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TELECOM Digest Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:41:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 478 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson SBC Sees Little Threat From Skype, Net Calling Generally (Justin Hyde) Blackberry Users Learning Painful Lessons (Alicia Chang) Firefox Hits 100 Million Mark (Elizabeth Millard) NYS AG Spitzer ... Settles With Spyer/Scammer/Sleazer (Danny Burstein) Virgin Mobile Unusual Charges (NOTvalid@XmasNYC.Info) EPIC Alert 12.21 (Monty Solomon) Re: TV Show - Legacy Phone in Scene (Paul Coxwell) Re: TV Show - Legacy Phone in Scene (Wesrock@aol.com) Last Laugh! The Case of The Dollar Bill (Paul Coxwell) 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. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Justin Hyde <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: SBC Sees Little Threat From Skype, Net Calling Generally Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:49:09 -0500 By Justin Hyde SBC Communications Inc. sees little challenge to its traditional telephone business from services such as Skype that offer free phone calls over the Internet, SBC's chief financial officer said on Thursday. "I don't see it as a significant threat," SBC CFO Rick Lindner said in an interview with Reuters. "The fears of what may happen there are overblown." In recent weeks several tech giants, notably Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc , have either launched or bolstered services offering free voice calls between computers. Skype, which also allows users to place relatively cheap calls to regular telephone numbers worldwide, agreed last month to be bought by Internet auction site eBay Inc. for up to $4.1 billion. That deal raised the specter of a well-funded Internet calling service taking on the U.S. "Baby Bells," such as SBC and Verizon Communications Inc.. Several analysts have contended that while eBay bought Skype to increase Web-based commerce, it would eventually look to expand Skype further into telecommunications. EBay estimates Skype will produce revenues of $60 million in 2005 and more than $200 million in 2006. EBay Chairman and Chief Executive Meg Whitman told analysts on Wednesday that Skype would make its money from add-on services, not phone calls. "It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet," Whitman said. "In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero." Skype had 57 million registered users worldwide as of September, not all of whom frequent the service regularly. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, 1.85 million U.S. users either went to Skype's home page or used the software last month. But Lindner said while some "techies" might want to "scour the Internet and buy applications and services from a number of different providers," the mass market of customers will prefer to buy voice, video and data services from one company on one bill. "Why has WalMart been successful in areas like groceries? It's because its convenient for people to go to one location and buy everything," he said. Lindner also said consumers will prefer to send calls over reliable networks. Most U.S. telephone network equipment is designed to go offline for no more than a few minutes per year. "That's a big difference from simply relying on the public Internet to handle your communication needs," Lindner said. SBC said on Thursday that it ended the quarter with 50.2 million traditional telephone lines, a 5.1 percent decrease from a year earlier, driven by a loss of 643,000 wholesale lines. 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. ------------------------------ From: Alicia Chang <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Blackberry Users Learning Painful Lessons Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:50:07 -0500 By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Chris Claypool was addicted to his BlackBerry wireless handheld. Like many users, he never thought twice about pecking away at lightning speed, replying to a wave of e-mails. Last year, the 37-year-old agricultural sales director from Post Falls, Idaho, noticed a throbbing sensation in this thumbs whenever he typed. He switched to tapping with his index finger, then his middle digit and finally his pinky. But his thumbs pained him to the point where he can't even press the buttons on his TV remote control. After months of aching, Claypool took a break. Now he only uses his BlackBerry to send short messages -- typing with the tip of a pencil eraser whenever his thumbs get sore. "It affects business because I can't whack away on my BlackBerry like I used to," he said. "It's just too painful." Repetitive motion injuries, which have long afflicted desktop and laptop computer users, are invading the mobile handheld world. There's even an informal name for the malady -- "BlackBerry Thumb" -- a catch-all phrase that describes a repetitive stress injury of the thumb as a result of overusing small gadget keypads.n Business executives and tech-savvy consumers are increasingly using BlackBerries, Treos, Sidekicks and other devices with miniature keyboards designed for thumb-tapping to stay connected while on the go. And that has some ergonomic and hand experts worried about injuries from overexertion. "If you're trying to type 'War and Peace' with your thumbs, then you're going to have a problem," warned Alan Hedge, director of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. No national statistics exist on how many people suffer from this type of thumb ailment, but some doctors say they are seeing an upswing in related cases, said Dr. Stuart Hirsch, an orthopedist at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, N.J. "It's mostly the road warrior who prefers to answer e-mails on a thumb keyboard," said Hirsch. "If all you did was just answer with a simple yes and no, it would not be a dilemma." For as long as video gamers have been blasting aliens, so-called "Gamer's