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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 *************************************************** Whichever screen, people are watching http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/08/business/08adco.php Press the panic button - newspapers and the effect of the internet http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/07/pressandpublishing.advertising How the Google generation thinks differently http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4295414.ece Report: Mobile Internet use has reached "critical mass" http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080709-report-mobile-internet-use-has-reached-critical-mass.html Botnets winning spam wars, says report http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=102108 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights [AP] http://news.theage.com.au/technology/public-online-spaces-dont-carry-speech-rights-20080707-32py.html YouTube's Legal Fig Leaf http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/07/03/youtube-google-viacom-tech-security-cx_ag_0703youtube.html Don't give Google a free pass on data collection, privacy advocates say after YouTube ruling http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9107438 us: Senators Weigh Possible Rules for Advertising and Online Privacy http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/senators-weigh-possible-rules-for-advertising-and-online-privacy/ Raging Against Rising Internet Repression: Online Censorship Has Become A Cause With Global Relevance by Antony Loewenstein. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/loewenstein Online bullying affects 1 in 3 children http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10520847 us: Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies http://nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washington/10fisa.html Senate keeps telecom immunity in surveillance bill [IDG] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070908-senate-keeps-telecom-immunity-in.html us: The new FISA compromise: it's worse than you think http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fisa-compromise.ars eu: MEPs back contested telecoms plan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7495085.stm ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Whichever screen, people are watching Somehow, despite more distractions than ever, we're finding even more time to plant ourselves in front of screens. The first in a series of new "three-screen" reports by the Nielsen Company shows an emerging shift toward a more video-centric use of the Internet, but not at the expense of television viewing. The report, an initial effort by Nielsen to "follow the video" as consumer viewing habits shift, is scheduled to be released Tuesday. http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/08/business/08adco.php au: ACCC still has its eye on eBay EBAY Australia is still under the competition watchdog's microscope despite last week's decision by the online auction giant to drop its case for PayPal exclusivity. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23984661-15306,00.html Press the panic button - newspapers and the effect of the internet Major newspaper publishers are reporting significant falls in ad revenue and the internet is gobbling up classified. So can print media bounce back from this downturn? Advertising is often described as the canary in the economic coal mine, an early warning of bleak times ahead. If last week's announcements by several newspaper groups are anything to go by, the coming collapse could be grim. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/07/pressandpublishing.advertising How the Google generation thinks differently Digital-age kids process information differently from parents. Our writer admits misjudging how her son was learning http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4295414.ece Report: Mobile Internet use has reached "critical mass" Use of the Internet from mobile devices has reached a critical mass and can now support more mobile marketing efforts, says Nielsen Mobile. Surprisingly, the US leads the pack in terms of how many mobile subscribers surf the web from their devices too. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080709-report-mobile-internet-use-has-reached-critical-mass.html Mobile Internet Not Enough For U.S. Cell Phone Users U.S. cell phone subscribers are the most active users of the mobile Web, but they yearn for unlimited data packages and longer battery life for their devices, according to a report issued Wednesday from the Nielsen Company. http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208806608 Even the Luddites will switch to IPTV I HAVE a friend who reads some of this column some of the time. If I use technical words - anything containing kilo, mega, or giga, whether they be hertz, bytes or half a pound of butter - his eyes glaze, he adopts the trance-like position of a monk, and his mind wanders back to the third Test at Headingley in 1981. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23995493-5013458,00.html XXXChurch: Make love, not war, on porn If Craig Gross considers Jesus Christ his best friend, why is his arm around porn’s leading man? “We are the world. We are the children,” Ron Jeremy sings as he and Gross draw a circus crowd at the Adult Entertainment Expo here. During the past few years, the two â a conservative Christian who considers masturbation a sin and a secular Jew who has performed in 1,900 porn flicks â have grown close and, despite diametric career choices, have come to respect and appreciate each other. http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/xxxchurch_make_love_not_war_on_porn/ ********************** SPAM ********************** Botnets winning spam wars, says report The world’s anti-spam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed. http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=102108 http://techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=102108 http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/B97BD7FDE802D274CC2574810072ACE8 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/09/Botnets_winning_spam_wars_1.html http://www.commtouch.com/documents/Commtouch_Q208_Email_Trends.pdf ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights [AP] Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. http://news.theage.com.au/technology/public-online-spaces-dont-carry-speech-rights-20080707-32py.html http://news.smh.com.au/technology/public-online-spaces-dont-carry-speech-rights-20080707-32py.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10520354 French ruling on counterfeit goods could have far-reaching effects for eBay If a French court ruling against eBay Inc. for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods on its Web site is upheld, it could have far-reaching effects for the way the online auction company does business. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9106618 The dangers of cloud computing The idea of cloud computing -- designed around an architecture whose natural state is a shared pool outside the enterprise -- has gained momentum in recent months as a way to reduce cost and improve IT flexibility. But the use of cloud computing also carries with it security risks, including perils related to compliance, availability, and data integrity. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/07/28NF-cloud-computing-security_1.html au: eBay scam: accused bailed An alleged eBay scammer has been granted bail, despite police telling a court he was suspected of stealing $150,000 from 90 other victims. Chun Fai Tsang, 26, appeared in Hornsby Local Court today charged with two counts of obtaining a benefit by deception. http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/ebay-scam-cardweller-wins-bail/2008/07/09/1215282906733.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/ebay-scam-cardweller-wins-bail/2008/07/09/1215282906733.html Sydney man arrested for eBay fraud The New South Wales Police Force has confirmed a Sydney man will face court after being charged over internet fraud allegedly committed last month. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Sydney-man-arrested-for-eBay-fraud/0,139023166,339290454,00.htm INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARK IN THE WORLD AND ARGENTINA Globalization, and Internet in particular, makes it more than ever before, those trademarks that are renowned and established in a region or in a country to be also recognized in other places of the world where they have not been directly commercialized or used yet. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=2003F07D-1CEF-4829-89F4-A8070E5B09F4 ************************** PRIVACY ************************** YouTube's Legal Fig Leaf Privacy advocates have been dreading the day when Google's massive store of personal information, collected from its search engine, video sites and e-mail service, somehow spills into the public domain. But whether that privacy doomsday arrived this week is a question that's still wrapped in legal red tape. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/07/03/youtube-google-viacom-tech-security-cx_ag_0703youtube.html Don't give Google a free pass on data collection, privacy advocates say after YouTube ruling A judge's order that Google turn over YouTube user data to Viacom is raising privacy concerns. But some privacy advocates question why Google is collecting the data in the first place. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9107438 YouTube data to be released, but Google keeps technology secret Users of YouTube will have their access details handed over to entertainment giant Viacom and the English football Premier League after a US judge ordered the disclosure of a 12 terabyte database. http://out-law.com/page-9238 Google defends Street View tool in UK Google has defended its controversial Street View photo-mapping tool, saying it will meet local privacy laws in European countries at launch. The tool, which matches real world photos to mapped locations, has drawn fire from some privacy campaigners. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7492844.stm us: Senators Weigh Possible Rules for Advertising and Online Privacy The Senate Commerce Committee began Wednesday to look at how online companies collect and use data about Internet users for advertising, and was told by several big Internet companies that it needs to pass a new law to enforce privacy standards for a range of online and offline activites. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/senators-weigh-possible-rules-for-advertising-and-online-privacy/ ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** Raging Against Rising Internet Repression: Online Censorship Has Become A Cause With Global Relevance by Antony Loewenstein. During the Harvard University and Google sponsored Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest, Hungary in late June, attended by over 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists, hackers and IT experts from every corner of the globe, one participant joked that it was worthwhile buying domain names for dissidents likely to be imprisoned. "Just get them with 'Free (insert name here).com'," he said. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/loewenstein http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/08/opinion/main4241131.shtml Iran considering banning filthy bloggers from meatspace Blogging about the wrong topics in Iran won't just get you censored; it could get you killed. Iran's parliament voted last week to discuss a draft bill that would "toughen punishment" for a number of crimes that it believes to be detrimental to society by making them subject to the death penalty. This list already includes crimes like armed robbery, rape, and leaving the religion of Islam (apostasy), but running a blog or website that promotes corruption, prostitution, or apostasy may soon be added. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080707-iran-considering-banning-filthy-bloggers-from-meatspace.html Russian blogger sentenced for "extremist" post A Russian man who described local police as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL0757687320080707 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Child porn sale, circulation soars: study The production, sale and circulation of child pornography is increasing at a worrying rate. New US research shows Internet circulation has grown 400 percent, and the children being featured are getting younger. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080708060403695C387026 'Child porn difficult to monitor' South African courts are battling to comprehend the magnitude of child pornography even though the country has specific anti-pornography legislation. This is what emerged at a seminar on the amended Film and Publications Act in Durban on Monday. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080708130019270C505448 Online bullying affects 1 in 3 children A third of all internet-surfing kids will suffer from cyber-bullying and many are leaving themselves vulnerable to identity theft and other online abuse, an e-learning expert says. Dr Martyn Wild, a cyber-safety advocate and honorary professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, is in New Zealand to present free seminars to parents on internet safety for their tech-savvy children. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10520847 nz: TelstraClear in effort to reduce cyber bullying New Zealand ISP TelstraClear has joined with an international e-learning expert and cyber safety advocate to launch a program to assist parents in ensuring their children are less vulnerable while online. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7838 Divide on UK games industry ratings A row has broken out between the games industry and the UK's content classifiers over who should regulate video games in the future. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7496327.stm au: Schoolyard cyber-bullies A VIDEO showing a Hobart high school student savagely attacking another boy as he lies on the ground was posted on the popular website YouTube and transmitted to other students via mobile phone. http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23976571-3462,00.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** uk: Peers call for cybercrime shakeup (again) Peers are calling for a reversal of rules that stop UK victims reporting cybercrimes directly to the police. The House of Lords science committee is also encouraging the government to introduce a data breach notification law. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/peers_cybercrime_shakeup/ http://out-law.com/page-9245 us: Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies More than two and a half years after the disclosure of President’s Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program. http://nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washington/10fisa.html Senate keeps telecom immunity in surveillance bill [IDG] The U.S. Senate has defeated three amendments that would have removed or weakened lawsuit immunity provisions for telecommunication carriers that allegedly participated in a controversial U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program dating back to 2001. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070908-senate-keeps-telecom-immunity-in.html us: The new FISA compromise: it's worse than you think Last month, the House of Representatives passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Congress's latest response to President Bush's demands for expanded eavesdropping authority. The Democratic leadership, seemingly intent on avoiding real debate on the proposal, scheduled the final vote just a day after the bill was introduced in the House. Touted by Democratic leaders as a "compromise," it was supported almost unanimously by House Republicans and opposed by a majority of Democrats. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fisa-compromise.ars EU accidentally orders ISPs to become copyright police Part of the EU Telecommunications Package, agreed by MEPs on Monday, could be interpreted to endorse cutting off P2P users after a written warning or two, even though the author claims that was not the intention. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/09/eu_telecommunications_legislation/ eu: MEPs back contested telecoms plan European politicians have voted in favour of amendments to telecoms law which campaigners say could be used to curb privacy online and file-sharing. Digital rights groups in Europe have formed a loose coalition to highlight their opposition to the amendments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7495085.stm Europe votes on anti-piracy laws Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels. The powers are in a raft of laws that aim to harmonise the regulations governing Europe's telecom markets. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7492907.stm Europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers France has suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package, which would bar broadband access to anyone who persists in illegally downloading music or films. http://out-law.com/page-9236 MEPs propose Europe-wide telecoms regulator An organisation encompassing Europe's national telecommunications regulators should be set up to ensure the harmonisation of spectrum use and other telecoms issues across the continent, the European Parliament's industry committee has said. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39444970,00.htm ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Google, Zen Master of the Market Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century. Mr. Gates and Microsoft fundamentally shaped how people think about the behavior of modern markets in which technology plays a central role. Under Mr. Gates, Microsoft also challenged the conventional wisdom about competition, business strategy and even antitrust law. Now, in the early years of the 21st century, Google is the company prompting a rethinking of assumptions. http://nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07google.html Microsoft will talk to Yahoo 'if it replaces board' Microsoft said yesterday it is willing to re-enter takeover talks with Yahoo, but only if the internet firm is under new management - providing a major boost to the campaign waged by American activist investor Carl Icahn to oust the board. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/08/microsoft.yahoo ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** au: Will the NBN be fast enough? In April the OECD cited a study which predicted that by 2011 the downstream requirements of European households would peak at around 50Mbps. The federal government's aim for a national broadband network with a minimum speed of 12Mbps - comparable with the current potential of ADSL2+ - is leaving some questioning whether the costly NBN will be fast enough and future proof to see Australia through the next two decades. http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;178463646 http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;178463646 Analyst warns against Telstra separation [AAP] A SEPARATION of Telstra's network and retail businesses could cause serious damage to Australia's telecommunications industry, a leading independent analyst has warned. The majority of submissions on the Federal Government's plans for a national broadband network have demanded that the company that wins the rights to the project has separate network and retail businesses. http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23981076-14334,00.html InternetNZ aims for 100Mbit/s broadband InternetNZ is asking for help in clarifying the strengths and weaknesses of strategies for an improved New Zealand broadband infrastructure. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/1B51FB3C5A638A52CC25747F0017D712 Internet-led demand puts cable-laying at top of list The world's biggest telecoms companies are rushing to add capacity on inter-continental routes, to keep up with booming demand fuelled in part by consumers downloading bandwidth-hungry video content from YouTube, iTunes and other sites over broadband networks. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d549774-4c89-11dd-96bb-000077b07658.html ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** nz: Kiwis to get high-speed net VODAFONE Group, the world's biggest mobile phone company by revenue, is upgrading its New Zealand network so that 97 per cent of the population can access high-speed internet on their wireless devices. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23984964-5013041,00.html ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Naracoorte man 'had 100,000 child porn images' THE first South Australian to face court charged over a worldwide internet child pornography sting appeared before a magistrate today. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23993194-5006301,00.html au: Pensioner jailed in child porn SMS first A far north Queensland pensioner has become the first person in Australia to be convicted under federal laws for sending child pornography in an SMS message on a mobile phone. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/09/2298858.htm au: Child porn operation nets 100th arrest The number of arrests from a nationwide police operation against child pornography has reached 100, and police say they are working to apprehend the ringleaders of online networks. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/09/2298524.htm nz: Remorse from jailed child porn offender A 28-year-old man has been jailed for two years and three months for repeat offending accessing child pornography on the internet. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10520752 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The domain name news is supported by auDA For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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