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Cheating common in cyber sex world
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/24/2695603.htm

Cyberbullying—Let’s Fight It Together—the ACMA launches new Cybersmart resource 
[news release]
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311905

Mandelson defends plan to disconnect download pirates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/23/peter-mandelson-music-industry-filesharing

Future is TV-shaped, says Intel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8272003.stm

British musicians back 'three-strikes' rule for illegal filesharers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/24/lily-allen-filesharing-twitter

Why Australians are hanging up land lines [The Sunday Telegraph]
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/why-were-hanging-up-land-lines/story-e6frezc0-1225780053683

Russian cybergangs make the Web a dangerous place [IDG]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138514/Russian_cybergangs_make_the_Web_a_dangerous_place

The power of mobile money - Mobile phones have transformed lives in the poor 
world. Mobile money could have just as big an impact
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14505519

A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: Mobile marvels - Poor 
countries have already benefited hugely from mobile phones. Now get ready for a 
second round, says Tom Standage (interviewed here)
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483896

Net closing on websites conning fans in 2010 Football World Cup ticket fraud
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6848266.ece

ITU’s Asia-Pacific Regional Cybersecurity Forum Urges International Cooperation 
Against Cybercrime
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2009/28.html

£6 UK broadband tax 'will be law' before next election
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/1636-broadband-tax-will-be-law-before-next-election-1792266.html

Google books settlement is delayed until "significant changes" are made
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/google-books-settlement-delayed-until-significant-changes-are-made.html

Google Books deal postponed after avalanche of criticism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/25/google-books-delayed

All eyes on Australia's NBN
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26134497-15319,00.html

Australia embarks on great broadband adventure [AFP]
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/australia-embarks-on-great-broadband-adventure-20090928-g86d.html


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INTERNET USE
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Cheating common in cyber sex world
A study has found that over half of all internet users who engage in cyber sex 
are either married or in a serious offline relationship.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/24/2695603.htm

Infidelity rife in cybersex world [AAP]
Infidelity is rife in the world of cybersex, new Australian research shows. A 
study from the Swinburne University of Technology of 1325 internet users found 
more than half of those who engaged in cybersex were married or in a serious 
relationship.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/infidelity-rife-in-cybersex-world-20090924-g4hi.html
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/infidelity-rife-in-cybersex-world-20090924-g4hi.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2902898/

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion
Twitter has trained people to compress their thoughts into 140 characters and 
given a public stage to both dissidents in Iran and voluble stars like 
Shaquille O’Neal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/technology/internet/25twitter.html

Twitter close to securing $100m cash injection that will see value quadruple
Dotcom darling Twitter is close to securing a cash injection of $100m (£62m), 
with executives due to complete a surprise funding round that would see the 
total value of the much-hyped Californian company quadruple to an estimated 
$1bn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/24/twitter-cash-injection

Twitter said to be near a deal for $100 million in venture funding
Twitter may be close to locking up a deal for $100 million in new venture 
funding, a sum that would nearly triple the total venture capital poured into 
the 3-year-old messaging start-up.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/twitter-said-to-be-near-a-deal-for-100-million-in-venture-funding.html

Twitter closes in on $100m of new funding
Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging site, is close to a deal to secure as 
much as $100 million of new funding, valuing the company at $1 billion.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6847996.ece

Facebook users warned of wall worm
There are reports of a worm spreading on Facebook, hijacking wall posts and 
threatening to compromise users' computer security.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/26/2697366.htm

Facebook, Twitter users too quick to press 'send'
The connected world we live in speeds up both our work, and personal lives. But 
in sharing information and posting pictures on social networking sites like 
Facebook, or texting salacious messages – known as ‘sexts’ – many are pressing 
‘send’ too quickly.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Facebook-Twitter-users-too-quick-to-press-send/tabid/423/articleID/122860/cat/64/Default.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Facebook-Twitter-users-too-quick-to-press-send/tabid/209/articleID/122860/Default.aspx?ArticleID=122860