Thumb" has been a sore spot for them, as well. With tens of millions of portable video game machines on the market, lots of young hands risk digit abuse. Games for such devices generally include some type of printed warning about injury risks from prolonged playing. Earlier this year, the American Society of Hand Therapists issued a consumer alert, warning users of small electronic gadgets that heavy thumb use could lead to painful swelling of the sheath around the tendons in the thumb. The group recommended taking frequent breaks during e-mailing and resting one's arms on a pillow for support. A booklet that ships with the Nintendo DS handheld system advises a 10 to 15 minute break for each hour of play, and a break of at least several hours if gamers experience wrist or hand soreness. "People tend to use just one finger over and over again and it's that repetitive use with one digit that could lead to problems," said Stacey Doyon, vice president of the American Society of Hand Therapists and a registered occupational therapist in Portland, Maine. The BlackBerry, which debuted in 1999, employs a full QWERTY keypad for thumb typing to automatically send and receive e-mail. About 2.5 million people currently use Blackberries, more than double from a year ago. An executive for Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry, said the company considers ergonomic factors when designing its keyboards. "Of course, any product can be overused ... so people should listen to their own bodies and adjust their routine if necessary. But I would caution against confusing rare examples of overuse with the typical experience," Mark Guibert, vice president of marketing, wrote in an e-mail. Musculoskeletal disorders, which include repetitive strain injuries, accounted for a third of all workplace injuries and illnesses reported in 2003 -- the latest data available, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Specialists say the thumb -- considered by many as an island because it is set apart from the other fingers -- is among the least dexterous digit and is not meant to be rigorously worked out. For people who insist on typing more than a sentence with their thumbs, external keyboards that connect to the gadgets may be a less painful alternative, said Dr. Jennifer Weiss, assistant professor of orthopedics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Treatment for BlackBerry thumb may include wearing a splint and applying ice to the affected area. If the pain persists, doctors may opt to inject the thumb area with a cortisone shot. Surgery may be required as a last resort. John Orminski, a 44-year-old information technology manager from Pontiac, Mich., went to a doctor in the spring after feeling a strain in his right thumb. On any given day, Orminski uses his thumb repeatedly to punch clients' telephone numbers, scroll through his address book and update his calendar on his BlackBerry. Orminski already suffers from golfer's elbow -- a form of tendinitis -- from playing the sport. But unlike his elbow pain, which occurs in spurts, Orminski's thumb woes tend to flare up more often. He recently started physical therapy for this thumb -- receiving electrical stimulation and massage to relax the muscles. "It can get sore and tender, but I'm learning to live with it." _____ On the Net: American Society of Hand Therapists: http://www.asht.org Research in Motion: http://www.rim.net Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 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. For more headlines from Associated Press, go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ From: Elizabeth Millard <newsfactor@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Firefox Hits 100 Million Mark Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:50:26 -0500 Elizabeth Millard, newsfactor.com The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser has reached 100 million downloads only five months after hitting the 50 million mark and just a few weeks prior to the one-year anniversary of its formal release. While the browser has seen download rates spike over the past year, the adoption of the browser mainly has been a steady growth path, the foundation noted. At this point, between 200,000 and 300,000 downloads occur per day. Mozilla has openly thanked its thousands of contributors worldwide for efforts that have caused adoption to go far beyond expectations. "Their work developing and fine-tuning the Firefox browser ensures the best Web experience available," Mozilla noted in a statement. "Volunteer extension developers further enrich Firefox's capabilities by enabling users to customize and enhance their browser and truly take back the Web." Growing Pains Getting to the 100 million mark might be cause for celebration at Mozilla, but the organization has not been without its challenges. Most notably, the browser has had several security flaws reported, and its marketing site, SpreadFirefox.com, was recently brought down by hackers. A Symantec report noted that Mozilla browsers had more reported vulnerabilities than Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Internet Explorer in the first half of 2005, but the report also noted that the Microsoft flaws were considered more serious. Choppy Waters Ahead While pundits continually have said that the adoption rates for Firefox will slow, the ranks of Firefox users have grown, indicating that it is nibbling away at Internet Explorer's formidable market share. Gartner (NYSE: IT - news) analyst Ray Valdes said it is possible that use of the Firfox browser will see a significant drop once Microsoft's next OS is released and subsequent changes are made to the Internet Explorer browser. "Much will depend on how Microsoft ties Internet Explorer to its big releases next year," said Valdes. "They may not have planned to emphasize Internet Explorer, but I think Firefox's adoption rate is something they're noticing." At this point, many enterprise I.T. departments are looking at Firefox as a viable alternative to Internet Explorer. This interest could product the kind of corporate endorsement necessary for the browser to keep growing, noted Valdes. Copyright 2005 NewsFactor Network, Inc. 