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Tim Berners-Lee for world Internet czar?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10195407-71.html

Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will build in privacy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10195902-93.html

Hurrah Berners-Lee! Web celebrates 20th anniversary
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129645

Commission pushes ICT use for a greener Europe [news release]
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/393

Microsoft plans to reduce carbon footprint by 30% [IDG]
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129570

Survey finds 25pc of NZ students sexually solicited online
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10561966

Google calls the tune after the day the music died on YouTube by Andrew Keen
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/andrew-keen-google-calls-the-tune-after-the-day-the-music-died-on-youtube-1645642.html

Torrent search engine Mininova earning €1 million a year
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/torrent-search-engine-mininova-earning-1-million-a-year.ars

NZ court papers can be served via Facebook, judge rules
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10561970

A Guide to Google's New Privacy Controls
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/a-guide-to-googles-new-privacy-controls/

Many Americans See Privacy on Web as Big Issue, Survey Says
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/16/technology/internet/16privacy.html

Canadian privacy rights buried in the fine print by Michael Geist
http://www.thestar.com/article/602772

U.S. privacy bill on Internet companies coming
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE52A6JN20090312

Google, Yahoo Criticized Over Foreign Censorship
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090312_381922.htm

UK government outlines digital rights agency proposal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/13/uk-government-outlines-digital-rights-agency

nz: Law Society voices its criticisms of S92A
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/C23D39B703278365CC25757A0069BDBC

NSW not alone in police hacking laws
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/NSW-not-alone-in-police-hacking-laws/0,130061744,339295429,00.htm

Child pornography ring broken up in Austria [Reuters]
http://iht.com/articles/2009/03/13/europe/13austria.php


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INTERNET USE
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Tim Berners-Lee for world Internet czar?
When it comes to things Web-related, sometimes you just want to read something 
sensible, for a change. So it was with some relief that the recent words of Tim 
Berners-Lee swam through my left ear without entirely exiting from my right.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10195407-71.html

Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will build in privacy
Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee says he is making sure the Semantic Web will 
respect the privacy of online communications and allow people to control who 
can use their data.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10195902-93.html

Hurrah Berners-Lee! Web celebrates 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago, computers were either the size of a basketball court or they 
were novelties that we played with. Twenty years ago, we got our news at 6 p.m. 
on television or in the morning newspaper. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to 
buy a sweater, you drove from store to store until you spent as much on gas as 
you did on the sweater.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129645
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031309-hurrah-berners-lee-web-celebrates-20th.html

World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee fell victim to online fraud
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the worldwide web, has revealed how he fell 
victim to online fraudsters while trying to buy a gift over the internet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/4990442/World-Wide-Web-creator-Sir-Tim-Berners-Lee-fell-victim-to-online-fraud.html

Web founder looks to big changes
The founder of the World Wide Web says the pace of innovation on the web is 
increasing all the time. Marking the 20th anniversary of his proposal to create 
the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said "new changes are going to rock the world even 
more".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7943319.stm

Cern celebrates 20 years of the web
The European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern, on Friday celebrated 20 
years since the conception of the World Wide Web.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39627523,00.htm

Browsing The Future: Mozilla's Firefox gave Microsoft a run for its money. 
What's next?
At least 18 percent of you already know what Firefox is, because you're using 
it to read this interview. (Or so says the statistics engine behind 
Newsweek.com, which tracks things like that.) For the unfamiliar, Firefox is a 
free Web browser that is built by coders around the world whose open-source 
work is organized by the Mozilla Corp. and its nonprofit parent, the Mozilla 
Foundation. Introduced in 2004 as an alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous, but 
buggy, Internet Explorer, Firefox has been a force for innovation in the 
browser category, with improvements such as tabbed browsing and plug-ins that 
work on any operating system. Commissions from search engines appear to keep 
Mozilla awash in revenue for now ($75 million in 2007; the foundation has not 
released 2008 data), although the vast majority of that comes from a company, 
Google, that now has its own competing browser, Chrome. Mozilla's plans for 
2009 include a new version of Firefox, which will
 focus on user-interface polish; an overhaul of Thunderbird, its e-mail client; 
and taking Firefox mobile. Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairwoman, 
spoke to NEWSWEEK's Nick Summers and Barrett Sheridan about the challenges of 
making a browser for mobile phones, adapting to a socially networked universe 
and what she really thinks of Chrome and Internet Explorer.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/187745

