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	<title>Original Signal - Transmitting Tech</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:50:05 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>UK economy on the up, report suggests</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:59 CEST</pubDate>
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  Sara Yirrell, CRN, Monday 13 July 2009 at 13:16:00Equifax second-quarter report hints that recovery could be just around thecornerCompany failures in the UK seem to be slowing down, according to a reportfrom business information specialist Equifax, leading it to speculate that theUK might start to emerge from the recession in the third quarter of 2009.Covering Q2 2009, the Equifax Business Failures Report showed analarming 40 per cent increase in firms going bust compared to 2008, but aquarter-on-quarter comparison showed a more encouraging 2.2 per cent increase inQ2 2009 compared to Q1 2009.Neil Munroe, external affairs director at Equifax, said: “While theyear-on-year figures are pretty stark, this is not surprising. But I believe itis more relevant to look at how businesses are faring quarter by quarter thisyear.“Undoubtedly, the recession is still having an enormous impact on businessfortunes, with many organisations simply unable to survive against the onslaughtof falling sales and restricted access to funding to cover the cashflow gaps.“Our figures seem to suggest that we could have hit the bottom by the time wereached the end of the second quarter and in some areas there is an improvement,albeit small.”However, Munroe was quick to hedge his bets: “Of course, the next questionhas to be whether we are going to see the sustained upturn of a V-shapedrecession or whether this is just a small pre-summer blip and failures increaseagain, more typical of a W-shaped recession.”On a regional basis, all regions apart from Scotland showed a year-on-yearincrease in failures, but no region showed increases of more than 10 per cent,and four regions – the North East, Wales, Yorkshire & Humberside and theWest Midlands – actually showed a decrease in the number of companies goingunder, Equifax said.Both London and the West Midlands saw quarter-on-quarter insolvency increasesof 9.4 per cent; business failures in the South West rose by 1.9 per cent and inthe South East by 1.8 per cent.In terms of sectors, the Equifax report claimed the retail sector had shownthe greatest improvement, with an 11.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter drop infailures. The wholesale sector saw a 5.1 per cent drop in firms going under andthe construction industry saw failures fall to 4.1 per cent. Transport andcommunications saw a four per cent drop quarter on quarter.Still struggling, according to the report, were services, with a 10.9 percent increase in failures and manufacturing, with a 2.9 per cent increase.Munroe concluded: “It is crucial that those businesses holding their own takethe right precautions to protect themselves from some of the risks of theseexceptionally tough trading conditions.“They need to continue to use rigorous credit checks, alongside ongoingmonitoring of the financial status of their customers and suppliers. Byoperating best practice and harnessing the power of the latest risk managementsolutions, firms can minimise the threat of bad debt and secure the future oftheir business.”    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>NHS security blunders put patients at risk</title>
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  Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 at 13:15:00New investigation finds over 8,000 viruses infected NHS computers last yearNHS devices in England were infected with more than 8,000 computer viruseslast year, 12 of which affected patient care, according to a new investigationby Channel 4'sMore4News.The TV programme wrote to every NHS Trust in England requesting informationon successful attacks, and had responses from 75 per cent. The results suggestthat IT networks in these organisations are not being properly managed, and areputting patient care at risk in some cases.Several trusts told More4 News that their networks had been attackedbecause anti-virus protection had been turned off or not properly applied, whilein other cases staff had actually turned off automatic Windows updates.Around 800 PCs in Sheffield were infected after one computer in an operatingtheatre had its anti-virus software switched off, More4 News said. Andon 18 November last year, the Mytob worm overloaded systems at Barts, the RoyalLondon and the London Chest Hospital, affecting access to blood tests, X-raysand patient administration.The NHS told More4 News that the new records system beingimplemented will have better levels of security than is currently the case atmany local trusts."Electronic patient records systems are protected by the highest levels ofaccess controls and other security measures," said the NHS in a statement. "These levels of security are far higher than any which can be imposed on accessto paper records or the majority of local NHS IT solutions."    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:51 CEST</pubDate>
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  The software-piracy model is becoming obsolete as programs are increasingly distributed over the internet, making targets of cloud computing centres, a US attorney has warned.  FORT BAKER, Calif.--As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow, a federal prosecutor said on Friday.    The days...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Cisco ousts Nortel from Olympics deal</title>
