It’s time Google paid up, says telco

February 08, 10 by newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz
MADRID - Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use.In comments from a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar...

Sony Launches Short-Range Wireless Technology (w/ Video)

February 08, 10 by PHYSorg.com: Telecom News
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first compliant products, that will use Sony`s TransferJet technology, will start appearing in products as early as the spring of this year. Its design will enable file swapping, between two devices, by bringing them within approximately 3cm of each other.

Spain’s Telefonica considers charging Google

February 08, 10 by PHYSorg.com: Telecom News
(AP) -- Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use.

CDT: More Thoughts from State of the Net 2010

February 08, 10 by David Goldstein

One of the most highly anticipated panels at last week’s State of the Net Conference was the Judith Krug Memorial Intellectual Freedom Panel, entitled “Global Free Expression: Will the Internet Reign or Get Reined In?”. Held less than one week after Secretary of State Hillary...

Australian home internet access quadruples in the last decade

February 08, 10 by David Goldstein

ICT has become increasingly more affordable over the past decade with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recording marked increases in access to PCs and the Internet in Australian households.

In its Household Use of Information Technology report the ABS found that access to the I...