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Repression continues in China, one year before Olympic Games
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=174

China tightens control of net
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/10/china.internet

uk: Web porn and video games review launched
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2621650.ece

au: Is NetAlert looking out for kids or looking for votes?
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Is-NetAlert-looking-out-for-kids-or-looking-for-votes-/0,130061733,339282683,00.htm

YouTube guide to hacking Australian Government's porn filter
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22565604-421,00.html

nz: Cyber crims have swag of tricks
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1396982

Clinton: Internet Access Key to Economy [AP]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101001261.html

Telcos, Spying and the Internet: A Bad Mix
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/telcos-spying-and-the-in_b_67936.html

US Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
http://nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html

Getting online a mission for Cuba's bloggers [Reuters]
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN2428363120071010

Britain's '11 minutes a day' Facebook habit
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2629995.ece

U.K. Social Networking Site Usage Highest in Europe
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1801

Ultrahigh-speed Internet2 gets 10x boost in anticipation of particle collider 
for physicists [AP]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/11/1191696027623.html

us: 100Gbps Internet2 is ready
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/internet2_100gbps_completed/

FTC Comes Down Hard on Spammers
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=136032

Internet revolution reaches India's poor
http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/10/asia/jobs.php

The Myth of Infinite Bandwidth by Allan Leinwand
http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101011_myth_of_infinite_bandwidth/


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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Repression continues in China, one year before Olympic Games
When the International Olympic Committee assigned the 2008 summer Olympic Games 
to Beijing on 13 July 2001, the Chinese police were intensifying a crackdown on 
subversive elements, including Internet users and journalists. Six years later, 
nothing has changed. But despite the absence of any significant progress in 
free speech and human rights in China, the IOC’s members continue to turn a 
deaf ear to repeated appeals from international organisations that condemn the 
scale of the repression.
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=174

Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding 
to Policy Needs [purchase required]
As the world interconnects, science, technology and innovation policies cannot 
be seen as standing alone. There is a growing interest from central banks and 
ministries of finance in improving the understanding of how science, technology 
and innovation create value in the form of increased productivity and profits, 
and contribute to the valuation of enterprises, and ultimately stimulate the 
growth and competitiveness of economies. This conference proceedings of the 
OECD Blue Sky II Forum describes some of the policy needs, measurement issues, 
and challenges in describing cross-cutting and emerging topics in science, 
technology and innovation (STI). It also presents ideas to exploit existing 
data and develop new frameworks of measurement in order to guide future 
development of STI indicators at the OECD and beyond.
http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?sf1=identifiers〈=EN&st1=922007121p1

OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: South Africa [purchase required]
A comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of South Africa, focusing 
on the role of government, and providing concrete recommendations on how to 
improve policies which impact on innovation performance, including R&D 
policies. Post-apartheid South Africa has succeeded in swiftly opening its 
economy to international trade and capital flows, and in stabilising the 
economy while achieving reasonably good growth performance, mainly driven by 
productivity gains. However, important socio-economic problems persist, 
especially unemployment, poverty and the exclusion of a large fraction of the 
population from the formal economy. The country is now in the middle of two 
more specifically economic transitions: i) responding to globalisation and ii) 
transforming the structure of the economy away from its former heavy dependence 
on primary resource production and associated commodity-based industries. In 
this context, enhancing innovation capabilities is key
 to a sustained improvement of living standards based on productivity-driven 
growth.This review assesses the national innovation system of South Africa from 
this perspective, identifying areas and means for improvement with an emphasis 
on the role of public research organisations and policies.
http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?sf1=identifiers〈=EN&st1=922007091p1

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CENSORSHIP
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China tightens control of net
Censorship of the internet in China is becoming more draconian, according to 
new details of Beijing's online restrictions published by human rights 
organisations. The claims come in a report from international journalism 
watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres and the China Human Rights Defenders group, 
which examines the way the Chinese government reacts to free speech on the 
internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/10/china.internet

