Jerome Taylor

dissent – разногласие, несовпадение взглядов

expand – распространяться, расширяться

vigour – сила, энергия

surveillance – наблюдение, надзор

intercept – перехватывать

disruption – нарушение, сбой

Answer the questions:

1. How was the access to broadband changed?

2. What are “the new tools” of governmental control over the Internet?

3. Do you agree or disagree with the question of governmental control over the Internet?

Билет 10 вопрос 2 You may as well forget 4g until reception on the trains is up to speed

Http://www.independent.co.uk, Oct. 30, 2012.Why switch to 4G now? Despite the hype, it won’t initially be able to deliver much. Everything Everywhere, the euphoria of its 4G spectrum license land-grab could be short-lived if it cannot quickly show the benefits that high-speed data offers for watching video on the move. It does face problems, chief among which is its flagship 1800Mhz frequency.

When rival operators launch their 4G services on the 800Mhz frequency next year, iPhone-holding EE customers could find themselves locked onto a frequency with more variable coverage – with 24-month contracts.

Which does beg the question: why switch to 4G now? Ofcom says it's to bring the UK into line with the rest of the high-tech world; others claim it means remote areas will be able to get usable broadband. Cynics say it's an opportunity for the Government to get more revenue from the sale of radio spectrum licenses and for mobile operators to sell new handsets and contracts.

The selling point of 4G will be being able to get TV and play computer games on the move, which sounds uncannily like the promise of WAP at the turn of the century and the launch of the 3G licenses whose purchase crippled BT with debt.

Despite the hype, 4G will not initially be able to deliver much. The Government wants it to reach 98 per cent of homes by 2017, but EE has gone to only 11 cities at launch. Its early-adopters will get a good service in the city centre and while in sight of the mast, but it will fall off quickly towards the outskirts of town.

Initially mobile companies will be bulking your service with Wi-Fi by piggy-backing on to public hotspots that you could have used anyway. Without Wi-Fi back-up, the service will be no better than the current 3G experience until something is done about modern communications on the train network.

Bright, high resolution screens playing films also mean that batteries will drain fast – so if you were going to invest in 4G for the telly on the way home, don't hold your breath.

Peter Warren

land-grab – захвативший землю

uncannily – сверхъестественно, странно

drain - разряжаться

Answer the questions:

1. What are the advantages of 4G?

2. What are the disadvantages of 4G?

3. What is your opinion about 3G and 4G? What is better? Why?

Билет 11 вопрос 2 SaneBox Now Has a Solution For The Enterprise Email Overload Crisis

Enterprise users get more than their fair share of unimportant email. To help this problem, SaneBox, a time-saving email product, is now targeting in the enterprise space. Two months ago, TechCrunch wrote how SaneBox was taming email overload with its smart email filtering service. Today, the Boston-based startup is launching SaneBox for Business. Enterprise customers will be able to setup SaneBox on existing systems such as Google Apps, Exchange, Outlook and Lotus Notes.

SaneBox filters non-important emails out of your main inbox. It’s easily customizable and learns from your actions. It also lets you zap emails to the Black Hole, so you never see email from that sender again. Some of these features could be set up using mail rules and filters, but its much quicker with SaneBox. Other SaneBox features include smart reminders, snoozing email, and calendar syncing.

Corporate email clutter is a big problem. A study by the research firm Radicati estimates corporate users are now dealing with 200 emails per day. Middle managers spend 100 hours a year on irrelevant email, according to another study by The Grossman Group. That study also says companies experimenting with email black-outs or time-outs are taking the wrong approach. It argues email misbehavior needs to be addressed, not bans.

Leonov says another reason for the new product is the “vast majority of enterprises use Exchange/Outlook, which haven’t been spoiled with add-ons, unlike Gmail users. With this release, we’re allowing IT managers to enable SaneBox for all of their Exchange users easily and securely.” Sanebox is a cloud service, so there is no download or application for corporate IT to maintain.

In the first post about SaneBox, Leonov talked about how solving the email overload problem with filtering was a “very difficult and expensive problem to solve – one giant edge case,” requiring a lot of infrastructure per-user. With 12 million employees in just the top 50 for the Fortune 500 companies, SaneBox better be ready with a lot of that infrastructure. While SaneBox says the personal business is a huge opportunity for them, the enterprise approach is more scalable.

18.06.12 by Jon Orlin at http://techcrunch.com

tame – укрощать, приручать

customizable – настраиваемый

zap - положить конец (чему-л.) , покончить (с чем-л.)

clutter – беспорядок, хаос

Answer the questions:

1. What does Sanebox let you do?

2. How much time is spent on irrelevant E-mail?

3. Would you like to install SaneBox if you had a big company? Why?