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•Around the Industry:
UK ISP refuses service to people over 70 unless they have fine print explained to them by someone younger
UK ISP PlusNet accuses broadband rivals of misleading customers over 'free' and 'unlimited' service
China to lead the broadband world
Rhode Island, Ohio, Colorado lead WiFi investing
The dangers of incumbents getting into muni Wi-Fi
RIAA: All your evidence are belong to us
•SecurityBits:
zCodec is a Trojan
'Adware' attack on privacy tool
Windows component deleted by CA antivirus
•TidBytes:
Apple Wi-Fi hack revealed
Silicon Valley is US worst technology hub
SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute
•More news from around the industry, SecurityBits, and interesting Tidbytes inside!

Around The Industry:
•UK ISP refuses service to people over 70 unless they have fine print explained to them by someone younger:
UK ISP Carphone Warehouse seems to have a policy of banning the elderly from its broadband services. A newspaper claimed that Carphone Warehouse is demanding that the over 70’s are accompanied by a child to explain the small print in the contract. The paper cites the case of Shirley Greening-Jackson, 75, who sits on the boards of several charities who was refused a broadband connection because she was too old. Carphone Warehouse admitted it had adopted an over-70 rule but it was not a blanket policy bought about because of complaints that staff had mis-sold products last year.
•UK ISP PlusNet accuses broadband rivals of misleading customers over 'free' and 'unlimited' service:
A senior PlusNet executive has hit out at those in the broadband industry who advertise free or unlimited connectivity, including partner Tiscali. "There's no such thing as free and no such thing as unlimited," the exec said. "By definition, network is finite, the resources in the network that can be applied to customers is finite. We came clean real quick on that one, but I don't see Tiscali coming clean on that, I don't see other people coming clean."
•China to lead the broadband world:
China will overtake the US next year to become the world's largest broadband internet market, analysts have forecast. The number of broadband subscribers in China is growing at a staggering 79% annually, and will reach 79 million in 2007, consulting firm Ovum predicted. Ovum's predictions are in line with those from other researchers. In-Stat estimated recently that the number of broadband households in China will reach 130 million by 2010. Recent estimates from Leichtman Research suggest that the number of broadband connections in the US, currently the world's largest market, is around 51 million.
•Rhode Island, Ohio, Colorado lead WiFi investing:
CDW Government Inc., a subsidiary of the $6.3 billion CDW Corp., examined the purchase records of several thousand of its public-sector customers from 2000 to 2005 and came up with a ranking of states. CDW-G characterized Rhode Island as a "lead investor" and Ohio, Colorado and five other states as "early investors," or states that scan the best technology and adopt it as soon as appropriate. INPUT, which researches the government market, recently estimated that the U.S. wireless market will quadruple from $500 million in 2005 to more than $2 billion by 2008. The research group noted that the market is growing rapidly because wireless has proved to be a cost-effective and quick way to develop high-speed Internet services in metropolitan and rural areas.
•The dangers of incumbents getting into muni Wi-Fi:
MuniWireless highlites a piece by Harold Feld on the dangers of using an incumbent like AT&T or a cable company to deploy and run a citywide wireless broadband network: "What happened to all of that rhetoric about the brave incumbent telco capitalist captain of industry going eyeball to eyeball with the evil Socialist menace of a publicly financed Internet? Answer: increasingly, the incumbents have realized this is a losing issue for them and have decided to figure out how to make money out of it. While I take [ATT's getting involved in muni WiFi] as the latest and most potent sign that the move to outright kill muni broadband has run out of steam, I think a note of caution is advisable as well."
•RIAA: All your evidence are belong to us:
The RIAA is fighting against a woman who wants an independent expert to examine her hard drive to prove that she was not involved in any illegal downloading. In the case of Sony BMG et al. v. Kim Arellanes, Arellanes wants a 3rd party expert to have a look at her HD to prove that she was not engaged in any file sharing. But the RIAA wants her to turn over her HD to them so they can carry out their own inspection. Arellanes is not happy about turning over what could be her key evidence to the RIAA and is telling them to go forth and multiply.
•Unbundling from BT slow going in UK:
The number of unbundled telephone lines in the UK is nearing three-quarters of a million but the process is still experiencing problems, according to its overseer. He noted "ongoing concern" over so-called 'singleton' lines - to differentiate from bulk migrations - continuing "to deviate from planned quality levels", adding that "significant improvement has so far failed to materialise". Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process whereby competitors to UK telecoms incmbent BT are able to install their own equipment in BT's exchanges. This means they don't have to buy wholesale telecoms services from BT, and can potentially offer a wider range of services.
•BT's 21CN next-gen network: Upgrades to start in November:
BT is gearing up to shift some of its existing customers on to its brand spanking new all-IP network, known as the 21CN. The first customers to make the change, all located in the Cardiff area, will be swapped to the 21CN over the course of the next 12 months. After the dust has settled on the Cardiff migration, BT and other communications companies will conduct a review before the nationwide changeover takes place, scheduled to commence from early 2008. BT expects to have the rest of the UK's 30 million lines on the 21CN by the end of the decade.
•Sky: 'We'll take triple-play market chunk from telecoms and cable':
Just like its U.S. satellite TV counterparts, British Sky Broadcasting is feeling the competitive heat (while also competing with cable the BSkyB service goes head-to-head with no-cost digital TV service Freeview). Even with the challenges, some in the financial community think the U.K./Irish satellite TV platform is a good bet. The firm said it thinks Sky will take triple-play market share from telecom giant BT and cable operators and increase average revenue per user and margins in the longer term. BSkyB this summer launched a broadband offering that is sold along with its pay TV component. JP Morgan said the high-speed data offering will reduce churn and increase gross additions.
•Optus announces wholesale 24Mbps ADSL2+ network to Telstra frustrated ISPs:
Optus has announced its wholesale ADSL2+ network will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, providing speeds of up to 24Mbit/s to customers of any ISP that strikes a resale deal with the telco. ISPs have been frustrated with Telstra’s continued refusal to let its last-gen wholesale ADSL network run even at full ADSL1 speed — 8Mbit/s. Telstra instead runs it at a top speed of 1.5Mbit/s and attaches a premium price-tag to this ‘fastest’ service.

