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		<title>UK broadband in international comparison</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/uk-broadband-in-international-comparison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ofcom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom yesterday published a series of charts looking at international comparative data on communications (press release here; charts here). Somewhat oddly, there&#8217;s no commentary &#8211; just a series of charts &#8211; but this is because Ofcom publishes a full report every two years (with 2009 being the &#8216;off&#8217; year). Nevertheless, it wants to ensure that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1311&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T-Orange hopes for EU probe</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/t-orange-hopes-for-eu-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[T-Mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The owners of Orange and T-Mobile, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom respectively, are reported this morning to be pressing for EU regulators, rather than ones in the UK, to examine the merger proposal of their UK businesses, on the basis that this would be a shorter enquiry than a UK investigation and that both companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1300&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A copyright nut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, not me.
A story in today&#8217;s The Scotsman reports that a 16-year-old schoolboy is facing a £5,000 royalties charge for breach of copyright for filming, editing and posting on YouTube 10-minute highlights of games involving his favourite football team. (Of course, it&#8217;s his local team and good quality clips they are, too.)
So, the team: Celtic? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1296&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net filtering: Australian government decision provokes furore</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/net-filtering-australian-government-decision-provokes-furore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government has confirmed plans to introduce a mandatory filter for a list of internet websites publishing illegal material. The announcement follows pilot testing of ISP-level filters which, according to Stephen Conroy, Australia&#8217;s Communications Minister, demonstrates that the blocking of banned material can be done &#8216;with 100 per cent accuracy and negligible impact on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1292&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collective DC schemes &#8211; DWP speaks (softly)</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/collective-dc-schemes-dwp-speaks-softly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defined contribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pension schemes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To very little fanfare (to whit: no press release), the DWP has published three documents on how collective DC schemes might operate in the UK.
Collective DC schemes are a Dutch invention and their potential applicability in the UK, encouraged by particular proposals from Hewitt Associates, first came to light in 2008 during the DWP&#8217;s continuing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1290&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen &#8211; your help wanted</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/copenhagen-your-help-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour movement stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/?p=1285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Owing to a mini-breakthrough at Copenhagen concerning the inclusion of the need for a &#8216;just transition&#8217; in the negotiating texts, so that the transition to a green economy is properly planned with regard to jobs and skills, the TUC is asking people to let Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1285&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much is your job worth?</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/how-much-is-your-job-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive remuneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terms and conditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new economics foundation has today published a provocative document looking at the real value to society of a range of different professions in the attempt to explore issues around how our pay relates to &#8216;worth&#8217; as well as the inter-relationship between the work that we do and the impact on wider society.
The report compares [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1281&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pensions Regulator warns on inducements</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/pensions-regulator-warns-on-inducements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defined benefit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at the National Association of Pension Funds&#8217; annual trustee conference yesterday, David Norgrove, the chair of the Pensions Regulator, spent a large part of his time in focusing on the risk management role of trustees on the &#8216;worrying tactics&#8217; of employers offering inducements to pension scheme members to leave their schemes, particularly where enhanced transfer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1278&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Got it right, there</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/got-it-right-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defined benefit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/?p=1261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A belated welcome to Tom&#8217;s post over at his labour and capital blog on Tuesday concerning one of the factors accounting for the decline in private sector provision &#8211; the 1997 re-structuring of corporation tax which removed the right of pension schemes to claim ACT on dividends.
The role played by &#8216;Gordon Brown&#8217;s tax raid on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1261&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOL and Time Warner split: why again do mergers fail?</title>
		<link>http://connectedresearch.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/aol-and-time-warner-split-why-again-do-mergers-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management practice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AOL and Time Warner have completed the demerging of their interests, some ten years after the two businesses first sought to merge with the aim of bringing together old and new media as preparation for a converged world in which the winners were going to be those with both &#8216;pipes and poetry&#8217; (or in somewhat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectedresearch.wordpress.com&blog=7733079&post=1266&subd=connectedresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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