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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Enhancing competition in telecommunications: protecting and empowering consumers http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2007doc.nsf/linkto/dsti-iccp-cisp(2007)1-final Tech firms act to counter 'information overload' http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4148242.ece My way or the highway, says eBay to Australian customers http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23883431-15306,00.html U.S. Will Lag in Tech Growth, Study Says http://nytimes.com/2008/06/18/technology/18mobile.html Accused spammer must pay MySpace $6 million http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9969899-7.html Cash in hand: why Africans are banking on the mobile phone http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/17/telecoms.telecoms AP plans guidelines on how much Web sites can copy http://nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4165519.ece Entertainment and advertising move east in a mobile world http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/18/digitalmedia.mediabusiness Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article4144585.ece us: Death of 13-year-old prompts cyberbullying test case http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/17/usa.news au: ISPs: Govt porn filters 'could cripple internet' http://www.cnet.com.au/broadband/0,239036008,339289857,00.htm Swedish revolt over 'Big Brother' law http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4158509.ece ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** Enhancing competition in telecommunications: protecting and empowering consumers Improving the ability of consumers to choose between competing suppliers is important for well functioning markets. This report examines how to increase market flexibility for consumers in communication services, and improve access to information. http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2007doc.nsf/linkto/dsti-iccp-cisp(2007)1-final ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Korea's new generation of 'Web 2.0' protesters In June 1987, Seoul's City Hall Plaza reverberated with a chant that signaled the end of military rule in South Korea: "Dokjetado!" or "Down with the dictatorship!" In June this year, the plaza has once again become a rallying point for crowds calling for the removal of an unpopular government: "Out with Lee Myung Bak!" http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/technology/protest.php Tech firms act to counter 'information overload' Having unleashed the information revolution, the world's largest technology companies are helping to fix one of its least desirable side-effects: information pollution. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4148242.ece Stunts Today for Firefox. Sophisticated Programs Tomorrow Today marks the official release of the version 3.0 for the Firefox browser. But what does that mean for a product that has been designed, written and tested in public? There’s no surprise about what it does; that’s been clear for months. And you could get a nearly complete version of the software for the last several weeks. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/stunts-today-for-firefox-sophisticated-programs-tomorrow/ Internet advertising: It keeps growing and growing The Interactive Advertising Bureau said today that advertisers spent $5.8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up 18.2% from the year-earlier period. Don't they know there's a recession on? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/06/internet-advert.html My way or the highway, says eBay to Australian customers EBay Australia has fired off a strongly worded letter to its 5 million customers, warning that failure to comply with its new PayPal ruling will result in an immediate removal of product listings. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23883431-15306,00.html au: Net economy long way to go: Conroy The unresolved issues of privacy and identity management must be addressed if the internet economy is to reach its true potential, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told an OECD meeting of telecommunications ministers in Seoul today. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23883558-15306,00.html Firefox aims for download record Version 3 of the popular Firefox web browser is going on general release on 17 June. Wide take-up of the new version would further boost the market share of the browser which is currently used by about 15% of net users. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7457503.stm ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Andrew Keen on New Media: Choose your words carefully, the blink media revolution has begun Blink and you'll miss this message. Brevity is the new digital cool. As handheld computers such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry replace the desktop, mass media is being transformed into micro media. Technology is chunking, slicing and shrinking the message. Welcome to the age of blink media. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-847668.html The Rise of Social Networking for the Serious For a Web site, it could hardly look less exciting. Its pages are heavy with text, much of it a flat blue, and there are few photos and absolutely no videos. But LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is dull by design. Unlike Facebook and MySpace, the site is aimed at career-minded, white-collar workers, people who join more for the networking than the social. http://nytimes.com/2008/06/18/technology/18linkedin.html ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** U.S. Will Lag in Tech Growth, Study Says Watching television, gaining access to the Internet and listening to music on mobile phones will be a viable business in the next few years, says a study by a consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. But while marketers and advertisers have much to cheer in the coming digital revolution, the fastest growth will be in emerging markets, with the United States lagging behind. http://nytimes.com/2008/06/18/technology/18mobile.html The web that time forgot - the first world wide web ... In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or "electric telescopes," as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a "réseau," or network. Historians trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet described a networked world where "anyone in his armchair would be able to contemplate the whole of creation." http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/technology/WEB.php http://nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html ********************** SPAM ********************** Accused spammer must pay MySpace $6 million MySpace continues to wage a legal war on alleged spammers. An arbitrator has ordered Media Breakaway and Chief Executive Scott Richter to pay the social-networking giant $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees, according to legal filings. The company's employees were also ordered to stay off MySpace. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9969899-7.html ********************** DIGITAL DIVIDE ********************** Cash in hand: why Africans are banking on the mobile phone For consumers in developed markets, using a mobile phone for banking services is a smart add-on to a bank's branch network. But to people in the developing world, the arrival of mobile banking - or m-banking - is potentially revolutionary. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/17/telecoms.telecoms Mobility key in continent lacking fixed-phone infrastructure Africa has become extremely attractive to mobile phone companies because of its sheer potential for growth. As markets in Europe and the US reach saturation point, competition and regulatory pressure has forced prices lower, so some of the world's largest players are looking for new markets in which to expand. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/17/telecoms.telecoms1 Emerging markets seen to drive mobile broadband Telecom equipment maker Ericsson said on Wednesday mobile broadband Internet subscribers could rise to 2.2 billion in five years' time from 250 million, fuelled by exponential growth in emerging markets. Torbjorn Possne, senior vice president sales and marketing, told a news conference in Singapore that the growth will be driven by markets in Asia and Latin America. