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Finland decrees Net access legal right
News Country becomes world's first to pass law making broadband access, at speeds of at least 1Mbps, a legal right for all its citizens by July 2010.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Finland, Telecommunications Company, cell phone, International Telecommunications Union, mobile phone network, Web sites, France, Internet Access
S'pore mulls 'three-strikes' law against piracy
News Country evaluating new law to curb online piracy from persistent users who refuse to heed repeated warnings, cutting Internet access to violators.
Tags: Piracy, Regulations, Piracy, Internet Access, IPO, Singapore, Internet Service, intellectual property, movie, Internet Service Provider
IBM plunges into 'smart grid for water'
News Betting that governments and businesses will need to better manage water resources, IBM leads effort to design IT systems to monitor and analyze water use.
Tags: Green IT, Grid, Sensor, U.S., France, IBM Corp., information technology, Green IT, software, conference
Report: Google near book search deal with French library
News After opposing Google's efforts to digitize the world's books, the national library of France is near a deal with the search giant to obtain access to its archives, according to a report.
Tags: New York Times Co., U.S., strategy, France, Google Book Search
CERN's collider to get 'safe' start in November
News Nuclear research agency says it's satisfied that the Large Hadron Collider needs no more repairs and can get back to where it left off last fall.
Tags: Components, Supercomputing, CERN, Switzerland, New York Times Co., director, Components, France, Supercomputing
Yahoo layoffs to spread to France
News The Internet pioneer's cut of 1,520 employees globally will likely hit about 50 people in France.
Tags: Search, Layoffs, Yahoo! Inc., layoff, Paidcontent.org, job, News.com, Agence France-Presse, U.S., blog
France ignores EU and passes antipiracy law
News The French General Assembly passed the "three-strikes" antipiracy legislation, which conflicts with an EU law passed last week.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Piracy, European Parliament, Internet Access, Entertainment Industry, entertainment, Pirate Bay, antipiracy, Internet Service Provider
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks.
Tags: Multimedia, Services, Business applications, Egypt, Video Conferencing, Portal, Service, Web portal, online support, network
Vodafone snags Android-powered HTC Magic
News At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Vodafone and HTC announce HTC Magic--Vodafone's first Google Android smartphone--for five countries in Europe.
Tags: Smart phones, Browser, Web browsers, Smart Phone, Google Inc., HTC Magic, Spain, T-Mobile, Germany, Google Android
More layoffs coming to Yahoo?
News The embattled Internet search pioneer could lay off hundreds of employees in what would be its third round of cuts in a little more than a year.
Tags: Layoffs, Yahoo! Inc., advertising partnership, layoff, co-founder, recession, New York Times Co., financial, Jerry Yang, partnership
Siemens onboard for high-speed trains in China
News Japan and European countries like France have had them for decades. But now the race to build high-speed trains seems to have taken off in two of the leading world economies.
Tags: Hardware, Train, Siemens AG, Shanghai, Japan, Chinese Ministry Of Railway, China, Adobe PDF, U.S., Olympic Games
S'pore: First Street View in Southeast Asia
News update Singapore is likely to be first in the region to have Google's Street View panoramic photo feature enabled for the search giant's online digital map services.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Security, Google Inc., Spokesperson, Singapore, Japan, 360-degree, CNET Networks Inc., U.S.
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
Tags: CERN, Accelerator, grid computing, Switzerland, Tom Espiner, theory, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, director, France
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News Brits are still not satisfied with broadband speeds and with good reason, since actual line speeds are still on average 50 percent less than the headline speeds advertised.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, Speed, Telecommunications, Broadband, Japan, London, Silicon.com, U.K., Internet Service Provider
Study: Europeans clueless on femtocells
News Many do not know what a femtocell is, but once the potential benefits of the home base station tech are explained, most want one.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Next-generation technology/networks, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, Europe, Broadband, Spain, Germany, Silicon.com, network