Pope Admits Online News Can Provide Infallible Aid
The letter released Thursday in which Pope Benedict XVI admitted that the 
Vatican had made \ldblquote mistakes\rdblquote in handling the case of a 
Holocaust-denying bishop was unprecedented in its directness, its humanity and 
its acknowledgment of papal fallibility.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/13/world/europe/13pope.html

Seattle paper shifts entirely to the Web
On Tuesday, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper will produce its last 
printed edition and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation 
said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that 
leap.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/media/17paper.html
http://iht.com/articles/2009/03/16/business/17paper.php

eBay zeroes in on PayPal in overhaul
EBay Inc, fending off worries that its best days are over, hopes to transform 
itself by galvanizing growth at its PayPal payments system and jump-starting 
its lagging core business, top executives said on Wednesday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE52A67920090312

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Social networks 'are new email'
Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a 
new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7942304.stm

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Commission pushes ICT use for a greener Europe [news release]
As part of its effort to combat climate change and drive economic recovery, the 
European Commission today called on Member States and industry to use 
information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve energy efficiency. 
These technologies are expected to reduce total carbon emissions in Europe by 
up to 15% by 2020. ICT can not only improve monitoring and management of energy 
use in factories, offices and in public spaces but above all help make people 
more aware of how they use energy. With smart metering in their homes, for 
example, consumers have been found to reduce their energy consumption by as 
much as 10%.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/393

Microsoft plans to reduce carbon footprint by 30% [IDG]
Microsoft Corp. has set a goal for reducing its carbon emissions and has plans 
to support the development of software that can help address climate change 
issues, the company's chief environmental strategist said.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129570

Microsoft aims to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent
In a post last week on the Microsoft's Environment Sustainability Blog, Rob 
Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist, explained Microsoft's goals for the 
environment: "Today, I want to focus on our carbon footprint goal. We 
understand that environmental action must begin at home. Today, Steve announced 
to all employees that Microsoft has set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions 
per unit of revenue by at least 30% compared with 2007 levels by 2012. We'll 
achieve this goal by improving energy use in our buildings and operations, 
reducing air travel, and increasing our use of renewable energy." I recommend 
checking out the full letter as it's a good read.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/microsoft-aims-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-30-percent.ars

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Survey finds 25pc of NZ students sexually solicited online
About 25 per cent of secondary school students say they have been aggressively 
sexually solicited online, according to a survey by the internet safety 
organisation Netsafe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10561966
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/47709/quarter-teens-online-sex-targets-survey
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/771722/25-kiwi-teens-sexually-solicited-online
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/25-kiwi-teens-sexually-solicited-online-20090316-8zfh.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/25-kiwi-teens-sexually-solicited-online-20090316-8zfh.html

Quarter of teens approached for sex online
New research shows that a quarter of all secondary school students have been 
subjected to sexual advances on the internet.
http://www.3news.co.nz/ScienceTech/Story/tabid/412/articleID/95628/cat/73/Default.aspx

One in four students sexually solicited online [ONE News]
A survey has found one in four high school students has been sexually solicited 
online. The finding is part of an on-going Netsafe study, which is looking at 
students' internet use, the challenges they face and how they deal with them.
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/one-in-four-students-sexually-solicited-online-2550444

au: Greedy ISPs kept from filtering trial
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said that the reason some Internet 
Service Providers (ISPs) hadn't been chosen in the first round of ISP filtering 
was that they had greedily tried to get the department to pay for upgrades to 
their own equipment.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Greedy-ISPs-kept-from-filtering-trial/0,130061791,339295460,00.htm

au: Web watchdog changes tack after blacklist leak
The communications regulator has been forced to change its internal processes 
after the address of a prohibited anti-abortion web page in its top-secret 
blacklist was widely distributed on the internet.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25196505-15306,00.html