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  Doug Woodburn, CRN, Monday 13 July 2009 at 13:00:00Cisco picks up London 2012 infrastructure deal after organisers rule Nortelcould no longer deliverNortel has been stripped of Official Network Infrastructure Partner statusfor the London 2012 Olympics, due to fears that its impending break-up willprevent it from delivering a full service.Rubbing salt in the wound, the infrastructure contract has now been awardedto arch-rival Cisco.The Olympics’ organising committee – LOCOG – stressed that the split was“amicable”.London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said: “We part with Nortel on goodterms. Nortel acknowledges our fixed deadlines and our desire to have a singlesupplier for our entire network infrastructure has been impacted by Nortel’sdecision to move towards standalone businesses.“This is in no way a reflection of their capabilities – this is all aboutmeeting our fixed deadlines.”After being invited to bid for the contract, Cisco has now been unveiled asthe replacement, becoming one of just four Tier Two suppliers alongside EDFAdecco, Cadbury and Deloitte.Phil Smith, chief executive of Cisco UK and Ireland, said: “We are delightedto be working with LOCOG to provide the network infrastructure for London 2012.”    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Teen file-sharing decline hurts copyright lobby</title>
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  Miya Knights, V3.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:58:00Streaming overtakes file sharing, as Stephen Fry and Pirate Party jump onsoapboxA newly released survey of 1,000 music fans has found that a third fewer aredownloading music illegally compared to a year ago.Some 26 per cent of 14- to 18-year olds admitted file sharing at least once amonth in a January 2009 survey, compared to 42 per cent in December 2007. Around65 per cent favoured streaming online services like YouTube and Spotify.The research, carried out byTheLeading Question in conjunction with digital music experts Music Ally,suggests that the threat from digital piracy, long-lamented by the music andcommercial software industries, is changing radically.Tim Walker, chief executive of The Leading Question, maintained that the bestway to beat piracy is to create new licensed services."That could be an unlimited streaming service like Spotify, or a service likethe one recently announced by Virgin which aims to offer unlimited MP3 downloadsas well as unlimited streams," he said.Meanwhile, popular Twitter userStephenFry attacked the anti-file-sharing lobby for attempting to criminalise thecasual file-sharing user as he addressed an audience before the iTunes festivalat London's Roundhouse last night.In a withering attack on the music industry in particular, Fry said that thelegalaction against The Pirate Bay had been unjust. Instead he advocated "fair"priced downloads and copyright reform.In separate news, 150 young Swiss citizens have formed a Pirate Party,similar to the political movement in Sweden which has alreadywona seat in the European Parliament.The Swiss Pirate Party's first meeting yesterday called for copyright reform,the preservation of internet freedom, shorter copyright periods andnon-commercial file-sharing.    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>AMD adds to six-core Opteron line up</title>
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  Ian Williams, V3.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:57:00New HE processors promise even lower power consumptionChip maker AMDhas unveiled five additions to its six-core Opteron processor family, whichpromise to be even more power efficient.The first three 55W ACP Opteron HE CPUs - the 2GHz 2423 HE, 2.1GHz 2425 HEand 2.1GHz 8425 HE - are aimed at cloud computing and web server environments.AMD said that its Direct Connect architecture should lead to power savings ofup to 18 per cent over the standard wattage version."Since our introduction of multi-core processors for the server market, it'sbeen the AMD mission to help IT managers reduce datacentre energy costs withoutcompromising performance," said Patrick Patla, vice president and generalmanager of AMD's server business."These new lower power six-core AMD Opteron processors feature the highestperformance-per-watt that we have brought to market, and help drive down powerconsumption while addressing the shifting cloud and web landscape of today'sdatacentre."The remaining two Opteron SE processors - the 2.8GHz SE 8439 and 2.8GHz SE2439 - are designed for high-performance and mission-critical workloads such asdatabase and customer relationship management applications. Both are rated at105W, nearly double their HE counterparts.The HE processors are shipping from today for HP two-, four- andeight-processor ProLiant G6 systems, and will be available from other originalequipment manufacturers, including IBM and Dell, over the course of thisquarter.AMD is promising even more power efficient processors later this year.    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>ISS Launches First Permanent Node of "Interplanetary Internet"</title>
