Music Choice, XM actually does offer choice.  Both classical channels
> carry a huge variety of music, including many historic recordings.

> Given my long-standing advocacy of WFMT, I can't help comparing XM with WFMT:

> - XM Classics carries numerous live concert recordings,
>   many from the WFMT Radio Network.

> - XM is non-commercial: unlike WFMT, it carries no 
>   advertising.  But XM's prerecorded station breaks are
>   idiotic and annoying.  Given the obvious close association
>   between XM and WFMT, I wish XM would adopt WFMT's policy
>   of having all station breaks delivered by the live (even
>   if tape-delayed) announcer.

> - XM's listeners are loyal bunch, just as WFMT's listeners
>   were.  Each channel seems to have its own fan base, with
>   an e-mail mailing list.  Robert Aubrey Davis, producer of
>   VOX, often remarks about the loyalty of his audience.  And
>   he even answers his e-mail!

> All in all, I feel vindicated.  After all those years in the cable
> industry when I was unsuccessfully advocating classical music, the DBS
> companies (cable's archrivals, no less) have proven my thesis:
> classical music is a salable product.

> So now comes the news that XM and Sirius may merge.  Economically,
> that makes sense -- I've always suspected that it might happen,
> especially in light of the fact that neither company is yet
> profitable.

> But I'm concerned about what may happen to the classical channels if
> they merge.  Sirius carries the Metropolitan Opera's new channel
> <http://tinyurl.com/zocmj> which I'd like to hear.  But I'm afraid
> that a merged company would drop XM VOX in the process of
> consolidating their channel lineups.  I'd certainly miss VOX.

> I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

> Neal McLain

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A very good service I found on internet 
> while looking one day for streaming radio stations was a service
> called '1.FM'.  It is strictly internet, with about thirty channels of
> music available, ranging from rock and popular music through classical,
> baroque and opera. You will find it at http://www.1.fm and it is a 
> service of EGI Hosting.com . 24 hours per day, just constant music of
> the type desired. I am told many people who desire music on their web
> pages simply embed it on their sites. One thing EGI Hosting does is
> technical maintainence of audio streams and they sell you your very
> own 'radio station' if you wish. All sorts of 'alternative' audio
> streams are available on EGI Hosting, and quite inexpensive; a lot
> less than what a 'regular' radio station over the air would cost to
> operate. They also provide URLs; its up to you to advertise your
> 'radio station' and sell advertising if desired, and staff it. You
> can operate out of a corner in your basement if you wish, with an
> internet link to EGI Hosting; they take it from there. Another good
> example of this is 'Radio Dizzy, 66'  which comes out of Europe but
> in English with hourly international newscasts amd some specialized
> programs. Being strictly internet, all these stations avoid the
> sometimes messy problems with the United States FCC. I was amazed 
> when searching Google to find many, many internet-only based
> stations. And a smart person can easily figure out how to embed these
> streams in other web sites, etc, making sure to observe copyright.  PAT]

WGBH, a PBS radio station in Boston, has started a 24/7 Classical HD 
radio channel, and wisely are streaming it over the web at:

http://www.wgbh.org/classical/

--Gene


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks for passing along this
information. Much of Thursday I spent installing two new radio
streams -- WGBH Boston and WQXR New York as choices on one of
my (unrelated to telecom) web sites. For interested parties, the
URL is http://gaynews.n3.net .   PAT]

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:04:51 -0600
From: Ron Kritzman <ron@dbOnayAmspaYmasters.com>
Subject: Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> .... If I buy a computer program, I can put it on as many
> machines as I want (home, office, car, etc.) as long as it's single
> usage......

Microsoft doesn't seem to think so. Change enough hardware in the
-same- machine and it wants a new activation code.

Emoveray ethay Igpay Atinlay otay eplyray

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:12:25 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs


jtaylor@NOSPAM.hfx.andara.com wrote:

> On 15 Jan 2007 18:42:25 -0800, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>> On the other hand, if someone goes out and properly buys some music,
>> regardless of the medium (78 or iPod), they ought to have some
>> reasonably usage on multiple players, just as they do with computer
>> software.  If I buy a computer program, I can put it on as many
>> machines as I want (home, office, car, etc.) as long as it's single
>> usage.  

> No.

> Leaving aside for the moment the various permutations of "buy", the
> owners of the copyright of the computer program may and frequently do
> claim that your use of it is constrained by conditions they supply in
> the package; such conditions may or may not -- indeed I believe the
> latter to be more often the case -- permit such uses as you claim.

>> So, if I buy some music, I should be allowed to freely
>> duplicate it as I see fit for my tape player, for example.

> Again, ignoring the discussion of what "buy" means, no.

> The willingness of the copyright owners to allow you to use their
> product can be subject to conditions which they can set.  These
> conditions may be further modified by legislation.  You can choose to
> "buy" this music and limit (or not, at you peril) your use to the
> conditions, or to not "buy" that music and to "buy" other music with
> different conditions.

You don't actually 'buy' music -- you buy a media that contains the music 
and you do not have the permission to duplicate that media ... at least 
that's the way it was until moving music to other media became so easy.

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End of TELECOM Digest V26 #18
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