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And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Google blames outage on system error and online traffic jam http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133109 Google change could stir more advertiser angst http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10242104-93.html Google Revises Trademark Policy To Allow Brand Names In More Ads http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/15/google-trademark-policy-technology-paidcontent.html Pay Walls Alone Won’t Save Newspapers http://nytimes.com/2009/05/18/business/media/18iht-cache18.html Guatemala police arrest Twitter user for 'inciting financial panic' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/guatemala-twitter-jean-anleu-fernandez @Thinking Digital: Future computer interfaces of today http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/may/14/digital-media-media-events-conferences Cyberbullying laws won't save your children http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30751310/ Pirated pop keeps stars popular http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049495.stm P2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/13/long_tail_p2p/ Mobile phones do not cause stress, study shows http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/17/1242498639380.html The Censors Right Here at Home http://www.newsweek.com/id/197907 ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** Anti-Censorship, Benevolent Payloads and Human Rights by Alana Maurushat [UNSW Law Research Paper] Abstract: Computers and robots have long been used in “physical” environments where it is too dangerous, hostile, or difficult for humans to perform tasks. What about situations where the danger stems from political and legal environments? This paper will look at the ethical and legal use of a computer worm to perform anti-censorship tasks. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1402425 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Google blames outage on system error and online traffic jam Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam. The company reported that the outage, which started a little before 11 a.m. EDT, caused about 14% of Google users to face slow service or interruptions. The problem affected all Google products, including Google Search, Google News, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Reader. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133109 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051409-google-blames-outage-on-system.html Google Stumbles Google gasped Thursday morning--and many others on the Internet shuddered. By mid morning in New York City, the Google outage seemed to be system-wide: its search, calendar, e-mail ... everything associated with the company seems slow or entirely down. http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/14/google-down-internet-slow-internet-technology-google.html Google change could stir more advertiser angst Google's love-hate relationship with the advertisers that pay its bills could hit another rocky patch following its latest AdWords policy change. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10242104-93.html Google Revises Trademark Policy To Allow Brand Names In More Ads Google has revised its trademark policy to make it easier for advertisers to include brand names in the text of their ads. http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/15/google-trademark-policy-technology-paidcontent.html Pay Walls Alone Won’t Save Newspapers Will May 2009 mark the beginning of the end for the free, unfettered Internet? From all the wailing on the Web — and the fist-pumping in some old-media redoubts — it might seem so. http://nytimes.com/2009/05/18/business/media/18iht-cache18.html Guatemala police arrest Twitter user for 'inciting financial panic' Police in Guatemala have arrested a Twitter user and confiscated his computer for "inciting financial panic" after he urged people to remove funds from a state-owned bank. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/guatemala-twitter-jean-anleu-fernandez Twitter message leads to arrest after 'financial panic' in Guatemala A man has been arrested for inciting "financial panic" after he posted a Twitter message. Jean Ramses Anleu Fernandez urged people in Guatemala to boycott a bank in the aftermath of a political scandal. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6296438.ece Online Shopping Growth Flattens As Even America's Rich Cut Back For a little while at the beginning of the year, online shoppers tentatively started filling their virtual shopping carts. But they have cut back once again this spring — especially the older and wealthier people. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/online-shopping-growth-flattens-as-even-the-rich-cut-back/ Singaporeans enticed to get married via Facebook race Singapore rewarded 10 young dating couples on Saturday for being the most popular "Beautifully Imperfect" pairs online, the latest bid by the city-state to get its citizens married at a younger age. http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-39674820090517 Fast Growing U.K. Online Newspaper Market Attracting Even Larger Audiences from Beyond the Pond [news release] comScore released the results of a study examining domestic and worldwide visitation to leading U.K. newspaper sites, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. In total, 15.9 million people in the U.K. visited a newspaper Web site in March, representing a 43-percent reach of the country’s online population. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/5/U.K._Newspaper_Sites_Aattract_Visitors_from_Around_the_World Wolfram Alpha: The search is on It is the curse of every internet search engine to be compared to Google, master of the universe and supreme ruler over two-thirds of such searches. Since newcomers never measure up to the breadth and depth of the billions of pages that Google has indexed over the past decade, most of these comparisons end with an easy win for the incumbent. Pretenders to the throne, nevertheless, keep appearing. http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643997 Study: Tech Gadgets Suck Up Too Much Juice The energy consumption from communications technologies and consumer electronics devices, including computers, mobile phones, and televisions, could be reduced by more than 50 percent through the use of energy-efficient technologies that exist today. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133119 ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Social networking: Haven for hatred? An anti-racism group says the phenomenon of social networking online is proving a boon for extremists and race-hate groups. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/14/2570795.htm Confronting Hate Speech on the Web On Wednesday morning, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center delivered a presentation to the students of New York’s Independence High School about the spread of hatred on the Internet. This was not your typical PowerPoint deck: Cooper’s tour through the darker recesses of the Web included YouTube videos depicting burning Korans; an image gallery belong to a Greek skinhead group on photo-sharing site Photobucket; and a controversial poem posted to IslamOnline.net entitled “How to Behead.” http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2009/05/confronting_hat.html Hackers attack Facebook users Hackers launched an attack on Facebook's 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE54D6HP20090514 http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-39634620090515 Facebook members hit by another phishing scam In what's just the latest Facebook phishing scam, hackers on Thursday broke into accounts and sent e-mails to friends urging them to log on to fake Facebook sites, according to new reports and anecdotes from members. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10241573-83.html ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** @Thinking Digital: Future computer interfaces of today The afternoon talks at Thinking Digital began with a YouTube star, Johnny Chung Lee. I along with millions of others have seen Johnny create a multi-touch white board with the WiiMote from the Nintendo Wii. It's a brilliant hack, and he basically showed how almost anyone could create a multi-touch whiteboard for $100 and a weekend of work. It's being used all over the world, especially in places where these boards could be useful but were previously unaffordable. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/may/14/digital-media-media-events-conferences ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Cyberbullying laws won't save your children Is it better or worse to bully someone if you're using the Internet? Worse apparently, according to lawmakers on the most recent “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” crusade in vogue. I, personally, would rather be bullied online, because it's super-duper hard for anyone to IM you a purple nurple. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30751310/ au: Mobile phones blamed for schoolyard violence Fight! Ten years ago, the schoolyard chant would have drawn a small crowd of students to watch pupils slugging it out before teachers broke it up. Nowadays, spectators potentially number in their millions. http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,25492006-948,00.html Slur-Filled Web Site Hurtful but Not Illegal Before the digital age, there was simply nasty writing on the restroom wall. Now, in the say-it-all era of the Internet, the darker side of teenage expression has found a new place to fester. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/16/AR2009051602191.html Protecting Children in Cyberspace - Jamaican Office of the Prime Minister The Internet, cyberspace, represents one of the greatest technological advancements of the 20th century and plays an important role in all aspects of life but most importantly communication, education, commerce and entertainment. It has radically changed global social interactions. Many of you have witnessed children sitting beside each other but communicating via texting, instant messaging or by e-mail. The larger the group, the more the children seem to have fun. Their fascination with the social networking websites such as Hi5, Facebook and MySpace is unabated. Videos, audios and text are exchanged in real time and have rapidly replaced the need for personal interface as we knew it a few years ago. http://www.jis.gov.jm/officePM/html/20090516T200000-0500_19648_JIS_PROTECTING_CHILDREN_IN_CYBERSPACE_.asp ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** Pirated pop keeps stars popular File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music charts. There was little evidence that file-sharing sites helped unsigned and new bands find an audience, it found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049495.stm P2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/13/long_tail_p2p/ http://out-law.com/page-10016 ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** Mobile phones do not cause stress, study shows The apparent scourge of the 24/7 lifestyle, the mobile phone, keeps users "perpetually available" but does not make people any more rushed or pressured for time, according to a study of more than 1000 workers. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/17/1242498639380.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/17/1242498639380.html ********************** SPAM ********************** FTC Sues to Halt Car-Warranty Phone Spam The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to shut down a telemarketing campaign that has been making hundreds of millions of allegedly deceptive "robocalls" to sell vehicle warranty extensions. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124232907674020647.html Judge Blocks Warranty Phone Spam [AP] A federal judge has issued two temporary restraining orders designed to stop what officials describe as a wave of deceptive "robo-calls" warning people their auto warranties are expiring and offering to sell them new service plans. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124248434552127039.html us: FTC sues to stop auto warranty 'robo-calls' Federal regulators filed lawsuits Thursday against several companies they say are behind a national wave of spam "robo-calls" that warn people their auto warranties are expiring and offer service plans. http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-05-14-car-warranty-calls_N.htm ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** EBay wins French case over liability for fakes Cosmetics firm L'Oréal has failed in its bid to hold eBay responsible for the sale of counterfeit goods in France. A French court said that the online auction site had done all that it had to to stop counterfeit sales. http://out-law.com/page-10013 Australian man charged over 'anti-Semitic' YouTube video [AP] Police have charged a man who allegedly posted a video on YouTube with inciting racism under a so-far untested Australian state law, officials said today. A newspaper report said the video targeted Jews. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-charged-over-antisemitic-youtube-video-1684769.html Hong Kong tech jailed for stealing sex-with-starlet photos [DPA] A computer technician was jailed for eight and a half months today for stealing photos of a Hong Kong pop star having sex with starlets that would be seen by millions of people via the internet. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/13/1241894033965.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/05/13/1241894033965.html FTC Warns Internet Peddlers that Potentially Bogus H1N1 Influenza Products May Violate Federal Law [news release] The Federal Trade Commission has warned Web site operators who made claims that their products can prevent, treat, or cure the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, that they must have scientific proof to support their claims. The FTC told the companies, whose products include dietary supplements, air filtration devices, and cleaning agents, that without scientific proof they are violating federal law and must drop the claims or face further action. http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/swineflu2.shtm ************************** PRIVACY ************************** nz: Privacy consultation pays off, says researcher New Zealand could well be a force for the evolution of a positive attitude on the apparent conflict between privacy interests and the needs of national security, says InternetNZ cyberlaw fellow Cynthia Laberge. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/02C7DE931F86DCE1CC2575B6006D5A25 nz: Privacy week prompts vendors to defend IT It was supposed to be a discussion on privacy – part of Privacy Awareness Week last week in Wellington – but the audience and moderator Diane Edwards had to work to keep that focus. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/26D5369BB5926514CC2575B5000481AB ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** The Censors Right Here at Home Internet censorship used to be pretty easy to spot. When China blocks YouTube or prohibits anything on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, it's not hard to figure out what's going on. But as governments and commercial firms get savvier about the Internet, censorship is getting more subtle. A slow Web site could be an accidental glitch or something more intentional. http://www.newsweek.com/id/197907 ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** New Mood in Antitrust May Target Google For decades, the nation’s biggest antitrust cases have centered on technology companies. And they have all been efforts by the government to deal with powerful companies with far-reaching influence, like AT&T, the telephone monopoly; I.B.M., the mainframe computer giant; and Microsoft, the powerhouse of personal computer software. http://nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/companies/18antitrust.html ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** BT to speed up next-gen broadband rollout BT is planning to double the pace of its forthcoming next-generation broadband fibre rollout, bringing up to 100Mbps broadband within reach of more than a million premises next year. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39652599,00.htm Commission shelves NGN recommendation The European Commission will shelve its long-awaited recommendation to boost investment in optical fibre networks, at least until the end of the year, an EU official told EurActiv. http://euractiv.com/en/infosociety/commission-shelves-ngn-recommendation/article-182347 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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