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Headlines from today's edition of the news include: And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics [Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project] http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Internet-broadband-and-cell-phone-statistics.aspx Teenagers risk death in internet strangling craze with online videos showing children how to throttle each other in pursuit of highs http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/teenagers-risk-death-in-internet-strangling-craze-1858987.html Snowed-in Brits boost adultery website http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60539M20100106 Americans use of Internet, broadband and wireless flat lines http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100105_8768.php Child porn victims getting younger - NZ Internal Affairs http://www.nzherald.co.nz/child-abuse/news/article.cfm?c_id=146&objectid=10612529 Internet pirates find 'bulletproof' havens for illegal file sharing http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/internet-piracy-bulletproof Mobile phone radiation 'protects' against Alzheimer's http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8443541.stm Nicolas Sarkozy given 'impenetrable' superphone http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6944236/Nicolas-Sarkozy-given-impenetrable-superphone.html Google Moves to Keep Its Lead as Web Goes Mobile http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html Google Rolls Out Nexus One, Its Rival to the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/internet/06google.html Google Shakes but Doesn’t Upend the Cellphone Market http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/personaltech/06pogue.html Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442712.stm Nokia asks court to bar US imports of Apple's Macs, iPhones, iPods http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143083/Nokia_asks_court_to_bar_U.S._imports_of_Apple_s_Macs_iPhones_iPods US energy set to form new group to protect electric grid from cyberattacks http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100105_8555.php China enjoys a burst of Internet freedom as Great Firewall falls -- briefly http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-firewall5-2010jan05,0,7971353.story Chinese Censorship Equals Protectionism and May Violate its WTO obligations http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704842604574641620942668590.html US company sues China for Green Dam 'code theft' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442771.stm Suit Says 2 Chinese Firms Stole a Web-Blocking Code http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/technology/companies/07censor.html Government charts Digital Britain progress http://out-law.com/page-10644 France considers "Google tax" to pay creative work http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-45218920100107 US DOJ calls for FCC to release spectrum, focus on wireless broadband http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/01/doj_calls_for_fcc_to_release_s.html FCC asks Congress to extend deadline for broadband plan by one month http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/01/the_federal_communications_com_1.html ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics [Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project] Overview: In a national survey between November 30 and December 27, 2009, we find: 74% of American adults use the internet; 60% of American adults use broadband connections at home; 55% of American adults connect to the internet wirelessly. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Internet-broadband-and-cell-phone-statistics.aspx ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Teenagers risk death in internet strangling craze with online videos showing children how to throttle each other in pursuit of highs Children are posting videos on the internet showing them choking other youngsters to the point of collapse, in a craze that doctors warn has led to brain damage and death. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/teenagers-risk-death-in-internet-strangling-craze-1858987.html Snowed-in Brits boost adultery website Britons snowed in by the wintry weather have been flocking to an extra-marital dating site in recent days. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60539M20100106 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/07/2787086.htm http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3212437/ Pew Survey: U.S. Tech Use Flat Lines The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has identified some flat lines in Americans technology use in a report released Tuesday that examined Internet, broadband, and cell phone use nationally. The percentage of U.S. adults who use the Internet is just a point higher than it was back in 2006, clocking in this year at 74 percent, the survey found. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/01/us-tech-use-flat-lines.php Americans use of Internet, broadband and wireless flat lines The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has identified some flat lines in Americans technology use in a report released on Tuesday that examined Internet, broadband, and cell phone use nationally. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100105_8768.php Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated Internet-connected computers: the front seat. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/technology/07distracted.html Internet-enabled TVs to feature ‘app stores’ "App stores" are coming to the television as developers and content providers move their software and services to the big screens of internet-connected TVs. