Nortel CEO to Step Aside Soon

Nortel Networks Corp. Chief Executive Mike Zafirovski is planning to leave the company within weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The 55-year-old CEO spent more than three years trying to turn Nortel around before seeking protection from creditors in January.

Wall Street Journal Article

'Snoop' power is used 1,400 times a day to intercept private data

Britain has "sleepwalked into a surveillance society", it was claimed after figures disclosed that public bodies had obtained access to private telephone and e-mail records about 1,400 times a day. Council, police and other organisations made more than half a million requests for confidential communications data last year.

Times Online Article

Faster broadband won't make us watch more TV online, viewers tell survey

Faster internet would make no difference to most people's online viewing habits, a new survey has found. The result calls into question hopes of an online TV boom fuelled by superfast broadband. The survey, commissioned from Deloitte and YouGov by the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, found that 53% of people would not watch more online TV or video clips even with a faster, more reliable broadband connection.

Guardian Article

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable'

About the size of a credit card, it displays a photograph, as well as printed details including name, date of birth etc. Embedded inside the plastic, however, is a computer chip that contains an additional digital record of all of these details, together with a copy of the holders fingerprints. And it is this chip which was supposed to be the 'unbreakable' security measure that would ensure ID cards could never be cloned or faked. Within 12 minutes of laying his hands on the expert had made a clone.

Daily Mail Article

FT.com plans pay-per-article system

The Financial Times is to introduce a full "pay-per-view" model for accessing online articles by next summer and is reviewing whether any content on FT.com will remain free to access. Pearson's business and financial broadsheet is exploring online payment systems that offer a user-friendly "one-click" process, such as Amazon and Apple's iTunes.

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SpinVox acts on dossier sent to shareholders

SpinVox, the technology company that converts voicemail into text messages, is under fire after a dossier alleging financial mismanagement at the company was circulated among its shareholders.

Financial Times Article

Tech gives humans animal senses

A virtual reality exhibit is giving visitors the extreme ranges of sight and hearing that many animals have. The so-called "immersive" exhibit shows what it might be like to see with birds' ultraviolet vision or hear with whales' ultra-low frequency hearing.

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