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" Under the agreement, Brad Greenspan, the founder and former CEO of Intermix Media, will pay $750,000 in penalties and disgorgement in connection with an investigation of the conduct of his former company ... " Spitzer also announced today that New York Supreme Court Judge Judith Gische had approved a consent agreement between Intermix and Spitzer's office requiring Intermix to pay $7.5 million in penalties and disgorgement, and accept a ban on the distribution of adware programs in the future..... http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/oct/oct20a_05.html. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ From: NOTvalid@XmasNYC.Info Subject: Virgin Mobile Unusual Charges Date: 20 Oct 2005 19:33:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I have been a happy Virgin Mobile user since August of 2004. Virgin uses the SPCS network in USA. I rarely use the $7.00/month minimum. All of a sudden my balance seemed to go down quicker then normal. I went online and I see I am being charged for: Virgin Xtras at 2/day I never asked for that. A ringtone download [I only use phone on vibrate.] Charges for 25 calls to numbers that don't exist. E=2EG: 10/03/2005 03:38 PM 001819 00:01 VOICE -$0.25 Anyone else notice anything unusual on their Virgin Web logs? Before I call them, I would like to know if I am the only one. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:50:41 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: EPIC Alert 12.21 ======================================================================== E P I C A l e r t ======================================================================== Volume 12.21 October 20, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_12.21.html ======================================================================== Table of Contents ======================================================================== [1] Broad Coalition Opposes Joint Marketing, Recruiting Database [2] Federal Court Blocks Georgia Voter ID Law [3] EPIC Files "Friend of the Court" Brief in DNA Dragnet Case [4] FDA Urged to Examine Medical Monitoring Databases [5] Election Verification Groups Call for Compliance with Voting Laws [6] News in Brief [7] EPIC Bookstore: Katherine Albrecht's "Spychips" [8] Upcoming Conferences and Events ... http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_12.21.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:09:39 +0100 From: Paul Coxwell <paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Re: TV Show - Legacy Phone in Scene > In the city, payphones for prepay, even if dial-tone first. (I don't > remember if 3-slots could have dial-tone first). On TV, it seemed > every pay phone was also pre-pay. > However, in rural locations, payphones were postpay. That is, you got > a dial tone and dialed the number. If the line was busy or no answer > you just hung up. But if answered you had to put in the dime to let > your transmitter work. On such phones there was no "hold area" for > coins and associated relay control, coins went directly into the box. > That meant the phone had a much simpler construction as did the CO > equipment, making it cheaper. People have previously stated there > were ways to beat the system with that kind of payphone, but I presume > the phoneco figured the cost savings were worth the risk, and maybe > rural people were more honest and less scheming than city people. Here in the U.K. we've gone from prepay, to postpay, and then back to prepay again over the years, but they've always been dialtone first. The "AB" box is fondly remembered by older generations and was introduced in the mid 1920s. Payphones, or "public call offices" as they were once called used a modified GPO 300-series desk telephone, fitted to a wall bracket or shelf and wired to this separate coin box. The latter had three coin slots on the top, a return chute at the bottom, and two buttons, one labeled with a very large "A" in a circle and the other with a large "B" in a rectangle (hence the "AB" name). This second button was actually located on the side of the box. The "AB" phone was prepayment with coin collect and return being done manually by the caller. Dialtone would be heard upon picking up the phone, but calls could not be dialed until coins had been deposited, removing a short from the dial contacts. The coin deposit also applied a short-circuit to the transmitter. Upon getting an answer, the caller pressed button "A" which collected the coins and restored the contacts to normal, removing the short on the transmitter and allowing conversation to take place. If there was no answer, the line was busy, or the call failed to complete for some other reason, the caller pressed button "B" which returned the coins and simultaneously operated a mechanical timer which opened the line for a few seconds to release any connection. He could also just hangup for a couple of seconds then try again, leaving the coins in situ. Extra contacts on the dial allowed zero to be dialed to reach an operator without depositing any coins (and as the 999 emergency service came into service the dials were modified to allow a 9 to be dialed with no coins as well). For long-distance calls, the operator would listen for the coins being deposited just as on U.S. 3-slot coinphones, then tell the caller to press button "A" when she got an answer or to press button "B" to return his money if the call failed to complete (after the coin deposit the transmitter would be shorted as on a local call until button "A" was pressed, so the caller was then unable to speak to the operator). The "AB" coinphone gradually disappeared from most areas during the 1960s, but a few survived in rural areas much later. I believe the last one was finally withdrawn from service in a