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Costs will dog HK mobile TV operators
News Hong Kong authorities will auction off mobile TV spectrum licenses in 2009, but operators may find it hard to translate opportunity into revenue, says Gartner.
Tags: Business structures, Sales/revenue, Business models, Pricing, Mobile, Bureau, Mobile TV, TV, Telecommunications, Hong Kong
Memory price hikes fail to dampen SSD growth
News Recent NAND flash price spikes' impact on shipments of solid-state drives has been "modest", with 2009 units expected to jump 100 percent year-on-year, says IDC.
Tags: Memory, Pricing, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., iSuppli Corp., PC Company, International Data Corp., Spokesperson, Small And Medium Business, NAND
Facebook removes Italian neo-Nazi pages
News Social-networking company pulls several pages following complaints from European regulators that the pages promoted violence against gypsies.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, European Parliament, Nazi, violence, Facebook, Italy, Web Site, online auction site, Internet company
Italian antitrust group examining Google News
News Several Italian publishers claim Google threatened to exclude them from search results pages in retaliation for withholding their content from Google News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Content management, antitrust, Search Result, New York Times Co., Google News, Italy, blog, Web Site
Report: Italian regulators expand Google probe
News A week after investigating complaints about Google News, antitrust regulators in Italy have reportedly expanded that investigation to include Google search.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Regulator, Google News, Eric Schmidt, Italy, online advertising, board of directors, Search Result, Search Engine
Cisco CEO sees positive economic trends
News John Chambers, head of the tech industry bellwether, says quarterly orders for networking gear followed normal trends, signifying the economy is likely improving.
Tags: Security, Business security, Quarter, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales, Connected Corp., CEO, Italy, U.S., analyst
Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
News Phone and Internet users in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe are affected. How the cables were damaged is unclear.
Tags: Optical networking, Networking technology, Egypt, India, Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Cable, phone, Alexandria, Middle East
Google on trial in Italy
News Should Google have to get consent from a subject before a video is uploaded? That's one of the issues at stake in a lawsuit focused on privacy violations.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Lawsuits, Google Inc., TV, Officer, prosecutor, Internet content company, Milan, Cajani
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth requirements.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Firewalls, Defense/military, Disaster Recovery, Report, IT Security, business continuity planning, UNLB, network
Italy charges Google officials over taunting video
News Four former and current Google executives face defamation and breach of privacy charges for allegedly allowing clip of teen with Down syndrome being taunted to be posted, says report.
Tags: Video, Privacy, Lawsuits, Internet advertising, Marketing, Google Inc., prosecutor, Europe, Google Video, News.com
Europe to have 14 million SIM-toting machines by 2009
News Analyst firm Berg Insight claims there will be 14.1 million machines hooked up to European cellular networks by the end of 2008.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, M2M, Security, Mobile, Connection, Europe, SIM Card, Germany, network, Italy
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial?
News Having been found guilty of making copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing, the four Pirate Bay men could face prosecution in Italy, lawyers in that country say.
Tags: Piracy, Lawsuits, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, prosecutor, International Data Group, Internet Service, copyright law, Sweden, File-sharing
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
Facebook godfather groups spark mafia victims' ire
News Pages on the social-networking site pay tribute to notorious mob bosses, and relatives of mafia crime victims say such content glamorizes the perpetrators.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Facebook, photograph, U.K., News.com, Italy, blog, spokesman, women
Recession boosts working from home in the UK
News More than half of U.K. employees are working from home more frequently in order to save money.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, British Telecommunications, Survey, Avaya Inc., Worker, Spain, recession, networking company, financial, U.K.
