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TELECOM Digest Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:20:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 158 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Florida Wins First Injunction Against Spammers (Lisa Minter) Google Unveils Mobile Local Search (Lisa Minter) LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data Breaches (Lisa Minter) Media Companies Target File Trading on Research Network (Lisa Minter) Cingular Sounds (Monty Solomon) Looking For Old Dialite Video (Jim) Verizon, MCI File S-4 With SEC (Telecom dailyLead from USTA) Harrassing Hangup Phone Calls From 555-555-1212 (Dale Showers) Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronics (GlowingBlueMist) Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronics (Lisa Hancock) Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronics (Wesrock@aol.com) Re: Verizon Wireless Expands Availability of Ringback Tones (Joseph) Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID (Steve Stone) Re: Study: Consumers Oppose Cell Phones in Flight (AES) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 Apr 2005 14:46:31 -0700 From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Florida Wins First Injunction Against Spammers MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. state of Florida won its first victory against "spam" electronic mail when a judge granted an injunction against two men accused of running mass emailing operations, the state prosecutor said on Tuesday. Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist said the injunction preventing the men from sending any more deceptive emails was part of his department's first prosecution under an anti-spam law passed by the state legislature last year. The men, Scott Filary, 25, and Donald Townsend, 34, both of Tampa, are accused of sending more than 65,000 emails, many with misleading subject lines and disguised origins. The emails took recipients to Web sites Crist said were engaged in fraudulent or illegal activities, such as selling pharmaceuticals and cigarettes online or providing a platform for the illegal downloading of copyrighted movies. The investigation was aided by software giant Microsoft Corp. whose Windows operating system runs more than 90 percent of the world's computers. The Florida anti-spam law allows for a fine of up to $500 per email, or $24 million in the case of the two accused spammers, Crist said in a statement. A national anti-spam law took effect at the start of 2004 but has done little to curb the flood of spam clogging email inboxes. Spam accounts for more than 80 percent of all email traffic, costing businesses billions a year in lost productivity and bandwidth. A court in Virginia jailed a North Carolina man this week to nine years in prison for sending millions of pieces of spam, although the judge postponed the sentence while the case was appealed. It was the nation's first felony prosecution of a spammer. 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 2005 14:47:31 -0700 From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Google Unveils Mobile Local Search Google's local search service for mobile will be available in the United States and Canada at http://mobile.google.com/local, or from the main Google search page on mobile devices starting Tuesday morning. Yahoo Inc. in October rolled out its mobile search service, which included local search, amid a fierce rivalry. Google Local for mobile will enable users to see 10 local search results. The service, which integrates the location of the businesses in search results on a map, also provides addresses, phone numbers and driving directions. Google's mobile local search service does not currently carry ads. Web search companies have been keen to break into the local advertising market, which the Kelsey Group expects to reach $5.1 billion in the United States by 2009. The market research firm sees local search advertising accounting for about two-thirds of that total. Local search ad spending hit $162 million in 2004, the Kelsey Group said. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is a great way to get directory assistance at no charge. Send a text message from your cellular phone to the short-address '46645' (GOOGL) with the single word 'HELP' and you will get back a help file explaining how it works, including how to get directory assistance. Right now at least, it is all totally free. I've been using it on my Nokia phone via Cingular Wireless for a couple months now as part of the test. Now, you may have to pay your carrier for the cost of a text message, but still, it is much cheaper that Ripoff Bell directory assistance charges. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 2005 14:48:35 -0700 From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> Subject: LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data Breaches WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Data broker LexisNexis said on Tuesday that identity thieves have stolen information on 310,000 U.S. citizens from its computer systems, 10 times more than its initial estimate last month. Thieves have used stolen passwords to lift Social Security numbers and other information from LexisNexis databases 59 times over the past two years, the company said. Several similar incidents recently have prompted calls for greater regulation of companies that can create comprehensive profiles of nearly every adult in the United States. "When a company like LexisNexis so badly underestimates its own ID theft breaches, it is clear that things are totally out of hand," said New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Identity theft costs U.S. consumers and businesses $50 billion annually, according to government estimates. After sending