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Carphone Warehouse takes home AOL UK
Parent group Time Warner hired Citibank in the first half of this year to review the options for AOL UK. The consultants concluded the company should abandon being an ISP in the UK to concentrate on its portal, which is benefiting from the online advertising boom. Carphone Warehouse became involved in June, when reports suggested chief executive Charles Dunstone wanted AOL UK's expertise in unbundling - the ISP has 600,000 dial-up and 1.5 million broadband customers in this country. Dunstone said on Wednesday: "The acquisition of AOL's UK internet access business is transformational for our broadband business. "This deal gives us significant scale to complement the rapid organic growth of our free broadband proposition. In addition, the joint development of AOL's already successful audience platform will bring us new advertising and content revenues in a proven and low risk manner." AOL UK's access business - including its customer base, management and infrastructure - will pass entirely to Carphone Warehouse, while AOL will continue to provide "co-branded portal, content and other audience services".
In the papers 10 December
Seven of the 20 biggest-selling electronic products on Amazon.com at the end of last week were navigation devices. The paper also says that Vodafone has finalised a mobile phone infrastructure sharing agreement with rivals in India that should accelerate wireless coverage across the country and provide the participating companies with significant cost savings. Vodafone and Indian mobile operators Bharti Airtel and Idea have agreed to pool network infrastructure in a joint venture that may in the future seek a stock exchange listing. The three mobile operators will be sharing about 70,000 mobile mast sites that have been put into the joint venture company, although they will retain separate wireless transmission equipment on these towers. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mexican telephone and retail magnate Carlos Slim will exit the US consumer electronics market, shutting the last 100 CompUSA stores after sinking about USD2 billion into the business.
Security Firm Sophos Calls WiFi Piggybacking 'Stealing'
Security Firm Sophos Calls WiFi Piggybacking 'Stealing' from the mischaracterizations dept It should come as no surprise that a security firm, in this case Sophos, is casting the act of using a neighbor's unsecured Wi-Fi access point as a crime. The bigger the threat, the more money there is for security solution vendors and consultants. In the latest research, Sophos found that 54% of wireless users surveyed had "stolen" access at one time or another. The report then frames these casual users as thieves by lumping them in with the epithet "cybercriminals". Techdirt's position has been steady: If a hosting Wi-Fi owner transmits a signal into your property or public area, and that signal proactively announces an SSID which functions like an invite, yet the host has left the network unlocked, then the host's DHCP server actively accommodates the guest and offers an IP address for them to use...
'Magic' Saves You Big Bucks On Your Phone Bill
It's a slave to your broadband... the reliability of your Internet access dictates the reliability of Magic Jack." But for Mel and Catherine, it's an inexpensive way to keep the lines of communication open between the living room and the dorm room. You can't make overseas calls with Magic Jack, but you can take it with you when you're traveling to call back to the United States for free. Magic Jack includes other features like call waiting, call forwarding or enhanced 911 at no additional cost. However, like any other device that works through your computer, if your internet service goes down... so does your phone. Right now you can only buy Magic Jack on-line. .
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