News: Standards & Legal

• South African telecoms allowed to build their own networks
  Michael Malakata
  Sep 05 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  The cost of communication in South Africa is set to fall after Pretoria High Court ruled in favor of Altech last week, giving telecom companies the right to build their own networks. South Africa has...

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• Kenya Revenue Authority to tax wireless telephone services
  Rebecca Wanjiku
  Sep 05 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has introduced a 10 percent excise duty on wireless telephone services, which local loop operators have criticized as unfair. "What we have is a landline service...

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• Comcast appeals FCC's network management order
  Grant Gross
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Comcast, the second-largest broadband provider in the U.S., has filed a court appeal of a U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruling last month saying the company couldn't delay some peer-to-peer...

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• Facebook tests icon for reporting predators, pornography
  Heather Havenstein
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Facebook has started testing a safety icon developed by the state of New Jersey to allow users of the social networking site to report potential sexual predators, cyber bullies and inappropriate...

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• Judge raps Ellison over missing e-mails
  Chris Kanaracus
  Sep 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison failed to preserve e-mails as well as interview materials related to a book called "Softwar" that should have been supplied in connection with a shareholder lawsuit filed in...

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• Terria welcomes NBN deadline
  Darren Pauli
  Sep 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Terria has welcomed the recommencement of the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender process which will close in 12 weeks. Bidders will have until November 26 to submit their network designs to...

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• November deadline for NBN bids
  Darren Pauli
  Sep 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  The future of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) will be decided on November 26 when the deadline for proposals will close. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today announced the...

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• MBTA flaw disclosure: The students speak up
  Bill Brenner
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Zack Anderson was one of three MIT students who caused a stir over the summer when they decided to disclose flaws they discovered in the Massachusetts transit authority's "Charlie Card" fare...

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• Briefly: Judge denies request to maintain e-Bullion's computer systems
  Ian Lamont
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  A motion filed by lawyers for James Fayed and e-Bullion to maintain the company's computer systems has been turned down, according to a report in the Ventura County Star. Lawyers had requested that...

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• Benchmarks last week
  Computerworld (US) staff
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Target Corp. agreed to modify its Web site and pay US$6 million in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by the National Federation of the Blind. The NFB will test the site's accessibility...

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