out letters to 32,000 people in March, LexisNexis will notify an additional 278,000 individuals whose profiles were accessed. The company, which is owned by Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier (REL.L) (ELSN.AS), said it will improve its security measures and make sensitive information less freely available. The information accessed included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers, but not credit histories, medical records or financial information, LexisNexis said. LexisNexis said it has found no instances of identity theft among the roughly 600 people who have asked it to check their credit records so far. A spokesman declined to elaborate on the breach, as the company and Secret Service are currently investigating. CIVIL-LIBERTIES CONCERNS Nearly all of the 59 incidents going back to January 2003 occurred at Seisint, a subsidiary based in Boca Raton, Florida that has drawn criticism from civil-liberties groups. One Seisint database called the Matrix allows state law enforcers to quickly zero in on criminal suspects by sifting through vast amounts personal information -- from the color of someone's eyes to the type of car they drive. LexisNexis bought Seisint in July 2004. Rival data broker ChoicePoint Inc. in February announced that identity thieves had gained access to some 145,000 consumer profiles, while Bank of America said that same month that it had lost a shipment containing sensitive details of 1.2 million U.S. government customers. LexisNexis CEO Kurt Sanford is scheduled to appear before the Senate Committee on Wednesday, along with ChoicePoint and Acxiom Corp., another data broker. "We need to examine how to ensure that security practices meet appropriate standards of care," said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's top Democrat. Also on Tuesday, Schumer and Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson introduced a bill that would require data brokers to tighten security measures and notify consumers when a security breach places them at risk for identity theft. The Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, said he is considering legislation that would make it illegal to sell Social Security numbers without an individual's permission. Reed Elsevier moved to soothe investors' fears by reaffirming its earnings forecasts, saying the financial implications of the breach were expected to be manageable within the context of LexisNexis's overall growth. Its shares closed down more than 1 percent in London and Amsterdam. (Additional reporting by Bill Rigby in New York, Adam Pasick in London and Theo Kolker in Amsterdam) Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 2005 14:49:13 -0700 From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Media Companies Target File Trading on Research Network By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Record label and movie studio investigators said on Tuesday they plan to sue more than 400 college students who used a special high-speed network to copy songs and movies. Broadband networks made college campuses hotbeds of illegal copying, but students now use an even faster network known as Internet2, trade groups for the two industries said. Designed for academic research, Internet2's extremely fast speed allows users to download a movie in 5 minutes or a song in less than 20 seconds. Existing cable or DSL broadband networks usually take an hour to download a movie and 2 minutes to download a song. "Internet2 is increasingly becoming the network of choice for students looking to steal songs and other copyrighted works on a massive scale," said Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America. Those targeted in the lawsuits made an average of 3,900 files available for copying over the network, Sherman said on a conference call. Users logged on to the network on Monday were sharing 99 terabytes of material, the equivalent of an entire video-rental store, said Dan Glickman, who heads the Motion Picture Association of America, on a separate conference call. The group said it sued 405 students at 18 schools. The MPAA declined to say how many lawsuits it had filed. Individuals were not named in the lawsuits, but their names will likely be uncovered as the cases move forward. Over the past two years, the RIAA has sued more than 9,000 individuals who distribute and copy their songs using "peer to peer" software like Grokster and Morpheus. The MPAA began to sue individuals in November. Media companies also have sued the software makers, but so far, courts have found they can't be held responsible for the actions of their users. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case by June. Those targeted in the latest round of lawsuits used software called i2hub, which was specifically designed for use over Internet2. The RIAA has not sued the makers of the software, Sherman said, adding "we are making no decision at this time about future action." Glickman said he had a message for the creators of the software: "We know who you are, and we strongly encourage you to stop what you are doing." Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Someone please correct me if I am wrong on this, but I thought that 'Internet2' was designed for use mostly by sites in the '.edu' domain as a way to get around, as much as possible, the mounds of spam and scam that has taken over so much of the 'regular internet'. I understand 'Internet2' is by and large not reachable from the 'regular internet' except through certain gateways, etc. Am I right on this? PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:57:49 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Cingular Sounds Multimedia News Release - Cingular Announces Innovative Music Program That Debuts New Singles on Wireless Phones Before They are Heard Anywhere Else 'Cingular Sounds' gives its customers a whole new way to enjoy music and the entertainment industry a powerful channel to reach tens of millions of potential listeners. Coldplay's 'Speed of Sound' will debut as a Cingular ringtone ATLANTA, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless today announced Cingular Sounds (TM), an innovative music program that launches new singles as ringtones on wireless phones either before they are heard anywhere else, or simultaneous with their debut on radio. This will give Cingular customers a whole new way to enjoy music and the entertainment industry a powerful channel to reach tens of millions of potential listeners. