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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** us: Study: 'Cyberbullying' hits one third of teens http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6193723.html uk: Computers 'can raise [educational] attainment' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6231704.stm Report: U.S. lags behind other nations in broadband speeds http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025726 Social sites reveal class divide http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6236628.stm TorrentSpy begins weeding out copyright content http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9734127-7.html YouTube copyright fight hinges on whether it controls its content, says US court http://out-law.com/page-8180 *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace by Danah Boyd Over the last six months, I've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Who goes where gets kinda sticky... probably because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class. http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html us: Cyberbullying and Online Teens About one third (32%) of all teenagers who use the internet say they have been targets of a range of annoying and potentially menacing online activities – such as receiving threatening messages; having their private emails or text messages forwarded without consent; having an embarrassing picture posted without permission; or having rumors about them spread online. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/216/report_display.asp *********** CENSORSHIP *********** The public and the private portrayal of Iran Internet censorship in Iran is one of the issues in this article by Antony Loewenstein in The Guardian. Antony looks at the real Iran, not the one that's regularly portrayed in the western media. He finds many Iranians shun the views of their leaders - but they won't say so openly. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/antony_loewenstein/2007/06/spending_time_in_iran_inevitab.html Google Fights Global Internet Censorship (AP) Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S. trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global commerce, such as tariffs. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/23/1182019391954.html Fears of self-censorship at French news outlets Besides any influence, direct or otherwise, by media barons close to the new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, self-censorship is influenced by the economic vulnerability of the print media and its dependence on French government subsidies. http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/24/business/media25.php 'Citizen journalism' battles the Chinese censors In the strictly controlled media world of China, "citizen journalism" is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions. http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/26/1962255.htm th: 'No' to censorship The Democrat Party has pledged greater electronic media freedom if elected to power in the next general elections. Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva gave his views on the political turmoil and laid out his party policies on restoring the democratic process, peace in the South through prosecution of officials responsible for state atrocities and reviving the economy that has suffered from years of infrastructural neglect before fielding questions from a packed room. http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=72602 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ au: Net closes on predators with 'virtual girl' trap The net is closing on pedophiles in Sydney and elsewhere who have been using the Skype internet chat tool to prey on teenage girls. A "virtual girl" set up to help investigate the actions of people wanting to have cybersex with minors was launched from London yesterday. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/25/1182623820428.html au: Gothic fan groomed teen for sex, court told Daniel William Peckham decided to create his own Gothic appreciation club on the internet, based on Rookwood cemetery. The membership fee he demanded from under-age teenage girls seeking to join was sexual intercourse or for them to email naked photographs of themselves to him, federal police alleged in Central Local Court yesterday. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/25/1182623820425.html us: Study: 'Cyberbullying' hits one third of teens One in three teenagers say they've been bullied in some way online, but two-thirds of teens still believe they're more likely to be harassed offline, according to a new study. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6193723.html http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001167 http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3685726 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/28/1182624023645.html *************************************** CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY *************************************** Google gestures German pullout on privacy principles Google is threatening to close the German version of Gmail if the Bundestag goes through with new laws to ban anonymous email accounts. The federal internet surveillance legislation, which comes into force next year, could compel email providers to verify real names and physical addresses in the name of fighting terrorism. Google reckons the regulations are anti-privacy and that volk will just turn to servers outside the country. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/google_german_gmail/ au: Leader of net piracy gang jailed A Briton has been jailed for 51 months after pleading guilty to software piracy charges in the US. From his Australia home Hew Griffiths led the DrinkOrDie piracy group which specialised in cracking protection codes on software, music and movies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6237610.stm Phishing the net for the gullible Carl Robertson still shudders when he remembers it. "You have to live through it to understand the damage that can happen, not only emotionally, but financially." A death? An assault? No. The 63-year-old California-based estate agent is talking about phishing, the stealing of personal credentials using spoof emails. Robertson had been a casual internet user for three years when he followed a link in an email purporting to come from eBay. It led him to enter personal details into what he thought was an account confirmation page. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/27/1182623916665.html us: Dangerous Ruling Forces Search Engine to Log Users Public Interest Groups Urge Court to Block Radical Expansion of Discovery Rules San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) urged a California court Friday to overturn a dangerous ruling that would require an Internet search engine to create and store logs of its users' activities as part of electronic discovery obligations in a civil lawsuit. The ruling came in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by motion picture studios against TorrentSpy, a popular search engine that indexes materials made publicly available via the Bit Torrent file sharing protocol. TorrentSpy has never logged its visitors' Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Notwithstanding this explicit privacy policy, a federal magistrate judge has now ordered TorrentSpy to activate logging and turn the logged data over to the studios. