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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** nz: Banning children from internet ineffective, safety group says http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10421952 us: Exposure to online porn common http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/978818 Tagging 'takes off for web users' (could this be a new area of brand infringement) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6318531.stm nl: Dutch spammer fined $97,000 for sending 9 billion unwanted e-mails http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16608875.htm uk: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml Viacom to YouTube: Dump Infringing Content http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55548.html Mobile giants plot secret rival to Google http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/04/cnsearch04.xml Residential VoIP users to hit 267m by 2012 http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2173954/267-residential-voip-users *********** CENSORSHIP *********** au: Loss for Holocaust hoax site A FAR-RIGHT Christian group has been ordered to remove from its website a hate-filled newsletter that refers to the "Holocaust hoax" and claims Jews have "monopolistic control" over the world's media and film. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/02/1169919538081.html eg: Trial of blogger expands realm of repression (news release) Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of Karim Amer, the first Egyptian blogger to be tried for writing blogs criticizing Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, President Husni Mubarak and Islam. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE120042007 Internet censorship increases The open nature of the Internet enables freedom of speech at a global level previously unknown in human history. The fact that the Internet is not controlled by any single government body means that individual countries are censoring the Internet at whatever level deemed tolerable by their citizens. While many folks are all giddy about the spread of democracy, the fact remains that censorship of the Internet is on the rise. http://www.normantranscript.com/commerce/local_story_034010053 Press freedom improving in Asia, says report Reporters Without Borders annual report says Asian journalists are gaining more freedom, despite high casualities http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=62855 in: Freedom virtual, fear real The cyber world offers almost unlimited freedom of expression. This has obvious advantages but it can also be damaging if misused. At present, there is concern about the Internet turning into the medium of fear and a clamour for legal checks. But the best filter, says Subimal Bhattacharjee, would be a balanced and responsible approach towards keeping cyberspace free from unwanted content. http://tribuneindia.com/2007/20070204/spectrum/main1.htm cn: Beijing Strangles the Internet The internet has become an important part of Chinese culture, with the countrys increasingly diverse population embracing the technologys many powerful features. According to the state-controlled think tank China Internet Network Information Centre (CINIC), the country had 137 million internet users as of December 2006, up 26 million users, or 23.4 percent, from 2005. http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26723 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ au: Kids bombarded by online porn as filter delayed Up to 2.5 million Australian families are still waiting for the Federal Government to deliver on a promise to protect children from online pornography by offering every household in Australia free internet filtering software was expected to be running by the end of last year. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21152197-421,00.html nz: Banning children from internet ineffective, safety group says An internet safety group says banning children from the internet to protect them from sexual predators doesn't work. Instead NetSafe executive director Martin Cocker said parents needed to educate their children about the dangers they could face online. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10421952 us: Exposure to online porn common About four in every 10 US youngsters age 10 to 17 report they've seen pornography while on the Internet, two-thirds of them saying it was uninvited, according to a study published on Monday. Many of the encounters with online pornography, both sought-out and accidental, were related to use of file-sharing programs to download images, the report from the University of New Hampshire in Durham said. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/978818 http://www.kbcitv.com/news/tech/5549796.html us: Legislation Aims to Track Online Predators Social networking Web sites like MySpace and Facebook would have access to a database of sex offenders for checking names and addresses against public profiles under a bill introduced Tuesday in Congress. The legislation, aimed at giving computer network operators the knowledge and ability to remove sexual predators from their sites, would require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses and other online identifiers with federal authorities. The information would not be released to the public. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55472.html uk: Children film sex on their mobiles CHILDREN are using mobile phones to film each other having sex and are then sending the images to classmates. