TELECOM Digest     Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:42:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 62

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Lenovo Recalls 205,000 Laptop Batteries (Steve Hartsoe, AP)
    Verizon Kicks Off Cell Phone TV (Sinead Carew, Reuters)
    Plug Pulled on Ground Zero Webcam (Associated Press News Wire)
    Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift) (Neal McLain)
    Re: Skokie Swift (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Cordless Phone Does Not Ring (San)

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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:19:38 -0600
From: Steve Hartsoe, AP  <ap@telecom-digest.org)
Subject: Lenovo Recalls 205,000 Laptop Batteries


by STEVE HARTSOE, Associated Press Writer

Lenovo Inc. recalled about 205,000 laptop computer batteries worldwide
Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire.

The battery recall was the second for the company in the past six
months and comes as Lenovo, the world's No. 3 computer maker, tries to
gain ground on its better-known competitors.

The latest recall includes about 100,000 batteries in the United
States and another 105,000 worldwide, Lenovo spokesman Bob Page
said. The recall involves batteries made by Japan's Sanyo Electric
Co. and follows four reports of overheating. In one case, a user
suffered minor eye irritation, the company said.

The Chinese PC maker, which has its world headquarters in Research
Triangle Park, said consumers should stop using the recalled products
immediately. It said the batteries can overheat if the laptop is
dropped a certain way, striking the battery on a corner edge.

The advisory was made with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission.

In September, IBM Corp. and Lenovo said they were seeking the recall
of 526,000 rechargeable, lithium-ion Sony batteries purchased with
ThinkPad computers after one of them caught fire at Los Angeles
International Airport. Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer division
in May 2005.

The earlier recall was part of a global recall of more than 10 million
Sony-built batteries that were used in notebooks from Apple Inc., Dell
Inc., Lenovo and others.

An industry analyst said the recalls shouldn't hurt the company.

"I don't think at this point it negatively affects the company given
last year there was practically an industrywide recall based on the
batteries," said Martin Kariithi of Technology Business Research, a
New Hampshire-based group that studies the computer industry. "It's
not likely to have an impact on earnings because the manufacturer pays
for the costs of a recall."

Kariithi said last year's recall ate into Sony's fourth-quarter
profits, and that Sanyo would suffer similarly with this latest
recall.

"Sanyo is going to financially support the recall," said Lenovo
spokesman Ray Gorman. "From a competitive perspective, we expect this
recall to have only minimal, if any, impact."

A call seeking comment from Sanyo was not returned Thursday.

Lenovo said Thursday it sold the extended-life batteries with new
ThinkPad notebook PCs or as optional or replacement batteries for
ThinkPad notebook models R60, R60e, T60, T60p, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and
Z61p. The recalled nine-cell batteries have the part number FRU P/N
92P1131 and sell for about $180.

Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer division in 2005 and about 1,500
of Lenovo's 20,000 employees work in Research Triangle Park. A $150
million campus built in Morrisville is expected to open this month.

Lenovo cut 1,000 jobs worldwide last year and had an operating loss in 
the most recent quarter for the division that covers the U.S. and 
Canada. The company's chief financial officer has told analysts the 
situation in North America "is the cause of greatest concern."

Meanwhile, in Asia, companies such as Dell are gaining ground and
sales growth for Lenovo is slowing, adding pressure on the company to
increase sales in Europe and the U.S.

Lenovo has recently made high-profile sponsorship deals with the NBA,
Olympic Winter Games, Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Redskins to
grab consumers' attention and lead to more sales.

Another strategy includes selling ThinkPads through nearly 700 Circuit
City stores. Lenovo already has deals with Best Buy and Office Depot.

Company officials say both strategies are inexpensive and effective
ways promote the Lenovo brand.

Benjamin Gray, a business computer analyst with Forrester Research
Inc., said Lenovo maintains a solid reputation in the U.S. and Europe
and should fare well despite the recall.

