Monday, August 17, 2009

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Daithí Mac Síthigh, a lecturer in IT and Internet law at the University of East Anglia (UEA), says current legislation may not be the most appropriate way to regulate 'wifi' sharing – where a network is used by more WII than one person - and needs clarifying so it does not discourage people from using wireless and hold back provision of community wifi schemes.

This could also have implications for the UK Government's commitment to ensure that every home in the UKWII has broadband access by 2012, as set out in its Digital Britain report in June. A range of technologies, including wireless, will be used to deliver the basic broadband.

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Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton working in collaboration with researchers from the University of Birmingham, Royal Holloway London and IFM-Geomar in Germany have found that more than 250 plumes of bubbles of methane gas are rising from the seabed of the West Spitsbergen continental margin in the Arctic, in a depth range of 150 to 400 metres.

Methane released from gas hydrate in submarine sediments has been identified in the past as an agent of climate change. The likelihood of methane being released in this way has been widely predicted WII