China's censors tighten grip on Net [Reuters]
Internet censors in China are becoming more systematic and sophisticated in how 
they monitor the Web and eradicate content, according to a Chinese technician 
working for an Internet firm. In a report published Wednesday by Reporters 
Without Borders and the group China Human Rights Defenders, the unnamed author 
details the secret workings of a censorship machine that spans the information 
ministry, the State Council, or cabinet, the Communist Party's propaganda 
department and the police. 
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6212736.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKHKG27897020071010
http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6212736.html

Rights Group Condemns China Net Controls [AP]
An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news 
and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of 
censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/10/1191695993302.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/10/1191695993302.html

Beijing's Olympian censorship machine laid bare
A democracy activist working undercover at a Chinese internet company has 
exposed how the Beijing government is strangling online dissent ahead of next 
year's Olympics.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/china_rwb_mr_tao_censorship/

Jordan jails royal critic over e-mails [Reuters]
A critic of Jordan's royal family was sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday 
for sending e-mails abroad that the court ruled to be carrying "false news" and 
harmful to the dignity of the state. The verdict against Ahmad Oweidi 
al-Abbadi, after a two-month trial, comes at a time that human rights groups 
are voicing concern about what they call an official clampdown on the media.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL095910320071009
http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6212485.html

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Web porn and video games review launched
The clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Byron today launched a review of the risks 
to children and young people exposed to potentially harmful material on screen. 
Dr Byron, the parenting expert and Times columnist best known for her BBC 
series House of Tiny Tearaways, was appointed by the Government last month to 
head an inquiry into the impact of violent video games and internet pornography 
on children. 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2621650.ece

uk: New technology undermining childhood
Parents are "ill-equipped" to keep their children safe from violent and 
damaging influences on the internet, the British Government said on Tuesday. 
Few families are aware of the extreme images in many video games and websites 
used by thousands of young people every day, it is claimed Ed Balls, the 
Children's Secretary, said only one-in-20 parents knew that many children gave 
out personal details online, raising fresh fears that uncontrolled access to 
new technology may be undermining childhood.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/10/ninternet110.xml

uk: Games violence study is launched
The government is asking for evidence for a new study of the effect of violent 
computer games on children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7034179.stm

au: Conference told of AFP action against sex predator
Australian Federal Police (AFP) say they are aware of cases of sexual predators 
using the internet to gain the trust of parents to get access to their children.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/09/2054954.htm

au: Is NetAlert looking out for kids or looking for votes?
commentary: Time for a quick poll. Hands up if you've downloaded one of those 
NetAlert family-friendly Internet filters the federal government has been 
spruiking. Anyone? I'm curious. Curious because when the federal government 
dishes out AU$189 million to "protect our children" from the bad ol' Internet, 
it smells of electioneering. Curious because when ZDNet Australia asked the 
Department for Communications, IT and the Arts how many Australians have 
downloaded the filters since the campaign started a month ago, we've been given 
short shrift.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Is-NetAlert-looking-out-for-kids-or-looking-for-votes-/0,130061733,339282683,00.htm

YouTube guide to hacking Australian Government's porn filter
The 16-year-old school boy who cracked the Government's $80 million porn filter 
in August, declaring it a waste of money, has done it again. This time he has 
posted a YouTube video handbook on his blog site instructing kids on how to 
hack around "all" the Federal Government's filters.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22565604-421,00.html

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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nz: Cyber crims have swag of tricks
A New Zealand internet safety watchdog believes more needs to be done to catch 
cyber criminals.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1396982

Associated Press sues VeriSign over news Web site [Reuters]
The Associated Press is suing VeriSign Inc to stop its online subsidiary 
Moreover Technologies Inc from publishing AP news reports without permission.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0944029720071009

AP sues VeriSign's Moreover news aggregator [IDG]
The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against VeriSign Inc. over its Moreover 
news aggregation services in a case reminiscent of a dispute between news 
services and Google News.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041779
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/10/AP-sues-VeriSign-Moreover-news-aggregator_1.html

Nigerian "419" e-mail scammers targeted in 80 arrests around the world
An international crackdown on e-mail scammers and telephone fraudsters has led 
to at least 80 arrests and the seizure of almost £8 million worth of fake 
cheques and postal orders heading for the UK.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2589039.ece