"Yeah, this is certainly a difficult thing to deal with as a user and
a customer," Gray said, "but it's not something that will cause
customers to move away from Lenovo, absolutely not."

On the Net:
Lenovo Inc.: http://www.lenovo.com/batteryprogram

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:02:06 -0600
From: Sinead Carew
Subject: Verizon Kicks Off Cell Phone TV


By Sinead Carew

Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. cell phone provider, said it
launched the country's first commercial mobile television service in
20 states with full-length programs and picture quality similar to
regular TV.

The venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc said
on Thursday it is charging $15 a month for the service, which was
developed by Qualcomm Inc. unit MediaFlo and includes eight channels
broadcasting full-length TV shows to phones 24 hours a day.

Verizon Wireless and its rivals have been pushing services such as
video and music to boost revenue as the price falls for traditional
cell phone calls.

But cell phone video services have been slow to take off due to high
prices and poor quality compared with television at home.

The picture quality of the new service will be on a par with home TV
and roughly twice as clear as Verizon Wireless's existing Vcast video
service, spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said.

Cell phone video services, first launched in the U.S. in 2004, have
only about 7 million customers out of about 232 million cell phone
subscriptions, according to Ovum analyst Roger Entner, who said that
higher-quality pictures could change that.

"I think the impact in the beginning will be modest," since Verizon is
rolling out the service gradually, said Entner. But he estimated that
MediaFlo users could increase to 20 million to 30 million people
within about seven years.

CINGULAR TO FOLLOW

AT&T Inc.'s Cingular Wireless, the biggest U.S. cell phone service in
terms of subscribers, has said it plans to launch MediaFlo to its
customers later in the year.

The first phone to support MediaFlo, the U620 from Samsung Electronics
Co., is being sold for $199, or $149.99 for customers who sign a
two-year contract. Verizon plans to add an LG Electronics Inc. phone
in weeks.

Subscribers who also sign up for cell phone Internet access, for $5 a
month, and Verizon's existing Vcast service, which lets users download
short video clips for $15 a month, can add MediaFlo for $25 a month,
or $10 less than if they were to buy the three separately.

Entner said adding eight channels for another $5 could be attractive
for existing Vcast and Web subscribers.

The MediaFlo service became available on Thursday in cities such as
Chicago; New Orleans; Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Las Vegas; Tucson,
Arizona; Kansas City; Dallas-Fort Worth; and Salt Lake City.

Available channels include a live feed from MTV and programming from
CBS Corp., NBC, ESPN, Fox, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Some
programs are shown at the same time as regular TV, while others are
rescheduled to match the heaviest cell phone television viewing times,
Nelson said.

Viacom Inc. owns MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. General Electric
Co. controls NBC. Walt Disney Co. owns ESPN.

Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm plans to build a nationwide network for
delivering television to cell phones to kick-start the market. In that
way, established operators such as Verizon can offer additional media
services to customers without clogging up their own networks.

Modeo, a unit of Crown Castle International Corp., is also building a
network dedicated to cell phone television, but it has yet to name any
customers for its service, currently in trial in New York.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:17:09 -0600
From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Plug Pulled on Ground Zero Webcam


The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that
oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday
stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at
ground zero.

The agency introduced the Web camera less than a year ago, saying it
wanted to show progress in rebuilding more than four years after the
2001 terrorist attacks. Construction of the Sept. 11 memorial had just
begun last March, but the site is much busier today.

Concrete footings are being poured around the footprints of the twin
towers to support the memorial, steel columns are rising for a
1,776-foot skyscraper, a transit hub is under construction and
officials are preparing land to build three more office towers.

Reduced traffic on the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. Web site, at
http://www.renewnyc.com, didn't justify the cost of hourly photo
updates, said A.J. Carter, a spokesman for the Empire State
Development Corp., the LMDC's parent corporation. The agency still
plans to post pictures of progress at ground zero from time to time.