Affluent and urban drawn to online social networks: Nielsen [AFP]
Market-tracker Nielsen reported on Friday that the ranks of US online social 
network users continue to grow, with cyber communities tending to attract 
people who are affluent and urban.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/affluent-and-urban-drawn-to-online-social-networks-nielsen-20090926-g6ow.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/affluent-and-urban-drawn-to-online-social-networks-nielsen-20090926-g6ow.html

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Apple Launches Major Green Effort
In recent years, Apple has been hammered by several environmental groups. 
Greenpeace singled it out for its use of toxic chemicals in 2007, and it has 
done poorly in rankings of the greenest corporations. The criticism is jarring 
for a company with a cool, progressive image and Mr. Inconvenient Truth, Al 
Gore, on its board.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_40/b4149068698190.htm

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: Federal Register Notice: Online Safety and Technology Working Group Public 
Meeting
NTIA has published a notice announcing a public meeting of the Online Safety 
and Technology Working Group. The meeting will be held at the U.S. Department 
of Commerce, Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2009. Please note: The time for 
the meeting has been changed from that published in the Federal Register; the 
meeting will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2009/FR_OSTWGmeeting_090908.pdf
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/advisory/onlinesafety/OSTWG_Agenda_090924.pdf

au: Parents told to rethink approach to cyber-bullying
An internet safety expert says teachers and parents need to rethink their 
approach to combating cyber-bulling. Martin Cocker from Netsafe New Zealand is 
in Sydney for today's launch of a high school teaching resource called Let's 
Fight It Together.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/25/2696053.htm

au: Students to advise on tackling cyber-bullying
Cyber-bullying in schools has become such a concern for the State Government 
that it will seek the advice of hundreds of students in a renewed bid to tackle 
the problem.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/students-to-advise-on-tackling-cyberbullying-20090927-g7pu.html

ACMA helps teachers fight cyberbullying
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today launched Let's 
Fight It Together, a teaching resource to combat cyberbullying.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/156742,acma-helps-teachers-fight-cyberbullying.aspx

Cyberbullying—Let’s Fight It Together—the ACMA launches new Cybersmart resource 
[news release]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority today launched Let’s Fight It 
Together, a new teaching resource to combat cyberbullying that will be 
available free to all schools in Australia.
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311905

Fighting the scourge of child porn [The Straits Times]
The mere thought of child pornography turns most people's stomachs but when 
John sits in his office in Canberra, that is exactly what he often surfs for on 
the Internet.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20090928-170288.html

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Mandelson defends plan to disconnect download pirates
Lord Mandelson will try to quell the furore over his proposals to disconnect 
online pirates tomorrow as some of the biggest names in music assemble at an 
emergency meeting to hammer out a joint position on filesharing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/23/peter-mandelson-music-industry-filesharing

Future is TV-shaped, says Intel
The world's biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion 
devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8272003.stm

Intel tries anew to built its smarts into TVs
Intel may not have attained the same dominance in TVs as it has in personal 
computers, but the company remains convinced that interactive, networked, 
computing-intensive tasks will win the company a foothold in the world of video.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10361212-264.html

British musicians back 'three-strikes' rule for illegal filesharers
The music industry moved last night to heal a rift over illegal filesharing as 
artists including Lily Allen, George Michael and Sandie Shaw voted to support a 
"three-strikes" rule that would see online pirates have their broadband 
connections constrained.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/24/lily-allen-filesharing-twitter

Squeeze file-sharers, stars say
Pop star Lily Allen has joined almost 100 other British musicians at a heated 
three-hour debate to discuss how to tackle illegal music downloading.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8274072.stm

uk: Illegal file-sharers will be cut off as 'last resort'
People who share files illegally over the internet may have their connection 
suspended under government proposals to tackle piracy, but only as a "last 
resort", Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/illegal-filesharers-will-be-cut-off-as-last-resort-1792922.html

au: iiNet shields copyright abusers: studios [sub req'd]
Internet service provider iiNet will be accused of encouraging "rampant" 
copyright abuse for commercial gain when a landmark legal battle against some 
of Hollywood's biggest movie studios and television networks gets underway 
early next month.
http://www.afr.com/home/viewer.aspx?EDP://20090925000031592196