SecurityBits:
•zCodec is a Trojan:
Panda software says that zCode, which is appearing in the wild offering "up to 40 percent better video quality", is a nasty bit of adware. Panda said that the ‘codec’ downloads and runs files, changes the DNS configuration and monitors accesses to several adult websites. It is known as adware/ZCodec or Adware/EMediacodec and affects most versions of Windows. Some of the files that the adware has been downloading are particularly nasty, including a rootkit called Ruins.MB, which does what it says on the tin.
•'Adware' attack on privacy tool:
Software that claimed to provide increased privacy whilst surfing the web has been criticised by computer experts and the blogging community. The 'anonymous' browser Browzar has been branded "adware" by many because it directs web searches to online adverts. Some technical experts also say Browzar, which claims to leave no trail of webpages visited, does not work. Browzar's developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware.
•Windows component deleted by CA antivirus:
Some Windows 2003 users have been experiencing problems with the OS recently after AV software from CA wrongly detected part of the OS as malware. At the heart of the problem is part of Windows' in-built security, a file called Lsass.exe. This was wrongly detected as a virus by CA's eTrust software and was deleted, causing some servers to crash and fail to reboot. CA claims to have quickly spotted and remedied the problem. Users can get the latest, amended update from the CA Web site. The cause of the confusion seems to be Lsass.exe being mistaken for the Trojan Win32/Lassrv.B.
•After two years, Netsky-P is still worst virus:
Netsky-P led the top 10 chart for malicious software threats in August, retaining its rank despite the availability of fixes for more than two years. During August, Netsky-P accounted for 19.9% of all malicious software incidents reported, according to a report released by Sophos. "It is certainly frustrating that such easily beaten threats are still plaguing our email highways," a Sophos senior security consultant said in a statement. "If you use the Internet and don't have proper security measures in place, you are not only endangering your data, you are keeping nasty old timers like Mytob and Netsky worms alive and kicking." Netsky-P, which remains the most widely spread of the email worms, was ranked the worst virus of 2004.

Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes:
•Apple Wi-Fi hack revealed
•Silicon Valley is US worst technology hub
•SanDisk faces MP3 licence dispute
•Japan Ex-Internet Icon Horie Pleads Not Guilty
•Sony appoints safety manager after battery scare
•No Silver Lining For Vonage
•Cyber-Czar Wait Is Almost Over

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