Cybercriminals Could Steal Elections, Security Researcher Warns
Cybercriminals could imperil the 2008 presidential election and the U.S 
political process, according to a forthcoming book. Titled Crimeware and edited 
by Markus Jakobsson, a professor at the Indiana University School of 
Informatics, and Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal security researcher with 
Symantec, the book details various forms of cybercrime. It is scheduled for 
publication in February.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202401113

Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip: Enemy Vanishes From Its Web Sites
Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American 
intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech 
inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system. The 
intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American 
intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a 
full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden's first 
appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of 
the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site 
of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.
http://nysun.com/article/64163

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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EU privacy body to take months on Google probe [Reuters]
The European Union's data watchdog will take another few months to decide 
whether Google or other Web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a 
participant in the watchdog's meeting said on Wednesday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKL1024493820071010
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6212794.html
http://www.news.com/2100-1029_3-6212794.html

Google-DoubleClick deal seen winning approval [Reuters]
Antitrust experts predict that Google's purchase of advertising company 
DoubleClick for $3.1 billion will be approved by U.S. regulators despite 
vehement opposition from competitors Microsoft and Yahoo. 
http://www.news.com/2100-1024_3-6212726.html

Clinton: Internet Access Key to Economy [AP]
Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called for a national 
broadband Internet system and permanent research tax credits, while also 
quoting comedian Stephen Colbert for the second time in a week in a swipe at 
the Bush administration. Clinton said that if elected she would invest in 
high-tech fields in order to sustain the high-tech jobs that are critical to 
economic prosperity and strengthening the middle class.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101001261.html

Telcos, Spying and the Internet: A Bad Mix
It seems as if the only time Republican policymakers care about our poor 
telephone companies is when they want to protect the companies from liability 
from illegal spying or when they want to allow the companies to strengthen 
their hold over the economy.
Neither approach is particularly helpful, although anytime telecom issues get 
into the news, well, that's news. If the Republican presidential debate last 
night showed anything, it was that both the moderators and the contestants are 
woefully ignorant about the trends and issues in the industry that makes a lot 
of this economy go.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/telcos-spying-and-the-in_b_67936.html

US Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers 
won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make 
concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National 
Security Agency. Administration officials say they are confident they will win 
approval of the broadened authority that they secured temporarily in August as 
Congress rushed toward recess. Some Democratic officials concede that they may 
not come up with enough votes to stop approval.
http://nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html

us: Wiretap laws face new static
A political debate about how to craft U.S. wiretapping laws has run aground on 
what might seem to be a minor point: should telecommunications companies that 
may have illegally opened their networks to intelligence agencies be immunized 
from lawsuits?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6212777.html

NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World
A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's 
internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, 
where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security 
Agency will be free to continue tapping it.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/domestic_taps

California state site can't shake porn problems [IDG]
The Web site blamed for last week's Internet problems within the State of 
California has been taken offline after links to pornographic material 
reappeared on the site. The Transportation Authority of Marin's tam.ca.gov Web 
site was offline Wednesday, its front page replaced with a placeholder page 
saying it is down for maintenance.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/10/California-state-site-cant-shake-porn-problems_1.html

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INTERNET USE
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Getting online a mission for Cuba's bloggers [Reuters]
When 32-year-old Yoani Sanchez wants to update her blog about daily life in 
Cuba, she dresses like a tourist and strides confidently into a Havana hotel, 
greeting the staff in German. That is because Cubans like Sanchez are not 
authorised to use hotel internet connections, which are reserved for foreigners.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN2428363120071010
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10469025
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/11/2056401.htm
http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/10/business/cubablog.php

China jails woman for posing as teenage rape victim on the Internet [AP]
Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage 
rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/10/1191695983290.html

Britain's '11 minutes a day' Facebook habit
Britons spend an average of 5.8 hours a month on social networking sites — 
nearly twice that of any other European country
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2629995.ece

Koreans Resort to Internet to Buy Sex [AP]
South Koreans are increasingly turning to the Internet and mobile phones to buy 
sex following a tougher anti-prostitution law in 2004 targeting brothels.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/11/1191696000412.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/11/1191696000412.html