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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:13:20 -0600
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift)


PAT wrote:

>[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I wish they would have
> a segment on the 'Union Traction Company', the interurban
> line which ran between Nowata, Indian Territory (or
> Oklahoma, once statehood was granted) and Parsons,
> Kansas between 1907 and 1947. It started in Nowata, with
> stops in South Coffeyville, Coffeyville, Dearing,
> Jefferson, Blake ...

Unfortunately, most of the history of the old interurbans has been
lost.  Unless some dedicated railfan decided that a photographic
record was important (and his family preserved the records after his
death), images just don't exist.  Furthermore, even among railfans,
steam locomotives seem to have been a more popular subject than
interurbans.

Neal McLain


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That is not so in the case of ours!  A
30 minute video entitled "The Last Run" is devoted to the "Union
Traction Company" (1904-1937) and its followup company called "Union
Electric Company" (1937-1947). Union Traction went into receivership
in the late 1920's -- but didn't quite a few businesses in the United
States during the 1920-30's? -- and when it came out of recievership
in 1937 it became Union Electric. Produced and narrated by John
Koschin, this video has a complete trip (actually done about a month
prior to shut down) between Nowata, Oklahoma and Parsons, KS. Old film
clips were used of that 'last run' which are spliced in with more
recent (2004) footage of Koschin discussing the interurban and an
interview with an old gentleman who formerly was a young conductor/
motorman on the line when it was operating. As an exhibit with the DVD
he has available, he includes a 'time card' (old name for a timetable)
and a route map. He also includes on the DVD cover a picture of a 'one
way ticket' between Independence and Cherryvale.

 The fare charged was _one cent_ per mile, in other words a fare from
Coffeyville to Independence would be fifteen cents, from Independence
to Cherryvale about ten cents. And school children got half price
fares! Some of the places shown on his timetable do not even exist any
longer (i.e. Blake and Jefferson, both tiny villages (at the time) and
now non-existent.  Dennis,KS and Dearing, KS both still exist with
maybe a couple hudnred residents each. I think the only thing left in
Jefferson these days is the long since abandoned power plant which
Union Traction/Union Electric used to power its trains from an
overhead wire. On the movie of the train ride (which is spliced into
the more modern DVD, you can see some excellent shots of the towns
along the way (as of 1947) and some of the old automobiles of that
period. 

Some of the pictures from downtown Independence, 1947 are
quite interesting. The pictures would probably be meaningless to
someone who was not from around this area, however the interurban
itself and pictures of it in operation would probably be quite
interesting. Their main base of operation and offices was in the
Terminal Building in Coffeyville (owned by the interurban company but
shared with other railroads in town), and they had the power plant in
Jefferson of course and the 'car barn' in Independence over on Myrtle
and 2nd Street (actually, it was a horse barn converted to the 'more
modern' method of travel.) But that's not so unusual; the Chicago
Transit Authority Shubert Bus Barn had been a horse barn belonging to
the Chicago Fire Department in the olden days.  Anyway, to get a copy
of the DVD "The Last Run" write to John Koschin, PO Box 192,
Independence, KS  67301. I think the cost is about $20.00 each DVD.
PAT]

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Skokie Swift
Date: 1 Mar 2007 13:15:51 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On Feb 28, 11:12 pm, Neal McLain <nmcl...@annsgarden.com> wrote:

> In reference to the recent discussion about the Skokie Swift (where PAT
> never worked) ...

I thought Pat worked in the terminal building in Skokie, the former
North Shore station, but serving now bus passengers.

> On Saturday, March 3, RFD-TV will telecast 'Midwest Trolley Tour Part 2.'

Would you know if this will be on any other cable stations (ie  BRV,
Travel, etc.)?

