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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates in between postings. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** Spam 2007: The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace email accounts, but email users are less bothered by it. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/214/report_display.asp Bloggers on frontline in global rights battle, says Amnesty http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1828944.ece Amnesty International Report 2007: Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world (news release) http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL100092007 uk: E-mail fraudsters: we know where you live http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1811228.ece Where will the cyber saboteurs strike next? A sustained attack on Estonian websites has raised fears of web-based warfare http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1830914.ece AusCERT: Cybertrust launches Asia Pacific security squad http://arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;907870176;fp;2;fpid;1 Apple moans over sex toy ad http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/23/apple_sex_toy_spat/ South Korea to introduce Internet code of ethics http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3846118 Study: More Spam but Fewer Complaints (AP) http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_SPAM_SURVEY nz: Spam code: Good idea but no panacea http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10441072 Promising antispam technique gets nod http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6185904.html Google’s goal: to organise your daily life http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621.html Swiss Minister Leuenberger wants global tax on "information" http://www.nzz.ch/2007/05/22/eng/article7843573.html London police arrest man they link to Russian Web site AllofMP3.com http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/21/business/mp3.php NZ music charts embrace legal downloads http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/36233712215DC7BFCC2572E3007C8983 Scientists reject BBC Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2084217,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676129.stm Wi-fi 'worse than phone masts' http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1816571.ece *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Spam 2007: The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace email accounts, but email users are less bothered by it. 37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago. And 29% of work email users said spam had increased in their work email accounts, up from 21% two years ago. Yet fewer people say spam is "a big problem" for them. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/214/report_display.asp *********** CENSORSHIP *********** Bloggers on frontline in global rights battle, says Amnesty The internet is the new frontline in the war for human rights as governments around the world battle to stamp out the voices of opposition online, Amnesty International said today. In its annual round-up of global human rights abuses, the London-based watchdog singled out Belarus, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia as countries that tried to keep a lid on their web-users, “monitoring chat rooms, deleting blogs, restricting search engines and blocking websites”. In addition, it said, “people have been imprisoned in China, Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan and Vietnam for posting and sharing information online". http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1828944.ece Amnesty International Report 2007: Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world (news release) Freedom of expression was suppressed in a variety of ways from the prosecution of writers and human rights defenders in Turkey, to the killing of political activists in the Philippines, to the constant harassment, surveillance and often imprisonment of human rights defenders in China, to the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and new laws regulating non-governmental organizations in Russia. The Internet became the new frontier in the struggle for dissent as activists were arrested and companies colluded with governments to restrict access to information on-line in countries such as China, Iran, Syria, Vietnam and Belarus. http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL100092007 Amnesty Int to hold web censorship conference Amnesty International and the Observer newspaper have called a conference against internet censorship and repression. The interactive global event will be held on 6 June at 18:30 (UK), 19:30 (Europe), 13:30 (EST), 10:30 (PST). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/internet_repression/ Global web censorship on the rise The number of governments that routinely block web sites is increasing, according to the most comprehensive survey of internet filtering yet. Meanwhile, the same study suggests that techniques for blocking undesirable content are growing ever more sophisticated. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11894-global-web-censorship-on-the-rise.html Journalists quit over censorship in Russia A group of journalists at a state-controlled broadcast news agency in Russia have resigned en masse in one of the few open rebellions in recent years against censorship imposed by the Kremlin. http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2084226,00.html China eases demand that bloggers use real names The government said that it would instead promote a "self-discipline code" to encourage, rather than mandate, bloggers to register under their own names. http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/22/technology/chiblog.php http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKPEK35342620070522 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6682755.stm ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ uk: Mum, get out of my Facebook: half of parents have turned into online spies Parents who are desperate to find out what their children are up to in their spare time are joining networking websites aimed at teenagers. Almost half of parents snoop around the sites that their children visit to check up on them, according to research. Parentline Plus, a helpline, says that calls from parents trying to keep tabs on their children’s internet activities are “regular and increasing”. