My "professional" blog - Mark Posen's Satcom Blog - can be found here:

Mark Posen's SatCom Blog

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN Specialised Agency dealing with telecommunications technology and international policy, is reporting that France is in the middle of an explosion in broadband connectivity. The number of subscribers has apparently doubled in the last year.

Read the story on the ITU website here.

Thomas Power of Ecademy fame has published his book "Networking for Life" as a Wiki text. Thomas is *the* guru of social and business networking and this book is a recommended read.

Find Networking for Life here: EcademyWiki - Networking For Life Index

ITPapers is the Web's largest library of technical white papers, Webcasts, and case studies. This is a really excellent resource for anyone wanting to get access to an archive of current and past technical information. Great for keeping up-to date with what's going on in the IT and telecomms industries. RSS feeds are available for all channels too.

Get ITPapers here.

Google Desktop Search

The nice people at Google have now provided a facility that will let you index all the files on your own PC. This will allow you to find email, web-pages you have browsed, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, etc. files on your PC as part of a stand-alone Google search, or even as part of any "regular" Google search you make. It took all night to index my PC, but the end result is wonderful... I can now easily find anything that I have written in the past on any subject!

Get the excellent Google Desktop Search here!

MIT has made a large amount of its courseware available free on the Internet. What a great idea! Take a look at this, select the course that interests you and get learning!

MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home

ITU's News Blog

If you are interested in telecommunications issues then check out the News Blog of the International Telecommunications Union, the UN specialised agency dealing with telecommunications issues. Plenty of streams to tap into to keep you up-to-date on the subjects that interest you!

ITU News Blog is here.

A basic free service for monitoring web pages for changes: www.changedetect.com - web page tracking and monitoring

Home - The home of Spybot-S&D!

This is one of the three pieces of software that everyone should have on their PC. Frankly running a PC connected to the internet without Spybot-S&D is as stupid as leaving home for a week with all the doors and windows open.

Get it and protect against all those nasties out there!

The other 2 essential softwares are, of course, a firewall and an anti-virus program.

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