Thanks.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I _did_ work in the terminal building,
in a portion of it separately rented _to me_ (actually the only part
of the large building still useable and open) for the purpose of
maintaining/operating a Greyhound Bus facility, _not_ a CTA bus stop.
Most of the building was unusable, and unsafe for occupancy. Most of
the terminal building no longer had any plumbing or electricity. CTA
had a little lean-to three sided shelter outside my station for use by
its passengers.  Obviously when weather was unpleasant (too hot, too
cold, too rainy, snowy, other conditions) the CTA passengers would
come inside _my_ place and stand there instead.  I asked the CTA to
share with me (as a commission) some small part of the revenue from
fares collected from the number 97 bus and the number 250 bus, which
were the two routes which stopped there, in addition to the 'Skokie
Swift' orange route trains. CTA said forget it, they would not share
any revenue, mainly because they did not want their passengers to have
a warm, dry place or a restroom to use while they waited. Or, let's
say they were too cheap to care either way. CTA was certainly too
cheap to try and fix up the rest of the station, at least at first, 
until the Skokie building inspector got after them. I had a sign in 
the front window which said "this facility is only for use by
customers of Greyhound Bus" but mostly they ignored that. The 97
and 250 busses had easily ten times as many passengers every day as
Greyhound had. And the one unisex bathroom in the place was intended
for CTA bus drivers only and CTA's passengers were not permitted to
use it so whose bathroom do you suppose their passengers asked to use
instead, at least a hundred times per day?  Overall, CTA is bad news
for the public transportation-riding public in Chicago.  PAT]

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case
Date: 1 Mar 2007 13:30:48 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On Feb 16, 1:32 am, M <M...@notchur.biz> wrote:

> There are tons of news articles on this subject and I have yet to find
> one critical of Amero.  She now has a blog
> athttp://julieamer.blogspot.com/

With the growth of the Internet, complexity, and Internet fraud
viruses, spyware, etc., there is a huge risk today that innocent
people will be found guilty of computer crimes, such as involving
illegal pornography.  This could result from malicious attempts,
innocent errors, etc.

Almost everyone reading this newsgroup is pretty technically astute
and likely has appropriate protections/guards built into their
computers, plus know enough not to do fooish things (like respond to
phising, go to suspicious cites, etc.)

The problem is that techies are a small group of people.  There is
everyone else out there who have no idea of the complexity of the
Internet or the many threats out there.  They don't keep their
spyware, firewalls, virus protection up to date, and may innocently
venture onto dangerous cites.  And even technies make mistakes;
sometimes forgetting the basics and leave themselves vulnerable.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Makes for ideal circumstances for
police officers, doesn't it?   PAT]

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From: San <sanjay.gaikwad@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cordless Phone Does Not Ring
Date: 1 Mar 2007 13:32:08 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On Mar 1, 10:21 am, sanjay.gaik...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Feb 28, 5:33 pm, sanjay.gaik...@gmail.com wrote:

>> I am facing a baffling problem. I have a corded and a cordless phone
>> hooked in my apartment along with AT&T DSL internet on the same phone
>> line.
>> Few days back my 900Mhz Uniden cordless phone stopped ringing whenever
>> there used to be incoming call. My corded phone continue to ring and I
>> could even use either phones to answer the calls. There was no problem
>> for outging calls also from either phones. Some times for incoming
>> calls the corded phone use to ring only once and gets directly
>> connected. I picked any of the phones I could answer the call.
>> I thought it could be a problem with the Uniden phone and purchased a
>> 2.4Ghz GE phone. It also behaved exactly the same way. Both the
>> cordless phones have answering system, which is also not working. I
>> checked GE and Uniden cordless phones at my friends place along with
>> all the DSL filters. Surprisingly the phones and answering system
>> worked just fine.
>> Now I felt the problem is with my telephone service / Line. I got it
>> checked from At&T and they informed me the line is ok. He mentioned it
>> could be due to "Interference" with wireless network. I tried using
>> the phones without DSL and without wireless routers. Things did not
>> change. Now I am wondering if wireless networks in my apartment
>> vicinity (there are several of them) are interfering with my cordless
>> system? Can any body explain the phenomenon and the way to solve it?
>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The first thing which came to mind was
>> not that there was 'interference'. If there was 'interference', you
>> would occassionally hear 'static' or something similar on the line
>> when you were using it. Also, you would probably receive spurious
>> ringing (no rhyme nor reason to it; just occassional tingles from the
>> ring-making device on the cordless phone) when the 'interference'
>> bothered the cordless unit. Before you go around polling your
>> neighbors to see about their cordless phones and wireless apparatus,
>> I would first go by the clues you gave in your first paragraph:
>> (1) You recently got AT&T DSL service. and (2) the cordless phone
>> only rang _once_ and was directly connected. That 'one ring and then
>> connected' sort of sounds ot me like a short on the line. Not enough
>> of a short to make your line totally busy but enough of a short that
>> with sufficient ringing voltage (as oppposed to voltage to talk with)
>> something is happening.