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKSP4614520080618 ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** AP plans guidelines on how much Web sites can copy The Associated Press, one of the largest news organizations in the United States, said that it would, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards for how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites could excerpt without infringing on The AP's copyright. http://nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/technology/ap.php AP Wants to School Bloggers on Copyright Law Seeking to protect its own business model, The Associated Press is hoping to clarify what constitutes fair use of the content is publishes online, with plans to lay out guidelines for bloggers on how much content they can quote. The AP, which bills itself as the world's largest and oldest news-gathering organization, hopes to bring clarity to the "fair use" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/63433.html US blogger charged with insulting Singapore judge [AFP] A court document says a US citizen has been charged with insulting a Singapore judge in his blog by saying she was "prostituting herself". http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/16/2276423.htm Malware-Driven Child Porn Raises Red Flag What if you unknowingly harbored child pornography on your work laptop? A child pornography possession charge against a former Massachusetts state government employee has been dropped after forensic evidence showed that his machine was infected with various forms of malware that silently drove his browser to the unsavory sites and files. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156590 us: State worker's child porn charges dropped; virus blamed [IDG] Prosecutors have dropped child pornography charges against a Massachusetts state employee after an investigation determined that his government-issued laptop was poorly configured and riddled with malicious software. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061608-state-workers-child-porn-charges.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147151/state_workers_child_porn_charges_dropped_virus_blamed.html US Federal judge lands in hot water over explicit images on Web site In an incident that highlights how almost nothing that one does on the Internet is private, the chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from an obscenity trial after the Los Angeles Times reported last week that it had found a cache of sexually explicit images on his personal Web site. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9098658 UK hacker's case before Law Lords A Briton is taking his fight against US extradition for allegedly carrying out the "biggest military computer hack of all time" to the House of Lords. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, a systems analyst, is accused of gaining access to 97 US military and Nasa computers from his north London home. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7456216.stm ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule Anyone in France who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes the country a pioneer in combating internet piracy. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4165519.ece Entertainment and advertising move east in a mobile world The global entertainment and media market is expected to expand by more than a third over the next five years, as more people in emerging markets move online and the global love affair with the mobile phone continues to flourish. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/18/digitalmedia.mediabusiness Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young people's music ownership has found. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article4144585.ece ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Censorship: Record number of bloggers arrested Repressive governments are arresting more bloggers than ever as they struggle to cope with the threat posed by the internet, researchers have claimed. Thirty six people were arrested last year because of what they had written on their blogs and personal websites – an increase of more than three times on the figures from 2006, according to researchers at the University of Washington in the US. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/16/censorship.internet Blogger arrests hit record high More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7456357.stm ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Death of 13-year-old prompts cyberbullying test case A Missouri woman accused of creating a fictitious character on MySpace to cyberbully a 13-year-old neighbour who then committed suicide pleaded not guilty to federal charges at a Los Angeles court yesterday. The case, say lawyers, could radically affect the way millions of users gain access to the internet. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/17/usa.news MySpace suicide mother Lori Drew in court A woman accused of driving a Missouri teenager to suicide with messages from a fake MySpace account has appeared in a Los Angeles court to deny charges in the case of alleged cyber-bullying that garnered worldwide attention. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2141478/MySpace-suicide-mother-Lori-Drew-in-court.html Lori Drew pleads not guilty over internet suicide [AP] A woman has pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court to charges in an internet hoax blamed for a 13-year-old girl's suicide. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/17/1213468364289.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/17/1213468364289.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061600432.html au: Symantec net warning Symantec chief executive John Thompson has warned the Government against trying to regulate the internet by filtering content at internet service provider level. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23874033-15306,00.html au: ISPs: Govt porn filters 'could cripple internet' Broadband providers Internode and iiNet have hit out against the Federal government's ISP-level content filtering initiative — a scheme that could cripple Australia's high-speed internet access, according to one exec. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/ISPs-Govt-porn-filters-could-cripple-internet-/0,130061791,339289857,00.htm http://www.cnet.com.au/broadband/0,239036008,339289857,00.htm ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** nz: Squabbling starts as new industry body shapes up Stirrings of discontent are already emerging as the new umbrella ICT industry body, the Digital Development Council and Forum, takes shape. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6F60626EFFF1040FCC257469008313E8 za: Internet, Cyber Crime to Take Centre Stage at Conference The role of the internet and the effects of cyber crime in the 21st Century will be investigated during the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Conference in Korea this week. Communications Minister Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri will represent South Africa at the second OECD three-day conference, taking place on Tuesday. http://allafrica.com/stories/200806170593.html na: New Communications Bill Required THE absence of an Information and Communications Bill is causing immense harm to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector as a whole in the country. Information and Communication Technology Minister Joel Kaapanda said this during the official opening of the Information Technology Exhibition (ITEX) symposium in Windhoek on Friday. http://allafrica.com/stories/200806170778.html Swedish revolt over 'Big Brother' law Sweden's "Big Brother" law, allowing the government to snoop on all outgoing cross-border emails, could be blocked tomorrow by a handful of rebel parliamentarians ready to defy their party whips. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4158509.ece ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* MySpace Might Have Friends, but It Wants Ad Money When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing — and each user kept adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages — the advertising dollars would roll in. http://nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16myspace.html ********************** VoIP ********************** Senate passes VoIP emergency-dialing bill [IDG] The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that requires the operators of 911 networks to allow VoIP providers to connect. The Senate on Monday passed the New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act by unanimous consent. The legislation passed the House of Representatives in November, but the Senate made some changes, so the bill will have to go back to the House for approval. http://www.itworld.com/Net/3303/senate-passes-voip-911-bill-080617/ http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=101938 Compression technique lets attackers tap VoIP calls A common compression technique can make Internet telephone calls significantly more susceptible to bugging, according to recent research from Johns Hopkins University. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/17/Compression_technique_lets_attackers_tap_VoIP_calls_1.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! 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