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********************************************************** Don't forget to check out my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** Survey Pegs Cell Phone as Americans' Most Valued Tech Tool http://www.technewsworld.com/story/61998.html Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3511863.ece Google Report Highlights Spam As Top Security Issue http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902563 Internet wiretapping: Bugging the cloud http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789393 nz: ‘Akill’ could face extradition, says criminal law expert http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/3EDB2EB22058A3FFCC25740400783B04 US Web publisher fights to save comment forums from trade mark suit http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/plastic_surgery_review_comments/ uk: Tories call for big changes to cybercrime offences http://out-law.com/page-8919 Israeli internet providers ordered to block file sharing website http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3515275,00.html Pentagon bans Google from mapping military bases http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/07/google.internet1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7282635.stm http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3503624.ece Face haunts pedophile-busters http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23338907-2702,00.html AFP to get new paedophile tracking technology http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2182898.htm Australian study targets 'toxic' cyber-bullying http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23347281-5013404,00.html au: Govt sticks to guns on internet porn filters http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181828.htm au: AFP launches online child porn tracker http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183002.htm NZ Internal Affairs crack child porn ring [AAP] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10496524 http://stuff.co.nz/4428364a10.html NZ gardening group hid porn ring http://stuff.co.nz/news.html ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** Mobile Access to Data and Information [news release] 62% of Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=300 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** CONFERENCE: The Future of the Internet The internet has caused far-reaching changes and has become today a critical infrastructure for economy and society. Todays' 1 billion fixed network users will soon be joined by 3 billion more as mobile devices become more cost effective, making use of a fully pervasive wireless Internet infrastructure, anywhere, anytime. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3962 http://www.fi-bled.eu/ Survey Pegs Cell Phone as Americans' Most Valued Tech Tool Cell phones are valued by more Americans than TV or the Internet, according to a study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The cell phone was regarded as being "very hard to give up" by just over half of the respondents, compared to 43 percent who felt the same way about TV. Last year, respondents most commonly expressed attachment to their land line phones. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/61998.html http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/handheld-devices/61998.html The battle for Wikipedia's soul The internet: The popular online encyclopedia, written by volunteer contributors, has unlimited space. So does it matter if it includes trivia? http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354 Thou shalt not steal sermons from the internet, priests told Young Catholic priests who download sermons from the internet to save themselves the trouble of writing their own have been told that they could be prosecuted for plagiarism. The warning was issued by a leading Polish priest, and has been taken up by Catholic newspapers around the world. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/thou-shalt-not-steal-sermons-from-the-internet-priests-told-793134.html comScore Releases Top German Web Rankings for January 2008 [news release] comScore released its January rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in Germany based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The month saw increases to travel, career, real estate and politics sites as German Internet users reflected on the year past and prepared for 2008. eBay, with 17.6 million unique visitors, grabbed the second position among all Web properties, trailing only Google Sites. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2084 How Flickr developed into a classic Web 2.0 success According to some market research I read recently, the world market for digital cameras is predicted to reach 122 million units by 2010. That seems like an underestimate to me. Everyone I know has at least one camera, and most cellphones seem to have one. Some Nokia phones now come with 5 megapixel cameras and Zeiss lenses, enabling their users to produce images of quite startling quality. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/09/web20.internet Email 'a broken business tool' as staff spend hours wading through inboxes The deluge of email flooding workers' inboxes every day has become so overwhelming that it is now a 'broken business tool' in urgent need of fixing, companies have been warned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users The internet began as an almost exclusively male preserve. Now young women, from primary school age upwards, are now making it their own http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3511863.ece When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook 'Friend' When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request. It was from his dad. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030801034.html Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK) As president of the Walt Disney Company’s children’s book and magazine publishing unit, Russell Hampton knows a thing or two about teenagers. Or he thought as much until he was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Katie, and two friends to a play last year in Los Angeles. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09cell.html Russia: internet advertising market doubles The Runet internet advertising market doubled over the previous year surpassing $400 mln and occupying about 4% of the total media advertising volume. Market participants forecast in 2008 the market will grow by 50-70% net of expenses for promotion, creation and online PR. Business total expenditure for intern advertising has not been calculated yet. http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/03/04/290590 Stream expands into regions: broadband internet market hots up The Comstar UTS Company has approved the technical, financial and marketing strategis up to 2011. Infrastructure development and active promotion of the company’s services in the regions, first of all the broadband internet under the Stream brand, are emphasized. Analysts highlight that competition for the internet in the regions has reached its peak, so Comstar with its strategies is trying to catch up with the passing train. http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/03/03/290413 ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Sexual harassment is rife online. No wonder women swap gender Female gamers are used to putting up with sexist claptrap - both from the companies that design games and other players. So a study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University showing that 70% of them chose to construct male characters when given the option by online games, should come as no surprise. http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2262449,00.html ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Cebit goes green to smaller crowds The biggest European information technology fair went green this year. The problem was that there were not many people around to notice. http://iht.com/articles/2008/03/06/business/cebit.php ********************** SPAM ********************** Google says spam is huge corporate headache Google released a white paper on Thursday about trends in electronic communications systems at corporations and found, to no surprise, that spam is a huge problem and getting worse. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9888233-7.html Google Report Highlights Spam As Top Security Issue Having recently acquired messaging security company Postini, Google now finds itself in the threat-prediction business. And as is the case with just about every other computer security company, Google has research to show everyone how dangerous the online world has become. Thus we come to the 2008 Annual Google Communications Intelligence Report. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902563 Clinton, Obama campaigns used in spam blasts Democratic presidential contenders, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are being used in spamming campaigns to dupe people into giving up their personal information and buy into pharmaceutical and pump-and-dump stock schemes. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1303907,00.html Adult Website Operation Settles FTC Charges Unwitting Consumers Exposed to X-Rated Spam [news release] An X-rated Web operation that paid affiliates who used illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites will pay a $413,000 civil penalty under a settlement reached with the FTC and the Department of Justice. The settlement also bars the illegal marketing practices in the future and requires the operator to monitor its affiliates to ensure that they are complying with the law. http://ftc.gov/opa/2008/03/x.shtm ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** Internet wiretapping: Bugging the cloud Law enforcement: Governments want to extend wiretapping rules from phones to the internet, but doing so is hard: Among the many benefits of the internet's rise over the past decade has been the advent of free phone calls between its users—and much cheaper calls even for people who are not online, since ordinary calls can be partly routed over the internet. For people who work in foreign countries, have friends and relatives spread around the world, or simply have to make a lot of calls, this is great news. But for law-enforcement organisations who are used to being able to tap conventional telephone networks, it is causing increasingly painful headaches. Around the world, the emergence of voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) telephony is forcing authorities and communications firms into both conflict and co-operation. http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789393 au: Aussie mums fleeced in online scam Police are hunting a 27-year-old woman who has been ripping thousands of dollars off mothers and concert lovers for at least three years in an online scam. They confirmed that the woman traded under several aliases and used multiple internet provider addresses in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane to evade detection. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23348425-15306,00.html nz: ‘Akill’ could face extradition, says criminal law expert Owen Walker, the 18-year-old alleged ring-leader of an international botnet coding group, could face extradition to the US if he is accused or convicted of committing an offence against US law, says barrister Jonathan Krebs, who is the convener of the NZ Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/3EDB2EB22058A3FFCC25740400783B04 us: Busted: online escort ring was a real gem US authorities have smashed an online escort service that gave its prostitutes a one to seven diamond-ranking, with a "seven diamond" woman costing $US5500 ($5921) an hour. Four organisers and managers of the international ring were arrested by US authorities and charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws, Newsday.com reported. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780030605.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780030605.html British widow, 65, humiliated by Bebo web page that painted her as a scarlet woman A woman aged 65 who became the victim of an online smear campaign that she says made her “look like a sexual predator” called yesterday for stricter controls on social networking websites. ... The case raises fresh issues about regulation of the internet and the lack of overarching legislation to deal specifically with online defamation. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3498888.ece High Court decision on keyword advertising and trade mark infringement [Law-Now - reg req'd] On 20 February 2008, the High Court handed down its decision in an important trade mark infringement case brought by Mr Wilson against Yahoo! UK Ltd and its sister company, Overture Services Ltd (“Yahoo!”). The case, which concerned an application for summary judgment and/or strike out, considered whether the use of keywords in sponsored advertising amounted to trade mark infringement by Yahoo!. http://www.law-now.com/law-now/2008/adverttrademarkmar08.htm Authorities seize gadgets during patent raid at CeBIT [AP] Police and customs officials investigating suspected patent violations seized mobile phones, navigation devices and other gadgets in raids at a technology fair in Germany, with many Chinese exhibitors among those searched, authorities said Thursday. http://news.smh.com.au/authorities-seize-gadgets-during-patent-raid-at-german-tech-fair/20080307-1xo2.html http://news.theage.com.au/authorities-seize-gadgets-during-patent-raid-at-german-tech-fair/20080307-1xo2.html http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/G/GERMANY_TECH_FAIR_RAID US Web publisher fights to save comment forums from trade mark suit A US online publisher is fighting to keep its product review forums alive in the face of a trade mark lawsuit that seeks to ban the use of one company's product name. Realself.com is a site where people who have undergone plastic surgery review various products and procedures. It has been sued by Lifestyle Lift, a facelift company which wants to stop the site using its name in reviews. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/plastic_surgery_review_comments/ http://out-law.com/page-8917 uk: Tories call for big changes to cybercrime offences Civil servants who lose public data could be prosecuted under proposals announced by the Conservative Party. It's one of a number of measures touted, as the Tories call for major changes in how the UK deals with cybercrime and data protection. The Tories' report - Tackling Cybercrime - calls for new offences for civil servants or government contractors who lose confidential data, a new police squad to go after cybercrims and a minister for cybercrime. http://out-law.com/page-8919 How boom in rogue ticket websites fleeces Britons First it was football supporters desperate for cup final tickets, then music fans hoping for concert seats. Now touts are targeting the Beijing Olympics. Jamie Doward reports on the explosion in online ticket scams http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/09/olympicgames2008.internet ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Ad system 'will protect privacy' Two respected privacy campaigners have praised the user protection measures of a controversial online advertising system about to be deployed in the UK. The tools, developed by US firm Phorm, track users' online surfing habits. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7280791.stm ********************** FILE SHARING ********************** Israeli internet providers ordered to block file sharing website The Haifa District Court two weeks ago ordered the three largest internet service providers in Israel to block access to the Israeli file-sharing site httpshare, this following a petition levied by the 12 largest record companies in Israel. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3515275,00.html ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Pentagon bans Google from mapping military bases The Pentagon has banned Google's mapping teams from making detailed street-level video maps of US military bases after images of one camp's internal layout ended up on the internet. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/07/google.internet1 Pentagon bans Google map-makers The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7282635.stm Pentagon bans Google from US bases The Pentagon has banned Google from taking photographs and video footage of US military bases after images showing important security features of a base in Texas appeared on the company's website. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3503624.ece Pentagon blocks Google from mapping bases [AFP] The US Defence Department said today it is forbidding Google from filming and depicting in detail its military bases, after officials found precise imagery of a Texas base on the Google Maps website. "We received a report that Google Maps was collecting imagery and 360 degree views, including detailed imagery, of a base in Texas," Gary Ross, spokesman for the US Northern Command, told AFP in explaining the Pentagon's move. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780025570.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780025570.html Council of Europe Works to Criminalize Political Expression by Milton Mueller The Council of Europe is pushing to extend the Cybercrime Convention to impose criminal sanctions on what it considers to be unacceptable forms of political or religious expression. The Cybercrime Convention was originally negotiated to respond to transnational problems such as theft of data, breaking into computers, computer-based financial fraud and the like. But now the Council is engaged in bulk unsolicited emails to promote the idea that web site content that is insulting or xenophobic is a cybercrime of the same order. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/3/6/3563421.html Google pulls map images at Pentagon's request [Reuters] Google Inc has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to US military instillations. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183097.htm http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN0625659220080306 Singapore's Bloggers Scold Government [Reuters] Singapore's state-controlled media and government have come under fire from critics and Internet bloggers for failing to give the public important answers on the escape of a suspected Islamic militant. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143175-c,currentevents/article.html ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Face haunts pedophile-busters It's a face that haunts police around the world. A young girl, probably now nine, who has grown up from infancy on film - thousands of pictures and movies shot of her being molested by an abuser who then shared the images with a network of like-minded internet pedophiles. As a two-year Queensland-led investigation culminated last weekend with the arrest of 22 people in eight countries, the relief and celebration at busting one of the world's longest-running and most sophisticated internet pedophile rings was muted by the knowledge that the girl was still out of reach of protection. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23338907-2702,00.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23339978-421,00.html au: Cyber pedophile ring cracked Hunched over their computers in homes around the world, the network of pedophiles devoured the horrific images of children that flashed up on their monitors from their vast library. Using highly sophisticated double encryption codes and stringent vetting procedures, the predators remained confident their evil activities in the cyber world were completely secure. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23341259-5007191,00.html Behind the sting - Stephen Tidwell and John Rouse explain the operation Detective Inspector John Rouse FBI executive assistant director Stephen Tidwell speak about the Operation Achilles police investigation. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2181361.htm AFP to get new paedophile tracking technology The Australian Federal Police are expected to announce the Child Exploitation Tracking System is finally going to be available in Australia, after concerns the sophisticated software was taking too long to be introduced. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2182898.htm Australian study targets 'toxic' cyber-bullying The West Australian Government will spend $400,000 on a world-first five-year study into cyber-bullying, amid growing concern about the damaging effect on children being targeted by abusive text messages, emails and degrading digital photos. Education Minister Mark McGowan said yesterday that up to 15 per cent of WA students were victims of "vicious" cyber-bullying, which was generally anonymous and had potentially dire consequences. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23347281-5013404,00.html http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23348279-15306,00.html http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23348168-2761,00.html Microsoft helps AFP curb online nasties Microsoft's Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) will allow law enforcement agencies in Australia to share and track information relating to online child exploitation and abuse with their counterparts all over the world. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23334295-15306,00.html au: Govt sticks to guns on internet porn filters Porn on the net is a massive industry, with a very high request rate across all search engines. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181828.htm au: AFP launches online child porn tracker The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is launching an online tracking system to help it catch child predators and paedophiles. The Child Exploitation Tracking System will allow federal police to share information with law enforcement agencies throughout the country and the world. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183002.htm NZ Internal Affairs crack child porn ring [AAP] New Zealand authorities have claimed credit for sparking an international child porn investigation that led to arrests worldwide. The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said it triggered the investigation that ultimately led to more than 100 arrests. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10496524 http://stuff.co.nz/4428364a10.html NZ gardening group hid porn ring Something was peculiar about the gardening news group. Internet users discussing the seemingly innocuous topics of plants and motoring were encrypting files so others couldn't see it. The sheer volume of material on the site was odd. Their suspicions raised, Internal Affairs inspectors in Wellington infiltrated the site. Over three months they uncovered a vast secretive child pornography ring in Australia, United States, Canada and Europe. http://stuff.co.nz/news.html NZ Children's Commissioner warns paedophiles The Children's Commissioner says paedophiles feeding their addiction through the internet will be caught. Internal Affairs has alerted international authorities to a web-based pornography ring, resulting in 40 children being rescued and 22 people arrested in Australia, Britain, Germany and America. http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=82562 Using open source to fight porn ... A new Red Hat employee queried an internal e-mail list as to methods of protecting their children from accessing pornography, and through the responses I learned a few things I thought I'd share... Perhaps the first question to answer is "what is to be protected?" We live in a media-saturated culture where some of the raciest material is to be found in all its pixelated glory of some of the most conservative TV programs (see Fox News Porn). Between the catalogs, newpaper ads, billboards, etc., there's plenty of disturbing material to go around. Indeed, when traveling through the airport with my daughter last year, she had quite a laugh when she came face-to-face with the image of a woman barely dressed on the cover of Cosmopolitan. (She called her "naked-bottom girl" for the rest of the day.) Deciding where to begin has become difficult indeed. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9888001-7.html uk: Five-year-olds should be taught about online safety, say Tories Children as young as five would be taught about the dangers of putting their personal details on the internet under plans drawn up by the Conservatives to tackle cyber-crime. Issues such as privacy, information security, and the risks posed by posting photographs online would all be addressed as part of the compulsory ICT curriculum, which is introduced at Key Stage 1, the Conservatives said. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3496245.ece uk: The mobile internet kids by Rory Cellan-Jones I spent a day this week at a school in Tynemouth, on the coast outside Newcastle, helping pupils at Marden High School make a film about mobile phones for the BBC's School Report project. There’ll be more about this on the website on School Report day on March 13th, but one thing struck me immediately. Children are at the cutting edge of the mobile internet revolution and both teachers and the phone industry can learn from them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/03/the_mobile_internet_kids.html Ofcom update on TV advertising of HFSS products to children In February 2007, after conducting a public consultation, Ofcom launched a package of rules to restrict the television advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (“HFSS”) food and drink products to children. These restrictions were due to be implemented in three phases: Phase 1 (ban on advertising HFSS products in programmes aimed at 4 – 9 year olds) commenced in April 2007; Phase 2 (extension of ban to programmes aimed at 9 – 15 year olds, and scaling back of HFSS advertising to 50% of 2005 levels) commenced in January 2008; and Phase 3 (complete ban on all HFSS advertising on children’s channels) is due to commence in January 2009. http://www.law-now.com/law-now/2008/ofcomupdateontvadvertising220208.htm Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children [reg req'd] The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but manufacturers of the curvy crimson-and-blue handset for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy relationship. They boast about socialization, emotional health and the comforts of “peace of mind.” And yet such shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and government unease, particularly at a time when the mobile telephone industry is reaching deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both dolls and phones. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/technology/08mobile.html http://www.news.com/2100-1039_3-6233637.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** EU to consider buying open-source software [Bloomberg] The European Commission will propose in the next few days to buy more of its computer software from open-source developers, a commission spokeswoman said Wednesday. http://iht.com/articles/2008/03/05/business/open.php Will Europe Let Google Out of the Penalty Box? Reuters and Bloomberg report that the European Union is preparing to approve Google’s pending acquisition of DoubleClick, the advertising technology firm. The deal, which was announced last April, has been delayed mainly because of protests by Microsoft that Google would gain monopoly power in the online advertising business. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/europe-lets-googles-doubleclick-deal-out-of-the-penalty-box/ ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** NZ Telecom incentive wrangle 'will be defused' Telecom is confident it can defuse controversy over the level of group incentives that can be paid to the head of Telecom's wholesale business once the company is separated into three divisions, but won't say whether it is in direct negotiations with the Government over an acceptable dollar figure. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4433331a28.html nz: Tindall telco meeting finds no easy way forward Telecommunications companies, users groups and investors discussed improving New Zealand's broadband at a meeting held at the behest of Communications Minister David Cunliffe and hosted by The Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall without coming to any conclusion other than to meet again, sources say. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4433286a28.html nz: Broadband: consensus on problems but not solutions Discussions of broadband strategy between telcos, financiers, policymakers and ICT industry luminaries in Auckland this month reached no startling conclusions or clear consensus on solutions, say participants. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/A6256CF962BA0F7BCC257405000419C0 Telecom cleared to buy radio spectrum management rights The Commerce Commission has cleared Telecom to buy radio spectrum management rights that can be used for WiMax or third generation cellular services. http://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=20670 ComCom to study next generation networks The Commerce Commission will investigate next generation telecommunication networks, aiming to achieve the best outcome for users and providers of the evolving technology. http://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=20644 ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Man charged after child porn raid A 46-year-old north Queensland man will face court charged with downloading child exploitation material from the internet. http://au.news.yahoo.com/080308/21/1630t.html au: Pedophile ring offered live vision of abuse POLICE have arrested a Townsville man they allege is third in command of an "insidious" international pedophile ring which offered live vision of children being sexually abused. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23327763-1248,00.html MAJOR CHILD PORN RING BUSTED: And 20 Children Rescued Worldwide [news release] “Mala is to die for in those pigtails,” read one message. “I have a few 5yo [year old] Taras that you do not have,” read another. “Just dropping in for a hot minute … to help out the dry spell, and to give everyone something to do for an afternoon,” said still one more. They’re hard comments to read—when you know that they were posted in a massive secret child pornography newsgroup on the web. That sordid network was exposed this week, thanks to a global law enforcement operation spanning five countries, three continents, and 11 U.S. states. As part of the continuing investigation, a total of 22 men have been arrested, including 14 in America, four in Germany, and two each in Australia and the U.K. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march08/innocentimages_030608.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. For archives of postings to the list, see http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/pipermail/technewsreview/. 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