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Submission + - Brussels Wants to Tax WiFi Antennas

Submitted by

mernil

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @05:01AM

mernil writes: "According to brusselsjournal.com "Olivier Maingain, the mayor of Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, one of the 19 Brussels boroughs, is planning to tax all "antennas for the transmission of data". Each antenna will be taxed a staggering 4,000 euros per year. [...] While the small antenna on your wireless router could theoretically be taxed, the new tax seems to target WiFi-antennas that can be seen from the outside, i.e. that are positioned on the outside of buildings. If the owner of the aerial cannot be identified the owners of the buildings have to pay the new tax.""

Journal Journal: Vista Still Primed for Double Extension Exploits.

Journal by twitter on Sunday March 25, 2007 @12:46AM

The Register lead me to this Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure tells us that Vista's default file viewing behavior still "sucks".

Feed Wi-Fi Radio Gathers Steam (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday December 11, 2006 @11:12PM

FCC approval of Torian Wireless' InFusion portable internet radio means new competition for XM and Sirius. In Listening Post.

Submission + - iTunes sales 'collapsing'

Submitted by Alien54 on Monday December 11, 2006 @07:03PM

Alien54 writes: via the register

The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forrester Research. Secretive Apple doesn't break out revenues from iTunes, but Forrester conducted an analysis of credit card transactions over a 27-month period. And this year's numbers aren't good.[...] And it isn't just Apple's problem. Nielsen Soundscan has grimmer news for prospective digital download services, indicating three consecutive quarters of flat or declining revenues for the sector as a whole.

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