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Why Australians are hanging up land lines [The Sunday Telegraph]
Is it time to ditch the land line? Younger generations have abandoned the home 
phone in favour of the mobile with 70 per cent of 18-31-year-olds considering 
the mobile phone their main communication tool, according to Australian Media 
and Communications Authority data.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/why-were-hanging-up-land-lines/story-e6frezc0-1225780053683
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,26134385-5014239,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/money/story/0,26907,26127814-5015839,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26127814-5015856,00.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/money/why-were-hanging-up-land-lines/story-e6frfh5f-1225780053683
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/money/story/0,26844,26127814-5015825,00.html

AT&T Says Google Voice Violates Net Neutrality Principles
AT&T is playing a “gotcha” with Google. The big phone company filed a letter 
with the Federal Communications Commission Friday saying the Google Voice 
calling system violates the commission’s network neutrality principles.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/att-says-google-voice-violates-net-neutrality-principles/

AT&T: Net neutrality should apply to Web firms too
AT&T Inc said any new "Net neutrality" rules imposed by U.S. regulators need to 
apply to Web companies like Google Inc as much as to phone companies to ensure 
a level playing field.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-42716120090925

AT&T Blasts Google In New FCC Letter
AT&T asked the FCC on Friday to force Google to play by the same rules as its 
competitors on the heels of reports that the Internet giant blocked calls to 
rural areas for users of its Google Voice service and, as a result, is reducing 
its access expenses. The letter from AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinn 
points out that a June 2007 FCC decision prohibits other providers, including 
those with which Google Voice competes, from taking such action. Google has 
argued Google Voice isn't a traditional phone service and shouldn't be 
regulated like other common carriers.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/09/att-blasts-google-in-new-fcc-l.php

AT&T looks to flip net rules debate on Google
AT&T Inc said any new "net neutrality" rules imposed by U.S. regulators need to 
apply to Web companies like Google Inc as much as to phone companies to ensure 
a level playing field.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-42716120090926

Google says its voice service should not be regulated
Google Inc's voice service is an "online software tool" and should not be 
regulated, a Google lawyer told Reuters on Friday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-42716320090925

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SPAM
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Spammers like Idaho best of all [IDG]
No one is quite sure why, but Idaho now gets spammed a little more heavily than 
any other state in the U.S.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138511/Spammers_like_Idaho_best_of_all
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172621/.html

Symantec Announces August 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report [news release]
Symantec Corp. announced the publication of its August 2009 MessageLabs 
Intelligence Report. Analysis highlights how activity levels for Cutwail, one 
of the largest botnets globally, fell by as much as 90 percent following the 
shutdown of an ISP in Latvia. Also in August, another prolific botnet called 
Donbot continued to use shortened URLs in its spam runs, peaking at 
distributing ten billion emails in just one day.
http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/resources/press/36702

Russian cybergangs make the Web a dangerous place [IDG]
Russian cybergangs have established a robust system for promoting Web sites 
that sell fake antivirus software, pharmaceuticals and counterfeit luxury 
products, according to a new report from security vendor Sophos.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138514/Russian_cybergangs_make_the_Web_a_dangerous_place
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172642/.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092509-russian-cybergangs-make-the-web.html
http://www.cio.de/news/cio_worldnews/899564/
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=F1F2CEAE-1A64-67EA-E46B5D65637C5BE1
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/russian-cybergangs-make-web-dangerous-place-308

Viagra spam brings bulging returns of more than $4,000/day
Pharmaceutical spam can generate more than $4,000 per day in sales, confirming 
that spam continues to thrive because of those gullible few who click through 
and ruin it for the rest of us. And that's not just an estimate: a security 
researcher from Sophos have combed through sales logs as part of his 
investigation into the growth of spam networks, noting that Russian affiliate 
partner networks—also known as "partnerka"—are responsible for some of the 
largest Canadian pharmacy spam businesses.
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/09/viagra-spam-brings-bulging-returns-of-more-than-4000day.ars