Toyota Ad Shows How Game Is Changing
Advertisers are increasingly looking to reach into the game world -- to win the 
attention of people who spend more time with a game controller than with a TV 
remote.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100901970.html

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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U.K. Social Networking Site Usage Highest in Europe
comScore released a report into the online habits of the U.K.’s social 
networking community, based on data collected through the comScore Segment 
Metrix H/M/L analytical tool, released last month. Social networking sites such 
as Bebo.com, Facebook.com and MySpace.com facilitate informal communications 
and information sharing across the Internet. The European social networking 
community stood at 127.3 million unique visitors in August – reaching 56 
percent of the European online population. U.K. participation in social 
networking usage proved to be the highest in Europe, with 24.9 million unique 
visitors – 78 percent of the total U.K. online population – now belonging to 
the country’s social networking community.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1801

Experts: Security Flaws Vary on Social Networking Sites
Individuals are more insulated from spam or worms on LinkedIn than you would be 
on MySpace -- but your organization may be more susceptible to a targeted 
attack via the business-oriented social networking site. This is just one 
example of the differences in vulnerabilities found in the three most popular 
social networking sites: MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Although the three 
sites have previously been painted with a broad security brush, each carries 
its own unique risks, experts say.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=136035

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Nobel prize for men who made iPod possible
Two scientists whose work made possible the development of the iPod and 
powerful laptop computers were rewarded yesterday with the Nobel Prize for 
Physics. Albert Fert, a Frenchman, and Peter Grünberg, a German, have been 
jointly honoured for creating the technology used to read data on hard disks.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2622998.ece

German, French Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
If you're reading this article or own anything with a hard drive, chances are 
good that you owe a debt of gratitude to the two men -- France's Albert Fert 
and Germany's Peter Grünberg -- awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,510425,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/10/1191695978295.html [AFP]

Ultrahigh-speed Internet2 gets 10x boost in anticipation of particle collider 
for physicists [AP]
The ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in 
anticipation of rising demand for capacity after the world's largest particle 
collider opens near Geneva next year.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/11/1191696027623.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/11/1191696027623.html

us: 100Gbps Internet2 is ready
New improvements to the high speed Internet2 network infrastructure are 
completed and primed with 100Gbps capacity for US research and education 
communities.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/internet2_100gbps_completed/
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071009/netu139.html

au: New TVs may soon be relics
Most current plasma TV models would be banned from sale in Australia as early 
as October next year under onerous mandatory energy requirements recommended in 
a report.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/10/1191695979285.html

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SPAM
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FTC Comes Down Hard on Spammers
In the past two days, the Federal Trade Commission has filed two cases that 
could make spammers think twice about the lists they use and the claims they 
make. Earlier today, the FTC slapped a complaint against eHealthylife.com, an 
international group of companies and individuals that has been using email to 
market Hoodia as a means of weight loss and Human Growth Hormone (HGH) as a 
method of reversing the aging process. In both cases, the FTC said the claims 
are unsubstantiated and ordered the company to stop making them. 
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=136032

FTC targets spammers hawking weight-loss products [IDG]
An international enterprise must stop sending unsolicited e-mail advertising 
human growth hormone (HGH) and weight-loss products using the hoodia gordonii 
plant under a court order obtained by the Federal Trade Commission.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9042061
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/10/FTC-targets-spammers-hawking-weight-loss_1.html

FTC Stops International Spamming Enterprise that Sold Bogus Hoodia and Human 
Growth Hormone Pills [news release]
Spammers must stop sending unwanted and illegal e-mail messages about hoodia 
weight-loss products and human growth hormone anti-aging products that the 
Federal Trade Commission alleges don’t work. At the FTC’s request, a district 
court judge ordered a halt to the e-mails and to product claims that the FTC 
charges are false and unsubstantiated. The law enforcement action, announced 
today at an international meeting of government authorities and private 
industry about spam, spyware, and other online threats, is the first brought by 
the agency using the U.S. SAFE WEB Act to share information with foreign 
partners.
http://ftc.gov/opa/2007/10/hoodia.shtm

