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In an effort to personalize the TV, Intel on Monday said it will show off prototype devices that bring the Internet to the TV viewing experience.

The most hotly debated topic in the digital media industry is how to make money and it is to the entertainment sector that many involved in the industry are directing their focus.

Sabotage. That's the right word for what Pakistan Telecom did to YouTube on the last Sunday in February. It was intended to be censorship -- blocking Pakistanis from seeing a video that their government found offensive. But it resulted in all of YouTube vanishing from the Internet for up to two hours.

Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.

Do you remember? A gym contract? A receipt for a toaster?

For many companies, 2006 has seen storage problems come to a head. The pressure of ever-expanding data volume, puzzlement over effective backup and retrieval of email, video and voice, and concern about provisions for business continuity pose complex challenges. Storage accounts for more than 50 percent of many IT budgets and consumes more planning time than ever.

"Time-to-market is an ongoing challenge for IT people in Hong Kong's competitive telecom market," said Samuel Poon, technology & development director for New World Telecommunications. "If someone can launch a service in two weeks and you take three months, you won't get any business."

".Net or Java?" was an ongoing debate in the early days of web services. But with the maturity of standards, integration of applications developed using these languages is no longer a key technical issue.

Intel and Pipex Communications have pooled their resources to become a serious WiMax broadband provider in the U.K., they said on Monday.

Telstra has once again agreed to fork out a further $138 million to help its troubled undersea cable joint venture Reach.

Telstra Corp. Ltd. has recorded a profit of $3.4 billion for its fiscal year ended 30 June 2003 on revenue of $21.6 billion.