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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The power of mobile money - Mobile phones have transformed lives in the poor 
world. Mobile money could have just as big an impact
Once the toys of rich yuppies, mobile phones have evolved in a few short years 
to become tools of economic empowerment for the world’s poorest people. These 
phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow 
postal services, allowing information to move more freely, making markets more 
efficient and unleashing entrepreneurship. All this has a direct impact on 
economic growth: an extra ten phones per 100 people in a typical developing 
country boosts GDP growth by 0.8 percentage points, according to the World 
Bank. More than 4 billion handsets are now in use worldwide, three-quarters of 
them in the developing world (see our special report). Even in Africa, four in 
ten people now have a mobile phone.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14505519

A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: Mobile marvels - Poor 
countries have already benefited hugely from mobile phones. Now get ready for a 
second round, says Tom Standage (interviewed here)
Bouncing a great-grandchild on her knee in her house in Bukaweka, a village in 
eastern Uganda, Mary Wokhwale gestures at her surroundings. “My mobile phone 
has been my livelihood,” she says. In 2003 Ms Wokhwale was one of the first 15 
women in Uganda to become “village phone” operators. Thanks to a microfinance 
loan, she was able to buy a basic handset and a roof-mounted antenna to ensure 
a reliable signal. She went into business selling phone calls to other 
villagers, making a small profit on each call. This enabled her to pay back her 
loan and buy a second phone. The income from selling phone calls subsequently 
enabled her to set up a business selling beer, open a music and video shop and 
help members of her family pay their children’s school fees. Business has 
dropped off somewhat in the past couple of years as mobile phones have fallen 
in price and many people in her village can afford their own. But Ms Wokhwale’s 
life has been
 transformed.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483896

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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Net closing on websites conning fans in 2010 Football World Cup ticket fraud
A team of cyberpolice from New Scotland Yard have helped to save tens of 
thousands of football fans from being duped into buying bogus tickets for the 
2010 World Cup finals. Fifa, football’s world governing body, called in the 
London-based e-Crime Unit to crack down on the internet fraudsters.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6848266.ece

au: New CERT early 2010: McClelland
The new national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) will be operational 
early next year, federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland said.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26118296-5013040,00.html

Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected
Bot infections are on the rise in the enterprise, and most come from botnets 
you've never heard of nor ever will. In a three-month study of more than 600 
different botnets found having infiltrated enterprise networks, researchers 
from Damballa discovered nearly 60 percent are botnets, and with only a handful 
to a few hundred bots built to target a particular organization. Only 5 percent 
of the bot infections were from big-name botnets, such as Zeus/ZDbot and 
Koobface.
http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220200118

ITU’s Asia-Pacific Regional Cybersecurity Forum Urges International Cooperation 
Against Cybercrime
ITU’s Regional Cybersecurity Forum for the Asia-Pacific region opened today in 
Hyderabad, India, with the aim of reinforcing international cooperation and 
developing a harmonized approach to combating cybercrime.
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2009/28.html

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PRIVACY
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EU funding 'Orwellian' artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for 
"abnormal behaviour" 
The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing "Orwellian" 
technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for "abnormal 
behaviour". 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Orwellian-artificial-intelligence-plan-to-monitor-public-for-abnormal-behaviour.html

us: DHS set to release privacy report today
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is set to present its annual privacy 
report to Congress today. The mandated report will provide a "detailed and 
comprehensive look" at the activities of the DHS privacy office between July 
2008 and June 2009, according to a spokeswoman for the agency.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138464/DHS_set_to_release_privacy_report_today

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FCC Takes Sides In Net-Neutrality Debate
On Monday, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said the 
agency would write rules requiring Internet providers to do something many of 
them already say they do: deliver online content without discrimination. So why 
were there so many long faces in telecom afterward?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092501088.html