very remote part of Scotland sometime in the early 1980s STD -- the British equivalent of DDD -- arrived in 1958, and there was a desire to allow direct-dial long-distance calls from payphones without the assistance of an operator. Thus a totally different design of coinphone was introduced in 1959 and gradually replaced the old "AB" boxes as STD expanded during the 1960s. This was a postpayment phone and an integrated design with handset cradle across the top of the unit, a dial immediately below, and the coin slots on the right (although a separate coin-box only model was also produced to use with regular wall-mounted phones which was common in hotels lobbies and similar semi-private locations). The old A and B buttons were gone, replaced by signaling from the central office, and a solenoid-operated shutter across the coin slots prevented the deposit of coins until the appropriate time. Calls -- both local and long-distance -- were dialed first, and when answer supervision was received the office would send a signal to open the coin shutters while applying "pay tone" to the line, a rapidly interrupted 400Hz signal at about three times the normal busy-tone speed (the called party also heard this signal to tell him to wait a few seconds). After the initial deposit, the charging equipment would simply allow the call to continue for whatever period was appropriate based on the time of day and area called, after which the process would be repeated with another application of pay-tone to request more money. If the caller failed to insert more coins within a few seconds, the paytone would cease and he would be allowed a few more seconds for free to complete the call, after which it would be disconnected and the shutters would close again. The paytone soon became known colloquially as "the pips," e.g. "I'll have to go now, that was the pips and I have no more change." (On the initial deposit, there was no such grace period, so it was pay immediately or be disconnected.) Now all of those postpayment phones I remember so well from the 1970s are gone too, replaced with modern prepayment types with LCD displays showing credit left and all the other present-day trimmings. Somehow to me they just don't have the character or the attraction of that old equipment. Below are links to pictures of the two types I've outlined, first the AB "kiosk," then the postpayment type. The latter is an older version, still with lettered dial and slots for 6d. and 1/-. Later versions had numbered dials only and modified coin mechanisms for the change to decimal money in 1971. http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/images/Payphone_22.jpg http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/images/Payphone_12.jpg Paul. ------------------------------ From: Wesrock@aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:00:18 EDT Subject: Re: TV Show - Legacy Phone in Scene In a message dated 19 Oct 2005 13:44:01 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes: [ ... ] > In the city, payphones for prepay, even if dial-tone first. (I don't > remember if 3-slots could have dial-tone first). On TV, it seemed > every pay phone was also pre-pay. > However, in rural locations, payphones were postpay. That is, you got > a dial tone and dialed the number. If the line was busy or no answer > you just hung up. But if answered you had to put in the dime to let > your transmitter work. On such phones there was no "hold area" for > coins and associated relay control, coins went directly into the box. > That meant the phone had a much simpler construction as did the CO > equipment, making it cheaper. People have previously stated there > were ways to beat the system with that kind of payphone, but I presume > the phoneco figured the cost savings were worth the risk, and maybe > rural people were more honest and less scheming than city people. I have lived in both small towns and urban places, and rural people and city people are about the same as far as ethics and scheming. However, in many small places the principal users of payphones were out of town people, since generally any store or business would led you use their flat-rate telephone free for local calls. When I lived in Konawa, Oklahoma, in the early 1950s, such payphones as existed were free for local calls and you just dialed the number. For toll calls (placed through the operator) the operator told you how much to put in and listened as it dropped directly into the box. Of course, many small towns (and some pretty good sized ones) were manual, and there was a charge for local calls and the operator advised the called party to hold and listened as the caller deposited the coins. In Muskogee, Oklahoma, a good-sized manual office, the payphones were prepay; you deposited the cost of a local call and the operator would answer; when you passed a local number she would connect the call and drop off, the ringing (or busy signal) being returned without her supervision. The coin(s) would return automatically if the line were busy or didn't answer; if the call was completed the coins would be collected automatically just as in dial prepay installations. Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:52:59 +0100 From: Paul Coxwell <paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Last Laugh! The Case of The Dollar Bill From Reader's Digest, February 1967 Captain Joseph Dussia, former head of the Pennsylvania State Police Crime Laboratory, is an accomplished safe-blower and lock-picker. His skill came in handy when he and a fellow officer were stranded on a road one night, their car and police radio disabled. A phone box was nearby, but they didn't have any change. Captain Dussia entered the booth, picked the locks, dropped a dollar bill into the coin box, took out some change, re-assembled everything, and called a break-down truck. A few days later, he got this message from a man at the telephone company: "We've got something you should investigate. 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