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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".
Putin Time's person of the year
Last year the magazine named Y'ou' as its person of the year, reflecting the importance of user-generated internet content as a force in the modern world. Previous winners include Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the computer. In 2005, U2 frontman turned anti-poverty campaigner Bono shared the award with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. US President George Bush was chosen in 2004, following the American soldier in 2003 and a group of whistleblowers in 2002. The first winner named after the September 11 attacks of 2001 was former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, despite suggestions from within Time's editorial department it should be Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini won the award in 1979, the year he helped lead the revolution that toppled the Shah.
Fiji Times Online
Call me ignorant, but if you ignore the postings that you read daily and dismiss it as being trivial - then Fiji is heading towards disaster That is what I am talking about and no amount of paperwork will take the ill feeling or resentment away unless we each become responsible citizens and teach our ourselves and our children some basic respect towards their fellow citizens... Otherwise further down the line some other idiotic person will still find an excuse to stage yet another coup against an elected govt and blame it on some stupid bill, or legislation or other seismologist of Australia (78 days and 22 hours ago) We are jumping the gun in this instance, let us take issues step by step,first,let us wait for the outcome of the current Court hearing,that will determine future political decisions,the PER will also affect future directions as it has immense social and economic implications for the country as a whole.The UN address was mere window dressing,political rhetorics for the world to hear,sounds politically correct in an Utopian context but totally far removed from the political realities in Fiji.One previous observer rightly said that members of this IG rejected the Reconciliation process when offered by the ousted Govt,how do they expect to succeed in this when one's attidude is so hardened? Bruce of Canada (78 days and 22 hours ago) Yes, let them or they will just throw all of you in jail.
RIAA aims lawyers at usenet newsgroup service
The Recording Industry Ass. of America has now attacked a company that provides access to internet newsgroups. Last Friday, RIAA lawyers chucked a federal lawsuit at Usenet.com, claiming that the Fargo, North Dakota newsgroup service "enables and encourages" people to swap copyrighted music. .
Telecom investment grows to $8bn in 4 years
KARACHI: Telecom companies have invested over $8 billion during the last four years in Pakistan particularly in the mobile sector whose investment share accounts for 73 percent official sources said here Saturday.
In 2006-07, cellular mobile sector has invested over $2.7 billion, which becomes about 66 percent of total investment by the sector, sources at Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) said. Local loop segment of the industry is also taking off and in 2006-07 about $7.8 million were invested by this sector. LDI operators have invested about $603 million in 2006-7, which is about 15 percent of total investment by the sector.
During 2005-06, telecom sector received over $1.8 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) and emerged as the only sector of the economy to attract such huge investment where its share in total FDI crossed 54 percent.
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