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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/ ********************************************************** The future of television: What's on next - The union of television and the internet is spawning a wide variety of offspring http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8670279 Google Loses Belgian Newspaper Suit - comment by Associate Professor Peng Hwa ANG http://internetinasia.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/google_loses_be.html us: Eli Lilly Loses Effort to Censor Zyprexa Documents Off the Internet http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_02.php#005122 us: EFF takes Viacom to task over YouTube takedown http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6159548.html uk: Emails can infringe copyright, ruling http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/15/email_copyright_infringement/ Read me first: Blogs are no longer free from everyday commercial pressures by Seth Finkelstein http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2012714,00.html Asia: Repairs completed on undersea cables http://iht.com/articles/2007/02/15/business/connect.php *********** CENSORSHIP *********** Belarusian Internet Cafes Obliged to Cooperate with KGB >From now on an owner of an Internet-Cafe or a person authorized by him is to keep a log of domain names of sites read by users. A log of domain names is to be stores for at least 12 months and if necessary given to officers of state security, law-enforcing and state inspection agencies. This demand in contained in a decree of Belarusian government with the aim to regularize relations in the sphere of computer clubs and internet-café business. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/15/kgb ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ To bust child-porn rings, larger role sought for Internet service providers It started out as a routine check of the computers at an Austrian Internet company. But the employee soon found in the electronic files a commercial child-pornography ring sexually abusing children as young as 5. Now, law-enforcement officials around the globe are starting an international pedophile hunt involving at least 2,360 subscribers in 77 countries. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0209/p02s01-ussc.html au: Words perverts use to trap kids THE secret language of online chat rooms has been revealed to help parents trap sexual predators "grooming" their children. Codes and abbreviations used by children such as PRW (parents are watching) are being turned against them by paedophiles. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21220253-5006009,00.html us: Attorney General debuts training program to tackle online crimes against children (news release) U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales kicked off a new training program today that will aid law-enforcement professionals in their fight against the growing problem of online child sexual exploitation. The training program will facilitate cross-agency collaboration in both investigating and prosecuting child sexual exploitation cases in an effort to ensure stronger penalties against those who harm children. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=3068 us: Internet Filters Provide Parents Another Tool to Keep Children Safe from Porn With a $57-billion-a-year industry, 30,000 new links and 5,000 new sites every day, pornography is a business that has become a serious force to battle. One way of guarding against pornography is to install an Internet filters on personal computers. Internet Filter Review 2007 has compiled their reviews and rankings for the 10 filters that they rated the highest. http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63013 us: Teen arrested for stalking through MySpace Bossier Sheriffs investigators say the 14-year-old male stalked a female juvenile and her sister through myspace.com, using a fake identity. http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2481&Itemid=56 us: Porn Filters are Ineffective at Protecting Children (CP80 Foundation news release) Children at risk on the Internet -- with over 400 million pages of pornography available on the Web, even if a filter could block 99.9% of all of the pornography, there would still be over 4 million Web pages of pornography remaining that are not blocked. http://prweb.com/releases/2007/2/prweb503588.htm us: New Plugged-In Toys Follow Kids Online (AP) As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online. At the annual American International Toy Fair this week, toy makers showed playthings like Power Rangers helmets which store secret missions found online, plenty of online games and even devices that take kids to secure Web sites where they can play activities without wandering into the darker corners of the Internet. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TOY_FAIR_INTERNET Safer Internet Day: educating young people in Europe (news release) Young people across Europe are in urgent need of education in using mobile and Internet technologies according to a recent Insafe survey of more than 12,000 under 18 year-olds. Social networking tools are particularly problematic: 56% of young people surveyed choose to make their social networking profiles on sites such as MySpace public, and share a great deal of personal details. http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.189.htm *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** Google Loses Belgian Newspaper Suit Associate Professor Peng Hwa ANG of the Singapore Internet Research Centre (Nanyang Technological University) writes he thinks the decision has much much less than meets the eye for several reasons. These being "The copyright management group essentially wants a share of the revenue"; and "best practice around the world for this issue of copyright infringement is that the infringing party should be given a reasonable period to act and only when it refuses to act should further action be taken". He also questions having your links removed from Google given Google's market clout. http://internetinasia.