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  schliz writes "Researchers developing the 'Interplanetary Internet' have launched its first permanent node in Space via a payload aboard the International Space Station. The network is based on a new communications protocol called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). It will be tested heavily this month, and could give astronauts direct Internet access within a year. The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Does The Mainstream Press 'Make' or 'Own' The News?</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:44:03 CEST</pubDate>
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  Part I - Who Makes The NewsIn his recent post, Mike discussed how there is a two-way street between blogs and newspapers, in which both become aware of stories from each other, and both borrow ideas. Techdirt believes this is part of the free market for ideas, and that nobody can own news, but we contrast this belief with the mainstream media moguls, who rant about how bloggers &quot;poach&quot; the news from the&nbsp;newspapers,&nbsp;offering naught in return. There is a trend of major publishers talking about how they &quot;own&quot; the news they &quot;made&quot;, even when they themselves are just reporting on stories that occurred to other people. If anyone&nbsp;made the news, isn't it the people involved? But news is really just facts, and nobody&nbsp;can &quot;own&quot; reality.Continuing along the lines&nbsp;Mike laid out, let me introduce another group of people who often create a great deal of the content in mainstream news, but go under-credited in this debate: Analysts and Experts.&nbsp;When news breaks, or&nbsp;a general&nbsp;interest piece is planned for a mainstream publication, the reporters often seek the advice and opinions of industry analysts and experts. I know, because I'm often called&nbsp;regarding issues in the Telecom industry. The reporters&nbsp;will ask&nbsp;your expert opinion, some catchy quotes, and will integrate them into their story. However, oftentimes, I find the reporter is just starting the writing process (in 'research'), and actually doesn't know exactly what is interesting about the story. In these cases, I often spend half an hour on the phone with them explaining the background, the trends, the real scuttlebutt, the interesting aspects, who else they should talk to, what is &quot;real&quot; and what is spin (IMHO, of course), and who they can contact for an opposing view. Independent analysts&nbsp;also normally&nbsp;have less bias than a corporate PR rep. Often, I will refer&nbsp;the reporter to an article I've written or a Techdirt&nbsp;post on the subject. The eventual story&nbsp;occasionally follows&nbsp;my narrative&nbsp;quite closely.Am I angry about this state of affairs? No. I think it's great. All I ask is that the reporter put a quote or two from me in the piece. I get some marketing exposure, and I'm more than happy to help them build their story in return. This is one way reporters do their job, and it IS useful and productive. One would guess that lots of stories are made this way. There is no problem with this, but there is a problem when the news organizations start to think they &quot;own&quot; the story.&nbsp;What they did was add professional writing, fact checking, additional interviews, but most importantly provided&nbsp;distribution and an audience - all of which adds value, but none of which conveys ownership.Allow me to&nbsp;triple repeat myself: I have no problem with this, and in fact seek out opportunities to work with reporters. This is a system that works...right up until the publishers act like - nay, claim - they are the sole creators of the news and that bloggers are mere parasites. In many cases, the bloggers are just the same experts going straight to the market with their ideas. As an analyst, I know I can go straight to market, but I'd rather go through the NYT, because that's where the audience is.Part II - Paywall Paradox:So what happens when newspapers go behind a paywall, and reduce their readership by 90% to the 10% of people willing to pay? What if, at the same time, Huffington Post, Techdirt, and&nbsp;WiFiNetNews all offer their stuff for free? It's not just the advertisers that will follow the audience: the experts want to go where the exposure is, where the readers are. If the mainstream media reduces their audience to a small fraction of payers, then analysts would have to revisit the cost/benefit of spending half an hour with&nbsp;mainstream reporters. If my contribution to their mainstream article is not indexed by Google, it does ME a lot less good. I want&nbsp;my quotes&nbsp;in the results when someone searches on &quot;muni wifi&quot; or &quot;derek kerton&quot;. If they're locked up, they don't promote me, and I can't link to them.Result: many experts&nbsp;will prefer to work with the free publications, where the larger audience reads, and where their quote is indexed by Bing and linkable. Subsequently, paywall newspapers will find sources harder to find, and less willing to spend time. Big media reporters are&nbsp;accustomed to everyone eagerly returning their calls within 30 minutes. That kind of enthusiasm follows the readership, not the newspaper.Next step: guess where the writers will want to work...Derek Kerton is an expert at the Insight Community.  To get insight and analysis from Derek Kerton and other experts on challenges your company faces, click here.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>British American Tobacco to revamp global applications</title>
