The biggest threat to the European Commission’s plans to regulate media on the internet is not from organisations like the CBI and OfCom; it is from technology itself. Already devices such as Slingbox [www.slingmedia.com/slingbox] and the software application Orb [www.orb.com] will allow you to pick up TV and video from a home PC equipped with a TV card on an internet-enabled device from anywhere in the world – a nightmare for the regulatory authorities. And it gets worse.
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 23:44
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The EC has drafted new rules for TV transmitted over the internet. But, asks Peter Warren, how do you police what is freely available at the click of a mouse?
The European Commission and the UK are once again set on a collision course. Forget constitutions, euros or Maastricht, this time it’s about something you care about: television, and particularly the future of TV and new media over the internet.
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Monday, 08 May 2006 22:32
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Internet search company Yahoo is set to go head to head with rival Google in a bid to win control of the multi-billion pound internet advertising market.
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Tuesday, 02 May 2006 14:13
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Police and intelligence agencies are lobbying hard for means of snooping on internet-based telephony, arguing that they need them to catch criminals, reports Peter Warren
In numerous advertisements, you are encouraged to buy an internet phone so you can make free calls to friends. Meanwhile, a gaggle of online programs such as Skype boast of the boon of online calls: they’re free. But the UK’s top law enforcement agencies don’t see it the same way.
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Friday, 28 April 2006 22:45
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There is no such as a free lunch, they say. But how about completely free telecommunications, including free connections?
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:50
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Itemised bills for fixed lines and big mobile phone charges could soon be consigned to history, but our future communications will still come at a price, reports Peter Warren.
In days gone by, the telephone was a thing of awe: an object admired for its usefulness but feared for its apparently limitless ability to cost money.
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:04
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The Chinese government’s attitude to internet use demonstrates shocking double standards on hacking and censorship
The plundering of western technology, business and government databases by Chinese hackers is a sign of Beijing’s double standards towards the development of the internet, experts say.
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