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13th December 2003 Archive

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  • Canada OKs P2P music downloads

    iPod royalty tax

    Canada's copyright agency has OK'd the downloading of copyrighted music from Peer to Peer networks - for now, at least - slapping a small tax onto MP3 music players. The Copyright Board of Canada declined to extend existing levies on blank audio and CD recordable media to DVD recordables, or to removable memory, such as Compact …

    Music and Media 13 Dec 2003, 02:45

  • Nextel expands ‘4G’ trials

    But Flarion's lips are sealed

    US carrier Nextel is expanding its trials of Flarion's '4G' technology, based on its flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) techniques. Details are scant: Nextel would only say that the trial covered 150 base stations in 'a major Southern city', and Flarion itself declined to elaborate, Unstrung reports. We …

    Mobile 13 Dec 2003, 02:45

  • Iran president rejects net censorship slur

    Blocking websites? Us?

    The list of Iran's heinous crimes against humanity is certainly a long one. As one of the principal members of the Axis of Evil™, the Islamic fundamentalist state is doubtless guilty of developing nuclear and chemical weapons, giving succour to al-Qaeda, fomenting holy war against the West and cruelty to defenceless animals. …

    Music and Media 13 Dec 2003, 13:14