FTC Charges Seven Online Sellers of Alternative Hormone Replacement Therapy 
with Failing to Substantiate Products’ Health Claims [news release]
The Federal Trade Commission today announced complaints against seven online 
sellers of alternative hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products, alleging 
that they made health claims for their natural progesterone creams without 
supporting scientific evidence. Six of the sellers have signed consent orders 
barring them from making such unsubstantiated claims in the future. The seventh 
did not respond to staff’s repeated contacts, and the case will now be heard by 
an administrative law judge.
http://ftc.gov/opa/2007/10/hormonethrpy.shtm

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Internet revolution reaches India's poor
Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, workmen like Manohar, a 
house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients' computers on the job 
here. So you can imagine Manohar's wonder as he sat dictating his date of 
birth, phone number and work history to a secretary who entered them into a 
computer. Afterward, a man took his photo. Then, with a click of a mouse, 
Manohar's very own social-networking page popped onto the World Wide Web, the 
newest profile on Babajob.com.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/10/asia/jobs.php

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Google to Put YouTube Videos on Its Ad Network
The new service represents Google’s first steps toward turning its powerful ad 
network, which places ads on Internet sites, into a system for distributing 
content.
http://nytimes.com/2007/10/09/technology/09google.html
http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/09/business/google.php

us: 'Old fuddy-duddy' fights back over Google sacking
Google's reputation as a hip and happening employer was cemented earlier this 
year when Fortune magazine anointed the Silicon Valley outfit as America's Best 
Company to Work For. ... But not everyone considers the Googleplex to be a 
workers' paradise - especially not Brian Reid, an experienced computer 
scientist on the north side of 50. Google's former director of operations and 
engineering has been locked in a legal battle with his erstwhile employer for 
the past three years over a case of wrongful dismissal.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/09/1191695903315.html

What future has the Thunderbird email program got? by Jack Schofield
At the moment, it looks increasingly like "not much", because the only two paid 
programmers on this open source project have just quit. As the email companion 
to the Firefox browser, Thunderbird should have flown to success, if only on 
joint promotion. Instead, Mozilla seems to have neglected it and another 
companion program, the Sunbird calendar. The latter has been discontinued.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/11/news.guardianweeklytechnologysection

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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The Myth of Infinite Bandwidth by Allan Leinwand
Back in the late 1990s I was often asked what I thought would happen if 
Internet bandwidth was infinite -- what would that change about the Internet 
itself? Level 3's (LVLT) recent decision to slash prices on its content 
distribution network and rumors of new multi-terabit cables across the Pacific 
have me wondering if we are actually getting closer to having infinite 
bandwidth. But when replying to the infinite bandwidth question I was prone to 
posing a return question -- what does infinite bandwidth actually mean?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101011_myth_of_infinite_bandwidth/

uk: ISPs criticised for overstating broadband speeds
The Ofcom Consumer Panel has written to the country's largest ISPs to demand 
changes to their broadband sales practices
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39289926,00.htm

uk: Net firms quizzed on speed limits
Top British net firms are asked to explain why broadband speeds often fall 
short of what is advertised.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7037278.stm

ISP bosses told to get real on broadband speeds
Ofcom's independent consumer quango has called on ISP bosses to ensure people 
feel less cheated by the broadband packages they advertise. Dissent has been 
mounting over "up to" advertising of broadband speeds. For most consumers, an 
"up to 8Mbit/s" line will crawl to about half that speed because of contention, 
poor quality wiring and distance from the telephone exchange.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/ocp_isp_speeds/

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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Interpol in appeal to find prolific child abuser
Interpol has launched its first ever appeal for help from the public to boost 
an international hunt for a prolific paedophile pictured on the internet 
abusing boys as young as six.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3041128.ece

Interpol decodes picture to get help in paedophile hunt
An international hunt is under way for a prolific paedophile after police 
experts unscrambled internet images of him that had been digitally altered to 
disguise his identity.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2617606.ece

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David Goldstein
 address: 4/3 Abbott Street
           COOGEE NSW 2034
           AUSTRALIA
 email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au
 phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile); +61 2 9665 5773 (home)
 
"Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. Every time you 
forgo fossil fuels, you're being part of the solution" - Dr Tim Flannery





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