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/google_loses_be.html us: Wiki can link to controversial documents, says US judge Drugs giant Eli Lilly has failed in its bid to restrict a wiki from linking to documents that could be damaging to its business. The ruling of a New York court said that the court could not rule against the internet "in its various manifestations". http://out-law.com/page-7769 us: Eli Lilly Loses Effort to Censor Zyprexa Documents Off the Internet A U.S. District Court judge today refused Eli Lilly's request to ban a number of websites from publishing leaked documents relating to Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's top-selling drug. Although the judge rejected the First Amendment arguments made by a variety of individuals eager to publish the documents, the court concluded that "it is unlikely that the court can now effectively enforce an injunction against the Internet in its various manifestations, and it would constitute a dubious manifestation of public policy were it to attempt to do so." http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_02.php#005122 us: EFF takes Viacom to task over YouTube takedown A watchdog group is encouraging those wrongly accused of posting pirated Viacom material on YouTube to stand up to the giant conglomerate--even if it means a court fight. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6159548.html uk: Emails can infringe copyright, ruling Business letters can be protected by copyright and forwarding them to others can be an infringement, the High Court has ruled. The decision could have implications for email communication because the same principles will apply. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/15/email_copyright_infringement/ http://out-law.com/page-7768 Click Fraud: A Growing Nuisance for Web Advertisers, Part 2 Last year, the average click fraud rate of pay-per-click advertisements appearing on search engine content networks rose to 19.2 percent for the last quarter of 2006, the highest yet, according to Tom Cuthbert, CEO of Click Forensics. Click fraud occurs when online advertisers pay search engine companies and advertisement Web publishers a fee for each click made by either real or phony would-be customers. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55745.html Click Fraud: A Growing Nuisance for Web Advertisers, Part 1 Click fraud -- the practice of falsely inflating online ad clickthroughs -- has hit an all-time high, according to a recent report. How big a problem is it? Will click fraud vanish once publishers and advertisers place a high enough demand on authenticity? Or will the fraudsters grow in sophistication as the practice becomes more lucrative? http://ecommercetimes.com/story/55606.html us: Court dismisses teen's suit against MySpace News Corp.'s MySpace.com said on Wednesday a federal court dismissed a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by someone she met on the popular Internet social network. http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6159571.html us: Judge Tosses $30M Suit Against MySpace (AP) A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MYSPACE_LAWSUIT Hacker destroys 100 NZ websites An overseas computer hacker has managed to wipe out nearly 100 New Zealand websites. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/989935 Viruses promise heartbreak on Valentine's Day Beware of e-mails bearing Valentine's Day greetings, or you may get a digital heartache. http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/business/stories/171595.html ru: Piracy case collapses in Russia A Russian court has thrown out a criminal case against a rural headteacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software in his school. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6364953.stm http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_PIRACY_MICROSOFT China detains six over 'panda' computer virus China has detained six men in their 20s for writing or profiting from a computer virus dubbed the "joss stick burning panda" which has infected more than a million PCs in the country, local media said. http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6158937.html Chinese police to release hacker's Panda worm killer A hacker arrested only days ago will be allowed to release a fix for the worm that he helped write, reports China's state media. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/88BC6FE04AFB8F99CC2572830015D906 Hackers target the home front Criminals are trying to gain access to banks' computer networks via the weakest link in the security chain: executives who work at home http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2012712,00.html British hacker fights extradition A Scot has launched a High Court fight against extradition to the US for allegedly carrying out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6360917.stm ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** eu: Proposed legislation called a threat to Internet users' privacy European governments are preparing legislation to require companies to keep detailed data about people's Internet and phone use that goes beyond what the countries will be required to do under a European Union directive. http://iht.com/articles/2007/02/14/business/privacy.php ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** The future of television: What's on next - The union of television and the internet is spawning a wide variety of offspring Bosses in the television industry have been keeping a nervous eye on two Scandinavians with a reputation for causing trouble. In recent years Niklas Zennström, a Swede, and Janus Friis, a Dane, have frightened the music industry by inventing KaZaA, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program that was widely used to download music without paying for it. Then they horrified the mighty telecoms industry by inventing Skype, another P2P program, which lets internet users make free telephone calls between computers, and very cheap calls to ordinary phones. (The duo sold Skype to eBay, an internet-auction giant, for $2.6 billion in 2005.) Their next move was to found yet another start-upthis time, one that threatened to devastate the television industry. http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8670279 Read me first: Blogs are no longer free from everyday commercial pressures by Seth Finkelstein The appearance of companies that pay bloggers to write about advertisers' products has created an uproar, pitting those who have been called the "sidewalk hookers of the blogosphere" against A-listers who might be termed the blog world's "executive escorts". The debate tends to follow a well-worn path concerning advertising versus integrity, and when disclosing a payment from an interested party is required or sufficient. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2012714,00.html Asia: Repairs completed on undersea cables All external telecommunications services, including Internet access services, have been fully restored, according to Hong Kong officials. http://iht.com/articles/2007/02/15/business/connect.php us: Sweethearts Search, Buy Valentine's on the Web Organic searches lead to more conversions than pay-per-click (PPC) or sponsored results. Data released by Oneupweb observed a peak in holiday-related sales on Tuesday, February 6. Natural or organic search results accounted for 34 percent more traffic and 21 percent higher sales than pay-per-click (PPC) ads or sponsored results over the two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day. http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624983 Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, January 2007 http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624958 Africa: Hirest Africa Decries Level of Internet Penetration on continent The CEO of Hirest Africa Limited, Igho Mrapkor, has decried the low level of internet penetration in the country. Mr Mrakpor stated this at the official unveiling of Hirest Africa, a broadband internet service provider in Lagos. He stressed that it was quite unacceptable that only 2% of the population of the country which presently stands at about 140,000,000 million has access to the internet. http://allafrica.com/stories/200702150008.html High-speed Residential Internet Access Reaches Africa High-speed residential Internet access is reaching Africa, with the launch of 2 and 4 Mbps broadband offers in 2006 by the Moroccan ISP Casanet, a 100%-owned subsidiary of Maroc Telecom, through its portal Menara. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Highspeed+Residential+Internet+Access+Reaches+Africa.aspx Living the converged media life At the 3GSM trade show in Barcelona, mobile operators and phone makers are placing huge bets on convergence - the coming together of mobile phones, television and music players. But does it work? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6355449.stm *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** Recycled PCs Bridge Digital Divide For green disposal of electronic gear, companies may consider recycling computers in the developing world. Here Business Wekk looks at two nonprofits http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/gb20070213_608507.htm WiMax is finding a home across the digital divide The wireless technology is not yet a feature in many cellphones, but it is gaining a reputation as the Internet broadband access of choice in developing countries. http://iht.com/articles/2007/02/14/business/wimax.php ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Microsoft hit by Vista upgrade workaround An IT professional has discovered a way of getting a full version of Vista for the cost of a simple upgrade http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285933,00.htm Face value: Web deux point zéro - Has Tariq Krim created a French internet blockbuster? IF FRANCE was more like Netvibes, things might be a lot better here, says Tariq Krim, with disarming frankness. The website, which he runs out of Paris, is the most popular of a new class that lets users snap together individual components such as blog feeds, e-mail accounts, news headlines and videos to create a dashboard, or home page, that displays all their online information. If only his countrywith its grand projects, restrictive labour rules and social hierarchyshowed similar flexibility, laments the 34-year-old Frenchman. Politicians on the stump seem to agree. Having snapped together journalism, business ventures and politics in his own career, Mr Krim is now cast as a paragon of Europe's new generation of internet entrepreneurs. http://economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8625931 ***** VoIP ***** VoIP threat as crims seek out soft targets PEOPLE are careful to secure their data systems, but corporate phone networks are subject to increasing security threats, Cybertrust principal security consultant Andrew Wells says. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21201155%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Ex-coach faces child porn charges A FORMER Perth sports coach who allegedly invited street kids to his home has been charged with possessing child pornography. http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21224681-1702,00.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21224681-1702,00.html us: Substitute teacher's porn conviction sparks tech debate Amero was convicted in January of exposing students to pornography on her classroom computer. While prosecutors insist she is guilty, some experts believe that the lewd images were caused by unseen spyware and adware programs, which critics call one of the top scourges of the Internet. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2007-02-14-teacher-porn_x.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! The domain name news is supported by auDA. See http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/mailman/listinfo/technewsreview for an archive of recent newsletters and to subscribe to the domain name and general internet news. Also see http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent news updates. 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