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2583045,00.html us: Illinois Republicans unveil proposals that target Internet threats, predators Concerned about online threats to children from adults - and to adults from children - Illinois House Republicans unveiled legislation Wednesday to crack down on Internet sex predators and students who post death threats. http://www.lincolncourier.com/story.asp?SID=4693&SEC=8 *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** au: Courts get tough on hyperlinking Recently, the Full Federal Court prononunced on the operation of the Australian copyright provisions for websites that contain hyperlinks. In Universal Music v Cooper [2005] FCA 972, the court considered whether hyperlinks to unauthorized infringing music downloads contained on a website amounted to copyright infringement. http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=10&pubID=34&SID=673610 Tagging 'takes off for web users' (could this be a new area of brand infringement) Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research. As more and more people put their own content online, they are also being invited to tag it with descriptive keywords to help organise their data. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6318531.stm iPhone court battle put on hold Talks between Apple and Cisco over the trademark of the iPhone name are extended to try to reach an agreement http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6323595.stm uk: Kidnap videos and how extremists post them online A kidnapper wishing to make an anonymous post on a website would have a range of methods at their disposal to hide their tracks - providing they had a sufficient amount of technical expertise, experts said today. They were reacting to the chilling news that British security services had foiled a suspected plot to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and post a video on the internet of his beheading. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2576830,00.html us: Consumers Have Allies on the Web Consumer advocacy takes on renewed power as it moves into a new form, the blog. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/business/03money.html us: 'Rules' Author Sued for Online Defamation A dentist has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a co-author of "The Rules," saying she violated the rules when she created a Web site calling him a liar. Dr. Larry W. Rosenthal also says in papers filed in Manhattan state Supreme Court that Ellen Fein has tried to put the bite on him for $100,000. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1170151356160 ca: Sheriff's porn vid taken off website A pair of courthouse sheriffs caught on video canoodling with a local porn performer have won their fight to remove the steamy tryst from the Internet -- at least for now. Jacqueline Burgoyne and Rick Gordon claim they were drunk when they signed a waiver allowing the racy rendezvous to be recorded and did not know it would be posted on the Internet. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/01/3498503-sun.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** eu: Internet video rules 'misguided' An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is "seriously misguided", a House of Lords committee has said. Proposals risk damaging the new media industry, pushing broadcasters to set up outside Europe, the committee said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm European Parliament stands firm on cross-border defamation law The European Parliament has voted to make every EU member state take a common approach to cross-border privacy and defamation cases. The move follows a campaign by UK Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis. http://out-law.com/page-7726 fr: Sex and lies on the cyberspace hustings Tales of the supposed dalliances and skulduggery of the presidential candidates are flooding the internet before presidential elections http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2581482,00.html us: Net neutrality, broadband taxes top House tech agenda A key House Democrat on Wednesday said his 2007 goals are to enact legislation related to Net neutrality, patents, and broadband regulation and taxation, including authorizing local governments to offer their own Internet service. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6155100.html us: CDT's Congressional Agenda for the 110th Congress The 110th Congress faces a host of Internet policy decisions that will have a lasting impact on commerce, national security, and civil liberties. For more than a decade, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has sought to defend the free and open Internet by advocating policies that preserve privacy and free expression and remove obstacles to continued innovation. As lawmakers take up Internet-related issues, we offer the following recommendations. http://www.cdt.org/legislation/110th/2007agenda.php us: Gambling portals defy net ban The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 makes unlawful the receipt by a gambling business of proceeds or monies in connection with unlawful internet gambling. The Act, which represents the first piece of Federal legislation to explicitly deal with online gambling, makes clear the US government's intention to stop the flow of funds from Americans to online gaming operators through criminal sanction. http://bettingmarket.com/gmbpordefsht010203.htm ***** SPAM ***** nl: Dutch spammer fined $97,000 for sending 9 billion unwanted e-mails A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements for products like erection pills faces a hefty fine: If he needs headache medication or debt relief there's probably an unsolicited ad in his own inbox. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16608875.htm http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/03/1169919576491.html ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** au: Elves, trolls and deadly danger Mental health experts now agree that online gaming addictions exist: Doctors didn't believe Liz Woolley when she said her son was addicted to an internet game in which players take on the roles of elves, ogres and trolls. Sure, her son, Shawn, 21, was depressed, they said, telling Woolley the 12-hour days of game-playing, the social isolation and the personality changes were a side effect rather than a cause of the American man's mental deterioration. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/04/1170523951389.html Internet users play tag with online content: study Web 2.0 pioneers are taking personal control of how online content is organised, according to new research. The study, conducted by the Pew Internet & America Life Project in December 2006, reports 28 per cent of US internet users have categorised, or "tagged", user generated content online. Tagging is effectively a new form of searching for content which allows users to mark, store, and then retrieve the web content they or other users found valuable. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/02/tags_folksonomy/ uk: Radio enters a new golden age as digital use takes off The digital revolution and the expansion of new ways of accessing information through the internet has given a huge boost to one of the older and more traditional forms of electronic media - the radio. http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2208272.ece uk: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly Browsing the internet has overtaken DIY and gardening to become the favourite pastime of older people, according to a survey by the insurance company AXA. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml uk: What big downloads you have, grandma Retired people are taking to the internet in droves, and its not just online bingo that is exciting them http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1321838.ece au: Phone addiction ruinous AUSTRALIANS are ruining relationships, running up huge debts, even putting themselves in danger because of their addiction to their mobile phones. http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21161651-2702,00.html Euro broadband growth slows THE uptake of broadband internet services in Europe has slowed, with growth dropping to 7 per cent in the six months to September, a new report from a carrier group has found. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21158442%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** in: Rural BPOs to bridge digital divide The digital divide separating rural and urban India may finally be narrowing, thanks to setting up of BPOs in villages. Jallikakinada, an obscure village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, had nothing but a closed ice factory in August 2005, when Byrraju Foundation, the NGO outfit of Satyam Computers, set up a BPO in the factory. http://business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=273653 in: Narrowing the digital divide ICT is becoming more accessible to the Bhutanese farming population in the form of community information centers which have been set in remote parts of the country. http://kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8045 ************ FILE SHARING ************ Viacom to YouTube: Dump Infringing Content Media conglomerate Viacom demanded on Friday that Google's video service YouTube remove from its Web pages as many as 100,000 video clips containing copyrighted material. The two sides had been negotiating a licensing agreement that would allow Viacom-owned content on the YouTube site when talks broke down. Viacom's demand came next. Viacom had asked YouTube to remove its content last fall, as well. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55548.html http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6155771.html http://iht.com/articles/2007/02/02/business/youtube.php http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0e225e60-b2d6-11db-99ca-0000779e2340.html ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Mobile giants plot secret rival to Google Europe's biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants. Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and one American network, Cingular, are among the companies that will come together for secret, high-level talks at the mobile industry's biggest annual trade show in Barcelona next week. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/04/cnsearch04.xml Google profits double to $3bn Google saw its profits rocket by 110% to $3.07bn (£1.57bn) last year as the California company extended its dominance in guiding people around cyberspace. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2003373,00.html http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2578425,00.html Return to founder: Michael Dell returns to the helm of the company he founded The computing world has traditions, if not clichés. It is, for example, customary for the founders of big technology firms to have dropped out of college, or at least graduate school, before getting started. Everyone from Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Michael Dell (Dell) in the industry's first generation to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) in the current one has so far complied. http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8633423 http://businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070202_879041.htm http://businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2007/db20070131_503358.htm ***** VoIP ***** Residential VoIP users to hit 267m by 2012 Global residential VoIP services will attract 267 million subscribers in 2012, a huge jump from the 38 million users registered last year, new research from ABI Research has predicted. http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2173954/267-residential-voip-users ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Child-porn addict's partner wins custody A Family Court judge has ordered an eight-year-old boy to live with his stripper mother, despite acknowledging her partner was one of Australia's worst child pornography addicts. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21163286-421,00.html http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21161606-2702,00.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! 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