Saturday, September 24, 2011

India wants to set limits satellite phones

India wants to set limits satellite phones

In future, satellite phones in India will no longer work if the
government decides which - according to terrorist attacks more
difficult. Moreover, at a glance: Taiwan joins China, iPhone users would
do it again, and researchers mapped zombie strongholds.

Satellite phones are great: They work just about anywhere - no matter,
there is a mobile network or not. Why they are so popular with foreign
reporters, sailors and expedition leaders at. But terrorists also use
the phones everywhere, because they are difficult to locate. In India,
several such devices should have been used to carry out terrorist
attacks, for example, in the attack on the hotel "Taj Mahal" in Mumbai.
This will prevent the Indian government now.

Ars Technica has reported a proposal by India to the UN
telecommunications agency, the International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) presented. In three paragraphs, there is demanded the
establishment of a system with which it is possible to disable satellite
phones at national borders.

Currently, there is technically no way to do this. Some states have
already tried to ban satellite phones by law. In Burma, for example, the
BBC reported, had threatened in 2007 for possession of such a device, a
prison sentence of three and a half years. In Libya, Gaddafi threatened
those in power to its citizens even to the death penalty, they were on
the phone via satellite.

Whether it is India's entry is implemented and if they can technically
be implemented at all, must discuss the ITU in October. Then, the next
meeting of the Organisation in Geneva.

Taiwan joins China

The Taiwanese Chunghwa Telecom, and China's telecom giant China Telecom,
China Mobile and China Unicom have allied themselves only to a joint
venture to jointly lay a submarine cable between the two countries.

The completion of the 220-kilometer data cable is already planned for
the first quarter of next year. With the new management will links
between the island of Taiwan and mainland China are cheaper, said a
spokesman of China's National Communications Commission. Currently, data
must be via third countries such as Japan headed.

A total of 2.5 million euros, the partners have put together the
financing. A brotherhood is with the laying of the cable harness of
course, not associated: On any device from Taiwan's side should be
connected to the Chinese production line, writes The Register. For
security reasons.

Via against Apple

Now even VIA. The Taiwanese chip maker has launched legal action against
Apple. According to a press release the company Via has filed with the
U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC International Trade Commission)
complaint against Apple. The company injured in iPhone, iPad, iPod,
Apple TV or their software via patents, it says. Apple giving users
including vias "instruction set for the bi-directional conversion and
transfer of integer and floating point data."

The Tech Report has tried to interpret, how does it happen that suddenly
Via brings three of his 5,000 patents from the U.S. group is in
position. The simple interpretation: Via CEO Chen Wen-chi is married to
Cher Wang, founder and CEO of the mobile phone manufacturer HTC. HTC has
filed against Apple in early 2010 patent lawsuit. The current action
against Apple vias could also be a tit for tat, The Tech Report writes.
It's all stay in the family.

iPhone customers would do it again

Companies dream of so much satisfaction: a survey of investment bank
UBS, according to 89 percent would back the iPhone owners buy an Apple
phone, reports the "Wall Street Journal." Thus argue that the
Californian company far ahead of the competition from HTC (33 percent)
and Research In Motion (33 percent). That would be good news for Apple,
which had not a blemish insight UBS: For the study, with the catchy
title "Global Telecom Equipment Analyser", only 515 users were
interviewed, most of which were classified as high-end users.
Representative, especially in the world that is unlikely.

Researchers map out zombie strongholds

As one can evaluate all the data on the Internet creatively to
demonstrate four scientists who present on their website Floating Sheep
interesting statistics. For example, how often and where Chinese on the
Web about coffee and tea talk, or how to develop the marijuana prices in
the northeastern United States.

Together with researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, they have
now done another masterpiece: A world map of zombies. As they've done
with Google's help, says the "Guardian" with a few words. An important
finding, however, does have a quick look at the unusual world map:
Northern Africa, where the word zombie has its origins, seems largely a
zombie-free zone to be.

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