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/cingular/21599 The company will kick off "Cingular Sounds" with an exclusive 30-second ringtone from Coldplay's "Speed of Sound," the lead single from the band's forthcoming album, X&Y, which will be released by Capitol Records on June 7. Other artists spanning a broad section of musical styles -- alternative/rock, hip-hop/R&B, pop, Latin, country, and more -- will become part of Cingular Sounds in the coming weeks and months. The program will include exclusive ringtone debuts and offer weekly text message updates from a wide range of participating artists. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=48306350 ------------------------------ From: Jim <phoneguy@removethisstuffhawkeyerec.com> Subject: Looking For Old Dialite Video Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:00:47 -0500 About 20+ years ago, when I worked for GTE, we had a list of video tapes we could request from GTE's main headquarters in Stamford, Conneticut. Most of the tapes were educational or safety tapes, meant to be shown for training and during employee meetings. But I remeber one tape I requested that was a short tongue in cheek video to "educate" the general public about where dial tone comes from. The tape started out showing a rock quarry, mining type operation. It went on to explain how "dialite" was extracted from the rocks and refined into dial tone. I don't know if dialite is the word used in the video, but it was something important sounding. Has anyone ever seen this, or know how I might get a copy of it again? Thanks. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:37:01 EDT From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com> Subject: Verizon, MCI file S-4 with SEC Telecom dailyLead from USTA April 12, 2005 http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20756&l=2017006 TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Verizon, MCI file S-4 with SEC BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Report: China's mobile phone market poised for boom * Redback reaches out to rural telcos * Yipes gets another cash infusion USTA SPOTLIGHT * USTA VoIP 101 Webinar Series Now Includes IPTV EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * South Korea's bold mobile video experiment * Special Report: Me TV, the era of consumer choice REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Senate Commerce Committee hearing focuses on USF * Former Global Crossing execs pay fines in "capacity swap" probe Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20756&l=2017006 Legal and Privacy information at http://www.dailylead.com/about/privacy_legal.jsp SmartBrief, Inc. 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:31:24 PDT From: Dale Showers <mindlesspugs@yahoo.com> Subject: Cellular Phone Harassment from '555-555-1212' [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I received a phone call from Mr. Showers earlier today asking if I could be of any help on this. I had no specific answers for him, and suggested he put his problem before the readers. He is not telecom-literate, but was annoyed enough by this problem he took the trouble to look me up in a Google search and see if I could help him. PAT] Dear Mr. Townson: I have been receiving calls on my cell phone and the caller id is 15555551212 but there is no one on the phone when I pick up. I try to call back to that number and it is not a good number. There is no area code of 555. If any one knows what this and how to stop it please let me know at mindlesspugs@yahoo.com . Thank you very much! Dale [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Dale said to me on the phone that he has had his number about three years and his _current cellular phone_ for a couple months. I told him I suspect he is the victim of a fax machine or a telemarketer machine. I know he is getting sort of desparate since he used Google to look up the number (found nothing) and then called me and sent me email. Anyone with ideas or suggestions please get in touch with him at mindlesspugs@yahoo.com and you wish, share your correspondence with us here. PAT] ------------------------------ From: GlowingBlueMist <nobody@invalid.com> Subject: Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronic Devices? Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:55:47 -0500 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source <curious@nospam.com> wrote in message news:telecom24.157.7@telecom-digest.org: > I just got a 900 MHz DSS cordless phone, and I had the perfect spot > for it, right on top of my tower computer case. But then I noticed > that the manual says that the base unit must be placed away from all > electronic equipment, including PCs, stereos, TVs, and microwaves. > What is the reasoning for this? Could the magnetic fields generated > by the speakers in the phone cause any problems? Usually the problem is nothing more than radio frequency interferrence. Much like you get if you take a portable radio and get it too close to your computer or monitor. I have run into some cases where routers or even computers rebooted when a portable phone transmitter is placed too close to them due to the RFI. ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronic Devices? Date: 12 Apr 2005 10:44:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com curious@nospam.com wrote: > I just got a 900 MHz DSS cordless phone.. > that the manual says that the base unit must be placed away from all > electronic equipment... All I know is that when anyone talks to me over their cordless phone, there is loud annoying "buzzing" interference when they take their phone too close to any power source. Even holding the phone near a lamp or light switch gets noise. My recommendation is to comply with the manufacturer's directives for best operation. Understandably, that is cumbersome in today's complex world where we have electronis everywhere, even in doorbells. I'll let other electronic wizards explain the technical details, but my own _guess_ is that modern electronics are so small, light, and sensitive (using very low currents), that they become very sensitive to more power "stray" signals from other sources, especially older electronics that use more powerful internal currents. To keep the cost down of consumer products, there is no shielding. I know of a hobbyist who has built extensive equipment in his garage. He took a lightning strike. His newest modern-day components were fried, but his old heavy-duty components weren't damaged at all. ------------------------------ From: Wesrock@aol.com Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:48:23 EDT Subject: Re: Why Must a Cordless Phone be Away From Electronic Devices? In a message dated Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:02:56 -0400, curious@nospam.com writes: > I just got a 900 MHz DSS cordless phone, and I had the perfect spot > for it, right on top of my tower computer case. But then I noticed > that the manual says that the base unit must be placed away from all > electronic equipment, including PCs, stereos, TVs, and microwaves. > What is the reasoning for this? Could the magnetic fields generated > by the speakers in the phone cause any problems? It will do no harm to the computer. But the other electronic equipment may interfere with the cordless phone transmission and reception. We had a 900 mHz cordless that sat right under a TV and had no problem. But when it finally gave up the ghost we replaced it with another cordless, which turned out to be 2.4 gHz. We then found out that 2.4 gHz is much more seriously affected to the point that it was unusable. We returned it, since that was exactly where we wanted the cordless. It is reported than 4.8 gHz is even more badly impaired by other electronic equipment. Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com wleathus@yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Verizon Wireless Expands Availability of Ringback Tones; Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:02:33 -0700 Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:05:34 -0400, Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote: > PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2005--Verizon Wireless, the first > national carrier to offer Ringback Tones -- short clips of real music > that replace the standard ring callers hear when they call the Verizon > Wireless phone of a Ringback Tone subscriber -- has expanded the > availability of the service to include Arizona. The service is now > available in most western states. Sorry. Verizon was not the first. T-Mobile UK had this service literally *months* before Verizon or T-Mobile US had this service. And unlike Verizon, T-Mobile USA has this service available throughout its system. ------------------------------ From: Steve Stone <zpfleck@zitlink.zet> Subject: Re: Harrasing Annoying Ex Boyfriend Phone Calls CALLER ID Manager Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:16:55 GMT Phonetray free works for me in these situations. A nice addition to my 'always on' home file server. All you need is an old voice modem that does callerid decode. http://phonetray.traysoft.com/freecalleridsoftware_features.htm [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Exactly how does Phonetray work? Can you explain your experience with it in more detail for us? PAT] ------------------------------ From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu> Subject: Re: Study: Consumers Oppose Cell Phones in Flight Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:58:55 -0700 Organization: Stanford University In article <telecom24.157.6@telecom-digest.org>, Marcus Didius Falco <falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=3Ddocument&doc_id=3D1340004344 > www.wirelessweek.com > Study: Consumers Oppose Cell Phones in Flight > By Susan Rush > April 8, 2005 > news@2 direct > Worried about "air rage" and constant phone calls, 67 percent of air > travelers would prefer current airborne cell phone restrictions remain > in place, according to a new air passenger poll. > For more information go to: > http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml I don't know whether I'd have the guts (or the rudeness) to carry through on this, but if I found myself on a long flight forced to listen to endless cell phone conversations from all around me, I'd be greatly tempted to pull out a "boom-box" tape player and switch it on with some possibly unpleasant music or audio at similar volume in retaliation. Flying, which used to be a moderately pleasant occasion to relax, read, work, or just sleep, has become a more than sufficiently unpleasant experience in recent years. If cell phone users are going to pollute the audio environment in the cabin sufficiently to make it even more unpleasant for others, surely so can we music lovers ... ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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