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Download Free technews From viewzoft Entire cities getting free WiFi used to be quite the sensation, but now the real hotness is in connecting up an entire nation. According to IndiaTimes, the government is proposing that all citizens of India receive complimentary 2Mbps internet by 2009, and the service would be provided by the state-owned BSNL and MTNL. Officials backing the plan are hoping that giving all residents access to high-speed internet would "boost economic activity" as the citywide free WiFi implementations apparently have in America. The nations department of telecom will purportedly be laying "an extensive optic cable network across the country, permitting the resale of bandwidth, setting up web hosting facilities within the country, and asking all internet service providers to connect to the National Internet Exchange of India." Unsurprisingly, this issue has created very polarized camps, as consumers cheer on the idea, current telecom providers are shaking at the mere thought of all future telephone calls being converted into free VoIP dialogue ( Read More )
Download Free technews From viewzoft Joost, the online video service that is the brainchild of the creators of Skype, has been officially released boasting of a content-rich on-demand service. Joost is the first online, global TV distribution platform, bringing together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an interactive, community-driven environment. Joost can be accessed with a broadband Internet connection and offers broadcast-quality content to viewers for free. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are the immensely successful team linked with this initiative. The same duo also are the co-founders of Internet telephone service Skype and its phenomenal success, as well as that of Kazaa. Skype was bought by eBay for $27m, last year. Till now Joost was in its beta stage and was available only to testers ( Read More )
Download Free technews From viewzoft BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute. ADVERTISEMENT But neither has so far settled on a key part of the dispute: the use of newspaper story links used on Google News. In February, Google Inc. lost a lawsuit filed by the newspapers that forced it to remove headlines and links to news stories posted on its Google News service and stored in its search engines cache without the copyright owners permission. Google had earlier removed all reference to the newspapers to avoid legal trouble, meaning that a search for even the name of Belgian daily "Le Soir" would not bring up the publications Web site. But searchers will now find that paper and 16 others — although they will not be able to access stored versions of older content that the newspapers want to charge for. It is similar to the system used by The New York Times and others for premium content that marks stories with a "no archive" tag so it wont be cached. In a joint statement, Google and the newspapers copyright group Copiepresse said they had decided that Google could once again list the newspapers on the search engine. But they made no mention of one of the main parts of their dispute, Google News, merely saying they were still in talks. "The Belgian French and German-language daily press publishers and Google Inc. intend to use a quiet period in the court dispute to continue their efforts to identify tangible ways to collaborate in the long term," they said. The Brussels Court of First Instance ruled this spring that Mountain View, Calif.-based Google could not call on exemptions, such as claiming "fair use" because it says Google News reviews press articles when it displays headlines, a few lines of text, photos and links to the original page. The company behind the worlds most-used search engine is still appealing that ruling to clarify what it covers. It claims its Google News service is "entirely legal." Google says the court has still had not settled the question of what the ruling covers, claiming it only applied to Google News Belgium and google.be. The company says it has been in compliance since September. It was unclear if Google would have to pay retroactive daily fines of 25,000 euros (more than $32,000) for each day it did not comply — and what date any fines should start from. Copiepresse first cried foul in February 2006, a month after Google launched a Belgian version of Google News displaying content from local newspapers found by its search engine. The group was also negotiating similar copyright issues with Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and Microsoft Corp.s MSN. ( Read More )
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