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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/ ********************************************************** Bangladeshi telecommunication regulator tightens grip on the Internet http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24062 us: Department Of Justice Announces Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces In All 50 States [news release] http://justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/October/07_ojp_061.html NZ Parents face real bills for fantasy real estate http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4245693a28.html Media, Web Companies Set Copyright Rules http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1673727,00.html Canadians continue to think personal information not well protected: Tabling of Privacy Commissioner of Canadas Annual Report on the Privacy Act [news release] http://privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2007/nr-c_071017_e.asp Czech president endorses bill punishing child porno possession http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=277113 us: Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/us/nationalspecial3/20nsa.html http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20sat1.html us: Immunity for Telecoms May Set Bad Precedent, Legal Scholars Say http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101041.html Austria plans to start conducting secret online searches in 2008 http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97595 Google Under Fire in Brazil Over a Controversial Site http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119273558149563775.html Allensbach analysis shows television is losing viewers to the internet in Germany http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97520 Spammers pump up volume with major spoken scam slam http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043242 Google, Intel, Nokia boost sector hopes [IDG] http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/18/Google-Intel-Nokia-boost-sector-hopes_1.html InternetNZ uncertain if TSO should cover broadband http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4246659a28.html More than 100 times faster than Wi-Fi? http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62033597,00.htm WiMax approved as a global third-generation communications standard http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/business/wimax.php http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/technology/20wimax.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119281823806765074.html Paedophile suspect Neil arrested http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7052065.stm Thai police arrest paedophile suspect http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2194830,00.html uk: Chris Langham loses appeal on sentence http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7052364.stm ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Australian game censors go for the jugular Australia's draconian classification regime for video games has taken yet another scalp, with local retailers banned from selling the upcoming shooter title Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/18/1192300936928.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/18/1192300936928.html http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4243564a28.html Internet ban is clue to Chinas new leaders Chinese people who want to know the identity of the man who will be their leader into the next decade should log on to the internet. But in a country where politics are opaque and the media is banned from reporting such state secrets as the lineup of the new Politburo Standing Committee, the clues to their identities lie in what is prohibited. In the past few days it has become impossible in China to include the names Xi Jinping or Li Keqiang in a blog. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2690168.ece China Blocks YouTube, Restores Flickr and Blogspot [IDG] China's Web viewers can no longer access YouTube, but Blogspot.com and Flickr photos are now available. China watchers, get your scorecards out: Google Inc.'s YouTube is blocked, Wikipedia is still blocked, but, for the moment, Google blog site Blogspot.com is available and some pictures from Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr photos can once again be viewed. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138599-c,sites/article.html cn: YouTube inaccessible and Google partially blocked Reporters Without Borders today accused the Chinese government of blocking access to part of the Internet during the Communist Partys 17th congress, which began on 15 October. Googles blog search engine (http://www.blogsearch.google.com) and the video-sharing website YouTube have been inaccessible since 17 October. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24087 Bangladeshi telecommunication regulator tightens grip on the Internet Reporters Without Borders condemned the tightening grip of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on the countrys Internet after it ordered all access providers to supply details of their customers, in a bid to combat illegal Internet telephone services. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24062 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Keeping Your Kids Safe Online No one knows better than 19-year-old Alicia Kozakiewicz just how the Web can be used to wreak havoc on a child's life. Six years ago, she arranged a meeting with a friend she'd met online, who described "herself" as a 12-year-old redhead. Instead, she found Scott Tyree, a middle aged man who kidnapped her, imprisoned her and abused her physically and sexually for days before she was rescued by FBI agents. "I discovered that the boogey man is real, and that he lives on the Web," she told congress Thursday at a judiciary committee hearing called to consider toughening online sexual predator laws. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/19/online-predators-children-technology-personaltech_cx_ag_1022safekid.html us: Department Of Justice Announces Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces In All 50 States [news release] The Department of Justice announced today that 13 new state and local law enforcement agencies will receive more than $3 million to form Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces in their regions. The funding marks the presence of ICAC task forces in all 50 states, and will support a seamless network making communities and children safer nationwide. http://justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/October/07_ojp_061.html us: Christian group pushing to filter porn from San Jose libraries A Christian group led in part by a former San Jose city councilman is pushing for anti-pornography filters on computers at the city's public libraries. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7225171 NZ Parents face real bills for fantasy real estate Teenagers are using their parents' credit cards to buy thousands of dollars' worth of virtual property, including real estate, on websites such as Second Life. http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4245693a28.html au: Trouble in Cyberia To fight cyberbullying, parents and schools need to better understand the technology, writes Elisabeth Tarica. It is a common scenario: late at night, a boyfriend and girlfriend chat online via webcam. He wants her to take her clothes off or to perform a sex act. It's just between them, he tells her. He won't share it. She is reluctant but trusts him. Weeks later, they break up and the images are posted online with a potential audience of millions. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/19/1192301048347.html uk: How far would you go? She's 14, looks 18, and is full of attitude. You want to find out what's going on in her world ... Sophie Radice talks to parents who snoop on their teens' cyber secrets http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,,2195310,00.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** Media companies unveil copyright guidelines for online content Some of the world's biggest Internet and media companies have joined together to offer a set of guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online. The idea is to enable the growth and development of user-generated content online without violating the copyrights of the content owners, according to a statement released by CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks Inc., Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043251 http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138644/article.html Media companies in copyright pact, Google absent [Reuters] Viacom Inc., Walt Disney Co., Microsoft Corp. and other media companies have agreed to a set of guidelines to protect copyrights online but Google Inc., owner of the Web's biggest video site, was notably absent from the pact. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN1844627720071018 http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-copy19oct19,1,4576010.story Media, Web Companies Set Copyright Rules Conspicuously absent was Google Inc., whose YouTube Web site this week rolled out its own technology to filter copyrighted videos once they've been posted. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1673727,00.html Media groups challenge Google on copyright Media groups including Disney, News Corp and Microsoft agreed a set of standards to govern the way that copyright law and anti-piracy measures should be applied to video and music on the internet http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e1cd1c0e-7d89-11dc-9f47-0000779fd2ac.html uk: Warning to abusive bloggers as judge tells site to reveal names Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club's bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/22/news.blogging Research Shows Image-Based Exploits on the Rise Until recently, steganography, the stealth technique of hiding text or images within image files, has mostly been considered too complex -- and conspicuous -- to be much of a threat. But some forensics experts now worry that the bad guys are starting to use the tactic more frequently, especially in child pornography and identity theft trafficking. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=136702 In millions of Windows, the perfect Storm is gathering A spectre is haunting the net but, outside of techie circles, nobody seems to be talking about it. The threat it represents to our security and wellbeing may be less dramatic than anything posed by global terrorism, but it has the potential to wreak much more havoc. And so far, nobody has come up with a good idea on how to counter it. It's called the Storm worm. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195730,00.html What to Do About Pixels of Hate One by one, starting a few weeks ago, 40 militant Islamist Web sites got knocked off the Internet. Gone were some of the worlds most active jihadi sites, with forums full of extremist chatter. This disappearance mystified American counterterrorism officials. They hadnt shut them down, they knew, so who had? http://nytimes.com/2007/10/21/weekinreview/21moss.html ca: Sheet music site forced offline A Canadian website which offered versions of sheet music - mostly from long dead composers - has been forced to close after receiving a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing a German music publisher. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/22/music_scores_taken_down/ ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Canadians continue to think personal information not well protected: Tabling of Privacy Commissioner of Canadas Annual Report on the Privacy Act [news release] Canadians overwhelmingly feel their personal information is less well protected than it was a decade ago, and they are right to be worried, says the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart. http://privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2007/nr-c_071017_e.asp ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** Czech president endorses bill punishing child porno possession Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed a bill stipulating punishment for the possession of child pornography into law today, Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek told CTK today. Under the bill that was passed by the Chamber of Deputies in September people will face up to two years in prison for "keeping photographic, film, computer, electronic or other pornographic material made with children as models or for abusing children in any other way." http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=277113 eu: Microsoft to carry out EU ruling Microsoft agrees to comply with the European Commission's 2004 anti-monopoly ruling against it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7056288.stm us: Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making Last June, in a phone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney, John D. Rockefeller IV, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, set down his conditions for revising the law governing the National Security Agencys eavesdropping. Only when the committee got access to secret administration documents authorizing surveillance without court warrants, Mr. Rockefeller told the vice president, would it consider such legislation. http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/us/nationalspecial3/20nsa.html Editorial: With Democrats Like These ... Every now and then, we are tempted to double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year. It was particularly hard to tell this week. Democratic leaders were cowed, once again, by propaganda from the White House and failed, once again, to modernize the law on electronic spying in a way that permits robust intelligence gathering on terrorists without undermining the Constitution. http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20sat1.html us: Immunity for Telecoms May Set Bad Precedent, Legal Scholars Say When previous Republican administrations were accused of illegality in the FBI and CIA spying abuses of the 1970s or the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, Democrats in Congress launched investigations or pushed for legislative reforms. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101041.html us: Conmen hijack eBay user identities Foreign criminals are stealing the credentials of British users of the internet auction site eBay to perpetrate large-scale fraud. An investigation has identified one German-based fraudster who hijacked more than 30 accounts and used them to fleece UK car buyers. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2702642.ece us: Proposed Law Could Be a Cold Shower for YouPorn YouPorn is the highest trafficked adult website in the world and boasts a higher Alexa rating than both CNN and Weather.com, reports Portfolio. Saw that one coming, didn't we? But YouPorn and other blue Web 2.0 startups could be out of business in the near future if proposed changes to 18 U.S.C. 2257 are accepted into law. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/10/sexdrive_1019 us: The Role of Competition in a National Broadband Policy [news release] There is perhaps no issue more central to the debate about broadband policy than the state of and role of competition. Indeed, the issue of competition drives many of the debates over broadband, including net neutrality, wireless spectrum auctions, municipal broadband, and unbundling proposals. Although some advocates claim that the current state of broadband competition is more than adequate, others decry market conditions and seek proactive public policies to spur more competition. Yet almost everyone involved in broadband policy in the United States agrees that regardless of the current state of competition, more competition is better. The stated reason is that more competition leads to lower prices, higher speeds, broader deployment, more innovation, and better customer service. http://innovationpolicy.org/index.php?id=87 us: Broadband Regulation Needed to Improve Access Competition may not fix problems with broadband speed and cost in the U.S., because of the high cost of entry into the market, the leader of a technology think tank said Friday. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/138711/broadband_regulation_needed_to_improve_access.html Austria plans to start conducting secret online searches in 2008 It is planned that the police will use online searches in Austria from autumn 2008 onwards. According to a report of the radio station Ö1, the Minister of Justice, Maria Berger (SPÖ) [Social Democratic Party of Austria] and her colleague, the Minister for Internal Affairs, Günther Platter (ÖVP) [Austrian People's Party] have agreed to this. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97595 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Google Under Fire in Brazil Over a Controversial Site Google Inc. makes billions marrying advertising to the Web. Just yesterday, it reported yet another surge in revenue and profit. But here in Brazil, the Internet powerhouse is embroiled in an embarrassing episode over its efforts to profit from social networking, one of the fastest-growing activities online. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119273558149563775.html Australian government rejects broadband claim The government has bristled at claims it has left Australia in an electronic dark age, after Labor released research placing it 26th out of 30 developed countries for broadband internet transfer speeds. The study by the Washington-based independent think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said Australia pays nine times more for broadband than most other western nations. It also claimed Australian broadband was 35 times slower. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/20/1192301085419.html Broadband a Third World joke Australians are paying nine times more for broadband that trundles along 35 times slower than the world's fastest networks. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22616385-2,00.html Broadband at Third World standards: Labor Federal Labor says its plan for Australia's broadband network will produce speeds 40 times faster than the current standards. A new report from the US has found Australians are paying nine times more for broadband than other western nations, and download speeds are 35 times slower than the leader Japan. http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/20/2064984.htm Allensbach analysis shows television is losing viewers to the internet in Germany The ACTA 2007 analysis of computer and technology usage, presented on Tuesday, is based on a survey of 10,000 people by the Allensbach opinion polling institute. According to the report, 84 percent of under 65s have a computer in the home. 66 percent access the internet at home. Whilst the proportion of private internet users in general rose by just 6 percent to 35.8 million, the number with a DSL connection rose from 35 to 48 percent. As the study notes, this is a significantly larger rate of increase than would be expected from the number of people expressing buying intentions a year ago. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97520 ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Why eBay Isn't More Social Is eBay missing the boat by not throwing itself into the blossoming social networking space? That was the question posed in myriad ways to Meg Whitman, the online auction giant's chief executive, at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Thursday morning. Timing matters: A day earlier, eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) reported a $937 million third-quarter loss due to charges related to its Skype phone service. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/18/ebay-whitman-web-technology-internet-cx_wt_1018ebay.html MySpace Is a Treasure Chest for Cases At Malbrough & Lirette in Houma, La., a secretary browses MySpace and Facebook Web sites each day. She's not checking the online social networking sites for personal reasons; she is performing one of her job duties. "It's an everyday occasion," said Joan Malbrough, a partner at the three-attorney firm, which handles family law, personal injury and corporate law matters. "Every new client we do a MySpace and Facebook search on to see if they or their spouse have any useful information." http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1192611803361 Internet companies: Social graph-iti A new fad is sweeping across Silicon Valley, causing excitement, confusion and hyperbole not seen since the dotcom bubble. It began in May, when Mark Zuckerberg, ten days after turning 23, took the stage in a San Francisco warehouse and announced that he was opening up Facebook, the social network he founded at Harvard University, to outside programmers. Anyone can now build little programs, or widgets, into the network. To illustrate his idea, Mr Zuckerberg projected onto the wall behind him a social grapha pattern of nodes representing Facebook users and the links among them. http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9990635 ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Apple now sells 1 in 12 U.S. computers Apple Inc.'s share of the U.S. computer market climbed again last quarter, two research firms said today, and the company now has a solid lock on third place behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043244 Technology giants spark innovation free-for-all The starting gun was fired today by the world's leading technology companies in the race to offer services via the 'internet of the future'. Apple, MySpace, and Nokia, three of the biggest technology firms offering internet or internet-related services, have announced they would allow other companies to provide products which would work on their web platforms. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2684363.ece Tag, You're It - RFID tags You've probably never seen an RFID tag, but chances are there's one within 10 ft. of you. An RFID tag--it stands for radio-frequency identification--is a tiny device consisting of a very small chip attached to a very small antenna. The chip is no great shakes, but it doesn't have to be; it just stores one very large number. When the RFID tag hears a particular radio signal, it responds by broadcasting back the number in its chip. That's its entire purpose in life. Some prototype RFID tags are about the size of a grain of ground pepper. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1673283,00.html ********************** SPAM ********************** Spammers pump up volume with major spoken scam slam Spammers started delivering spoken messages last night, the newest twist on the ongoing pump-and-dump scam, several security researchers said today. According to analysts, the spam is coming from the individual or gang responsible for the Storm Trojan, and is being sent from a piece of the Storm-built botnet that was recently split off from the core group of compromised computers. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043242 http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1948437951;fp;2;fpid;1 Spammers' new MP3 trick may be short-lived [IDG] A variation of spam is sliding past spam filters into inboxes, but it's not likely the new trick will be successful much longer, a security expert said Thursday. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/18/Spammers-new-MP3-trick-may-be-short-lived_1.html http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;504328614;fp;2;fpid;1 Do Spammers Change Their Tactics Based on Recipient Verification? Yes, They Do by Terry Zink Or, to be more precise, it sure looks like they do. I wrote on another post on a publicly available spam tool, and I mentioned that I came across a page that allowed people to verify whether or not an email address is actually live. The question naturally arises: do spammers clean up their email contact lists based upon whether or not the address is legitimate? Spammers would have an incentive to do this... Do we actually observe spammers changing their sending patterns? I believe that we have evidence that they do. http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101914_spammers_tactics_recipient_verification/ ********************** FILE SHARING ********************** YouTube's Filter Fails to Please Last April, Googler-in-Chief Eric Schmidt assured an audience at the Web 2.0 Expo that the issue fueling Viacom's massive lawsuit against his company--alleged copyright infringement on YouTube--would become "moot" as soon as Google rolled out a new tool for managing content. On Monday, Google announced the arrival of that panacea, a new video filter designed to stem the massive flow of copyright-violating clips mixed into YouTube's user generated content. Schmidt's promise that the filter would sort out YouTube's mounting legal problems, however, hasn't materialized. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/18/google-viacom-video-tech-cx_ag_1018youtube.html Rejoice! Every "Daily Show" ever is now online Hallelujah, every episode of "The Daily Show" will soon be online! Indeed, a great many episodes are here already. If you're at work today or are taking care of small children, please do not click on this link. It takes you to the amazing new site -- thedailyshow.com -- that Viacom has built for Jon Stewart and his pals, a place where you can find thousands of clips representing every instant of the show since 1999. http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/18/daily_show/ Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online video service. In the ongoing quest to make Internet popularity pay, Viacom's Comedy Central channel today will unveil a website for "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" that's designed to satisfy the most avid fans of the mock-news show with oceans of free video clips. http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-mtv18oct18,1,5303762.story http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138605-page,1/article.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/18/viacom-unveils-new-daily_n_68940.html With Enough Daily Show Clips, Youve Got a Whole Program Much of the coverage of Viacoms new Web site for The Daily Show focuses on the vast archive of clips from past shows it offers. But perhaps more significant is the fact that you can also watch last nights program more or less from start to finish. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/with-enough-daily-show-clips-youve-got-a-whole-program/ ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Google, Intel, Nokia boost sector hopes [IDG] Earnings season is in full swing, and results this week from bellwethers like Google, Intel, and Nokia are fueling hopes for a strong fourth quarter while confirming the investor confidence that has led to a rebound in share prices of technology vendors. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/18/Google-Intel-Nokia-boost-sector-hopes_1.html Google profit soars 46 percent Google said Thursday that third-quarter profit rose 46 percent after extending its lead over Yahoo and selling more ads on YouTube. http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/18/business/google.php Google Earnings Beat EstimatesAgain As a company that regularly beats Wall Street's earnings estimates, Google needed to blow away expectations on Oct. 18 to impress investors who have propelled the stock to record highs in recent days in anticipation of yet another blockbuster quarterly announcement. Anything less and investors would sell off the stock as they had in past quarters when Google just met or narrowly exceeded analysts' projections. http://businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc20071018_203626.htm Google's chiefs face questions following powerful stock surge By not splitting its stock, Google risks hurting itself and the internet sector. This was the thunderous conclusion of research this week by the technology analyst Mark May at Needham & Co, who has become alarmed at the headlines surrounding the Google share price's surge through $600 barely three years after they were floated at $85. http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3070636.ece Nokia Profit Surges 85 Percent Strong demand for low-cost phones in Africa, the Middle East and Asia lifted the companys share of the global market to almost 40 percent. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/technology/18cnd-nokia.html http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/18/business/nokia.php http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/18/Nokia-profit-leaps-on-higher-phone-sales_1.html Economist to put archive online More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2193231,00.html US Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections. http://nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html Network Solutions Releases White Paper Explaining the Importance of Hiring a Professional Web Site Designer [news release] Network Solutions provides guidance to small businesses when it comes to the important task of establishing an online presence. In a new white paper, Why Hire a Professional Web Designer? Network Solutions discusses the importance of a Website with a professional Web site design, as well as helps small businesses determine why and how to hire a professional Web designer. http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=NetworkSolutions&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=212608&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=True&Merge= ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** InternetNZ calls for thorough analysis of rural broadband options [news release] InternetNZ calls on the Government to undertake a thorough analysis of options for improving rural broadband, carving this project out from the current Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO or Kiwi Share) telephony and dial-up reconsiderations. http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/ruraltsosub InternetNZ uncertain if TSO should cover broadband InternetNZ says it has been unable to decide whether the Telecommunications Service Obligation should be extended to guarantee access to broadband as well as phone lines and free local calling. http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4246659a28.html ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** More than 100 times faster than Wi-Fi? Radio scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek are teaming up to develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62033597,00.htm ITU Approves WiMax as Global Standard Once technology rivals, WiMax and 3G are now on the same wireless road after the International Telecommunications Union on Oct. 19 agreed to include WiMax-derived technology in the IMT-2000 set of standards. The decision puts WiMax on equal footing with 3G as a radio interface. IMT-2000 is a global standard set by the ITU that defines the radio interfaces of advanced wireless communications systems. The decision to approve the WiMax as an IMT-2000 technology escalates opportunities for global deployment, especially within the 2.5-2.69GHz band, to deliver mobile Internet to satisfy demand in both rural and urban markets. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2203257,00.asp WiMAX Garners U.N. Endorsement A wireless technology called WiMAX got a key endorsement from a United Nations agency, improving the odds it will be widely deployed. The decision by the International Telecommunications Union came after a lengthy lobbying battle, which pit Intel Corp. and other WiMAX supporters against an opposing camp that included Qualcomm Inc. and Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119281823806765074.html WiMax approved as a global third-generation communications standard The ITU gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson. http://iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/business/wimax.php http://nytimes.com/2007/10/20/technology/20wimax.html Wi-fi security system is 'broken' More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users. The latest attack lets criminals defeat firewalls and spy on where someone goes and what they do online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7052223.stm us: In Search of Wireless Wiggle Room I recently watched a YouTube clip of a young man removing the memory chip from his iPhone with his teeth, in an attempt to unlock the device for use on a network other than the AT&T system for which the phone was exclusively sold. His gyrations were a particularly vivid reminder of the limits imposed on cellphones by the companies that run national wireless networks in the United States. But there are signs that the existing order in the wireless world may finally be changing. http://nytimes.com/2007/10/21/business/media/21view.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** Paedophile suspect Neil arrested A Canadian paedophile suspect who sparked a global manhunt has been arrested in Thailand, police say. Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old teacher, was held in the north-east of the country, a police spokesman said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7052065.stm Thai police arrest paedophile suspect A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing young boys across south-east Asia was seized by Thai police today after an unprecedented global manhunt by Interpol. http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2194830,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2195461,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2692664.ece http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20thai.html au: 70yo charged over child porn, weapons A 70-year-old man has been charged with the possession of child pornography and firearms after a raid on his western Sydney home yesterday. http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/19/2063761.htm http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22612527-5001028,00.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/19/1192300985316.html au: Child porn farmer goes free A Bute farmer, who accessed child pornography over the internet to escape stress in his private life, has walked from court with a suspended jail sentence. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22609874-2682,00.html au: Child porn guilty plea over 85,000 images An Adelaide man faces a possible jail term after admitting he took part in an international child pornography racket. http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/22/2066681.htm uk: Chris Langham loses appeal on sentence An appeal by actor Chris Langham for a reduction in his 10-month jail sentence for downloading child pornography has been rejected by the Court of Appeal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7052364.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/19/nlangham119.xml +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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