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MOA and I Move On

Tomorrow marks my last day as the Executive Director of MOA. For all intents and purposes, it marks the last day of MOA itself.
The organization has already been reincarnated as the Mobitex Association, and will have no paid staff. The experiment which brought me here, which some predicted would last only two years, lasted five, [...]

The Sanctions Were Working

Yeah, right. “Banned Arms Flowed Into Iraq Through Syrian Firm”

Protection Money?

Reuters notes the latest in online scams and frauds: Cyber Blackmail Wave Targets Office Workers. “Cyber blackmail artists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install pornographic images on their work PCs unless they pay a ransom, police and security experts said.” And targets are apparently paying.

My How Times Have Changed

TeliaSonera and their partner for UMTS services in Sweden, Tele2, agreed to purchase Orange’s 3G spectrum license for just SEK50M. The two purchasers, who jointly hold one spectrum license, said they expect that the additional spectrum will make it easier to roll out services and will provide needed capacity because “we believe the mobile Internet—e-mail [...]