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possibly violent content, and Alltel says it plans to update the information every single day to make sure nothing gets to the kids that shouldn’t. It will be available in February of 2008.

An application that may become desirable (at least in the eyes of consumers) is something that will block spam texts from coming through to handhelds and cell phones. Spam messages went up 38% in 2007 from the previous year and are costing consumers, and service providers, money. Verizon sued some telemarketers in May of 2007 for sending out 12 million spam text messages that resulted in a major headache for the mobile giant and an inconvenience to almost 5,000 customers.

Spam messages went up 38% in 2007 from the previous year and are costing consumers, and service providers, money.

Padmasree Warrior, who recently parted ways with Motorola, has been appointed as the new CTO of Cisco Sytems. MatrixView Limited has announced its new web acceleration solution called SWISH™, which “tackles today’s Internet traffic congestion and rich media drain by speeding search and Web content delivery times...” MatrixView claims that SWISH “improves the user experience by optimizing the delivery of dynamic content, with significant implications

Cisco spent $10 billion to buyback its own stocks in a move to increase their values. It has been in the midst of a buyback program since September of 2001 and has managed to double the value of their shares since that time.

In other news, Telecom Italia has, after months of uncertainty, elected some new senior management in the forms of Franco Bernabe as the new Chief Executive, and Gabriele Galateri as the new Chairman.