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  Angelica Mari, Computing, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:25:00Five-year deal with Accenture will support a worldwide IT improvement planBritish American Tobacco (BAT) has signed a five-year deal with Accenture toimproveme the design, development and implementation of IT systems supportingits business operations.The contract will see the two firms working together through a jointapplication development centre using BAT’s Spain-based resource and Accenturedelivery centres in the Philippines and India.The transformation scheme will cover business areas including finance, supplychain, sales and marketing. Applications are intended to meet global, regionaland local needs, while simplifying and standardising the firm’s system deliveryfunction.“We believe that this co-sourced programme will make us considerably moreeffective across our global enterprise,” said Craig Wallace, head of solutiondelivery at British American Tobacco.Wallace said the deal will “greatly enhance” BAT’s knowledge, skills andcapabilities and highlighted the importance of the supplier’s closerelationships with SAP and Siebel/Oracle.    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Adobe launches ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder</title>
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  Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:14:00Firm promises enhanced developer productivityRich internet applications providerAdobeSystems has announced a major new version of its ColdFusion applicationdevelopment platform, and a new integrated development environment known asColdFusion Builder.ColdFusion is Adobe's attempt to offer developers a tool to buildapplications with the enterprise power of Java, but which are much easier toconstruct.Cutting the number of lines of code needed, for example, means thatdevelopers can be more agile and keep bugs under better control, according toAdobe product manager and ColdFusion evangelist Adam Lehmen.ColdFusion9 features new enhancements to improve developer productivity, enable thecreation of richer applications, and offer greater support for Microsoftproducts.On the productivity side, there is deep integration with Hibernate for objectrelational mapping (ORM), providing developers with database-independentapplications."Hibernate is a complex thing to tackle, so we wanted to make it easy fordevelopers to use ORM," said Lehmen. "Productivity and keeping things simple arewhat we're all about."ColdFusionBuilder, with its line-level debugging, remote support and custom codegeneration, as well as support for apps built with ColdFusion 7 and 8, will alsohelp boost developer productivity, said Lehmen.There is also a strong focus on integration with Microsoft technologies suchas SharePoint and Office with this release, according to Lehmen."We've tried to play in the Java world and help bridge the gap to .NET," hesaid. "We wanted to allow Java developers to extend SharePoint throughColdFusion."Finally, ColdFusion 9 has been "closely aligned" to Flash to enable richerapplications to be built using the framework.Adobe hopes that the new offerings will encourage developers to get onboardwith ColdFusion. Lehman said that the developer community had almost tripled inthe past six years, and is on course to reach one million by next year.    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Indonesia issues world's first rules on forestry credit revenue-sharing</title>
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  Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:03:00Government to secure up to half of REDD earnings from forest projectsIndonesia has become the first country to release rules governingrevenue-sharing for forest carbon projects under the UN-led Reduced Emissionsfrom Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism.Under the new rules, between 10 and 50 per cent of all carbon credit earningsgenerated from forest protection projects would go to the government, with theallocation divided between national, municipal and provincial jurisdictions.Meanwhile, between 20 and 70 per cent of the revenues would go to localforest communities, with the ratio split between the government and localcommunities dependent on the type of forest.The rules expand on Indonesia's existing regulations governing REDD, whichthe government formally enacted in May, making it the first country to do so.The regulations specify who can carry out a REDD project and spell out whattypes of forest are eligible. It allows for foreign entities to team up with alocal partner to develop a REDD project, which could run for 30 years andpossibly be extended. Meanwhile, a national REDD commission would work to vetprojects, ensuring they deliver real quantifiable carbon emission reductions.According to the World Bank, there are about 20 Indonesian forest carbonprojects in various stages of development under REDD.According to some studies, Indonesia ranks as the world's third-largestemitter of carbon dioxide, after China and the US, largely as a result of thelarge number of forest fires set each year on peat lands to clear the way forpalm oil plantations.Whileresearchby Australia's Applied Environmental Decision Analysis has surmised that issuingcarbon credits to palm oil companies to protect rainforests could help preventdeforestation, Greenpeace has taken a differentview,arguing that forests in tropical nations such as Indonesia would be betterprotected if industrialised countries contributed to a global fund that wouldpay for forest conservation projects.Last month, the US signed a deal to cancel $30m in debt owed by Indonesia, inreturn for a commitment to protect tropical rainforests on Sumatra Island. It isthe largest debt-for-nature swap to date under the US Tropical ForestConservation Act.    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>NUP activates ONIX data feed</title>