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Google calls the tune after the day the music died on YouTube by Andrew Keen
It was last Tuesday that the music died for British viewers of YouTube. It was 
then that Google, YouTube's strict parent, began blocking UK viewers from 
watching what they call "premium music videos" on the internet's most popular 
video platform. The reason, of course, was money. Google had been unable to cut 
a new licensing or royalties deal for YouTube content with the Performing 
Rights Society (PRS), the body that collects royalties for music artists. Both 
sides naturally went in PR spin overdrive after the decision – PRS finding 
Google's decision "particularly disappointing", while a Google spokesman 
claimed that PRS's financial demands were so "prohibitive" that they would 
force YouTube to "lose significant amounts of money with every playback".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/andrew-keen-google-calls-the-tune-after-the-day-the-music-died-on-youtube-1645642.html

Torrent search engine Mininova earning €1 million a year
One of the key issues in the recent Pirate Bay trial was the prosecutor's 
contention that the lads behind the site were raking in something like 10 
million kronor (one million dollars) a year. This led defendant Gottfried 
Svartholm Warg to complain during a court recess: "It's totally absurd, those 
numbers are totally disconnected from reality." And, for good measure, he took 
a shot at the prosecutor. "The old bastard's crazy," he said.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/torrent-search-engine-mininova-earning-1-million-a-year.ars

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Take-up of 3G among Australian SMEs up 41% - study [sub req'd]
Ninety-eight percent of Australia's SMEs with an internet connection use their 
online service to communicate with customers and suppliers. Furthermore, over 
95 percent are connected to some form of broadband service, according to an 
Australian...
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/

3G Phones Exposing Networks’ Last-Gen Technology [reg req'd]
Oh, the things modern mobile phones can do. They are music-playing, 
video-taking, direction-providing multimedia powerhouses. But many people have 
trouble getting them to perform their most basic functions, like making phone 
calls.
The underlying problem, industry analysts say, is the complex quilt of the 
nation’s wireless networks. The major mobile carriers have spent tens of 
billions of dollars on new voice and data networks that they advertise as 
superfast wireless express lanes. But analysts say these upgrades present major 
engineering challenges, and the networks often underperform.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/14phone.html

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SPAM
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nz: New 'Spam King' Linked to SMS Campaign
Spammer Brendan Battles is being linked to an unsolicited bulk SMS marketing 
campaign in New Zealand that could breach New Zealand anti-spam laws.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161275/.html

Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating
Just four months ago, the world enjoyed a brief reduction in spam with the 
closure of McColo, a U.S.-based Web host that was accused of being a major hub 
for spammer activity, including a massive botnet called Srbizi.
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3810446

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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NZ court papers can be served via Facebook, judge rules
A High Court judge today approved the serving of court papers via Facebook, the 
popular social network website, in what is thought to be a New Zealand first. 
The High Court in Wellington was told that Axe Market Garden is trying to sue 
Craig Axe who is alleged to have taken $241,000 from the firm account.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10561970

Kiwi judge follows Australian Facebook precedent [AFP]
A New Zealand judge has approved the serving of court documents through the 
social networking website Facebook on a man being sued over his business 
dealings.High Court associate justice David Glendall approved the serving of 
legal papers on Craig Axe, who is alleged to have taken $NZ241,000 from his 
family's market garden company account.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/16/1237054723620.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/16/1237054723620.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2266647/You-ve-been-served-on-Facebook

Facebook court decision praised [ONE News]
A lawyer specialising in internet issues is welcoming a court decision to serve 
papers via a social networking site. The High Court has approved papers to be 
served via Facebook for the first time in New Zealand.
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/facebook-court-decision-praised-2552616

nz: Online scammers on the prowl, targeting Kiwis
A Christchurch woman is urging Gumtree website users to be on the alert for 
online scammers after she was conned out of hundreds of dollars.
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Online-scammers-on-the-prowl-targeting-Kiwis/tabid/423/articleID/95280/cat/64/Default.aspx

au: Web users urged to log onto safety
A report released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority has 
warned internet users they need to be more pro-active protecting themselves 
online.
http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn1605.html

Google lawyers seek to halt Italy trial
Lawyers for Google are expected to challenge Italy's right to try Google 
executives at a hearing on Tuesday, in a trial seen as a test case over 
attempts to "police" web content.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5919840.ece

BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and 
using a botnet. BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam 
Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of 
service attack against security company Prev-X.
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012359o-2000331828b,00.htm

BBC programme broke law with botnets, says lawyer
A BBC programme has broken the Computer Misuse Act by acquiring and using 
software to control 22,000 computers, creating a botnet capable of bringing 
down websites. A technology law specialist has said that the activity is 
illegal.
http://out-law.com/page-9863

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PRIVACY
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A Guide to Google's New Privacy Controls
Google has moved forward the debate about privacy and Internet advertising, in 
its typical way, with deceptively simple engineering and a willingness to 
impose its way on others.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/a-guide-to-googles-new-privacy-controls/

Many Americans See Privacy on Web as Big Issue, Survey Says
As arguments swirl over online privacy, a new survey indicates the issue is a 
dominant concern for Americans. More than 90 percent of respondents called 
online privacy a “really” or “somewhat” important issue, according to the 
survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by TRUSTe, an organization that 
monitors the privacy practices of Web sites of companies like I.B.M., Yahoo and 
WebMD for a fee.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/16/technology/internet/16privacy.html

Canadian privacy rights buried in the fine print by Michael Geist
Scott McNealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., has achieved 
considerable notoriety for having warned Internet users 10 years ago that "you 
have no privacy, get over it." Recent headlines suggest Ontario courts have 
adopted those sentiments, as two recent decisions involving the disclosure of 
subscriber information by Internet service providers confirmed that revealing 
personal information to law enforcement without a warrant is permitted under 
Canadian privacy law.
http://www.thestar.com/article/602772

U.S. privacy bill on Internet companies coming
A top U.S. lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday said he 
is working to develop a bill to impose mandatory guidelines on Internet 
companies to protect user privacy, because the current voluntary approach is 
falling short.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE52A6JN20090312

A Call to Legislate Internet Privacy
The debate on Internet privacy has begun in Congress.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/a-call-to-legislate-internet-privacy/

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CENSORSHIP
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Google, Yahoo Criticized Over Foreign Censorship
In a report on Internet censorship, Reporters Without Borders scolds the tech 
giants—including Microsoft—for cooperating with repressive governments
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090312_381922.htm

“Internet monitored and controlled, even in democracies”
Reporters Without Borders today issued a report entitled “Enemies of the 
Internet” in which it examines Internet censorship and other threats to online 
free expression in 22 countries.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30543

Report handed in to “Internet Enemy” embassies on eve of Online Free Expression 
Day
Reporters Without Borders yesterday handed in copies of its 2009 “Internet 
Enemies” report at the Paris embassies of the 22 countries identified as an 
“enemy” or source of concern in the report, issued to mark Online Free 
Expression Day today. The Tunisian and Burmese embassies refused to take its 
copy.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30574

Afghan student facing 20 years in hell for downloading article on women's rights
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy 
in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the 
country's highest court ruled against him \endash without even hearing his 
defence.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/student-facing-twenty-years-in-hell-1643069.html

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UK government outlines digital rights agency proposal
The government today fleshed out the digital rights agency proposed in Lord 
Carter's Digital Britain report and called for comment from the industry and 
consumers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/13/uk-government-outlines-digital-rights-agency

File sharing agency up for debate
The government has outlined the details of its proposed digital rights agency. 
The agency -a key element of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report - would 
encourage people to use legal sources of copyrighted material.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7945754.stm

Britain Targets Illegal Downloads
British Communications Minister Lord Stephen Carter has revealed more details 
of his plan to create a digital rights agency that's designed to help combat 
illegal file-sharing.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161179/.html

au: ACMA takes aim at Whirlpool, supplier
IN an unprecedented move, Australia's communications regulator has threatened 
to fine a company up to $11,000 a day for indirectly leaking part of its 
top-secret list of banned internet web pages.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25181408-15306,00.html

nz: Law Society voices its criticisms of S92A
If you think the debate over section 92A of New Zealand’s new copyright law is 
getting a bit emotional, you are probably right. Now a more sober group, the 
Auckland District Law Society, has pointed to issues in the legislation that it 
says could undermine “fundamental precepts of our common law system”.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/C23D39B703278365CC25757A0069BDBC

nz: Child porn threat used to push S92A
Waikato University's weekly Student Union magazine Nexus reports that United 
Video and other video rental stores in Hamilton are using the threat of child 
pornography to get customers to sign a petition in favour of Section 92A of New 
Zealand's new copyright law.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/9BD4DBDC1895CEEBCC25757B0003E194

