In today’s segment of the rollercoaster ride that is Russian technology legislation, lawmakers proposed – then hastily postponed – a plan that would have made it difficult to legally call landlines or mobile phones in the country from Skype.

First, per the business journal Vedomosti, a group of legislators proposed amendments to Russian communications legislation that would require a caller’s operator to transmit unaltered information about the caller’s number. Operators who did not abide by this rule would be denied a license. The bill had been due to go for a first reading in the Duma (the Russian parliament) on Wednesday.

When someone calls a regular phone number in Russia using SkypeOut, the call recipient generally sees the incoming call as coming from a local number – they can’t call it back, but it looks like a normal phone number. I’m in Germany and calls from Skype show up on my phones…

How can you make Wikipedia more attractive to the YouTube generation? Wikipedians have struggled with this question for years, but efforts to add more moving images to the popular only encyclopedia have yet to take off: Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain a video, according to Jesse de Vos from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which itself is a major contributor of videos to Wikipedia. “With video on Wikimedia we are still just scratching the surface,” de Vos wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has uploaded a total of 3,800 videos to Wikimedia Commons, the media repository for Wikipedia. This accounts for close to eight percent of all Wikimedia videos, according to de Vos, which makes the institute the largest single contributor of videos to Wikimedia. Video only accounts for 0.22 percent of all files on Wikimedia, and…

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Ageing  leaves fall to the ground

Ushering  in the end of summer days

Tumbling twirling , furling all around

Under  heaving boughs of harvest golden light plays

Myriads of scurrying animals gather winter stores

Night  draws in and  morning  is dressed in foggy  silver hoar.

  

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As  smoke from a thousand bonfires rise

Unwinding  dads rid the evening train homewards

Turning their eyes to the dying light thought of stake pie and fries

Uniformed school children collect harvest  rewards

Muffled sounds of muted  car tyres

Nipping cold , pinched cheeks as summer expires.

Considering Ericsson built a good deal of T-Mobile’s first LTE network, it should come as no surprise that T-Mobile US has tapped the Swedish network infrastructure giant to complete the next phase of its ongoing 4G rollout. Ericsson announced on Tuesday that is building new LTE systems in the 700 MHz and 1900 MHz PCS bands for T-Mobile as well as providing the baseband processing glue that will meld those different networks together.

Specifically, [company]Ericsson[/company] has started building new 4G base station gear in the 700 MHz frequencies that T-Mobile bought from Verizon last year to help fill in its 4G footprint outside of metro areas. And it’s cannibalizing old 2G and 3G airwaves in the PCS band for more 4G capacity. T-Mobile’s main LTE network sits in the Advanced Wireless Service (AWS band) at 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz.

Instead of operating all three as different networks, though, Ericsson…