EarthLink stops funding Helio
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InfoWorld - Struggling EarthLink Inc. has stepped back from further funding&#160;Helio, its U.S. mobile joint venture with SK Telecom Co. Ltd., amid hints that the South Korean cellular carrier may become the majority shareholder.
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Company is holding back high-speed fiber service out of fear that it will have to lease the links to rivals at below its own cost.
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Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.
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High-cost and lack of interest cited as reasons for shelving the ambitious project.
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The second-largest provider of consumer voice-over-internet appears to have gone out of business. The rumor, started when SunRocket, second only to Vonage in terms of user base, stopped taking new service orders, is confirmed.
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Rising construction costs and potential climate legislation in Congress halt at least 18 proposed power plants in the past nine months.            Presented By     From Dellâ¢ Home!      &nbsp;&nbsp;The new Dellâ¢ Inspironâ¢ 1520 notebook with hi-def widescreen and long-range wireless for only $799. Add mobile broadband for $150. Limited time offer. Click here. www.dell.com    Ads by Pheedo
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VoIP startup SunRocket appears to be shut down, pointing up the continuing woes of companies trying to make a buck exclusively out of IP voice services.
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With EarthLink no longer pushing into the municipal Wi-Fi business, the wireless network it previously wanted to build in San Francisco likely won't happen.
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Cablevision Systems Corp. scrapped plans to spin off a 14-month-old satellite television business that this year has lost more than $200 million.
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(InfoWorld) - The ACLU has turned up the political heat on EarthLink and Google's plan for Wi-Fi in San Francisco, telling the city's Board of Supervisors that the proposed contract doesn't have enough privacy or free speech protections. The ACLU of Northern California said in a letter to the supervisors on Tuesday that both EarthLink's paid service and Google's free offering would fall short of most of the group's recommendations on collection and sharing of personal data and possible tracking of users. Among other things, there are no limits on what kind of information EarthLink can or will collect, and terms for the Google service call for requiring "minimal" information on login without defining "minimal," the letter said. In addition to privacy concerns, the group is worried that knowing information is being collected will cause users to limit what they say and do on the Internet. The city and EarthLink agreed on a contract last month, and EarthLink is confident the closely watched project will get off the ground with deployment of a proof-of-concept network starting in April, said company spokesman Jerry Grasso. But the proposal has been under fire since before the contract was completed, and some members of the board have said a municipally owned system would be better for the city. EarthLink negotiated the deal with the city and would build and operate the network, bringing Google in as a tenant providing the free, slower service. Some critics have warned that San Francisco could be giving a virtual monopoly on citywide Wi-Fi to private companies without ensuring user privacy or complete coverage. The ACLU said a municipal Wi-Fi network should let users opt in or out of any service that collects data on what they look at or search for on the Internet, or their e-mail messages. There are no provisions for that in the paid or free service terms, it said. EarthLink can only save location information for 60 days, but there's no limit to how long it can store personal protected information and no limit to how long Google can store any information, the ACLU said. Users of the EarthLink service can opt out of receiving marketing materials, but EarthLink has free reign to share personal information with partner companies that help it deliver or promote the service. Both service providers can hand over users' personal information for law enforcement or national security reasons without a warrant or notification of the user, though they would require "court-ordered documentation" before doing so. If information is sought for a civil suit, EarthLink or Google would have to tell the user first. EarthLink's Grasso declined to comment on the ACLU's letter, saying EarthLink has not seen it. Google and city representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.
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SunRocket Inc., the second  biggest U.S. supplier of Internet phone services, appeared to  have shut down its business on Monday without notifying its  customers, which total more than 200,000.
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Key vote delayed San Francisco's bid to work with Google and EarthLink to provide city-wide WiFi access has faced another setback, as supervisors opted to delay a key vote.â¦
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Helio, the U.S. mobile telecoms venture  of EarthLink Inc.  and South Korea's SK Telecom Co.,  expects its net loss to widen sharply to up to $360 million  this year despite a fast-growing user base, SK said on  Wednesday.
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Infinity Broadcasting on Wednesday said it had severed ties with independent promoters, following the lead of other radio chains that have stopped the controversial practice of taking payments in return for playing new songs on their stations.
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Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
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Start-up ClearCube pulls in funding from Focus Ventures.
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Artilium, the telecommunications technology group formerly known as Future Internet Technologies, was among the leading fallers on Monday as Panmure Gordon initiated coverage with a "sell" recommendation. The broker said the company, which produces software to integrate mobile, fixed-line and broadband networks, had been "driven too high by retail investor speculation rather than fundamental developments in the business" and set a price target of 91p. Artilium closed down 19.3 per cent at 153p.