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d5015ae0-fb03-11de-94d8-00144feab49a.html Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl ... A new dating order has emerged in the era of social media. Couples who used to see each other’s friends only at parties now enjoy 24-hour access to their beloved’s confidants thanks to Facebook. Sharing passwords to e-mail accounts, bank accounts and photo-sharing sites is the new currency of intimacy. And courtship — however brief or intense — is wantonly scrutinized by the whole world on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/fashion/07breakup.html ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Social networking, social death? Managing your business' and staff's reputation online Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter raise a variety of issues for businesses. Key amongst these is managing and responding to the reputational risk these sites pose to your business and your staff. This article offers some practical tips for managing and responding to those risks. http://mondaq.com/australia/article.asp?articleid=91512 ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Microsoft and HP show off 'slate' PC Microsoft and HP have teamed up to introduce a slate computer ahead of Apple's much rumoured device launch. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8444672.stm ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Child porn victims getting younger - NZ Internal Affairs Children as young as a few months old are being targeted by New Zealand's child pornography offenders, as they continue to seek even younger victims. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/child-abuse/news/article.cfm?c_id=146&objectid=10612529 Child-porn FBI agent honoured in Queensland AN FBI agent has received an award from Queensland police for his help cracking the "world's worst" child pornography ring. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/child-porn-fbi-agent-honoured-in-queensland/story-e6frg6nf-1225816069820 New scanners break child porn laws The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws uk: Schoolchildren told to avoid Wikipedia Children should use Google and Yahoo to improve their essays, according to the official exams watchdog. Ofqual said putting keywords into internet search engines was a “good starting point” when researching pieces of coursework and dissertations. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943325/Schoolchildren-told-to-avoid-Wikipedia.html ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** Internet pirates find 'bulletproof' havens for illegal file sharing Internet pirates are moving away from safe havens such as Sweden to new territories that include China and Ukraine, as they try to avoid prosecution for illegal file sharing, according to experts. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/internet-piracy-bulletproof Internet pirates flee to 'bulletproof' Ukraine Internet pirates are moving from traditional safe havens such as Sweden to new countires including China and Ukraine as they attempt to evade prosecution for file sharing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6934204/Internet-pirates-flee-to-bulletproof-Ukraine.html France three strikes law delayed by govt's own data watchdog France's "three strikes" law threatening Internet disconnections for repeat copyright infringers should have been in effect by now, but it hasn't yet become law due to one French privacy agency. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/france-three-strikes-law-delayed-by-govts-own-data-watchdog.ars ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** Mobile-phone culture: The Apparatgeist calls - how you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live. But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences Technologies tend to be global, both by nature and by name. Say “television”, “computer” or “internet” anywhere and chances are you will be understood. But hand-held phones? For this ubiquitous technology, mankind suffers from a Tower of Babel syndrome. Under millions of Christmas trees North and South Americans have been unwrapping cell phones or celulares. Yet to Britons and Spaniards they are mobiles or móviles. Germans and Finns refer to them as Handys and kännykät, respectively, because they fit in your hand. The Chinese, too, make calls on a sho ji, or “hand machine”. And in Japan the term of art is keitai, which roughly means “something you can carry with you”. http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15172850 Mobile phone radiation 'protects' against Alzheimer's After all the concern over possible damage to health from using mobile phones, scientists have found a potential benefit from radiation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8443541.stm Mobile phones 'may prevent Alzheimer's' Mobile phones may improve memory and protect against Alzheimer's disease, scientists have discovered. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mobile-phones-may-prevent-alzheimers-1860137.html Mobile phone use may reverse Alzheimer's [AFP] The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phones could protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's disease, according to a US study. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/07/2787526.htm Nicolas Sarkozy given 'impenetrable' superphone Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has been presented with a super-phone with "impenetrable" encryption levels compared to commercial handhelds such as the Blackberry. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6944236/Nicolas-Sarkozy-given-impenetrable-superphone.html Google Moves to Keep Its Lead as Web Goes Mobile Google’s expected unveiling on Tuesday of a rival to the iPhone is part of its careful plan to try to do what few other technology companies have done before: retain its leadership as computing shifts from one generation to the next. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html Google Rolls Out Nexus One, Its Rival to the iPhone Google stepped up its attack on the smartphone market on Tuesday, introducing a new touch-screen handset called Nexus One that is widely seen as a rival to Apple’s iPhone. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/internet/06google.html Google Shakes but Doesn’t Upend the Cellphone Market ... And now Google wants to shake up the way we buy cellphones — by letting you shop for the phone and the service independently, on a new Google Web site (Google.com/phone). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/personaltech/06pogue.html Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base Google has said it is defending its online advertising empire with the launch of its own brand mobile phone. ... "It's all about the mobile web, and advertising is their bread and butter," said analyst Michael Gartenberg. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442712.stm Google unveils Nexus One phone Google has unveiled an own-brand smartphone called the Nexus One. The wraps were taken off the handset at an invitation-only event held at Google's Mountain View HQ. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442205.stm Google unveils 'Nexus One' smartphone Google unveiled its entry into the mobile phone marketplace Tuesday with a smartphone dubbed the "Nexus One." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010500948.html Google's new approach to buying a mobile phone [news release] Android was developed with one simple idea: Open up mobile devices to enable greater innovation that will benefit users everywhere. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-new-approach-to-buying-mobile-phone.html Rivals left hanging as Apple hits three billion App Store downloads Owners of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices have downloaded more than three billion applications from the company’s App Store in less than 18 months, trouncing the last benchmark figure by a billion. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6977063.ece Nokia asks court to bar US imports of Apple's Macs, iPhones, iPods Nokia last week asked a federal court to block Apple from importing virtually any of Apple's current hardware into the U.S., including the iPhone, iPod and Mac lines. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143083/Nokia_asks_court_to_bar_U.S._imports_of_Apple_s_Macs_iPhones_iPods http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/331326/ Nokia Fires New Patent Lawsuit at Apple in Growing Battle [IDG] Mobile phone maker Nokia has filed a new U.S. lawsuit accusing Apple of patent infringement, according to court documents, escalating the legal battle between the companies. http://www.pcworld.com/article/185868/.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** US energy set to form new group to protect electric grid from cyberattacks A public-private group the Energy Department is forming to better secure the nation's electric grid from cyberattacks must be given strong regulatory and budgetary authority to drive sweeping changes to computer networks, security specialists said. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100105_8555.php ************************** PRIVACY ************************** US regulators to scrutinize cloud privacy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is to discuss the impact of cloud computing on consumer privacy. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39971354,00.htm http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62060368,00.htm ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** China enjoys a burst of Internet freedom as Great Firewall falls -- briefly For a couple of precious hours Monday, the Chinese government's Web censoring system, popularly known as the Great Firewall, was lifted. Suddenly, Internet users had access to websites that had been banned for months, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-firewall5-2010jan05,0,7971353.story Chinese Censorship Equals Protectionism and May Violate its WTO obligations Beijing's methods to censor the Internet are becoming ever more repressive. In recent weeks, at least 700 Web sites seem to have been shut down or blocked—on top of tens of thousands of foreign online services that already were inaccessible. Individuals have been banned from registering new domain names in China, and authorities are turning the heat up on existing domains. This is correctly viewed as a major free-speech problem, but that's only part of the damage Beijing is doing. Blocking the Internet blocks commerce and trade, and China's latest moves may well run afoul of its World Trade Organization commitments. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704842604574641620942668590.html US cybersitter sues China for piracy over Green Dam censorship software A small California company that was one of the first to bring an internet porn filter to market sued the government of China and several major computer companies on Tuesday, accusing them of misappropriating its censorship program for use in the controversial “Green Dam” project. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3ad29902-fa81-11de-a532-00144feab49a.html US company sues China for Green Dam 'code theft' An American company has filed a $2.2bn (£1.4bn) lawsuit in the US accusing Beijing of stealing lines of code from its internet filtering software. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442771.stm Suit Says 2 Chinese Firms Stole a Web-Blocking Code A software company in California has sued two Chinese technology firms, charging that they stole its computer code to make an Internet-monitoring program that China’s government sought to install on every computer in the country last year before backing down. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/technology/companies/07censor.html US software firm sues China over Green Dam piracy A US firm is suing China for alleged piracy of internet filtering software, claiming that lines of code were copied for the controversial Green Dam censorship program. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/06/china-sued-piracy-green-dam China sued for ‘stealing’ Cybersitter software program A US maker of software that helps parents to filter internet content for their children is suing the Chinese Government for allegedly stealing its technology and using it to block sites deemed politically undesirable. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6978393.ece CyberSitter files lawsuit against China over Green Dam [IDG] Web software filtering vendor CyberSitter has filed a US $2.2 billion lawsuit against the Chinese government, two Chinese software markers and seven major computer manufacturers for their distribution of Green Dam Youth Escort, a controversial Web filtering package the Chinese government had mandated to be installed on computers sold there. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/010510-cybersitter-files-lawsuit-against-china.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/185917/.html http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/331390/ Cybersitter suit accuses China, PC makers of software piracy A California company filed a software piracy lawsuit on Tuesday against the Chinese government, two Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers alleging that they illegally copied code from its Web content filtering program and distributed that code as part of a censorship effort sponsored by the Chinese government. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10425599-245.html Facebook blocks social network 'suicide' website [AFP] Facebook said Monday that it is blocking a website called "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" that helps users delete their social network profiles. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/facebook-blocks-social-network-suicide-website-20100105-lqwk.html http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/facebook-blocks-social-network-suicide-website-20100105-lqwk.html ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** Government charts Digital Britain progress The Government claims that a quarter of the recommendations in the Digital Britain report published six months ago have already been implemented. Others, including the passing of controversial legislation, are progressing, it said. http://out-law.com/page-10644 France considers "Google tax" to pay creative work France could start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, a newspaper reported on Thursday. http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-45218920100107 ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** Telcos eye 4G networks in government spectrum sale Telstra, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison have begun formulating responses to the federal government's proposed auction of broadcast spectrum, which is expected to lead to the creation of a high-speed 4G mobile broadband network. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/telcos-eye-4g-networks-in-government-spectrum-sale/story-e6frg8zx-1225816750118 US DOJ calls for FCC to release spectrum, focus on wireless broadband The Department of Justice said wireless broadband services may be an attractive option for users without high-speed Internet access and could provide more competition to cable, fiber and DSL services. But such options can’t be possible unless federal regulators release more spectrum for mobile broadband services. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/01/doj_calls_for_fcc_to_release_s.html FCC asks Congress to extend deadline for broadband plan by one month The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it won't meet the deadline set by Congress to create a plan to bring affordable high-speed Internet access to all U.S. homes. Instead, it has asked Congress to extend the deadline by one month. The FCC was supposed to hand a national broadband plan to Congress on Feb. 17. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/01/the_federal_communications_com_1.html Huawei slams critics making spying allegations China's leading telecommunications equipment maker, Huawei, has once again been forced to dismiss spying allegations and stake its claim in the $43 billion national broadband network bonanza. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/huawei-slams-critics/story-e6frgakx-1225816221125 us: NTIA Gives Broadband Input As the FCC works toward developing a national broadband plan by a congressionally mandated Feb. 17 deadline, the Obama administration Monday weighed in with its views, urging the commission to identify spectrum for wireless broadband in an effort to increase competition in the residential broadband market. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/01/ntia-gives-broadband-input.php ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR ONLINE CHILD PROTECTION ********************************** au: Father denies beach murder of web girl, 15 A VICTORIAN has denied killing a teenage girl he and his youngest son met through the internet, telling a jury she was alive and with somebody else when they left her at a beach where her body was later found. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/father-denies-beach-murder-of-web-girl-15/story-e6frg6nf-1225816069586 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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