时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(八)月


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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.


BlackBerry service is facing limits or bans in some countries over the issue of government access to information on its network. Research in Motion, or RIM 1, based in Waterloo, Canada, makes BlackBerry communications devices. They run on the company’s network and secure software. BlackBerry has forty-six million users worldwide.


This week, the United Arab Emirates announced it would block BlackBerry e-mail, web browsing 2 and instant messenger services on October eleventh. The UAE says the services are a threat to national security because government officials cannot access or monitor users’ information.


Then, Saudi Arabia said it would block BlackBerry service this week. The Saudi government told the country’s three mobile phone operators to stop BlackBerry service for businesses and individuals this Friday. The Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission did not say what services would be blocked. These moves renew concern among some people about efforts by the UAE and Saudi Arabia to control the flow of information. Both countries have banned some forms of media seen as harming national security.



A file photo of a man talking on his smart phone at the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


The ban in the UAE could affect half a million BlackBerry users while Saudi Arabia has about seven hundred thousand users. Kuwait and Lebanon are also said to be considering restrictions 3. But Middle Eastern countries are not the only ones seeking greater access to BlackBerry information. India and China are among other countries also doing so.


Governments, big corporations and individuals use BlackBerry devices because they are highly secure. Users’ communications are sent to servers overseas, mostly in Canada, using powerful security measures.


RIM says its system is set up in a way that no one, including RIM, can access user information. The company also says it does not matter where their servers are based. Communications are made secure the moment they leave the BlackBerry device through encryption.


On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will hold talks with the UAE and other countries about possible bans on BlackBerry services. She said the United States knows there are reasonable security concerns about the service. But she added that there is also a right of free use and access.


And that’s the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. I’m Steve Ember.


 



n.(圆物的)边,轮缘;边界
  • The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
  • She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
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adjustalbe voltage generator
adver
aerogenes
aminoacetonitrile
aminopropylethanolamine
asphalt jute
bead ring fracture
better-drained
blinker tube
boiler course
bowerly
bracket insulator
Cajanus crassus
cash subsidy
cerulific
changshan
cheap and nasty
Condoto
conicoid
conservatrice
constructional force
coppice shoot
corelatives
creeping Jenny
customs law
cytochrome C oxidase
day-case
deep-cage-bar rotor
dermatocellulitis
diffusional decay
dihydrostreptomyin pantothenate
dubailand
echo audio phone
ecliptic of date
editor mode
Escaló
esopathy
exchange service
eye-mouth-genitals syndrome
floataway
GM_although-or-though
graduated pipet
Guanghua
hand welding
hgwy.
highcliffe
host object
hybrid cline
hyperlocalism
interactive software measurement tool
Interest Rate Collar
intraperoxisomal
intrinsic-OR
isotope exchanger reaction
launchlatch
link performance
look ahead carry block
low-water degradation
low-wind
MadeIn
magnetic driven arc
materiate
Meconopsis henrici
Melbourn
mini-tower
Morera's stress function
motion picture colour intermediate film
multi-pass cooling
nonsuch
one for the pot
panda
perchloroethene
peril work
perma-split capacity motor
Prigorodnyy
psorospermal cyst
Rain on your parade
ratchet gearing
reflective crystal coating
remark list
renal dialysis
reverse phase system
rule by special privilege
scorpaenoid
separation of symphysis pubis
sharpener amplifier
some more
splenco-gastric
standing fid
stationary random action
tangential beam
TEAP
time-delay fuse
transmission HEED
travel iron
trichocarpa
two degree of freedom gyro
unbeautified
vomitive/pukey
wind poppy
wrangled
zeraf