NZ Copyright section could be changed
A controversial clause in the Copyright Act due to come into force in February 
could be changed if ICT groups and copyright owners can reach a compromise.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/it-telcos/670724/Copyright-section-could-be-changed

nz: Hide calls for repeal of internet copyright law
ACT leader Rodney Hide wants the controversial internet copyright law repealed 
and says he will recommend that to the Government.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10561679

TelstraClear decision must mean end of 92A [news release]
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) says TelstraClear's decision not to 
support the Telecommunications Carriers' Forum Copyright Code of Practice means 
the Government should promptly repeal Section 92A of the Copyright Act.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/media-releases-2009/telstraclear-decision-must-mean-end-of-92a

NSW not alone in police hacking laws
Proposed state legislation that would allow NSW Police to quietly hack into 
suspects' computers remotely reflected similar moves in other jurisdictions, a 
notable Australian cybercrime analyst said today.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/NSW-not-alone-in-police-hacking-laws/0,130061744,339295429,00.htm

NSW passes police hacking bill
Legislation to boost NSW Police covert searching and computer hacking powers 
looks set to go ahead after facing almost no opposition in the lower house of 
the NSW Parliament earlier this week.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/NSW-passes-police-hacking-bill/0,130061744,339295451,00.htm

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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nz: ISPs agree on code? Some chance
There's slim chance of ISPs widely adopting a cumbersome scheme to give teeth 
to section 92a of the Copyright Act. 
The scheme is being hammered out by the Telecommunications Carriers Forum.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/analysis/2265353/ISPs-agree-on-a-code-Some-chance

Commission calls for doubling funding for ICT research and innovation
Making Europe the world leader in ICT is the goal of the new strategy proposed 
today by the European Commission. Today Europe represents 34% of the global 
information and communication technologies (ICT) market, and its value is 
growing by 4% per year. However, the value added produced by the EU's ICT 
sector amounts to only 23% of the total, because both Europe's market and 
research efforts are fragmented. As a result, Europe is lagging behind its 
global competitors in ICT research and in the production of innovative 
ICT-based products and services. The strategy proposed calls on Member States 
and industry to pool resources and work together more in ICT research and 
innovation. The strategy also proposes showcase ICT innovation projects to 
deliver modern services infrastructures in areas like healthcare and energy 
efficiency.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/397

ACCC threatens dodgy telcos
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Graeme Samuel 
today warned the telecommunications industry that it would face additional 
regulation and court action unless it stopped misleading and cheating consumers.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/ACCC-threatens-dodgy-telcos/0,130061791,339295452,00.htm

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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Austria smashes child porn ring
Austrian police say they have broken an internet child porn ring that spanned 
170 countries and involved nearly 1,000 people, including teachers and doctors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7941935.stm

Child pornography ring broken up in Austria [Reuters]
The Austrian police said Friday they had broken an Internet child pornography 
ring that stretched across 170 countries, charging nearly 200 men and 
confiscating 14,000 computers, hard drives and diskettes. The site was visited 
12 million times before it was shut down. "Unfortunately there were people 
involved who work closely with children, like teachers," a federal police 
investigator, Harald Gremel, said at a news conference.
http://iht.com/articles/2009/03/13/europe/13austria.php

au: Man charged with child porn offences [AAP]
A 62-YEAR-OLD man from regional NSW has been charged with child porn offences 
after a tip-off from America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25181723-5006784,00.html

Child porn swoop nets SA teens
A MAJOR police operation targeting internet pedophiles has resulted in 11 
people facing charges in SA and scores of investigations being launched 
interstate and overseas.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25187103-5006301,00.html

us: Man charged with alleged child porn via PS3
A Kentucky man has been charged after allegedly persuading an 11-year-old girl 
to send nude pictures of herself while they played video games online via their 
PlayStation 3 consoles, according to reports.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10196553-235.html

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