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  IWR News Desk, Information World Review, Monday 13 July 2009 at 12:02:00Nottingham University Press has adopted the ONIX feed to Nielsen Book,becoming the services' 100th publisher feedONIX (Online Information Exchange) is one of the standards tin publishingthat can be used and applied for the transmission of product information and hasbeen adopted worldwide. It is aimed at improving supply chain efficiencies,reduce costs and improve the flow of data from publisher to book buyers.Cliff Adams, managing editor, NUP said: “As a small STM publisher, where alarge proportion of our sales are international in some 90 countries, the latestinformation on our titles will now be disseminated through ONIX and NielsenBook’s services to booksellers and libraries worldwide."Nielsen Book works closely with organisations such as BIC (Book IndustryCommunication) to ensure the continuing development of standards that can beused and applied internationally. BIC is responsible for promoting ONIX in theUK trade and providing input into the development of ONIX internationally.BIC’s executive director, Peter Kilborn said: “ONIX is not just for largepublishers. There are many publishing systems and services that exist to helppublishers of all sizes to adopt ONIX and many independent publishers are nowsupplying their data in this way”.A provider of book information worldwide, Nielsen’s services are used bypublishers, retailers and libraries for a consistent, accurate, timely andcomprehensive supply of data, throughout the supply chain. Richard Knight,Nielsen Book’s operations director said: “Over the last ten years, we haveworked with publishers large and small to ensure that they can provideconsistent data for their titles through our range of services.”    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Microsoft releases Office 2010 details, test code</title>
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  <title>Government rejects claims renewables will add £200 to energy bills</title>
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  James Murray, BusinessGreen, Monday 13 July 2009 at 11:52:00DECC also dismisses reports the government could move to penalise homes thatdo not sign up to green mortgagesThe government has today distanced itself from reports that it expectsaverage domestic energy bills to rise by over £200 a year as a result of its newrenewable energy strategy, which is due to be released on Wednesday.According to various reports over the weekend the long-anticipated newrenewable energy strategy will have a significant impact on energy costs,driving up average annual household bills by between £200 and £230 and have asimilarly inflationary effect on businesses energy costs.However, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)said that the government did not recognise the estimates as accurate. "We willrelease the full report to Parliament on Wednesday," she said. "But I can saynow that we do not recognise those figures and our figures are significantlylower."Despite calls this morning for a scaling back of wind energy targets infavour of a renewed focus on nuclear power, the new strategy is expected toreiterate the government's commitment to a huge increase in wind energycapacity.It is also expected to propose increased investment in biomass,waste-to-energy and marine energy schemes, and set out plans for incentivisinginvestment in small scale renewable energy systems through a feed in tariff andnew green loans scheme.However, the spokewoman for DECC again dismissed reports in the SundayTimes yesterday that the government was planning new "green mortgages"that would offer homeowners low interest loans to invest in low carbontechnologies, insisting that the government would outline plans for a lessfar-reaching green home loan initiative.The paper also reported that households that refuse to take out greenmortgages could face higher council tax rates and raised stamp duty – a chargedismissed outright by DECC."The minister  does not support the idea of penalties [forpeople who do not take out green loans]," said the DECC spokeswoman. "We havebeen very clear that our position is that we support plans for a "pay as yousave" scheme where households pay back green loans from the resulting energybill savings and the loans are attached to the property rather than theindividual."The renewables strategy will form the centrepiece of a number of new lowcarbon reports from the government to be released this week. It is expected tobe accompanied by the official launch of the long-anticipated study into theviability of increased rail electrification, as well as an announcement givingthe go-ahead to three controversial ecotown projects in Norfolk and Cornwall.    ]]></content:encoded>
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