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1790 Israeli Court Holds Forum Manager Liable For User Content In C 032986/03 Moshe Boshmitz v. Anat Aronowitz, Magistrates Court of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, Israeli Judge Shoshana Almagor held that the manager of an online forum may be liable for the content published by the forum users on a theory of negligence. The defendant, Ms. Aronowitz, was the manager of a forum dealing with the welfare of animals in the popular Israeli website “Walla!” The Claimant, Dr. Boshmitz, a veterinarian and an owner of a farm that breeds monkeys and sells them for research purposes, filed suit against the defendant regarding libelous statements she made against him in the forum as well as statements made by users of the forum. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1789 us: Appeals Panel 'Reluctantly' Tosses Child Porn Case Judges of the Georgia Court of Appeals last week said they must "reluctantly" issue an opinion that may make it more difficult for the state to prosecute people who look at child pornography. A three-judge panel on June 21 reversed the conviction of a North Georgia man on 106 counts of sexual exploitation of children because, the judges found, prosecutors didn't prove that the man knew he had pornographic images stored in his computer hard drive. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1182848790153 us: Judge Rebuffs Google's Request To Extend Oversight of Microsoft A U.S. District Court judge yesterday declined to address a petition by Google that asked the government to extend its antitrust oversight of Microsoft. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062602062.html Does Google Have Another Move in Vista Chess Game? Google has been ratcheting up its campaign to compel Microsoft to further open its Vista operating system to third-party search engines. Its latest tactic entailed petitioning the judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal and state governments to extend it past November, when most of the terms are set to expire. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly declined to consider the petition, saying that she would rely on information from government lawyers and state attorneys general on whether to proceed against Microsoft. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/58055.html eBay ends tiff with Google The auction site says it will again buy ads through Google's AdWords platform - though not as many as before http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1983126.ece ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** au: Joint report released into communications infrastructure The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today released a joint report titled Communications Infrastructure and Services Availability in Australia 2006-07. The report addresses the availability of broadband, fixed voice, mobile voice, mobile data, and broadcasting infrastructure and services. http://arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1157405506;fp;4194304;fpid;1 U.N. broadcasting treaty talks suffer setback (Reuters) Efforts to clinch a long-sought international broadcasting treaty have suffered a setback from lingering disagreements over signal piracy and the Internet, a top U.N. official said on Monday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2511665020070625 German Wikipedia receives state funding For the first time, the German edition of the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia will be receiving state funding. Germany will be setting aside part of its budget to improve information about renewable resources in Wikipedia. Over the next few years, several hundred articles will be written on this issue. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91733 uk: Two-tiered net could be coming ISPs may start charging some websites for faster access to customers, a report has predicted: It could create a "two-tiered internet" which, while making money for providers would risk alienating consumers, Jupiter Research said. Charging both customers and websites for access could prove too tempting for ISPs to resist, said analyst Ian Fogg. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6241386.stm kr: Popular portals to ban false names A limited real-name system for online portals is set to be implemented today with the popular websites Naver and Daum taking the lead, Ministry of Information and Communication said yesterday. http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=72616 EU search engine probe expands beyond Google European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said. http://out-law.com/page-8179 eu: Self regulation applied to interactive games: success and challenges Speech by Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/429 us: FTC is Neutral on Net Neutrality The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is taking the middle ground in the net neutrality debate. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133544-c,legalissues/article.html http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001185 ***************************** INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE ***************************** uk: Computers 'can raise attainment' High levels of computer technology in schools can improve attainment to an extent, a four-year study has found. The £34m ICT Test Bed project by computer agency Becta in three deprived areas of England showed gains in some GCSE and primary school test scores. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6231704.stm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39287717,00.htm Truth first casualty of the internet? More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? When his site reached 1 billion hits in 2002, American blogger Matt Drudge - the self-styled Walter Cronkite of online journalism - fired off a potshot at old media. Online grassroots voices, he claimed, could offer something corporate-owned media couldn't: full freedom in reporting. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/27/1182623916608.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/27/1182623916608.html MySpace TV to challenge YouTube's lead This week, MySpace plans to show that it is serious about challenging YouTube in the booming world of online video. http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/27/business/myspace.php Playgrounds for adults Everyone likes to belong, and that is one of the powerful forces of the Internet. Where once your service provider was your identifying online "community," today's equivalents are online social networks like Second Life, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/27/business/ptend27.php More than half of Australian homes online More than half of all Australian households are surfing the web, according to the first conclusive snapshot of internet access across the nation. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/27/1182623963575.html au: Is your broadband better than average? Ever wondered if your ISP's coverage is exactly what they promised? The government has released its latest state of the nation report into Australia's broadband -- and consumers can see exactly what they're getting. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Is-your-broadband-better-than-average-/0,130061791,339279163,00.htm YouTube visits larger than rivals combined: survey (Reuters) YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, a survey found. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN2742598120070627 Report: U.S. lags behind other nations in broadband speeds The U.S. is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the availability and use of high-speed broadband connections, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Communications Workers of America. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025726 http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/25/US-lags-behind-other-countries-in-broadband-speed_1.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-speed26jun26,1,2625971.story Death networking: the latest e-trend Memorial websites for the dead are emerging as a new way of making social contact, rivalling Facebook and MySpace. Initially intended to bear tributes to the deceased, these sites are becoming popular meeting places for strangers in a phenomenon known as death networking. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2705364.ece EC threat to BBC over downloads (the Mac version may not be available for a while) The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission. The charge concerns the use of Microsoft technology in the corporation's forthcoming iPlayer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6236612.stm Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraflops of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the continent. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025254 http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/26/business/genius.php us: I am a video game junkie: boy, 14 The American Medical Association has backed off calling excessive video-game playing a formal psychiatric addiction, saying instead that more research is needed. A report prepared for the AMA's annual policy meeting had sought to strongly encourage that video-game addiction be included in a widely used diagnostic manual of psychiatric illnesses. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/28/1182624036453.html http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1205469 The iPhone matches most of its hype Apple's new phone does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles. http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/27/technology/web.0627pogue.php iPhone gets glowing reviews from key duo They are the titans of tech reviewing, whose opinions can make or break a product in a couple of taps of their keyboard, and today Apple breathed a sigh of relief after they cast their blessing on the iPhone. Walt Mossberg, the chief technology writer at The Wall Street Journal and David Pogue, who holds a similar post at The New York Times, today posted largely glowing reviews of the company's new phone/iPod/handheld computer, which goes on sale at 6pm on Friday. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1993923.ece us: Pooh-poohing iPhone damage to Nokia (Reuters) Nokia is headed toward 40 percent global-market share and Apple's iPhone won't make a dent in that, according to a U.S. distributor of mobiles and other wireless devices. http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6193528.html Global mobile phone use to pass 3 billion (Reuters) Global mobile phone use will pass the 3 billion mark -- equivalent to half the world's population -- for the first time in 2007 as mobile phone demand booms in China, India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKL2712199720070627 ***** SPAM ***** US porn spammers guilty as charged Two men who ran a spam operation to promote pornographic websites had the book thrown at them today. A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona convicted Jeffrey Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California and James Schaffer, 41 of Paradise Valley, Arizona of eight counts, including conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and transportation of obscene materials. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/can_spam_convictions/ http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000756 Accused Spammer To Decide Fate Of Anti-Spam Crusader ... In a courtroom drama that's dragged on for more than two years, Mumma initially sued Bohan and her business associates, alleging that they sent 11 unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to Mumma's [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, even after he verbally requested the e-mails be stopped, in violation of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, or Can-Spam, Act of 2003. A Virginia court, while empathetic regarding the annoying and often expensive problems that spam causes, nonetheless ruled last November that Mumma didn't have the right to call Bohan or her businesses "spammers." http://informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001079 *************** DIGITAL DIVIDE *************** Social sites reveal class divide Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study. A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6236628.stm http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/ http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2111488,00.html http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html ************ FILE SHARING ************ TorrentSpy begins weeding out copyright content TorrentSpy, the torrent-file search engine accused by Hollywood of aiding copyright violators, plans to remove links from its search results to pirated content using a new filtering system. http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9734127-7.html YouTube copyright fight hinges on whether it controls its content, says US court The first stage in the first copyright infringement suit against video sharing giant YouTube has ended in stalemate. Both sides in the fight applied for an initial judgment against the other, but neither was granted and the case will now proceed further. http://out-law.com/page-8180 ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Hi Stu, you don't know me but ... big hug! xxx Since when did it become OK to sign off work emails with kisses? Stuart Jeffries laments the rise of bogus email intimacy: Recently, I got an email complaining about an article I'd written. It happens. The angry tone was nothing if not consistent until very near the end. One question. After all that rage, why did she sign off with her first name and two kisses? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2111374,00.html ******************* TELECOMMUNICATIONS ******************* au: Behind the bullying on broadband by Paul Budde The interesting thing about the bickering between the Government and Opposition on broadband is that they are both right. From my position as an independent observer, it really doesn't matter who gets the broadband ball rolling, as long as we do get that ball rolling. http://australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21969346-5013046,00.html au: Coonan's 'equal opportunity' broadband The details of a scheme that promises the most far-flung Aussies a chance to get the same broadband that their city-dwelling cousins have had for some time have been unveiled. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Coonan-s-equal-opportunity-broadband/0,130061791,339279025,00.htm au: Labor whips up anger over broadband deal Labor is encouraging losing bidders for the federal Government's now $1billion rural and regional broadband subsidy to consider a complaint to the Auditor-General over the tenders for the grants. http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21968351-2702,00.html au: Broadband spectrum stoush looms Wireless internet service providers are preparing to push back against the federal Government's $1.9 billion broadband plan, as static builds over the proposal's impact on spectrum around the country. http://australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21967054-15306,00.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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