£6 UK broadband tax 'will be law' before next election
Stephen Timms, the minister charged with overseeing Britain's "digital 
revolution," pledged yesterday to pass the £6-a-year broadband tax into law 
"before the general election," despite opposition from the Conservatives.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/1636-broadband-tax-will-be-law-before-next-election-1792266.html

£6 broadband tax to be made law before election, minister says
The government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce its controversial £6 a 
year broadband tax before the election, despite potential opposition from the 
Conservatives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/23/broadband-tax-election

Google books settlement is delayed until "significant changes" are made
The millions of out-of-print books scanned by Google Inc. and now sitting 
unread on the company's cyber-bookshelves will have to sit a while longer.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/google-books-settlement-delayed-until-significant-changes-are-made.html

Google Books Settlement Delayed Indefinitely
As currently written, the controversial settlement between Google and groups 
representing publishers and authors is officially dead. On Thursday, a federal 
judge gave the parties time to negotiate a new deal that would address some of 
the many objections filed by various groups.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/google-books-settlement-delayed-indefinitely/

Judge delays Google books hearing
A New York judge has put Google's vision of creating the world's biggest 
digital library on hold.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8274115.stm

Google Books deal postponed after avalanche of criticism
The judge overseeing Google's controversial agreement with American publishers 
to digitise millions of books has delayed a hearing into the $125m deal - 
effectively shutting down the settlement and sending it back to the drawing 
board.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/25/google-books-delayed

French publishers take Google to court for 'forgery' [AFP]
French publishers and authors took Google to court Thursday, demanding 
compensation from the US Internet giant they accuse of counterfeiting their 
books by digitizing them and posting them online.
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/french-publishers-take-google-to-court-for-forgery-20090925-g4xv.html
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/french-publishers-take-google-to-court-for-forgery-20090925-g4xv.html

French publishers face Google in court over books [AP]
Google has gone on trial in Paris over the insistence by French writers and 
publishers that the company request permission before putting book excerpts 
online.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/french-publishers-face-google-in-court-over-books-20090925-g4ye.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/french-publishers-face-google-in-court-over-books-20090925-g4ye.html

FCC Chairman Outlines Expansive Vision for Open and Innovative Internet
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's speech at the Brookings Institution this 
morning makes clear that he understands and appreciates what makes the Internet 
special. His vision of an open Internet that preserves the "freedom to innovate 
without permission" is one that CDT shares and that all Internet users and 
innovators should vigorously support. At the same time, he sensibly pledged to 
keep his effort narrowly targeted on "companies that control access to the 
Internet" and to "do as much as we need, and no more."
http://cdt.org/press/20090921press.php

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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NZ Telecom resale services may be freed from regulation
Telecom has convinced the Commerce Commission that regulation of its resale 
services is outdated, raising the prospect that the level of oversight will be 
reduced.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10599591

ComCom may reduce regulation [NZPA]
The Commerce Commission is to investigate whether services Telecom provides to 
other telecommunications companies to be resold should be deregulated.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2901725/

Anothony Doesburg: Faster, wider bandwith- but what will we do with it?
As the Government inches ahead with its $1.5 billion fibre-to-the-premises 
plans, the issue is going to become what to do with all that internet bandwidth.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10599530

All eyes on Australia's NBN
The sheer scale of the national broadband network (NBN) project has drawn 
interest from foreign governments including the US, where President Barack 
Obama has outlined similar plans.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26134497-15319,00.html

Australia embarks on great broadband adventure [AFP]
From snowy mountains and sun-baked deserts to the steamy tropical north, 
Australia has begun wiring its vast expanse with a high-tech broadband network 
in a giant project being closely followed abroad.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/australia-embarks-on-great-broadband-adventure-20090928-g86d.html
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/australia-embarks-on-great-broadband-adventure-20090927-g7i4.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10600074

South Korea Orders Lower Wireless Charges
South Korea's telecommunications regulator ordered the country's mobile 
carriers to reduce service charges beginning in November. The move is likely to 
hurt the profitability of operators, which already have weak margins because of 
a marketing rivalry in a highly saturated market.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125408659465844513.html

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