Cable TV: King of misleading come-ons

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DENVER, Colo. -- That cell phone conversation you're having that you think is private may not be, as someone could be listening in to not only what you say, but also what you text.

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Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by Britons is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.

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SP Telemedia, owner of TPG and Soul internet service providers, has announced its intention to acquire Pipe Networks for $373 million.

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MOBILE phones are likely to be automatically barred from accessing premium ring tones, games and information services after the consumer watchdog threw its support behind the move.

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Telstra's ambitious foray into social media has backfired after its Twitter account was hacked and used to spread malicious links.

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THE fellow who runs telcovictims.com is not happy. Created after 12 months of frustration with Telstra's customer relations, the gripesite - motto: ''Fighting back at Telstra et al'' - is a forum for people's disaffection with telcos and internet service providers.

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The consumer watchdog says there will be a "zero tolerance" approach to dodgy telecommunications companies while the Federal Government has threatened a legislative crackdown after new figures showed a significant rise in complaints against telcos.

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A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body.

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The Finnish government has become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right.

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BOSTON -- Would you rather give up sex or your cell phone? Almost one-third of men and women in Boston would forgo sex for an entire year rather than give up their cell phones, according to a new survey by Samsung Mobile.

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Researchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.

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TELSTRA is believed to be planning to launch a personal video recorder and set-top box, likely to be called the T-box, as early as December, in a bid to shift the entertainment, news and sport content it offers under the BigPond brand from people's computers to their televisions.

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LATE last year, when Telstra was in a standoff with the Rudd government over its plan for a super-fast national broadband network, a business executive asked a senior minister how the government could be sure it would win the stoush.

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Thousands of businesses and homes in Sydney's CBD could be without phone, internet and mobile phone coverage for up to a week after a contractor accidentally severed crucial cables.

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Communications minister Stephen Conroy has put the Government on a collision course with Telstra, warning the telco giant to split its wholesale and retail arms, or face business restrictions.

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THE telecommunications ombudsman has started investigating complaints about Optus's decision to introduce a clause in its mobile contracts, allowing the carrier to block access to any number it chooses.

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A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.

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BOSTON -- The radiation from our cell phones has long been suspected of causing a variety of health issues and some devices do emit more radiation than others, according to a review by the Environmental Working Group.

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T-Mobile UK and Orange are to merge - becoming the UK's biggest mobile phone firm with 28.4 million customers.

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A BIGPOND internet outage that affected a suburban neighbourhood in southern Perth for almost a week has raised questions about Telstra's customer complaint handling systems.

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TELSTRA will shut down as soon as today its propaganda website, sweeping away one of the last vestiges of the Sol Trujillo era.

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AUSTRALIA'S peak internet industry group which represents Telstra and Optus has thrown its weight behind iiNet's Federal Court bid to fend off a major copyright lawsuit.

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ABOUT 2 million people are considering ditching their fixed-line home phones, as Australians move closer to becoming one of the world's first wireless economies.

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Vodafone's 3G network coverage in Perth has now been restored after an 11-hour outage caused by "routine network maintenance".

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Optus has apologised for deactivating what is believed to be thousands of email addresses and leaving some of its oldest customers in the lurch.

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