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1816570.ece MySpace Buckles in Sex Offender Data Dispute After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. Working with Sentinel SAFE, MySpace identified about 7,000 registered sex offenders who used the site, according to the company. Those profiles were deleted, but information about the users was saved and will be delivered to the attorneys general. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57483.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6681669.stm http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/22/technology/myspace.php http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKWEN827920070521 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6185333.html us: Behind the Curtain of the MySpace Legal Drama The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information. The whole mess has unfolded like a bad soap opera -- and it must be particularly baffling for MySpace, because it has invested a significant amount of resources and technological effort to ensure that sex offenders can't use MySpace to lure or harass anyone. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57510.html uk: Teachers want bullying answers Teachers have shown evidence of cyberbullying to the schools minister - including death threats by mobile phone and on websites. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6677657.stm il: MKs seek approval for law to restrict adult Web sites Ahead of the first reading of a bill proposed by Shas MK Amnon Cohen that would require Internet providers to stop minors from accessing adult Web sites, the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee met with representatives of various ministries and technology companies on Monday. "This is not a haredi law or a religious law," Cohen said, "but rather it is a law for all of the country's children - to watch over them and to protect them." http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708654720&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull au/nz: Cyber filters give 'false confidence' Australian Federal Government plans to issue free computer filters to families and libraries as part of a battle to stem instances of cyber-bullying have received a lukewarm response from education and cyber-safety experts. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/17/1178995324570.html *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** uk: E-mail fraudsters: we know where you live A map showing the location of British-based fraudsters who extract money from their victims with enticing get-rich-quick schemes has been compiled for The Times by investigators. Each pin marks the address, to within 100m, of a scammer who makes a living by dispatching e-mails that promise huge financial rewards in return for a small upfront investment. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1811228.ece Where will the cyber saboteurs strike next? A sustained attack on Estonian websites has raised fears of web-based warfare After three weeks of unrelenting cyber attacks, the most wired country in the West, Estonia, has returned to normality. The tiny Baltic nation has weathered an unprecedented barrage of denial of service attacks that reduced the country’s online banking system, its newspapers and government services to a crawl, knocked out thousands of commercial websites and left its 1.3 million citizens on edge. In terms of duration and impact, the attacks, which escalated following a government decision to remove a Red Army statue from the capital, Tallinn, are unprecedented. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1830914.ece EU wants police-private sector cybercrime pact (Reuters) Police in the European Union should team up with the private sector to stop illegal Internet content, especially child pornography, across the bloc, the European Commission said on Tuesday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2218099120070522 http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3846012 Europe votes to restrict police data sharing The European Parliament voted on Monday night to reinstate the principles of data protection in legislation that would allow police across Europe to routinely share data about their activities. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/23/europarl_on_3rdpillar/ Terrorism on the Internet: another Border to Protect one Country’s Sovereignty “The Internet is a weapon in the hands of our extremist enemies,” Senator Joe Lieberman, (I-Conn.) chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said after the Senate’s review of a recent report on how terrorists are using the Internet to spread their radicalism. At the beginning of May this year, the Senate Homeland Security Committee engaged in a deep analysis of how the Internet is being used by terrorist organizations to express their prejudice against the United States. This analysis included reviewing a recent report prepared on this subject, listening to the testimony of several Internet experts and the drafting the United States’ response to this practice. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1765 au: Queensland's plan to end Nigerian scams A national event aimed at stamping out so-called Nigerian scams will be held in Queensland, Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, said. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Queensland-s-plan-to-end-Nigerian-scams/0,130061744,339277685,00.htm Nigerian Scammers Profiting Heavily in Australia Even after being robbed of their life savings, the victims of Nigerian e-mail scams refuse to believe they have been duped by fraudsters. Not even warnings from police can convince them to stop sending money out of Australia as they hold onto the dream of overnight riches as a result of a huge inheritance, lotto win or once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132186-c,scamshoaxes/article.html au: Schoolboys plot massacre on net Two NSW school students used the internet to discuss carrying out a gun massacre in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/23/1179601417842.html au: Teens lash out over massacre claim Two teenagers who allegedly plotted a shooting massacre at Crookwell High School have lashed out at schools and police, saying they are victims of a misunderstanding over a former girlfriend of one of the boys. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/23/1179601494641.html au: Psychiatric evaluation for school massacre planners ELEANOR HALL: In New South Wales, two schoolboys are undergoing psychiatric evaluation after they were allegedly caught plotting a gun massacre at their school. Concerned schoolmates reported the boys' plan to their school principal after noticing their conversations on an internet chat site. http://abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1931035.htm au: Black holes in net space by Michael Carr-Gregg and Susan McLean The tragic deaths of two 16-year-old Victorian students underlines the all-too-real danger when marginalised young people find an internet site that encourages them to take their own lives. An investigation by Channel 9's 60 Minutes revealed that Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier, who hanged themselves in the Dandenong Ranges, had accessed a pro-suicide site in Holland. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21778178-5000117,00.html AusCERT: Cybertrust launches Asia Pacific security squad Going head to head against the large consultancies, Cybertrust has launched an Asia Pacific investigative response team to assist companies with a wide range of security attacks, breaches and fraudulent activities. Headquartered in Sydney, the team specialises in identifying the source of the security breach, continuing it and documenting the event in preparation for case evidence where legal action is likely. http://arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;907870176;fp;2;fpid;1 Apple moans over sex toy ad Apple isn't tickled over an Ann Summers sex toy ad that mimics the company's iconic silhouette ipod campaign. News of the World reports Apple lawyers are flushed over the sex shops hawking a £30 iGasm peripheral, which plugs into a music player and vibrates to the beat. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/23/apple_sex_toy_spat/ http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/ipod_1405.shtml uk: Mystery hacker attack hits Telegraph website The newspaper site has been the victim of a 'denial of service' attack blocking access since yesterday morning http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1824601.ece Campaign Against Web Crime Launched A global campaign has been launched to fight cyber crime amid fears that hackers would soon get access to hospital computer systems. The ITU has announced a two-year campaign dubbed "Global Cyber security Agenda" to ensure that there are no safe havens for cyber criminals. http://allafrica.com/stories/200705220080.html ng: Internet Fraud - Can 'Hackers' Rescue the Country? High on the wall inside one of the Cyber cafés in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, is the notice boldly typewritten on an A4 white sheet of paper. It reads: "Dear customers. Sending of spam or 419 emails from our network is prohibited. Failure to comply with this policy, the person will be handed over to the police. Management." http://allafrica.com/stories/200705220769.html 'Cyber-stalker is killing me' Crime writer Patricia Cornwell appeared in court yesterday asking a US judge to ban another author from "cyber-stalking" her on the internet. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21785547-401,00.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** South Korea to introduce Internet code of ethics South Korea will introduce an Internet code of ethics to curb the distribution of pornographic material and other information deemed inappropriate, officials said Wednesday. http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=3846118 http://www.todayonline.com/articles/190118.asp http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070523-070334-6663r ePractice.eu Kick-off Workshop The European good practice exchange is a service to the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners. It aims to be an interactive initiative that empowers its users to discuss and influence open government, policy-making and the way public administrations operate and deliver services. It will offer a platform for good practice advice and relevant news. It should thereby enhance efficiency and effectiveness in public service delivery. http://epractice.eu/index.php?page=workshop&menu=3 Antigua threatens to target U.S. interests as WTO adopts decision on Internet gambling (AP) The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda seeks compensation from the U.S. over its illegal restrictions on Internet gambling sites based overseas and on Tuesday asked other countries to join in as it targets Washington over its failure to comply with global trade rules. http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5959469 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201391.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/23/antigua_wto_us_gambling/ U.S. House approves less stringent anti-spyware bill (Reuters) The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday that would impose specific penalties for the fraudulent use of spyware but would not impose new requirements on software makers. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-05-22T190517Z_01_N22266322_RTRUKOC_0_US-CONGRESS-SPYWARE.xml http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57528.html Importing goods into Australia through the internet Australia is a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which outlines many aspects of Australia's trade laws, including imports. In Australia, if a person arranges for goods to be brought into Australia, he is regarded by Customs as the importer of those goods. Any goods purchased over the internet and delivered into the country are also considered imports and are subject to import duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) where applicable. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=9C6CC98C-9C20-400F-B33F-9D7692A69DA7 ***** SPAM ***** Study: More Spam but Fewer Complaints (AP) Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds. Thirty-seven percent of U.S. e-mail users say they are getting more junk in their personal e-mail accounts, and 29 percent see an increase in their work accounts. About half say they have not noticed a change, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in its study, released Wednesday. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_SPAM_SURVEY http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2135600,00.asp nz: Spam code: Good idea but no panacea Internet NZ is seeking feedback on the internet Service Providers Spam Code of Practice which it hopes will determine the process for regulating industry anti-spam measures in New Zealand. The paper outlines a number of measures ISPs can undertake to support the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 which aims to reduce locally-generated spam. Most of the measures are already being used by the industry, which due to its small size, can react fairly quickly to complaints about spam. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10441072 us: Can-Spam put to the test The last six months have not been particularly kind to the antispam community. Late last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit limited the reach of both state and federal spam laws to e-mails that contain "material" falsity or deception. And last week, a federal district court dismissed a Can-Spam claim on the basis that the plaintiff, James Gordon--who was not a traditional ISP--did not suffer the type of injury envisioned by the law, and thus lacked legal standing to sue. The court also signaled its intention to award attorney's fees. While the decision will likely have minimal effect on claims brought by traditional ISPs, it is sure to take the sails out of the cottage industry built around spam litigation. http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-6185501.html Spamming under the law of Portugal In Portugal, unsolicited commercial communications, also referred to as spamming, are regulated by the Act 69/98 of October 26, 1998 on the Protection of Personal Data (the “Personal Data Protection Act,” which implements European Directive 97/66 on the Processing of Personal Data and the Protection of Privacy in the Telecommunication Sector (the “Privacy Protection Directive.”) This latter Directive has been repealed and replaced by European Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications that came into force on July 31, 2002 (the “Electronic Privacy Directive.”) http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=5C42A751-44EF-41B6-9BA8-96642BA80459 Spam Is a Matter of Definition The US Federal Trade Commission has published guidelines to determine which e-mail messages have a “primarily commercial purpose” and are thus subject to the provisions of the US CAN SPAM Act. The Regulations also require the inclusion of a warning in commercial e-mail messages that contain pornographic content. The regulations have already gone into effect. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1766 Promising antispam technique gets nod A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-email messages. It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give Internet users the best chance so far of staunching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk e-mail. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6185904.html As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root What we have here is obviously not a failure to communicate, but it’s not quite the opposite either. It’s not a simple case of information overload, according to a seminal article in the journal Sociological Theory by Dr. Ryan, a professor at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. He defines it — with all the flair we’ve come to expect from that journal — as a violation of the “notification norms” that “constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks.” Technology now lets us tell everyone everything at once, but we still value a network that existed before the Web: the grapevine. When you pass along gossip to a friend or colleague, you’re doing more than just relaying news. You’re defining a social circle. You’re reassuring the listeners that they’re in the loop — and subtly obliging them to remember that you are, too. The golden rule of this “information order,” as Dr. Ryan calls it, is to tell unto others as you would have them tell unto you. You shouldn’t leave your trusted colleagues at the office in the dark about a coming shake-up, but you shouldn’t be an electronic font of trivia, either. You filter the news for them and expect them to do the same for you. You tell them what they need to know in the way they expect to hear it. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22tier.html ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** Google’s goal: to organise your daily life Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621.html Green light for internet makeover project A contractor that played a key role in the internet's birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch. The National Science Foundation announced BBN Technologies will get up to $US10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations. Many researchers want to rethink the internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean slate" approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since the internet's birth in 1969. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/22/1179601370231.html Murdoch extends his net to China: As tycoon launches version of MySpace, human rights activists fear it will be abused by censors MySpace has launched a version of its website in China, despite fears among human rights campaigners that users will be censored or spied on by the totalitarian Communist state. Rupert Murdoch said last year that the company was looking for a way to enter China without running into political obstacles of the type faced by Google, which agreed to self-censor its content; and by Yahoo, which gave the Chinese government information about the site's users. Murdoch has set up a separate business to avoid any problems. MySpace China is a 'locally owned, operated and managed company' in which News Corp is only one among several investors. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2083872,00.html Google bans web cheat essays The world’s biggest search engine will no longer accept adverts from companies that sell essays and dissertations from as little as £70 http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1827302.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6680457.stm This scepter’d isle set in a sea of junk food, says Lonely Planet A story in The Times notes that "Britain has the fastest-growing market in the world for internet porn." The story begins "The Great Britain once epitomised by the stiff upper lip, modesty and minding your own business has been replaced by a land of burger-eating binge drinkers, pornography addicts and followers of so-called celebrities" and is the verdict of the latest Lonely Planet guide to Great Britain. http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article1826549.ece Tiny island nation opens the first real embasy in a virtual world The Maldives has become the first country to open an embassy in Second Life, an internet-based three-dimensional virtual world inhabited by more than 6.6 million “residents” from around the globe. The tiny island nation with a population of 300,000 opened its virtual mission on Tuesday, just ahead of Sweden, which had hoped its embassy would be Second Life’s first when it opens on May 30. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1832158.ece *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** '$100 laptop' sparks war of words One Laptop per Child's Nicholas Negroponte accuses Intel of underminining his not for profit scheme. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6675833.stm Swiss Minister Leuenberger wants global tax on "information" Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger has called for a global tax on information to help bridge the digital divide. Leuenberger said the levy would serve to finance new information and communication technologies in regions where people have little or no access to the internet. http://www.nzz.ch/2007/05/22/eng/article7843573.html http://tax-news.com/asp/story/Swiss_Minister_Proposes_Global_Information_Tax_xxxx27367.html ************ FILE SHARING ************ London police arrest man they link to Russian Web site AllofMP3.com The arrest was the first under a British law introduced in January that made the unlicensed sale of music a criminal offense, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said. http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/21/business/mp3.php NZ music charts embrace legal downloads Not before time, some might say, the official New Zealand Music Chart will begin logging sales of digital music. From May 29 the charts will include downloads from legal digital music retailers. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/36233712215DC7BFCC2572E3007C8983 us: Internet radio rejects compromise deal on royalties Internet radio stations have rejected a compromise proposal from the US music industry on higher music licence payments. It would allow small stations to keep the old fee structure, but stations claim the deal is designed to stunt net radio's growth. http://out-law.com/page-8073 ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Scientists reject BBC Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks An investigation into the possible dangers of Wi-Fi technology by the BBC documentary programme Panorama has been rejected as "grossly unscientific" and a "scare story" by leading scientists. The programme will claim that the radiation given off by a Wi-Fi laptop is "three times higher than the ... signal strength of a typical phone mast". But the experiment carried out by the programme did not take into account a "basic" scientific concept and presented a bogus comparison, critics say. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2084217,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676129.stm Wi-fi 'worse than phone masts' The chairman of the Health Protection Agency has called for an urgent review of the health risks of wireless technology http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1816571.ece Can we have a proper study of Wi-Fi, please? Only four weeks ago, we called for serious research into wireless radiation. The good news: Sir William Stewart - chair of the Health Protection Agency - has said that the time has come to do this research. My only problem with this is that I honestly doubt any useful information is going to emerge from it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/wifi_science_bunk/ Firefox and the anxiety of growing pains If the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers--the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, putting up signs. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6185221.html http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/21/business/firefox.php Is Vista helping boost PC sales? Speaking to a crowd of hardware engineers last week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates trumpeted the fact that the company has sold 40 million copies of Vista since the operating system hit the market. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6186086.html http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-6186086.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: SM cries for porn kids Tweed Heads magistrate Jeff Linden, who has been known to come down hard on offenders, broke down in tears yesterday after hearing how a notorious Canadian pedophile manipulated a local 13-year-old schoolgirl. http://gcbulletin.com.au/article/2007/05/22/5283_news.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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