>> I'd try unplugging all the phones and the DSL incoming line. Then do
>> a controlled test where you place a call to yourself (maybe from a
>> cell phone?) with _only_ the wireless phone plugged in where you
>> normally have the wired phone plugged in.  See if your wireless phone
>> and its answering machine now start working, or see if you can make
>> the cordless phone 'ring once' and then be connected.  If it does work
>> okay at that point, then the hassle is in the wiring of one or more of
>> your phone outlets. I suggest that in most cases with wireless phones
>> and answering machines, only two wires are used; for simplicity, the
>> red and the green. But sometimes, on cordless phones and answering
>> machines the outside pair (yellow and black wires number 1 and 4) are
>> also used. Is your answering machine set up to cut off whenever a
>> phone is picked up?  If that is the case, then sometimes the
>> yelllow/black wires 1 & 4 are 'jumpered' to green and red (wires 2 &
>> 3) inside the phone somehow or _maybe_ in the wall box. After you do
>> these litle experiments I suggested, get back to us here and
>> _carefully_ document what happened. PAT]

>> Pat thanks for you response and attention.

> I unplugged all the phones and DSL for 10 min and then reconnected only
> the cordless phone. Then called the number from my cell phone. The
> phone do not ring for incoming calls nor the answering machine.
> Outgoing calls and dial tone are working fine. In fact cordless phone
> do not ring at all whether connected stand-alone or with corded phone.
> The phenomenon started just a couple of weeks back, before that
> everything was working file for past 3 months with the same set-up. I
> tried 3 different phone jacks in my apartment with 2 different
> cordless phone (900Mhz & 2.4Ghz) which works fine in my friend's
> place. Please suggest. Thanks

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Now for the next part of this
> experiment, let's repeat the above, but when you *know* an incoming
> call is coming in (because you are placing it from your cell phone)
> try _answering_ the cordless phone, just pick it up and see if you
> can talk to yourself. Let's detirmine if in fact there is some trouble
> with the ringer but the connection is good otherwsie. Let's also try
> listening to what the cell phone is receiving while we do this: Is
> it ringing in your ear normally, or ringing once or one-half time
> then stopping, etc. Emulate an incoming call to yourself. PAT]- 

When I call from cell phone to the cordless, I can hear ringing in the
cell phone. I can pick the non-ringing cordless and talk normally. The
connection is good as normal, only problem is I do not get
notification of an incoming call.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But when you unplug your cordless
phones and replug them in at someone else's jack they _always_ work
correctly?  (yes/no) You have two cordless phones now, the original
one plus a new one you bought recently? Do they both always work OK
at the other location while _NOT_ working at your location? (yes/no)
At your place, knowing that a call is coming in (your own cell phone)
you can answer all incoming calls without having heard a ring?
(yes/no). The phones work okay at both locations except you do not get
a ringing signal (although you know it is 'ringing' at your place?)
If for all these questions your answer is (yes) then I strongly
suggest the hassle is somehow with your own wiring.   PAT]

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organization.

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