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Don't forget to check out my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ China aims to top U.S. in cyberspace: U.S. general http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6190819.html Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/dos_security_cyberwarfare/ Fancy buying Scotland for £2m? http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=914992007 us: YouTube - uTube showdown stays alive in federal court http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/youtube_utube_alive/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/utube_youtube_domain_names_case/ Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1782 California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903450 Yellow legal fight erupts in NZ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html .nz offers IPv6 connectivity (news release) http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/nzipv6 New Zealand takes first steps to IPv6 http://itwire.com.au/content/view/12848/127/ Half the electricity in a PC is wasted: Intel, Google http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39287516,00.htm Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html Google backs green computer plan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6747323.stm Would You Spend US$20 To Save the Earth? http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004647.html Sir Tim Berners-Lee gets Queen's honour http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6750395.stm ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** IGF 2007: Rio here we come The first UN Internet Governance Forum, held in Athens in November last year, was widely hailed as a success. It was an undeniably huge achievement to get the Chinese government in the same room as Amnesty International, and then to get them talking. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/igf_nominet_2007/ China aims to top U.S. in cyberspace: U.S. general (Reuters) China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday. "They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that,'" 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters. http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6190819.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN1335835020070613 http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903969 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. ... The almost unanswerable question is whether it was the Russian government that launched the attack or whether it was Russian hackers. Estonia, it seems, provoked the attack when the Estonian government removed a statue (in Tallinn) that commemorates Soviet troops who were killed fighting the Nazis. Estonian officials claim some of the attacking computers had Kremlin IP addresses, but - and I'm sure the Russians would suggest this - such computers could have been infected by viruses and used as bots by Russian hackers. That's what you call plausible deniability. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/dos_security_cyberwarfare/ Fancy buying Scotland for £2m? Scotland will go on sale at an auction in New York with a price tag of offers over £2 million, The Scotsman can reveal. But it is not the whole country up for grabs - just the internet domain name of scotland.com. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=914992007 http://upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/06/12/scotlandcom_goes_on_the_block/9671/ http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/52270/ us: YouTube - uTube showdown stays alive in federal court For the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, operator of uTube.com, its domain name means cash - and with a federal court's recent refusal to dismiss the company's suit against YouTube, the possibility of even more cash in the future. The company has operated uTube.com as a means to sell used pipe and tube mills and rollform machinery since 1996. After YouTube's launch in 2005, the sleepy little Ohio website went from around 1,500 visitors a month to roughly 70,000 per day. The company alleges that this caused its web host's servers to crash, which disrupted its business and sullied its reputation. It also claims that bandwidth overages bumped its hosting fees from $100 a month to $2,500. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/youtube_utube_alive/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/utube_youtube_domain_names_case/ Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe When Estonia suffered a series of cyber attacks in recent months, US official John Negroponte told the Financial Times: “We need to prepare ourselves because this is likely only to become more of an issue in the future.” Well, the future is here. And the wave of cyber attacks has moved from Eastern to Western Europe. It has recently been disclosed that around the time Estonia was under cyber attack, an important Spanish domain-registration company was also waging a battle against unknown cyber pirates. The Cyber Terrorism Division of the Spanish Police is investigating the incident. If identified, the hackers involved could be prosecuted for blackmailing a company to prevent the disclosure of confidential information. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1782 California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing Jeffrey Brett Goodin faced a maximum of 101 years behind bars but received only 70 months during his sentencing for e-mail fraud Monday afternoon. http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903450 Yellow legal fight erupts in NZ Telephone directory group, Yellow Pages, is suing Brisbane university student Emmanuel Khoury in a dispute partly over the right to trademark the colour yellow in New Zealand. Yellow is seeking to prevent Mr Khoury's company Yellow Book trading under its present name in New Zealand and using the domain name yellowbook.co.nz, on the grounds that it would cause confusion for the public. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://stuff.co.nz/4092469a13.html .nz offers IPv6 connectivity (news release) NZRS (.nz Registry Services) announces that a core component of the New Zealand Internet infrastructure is being geared up to accommodate huge potential increases in the number of networked devices connected to the Internet. http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/nzipv6 New Zealand takes first steps to IPv6 NZRS (.nz Registry Services) has upgraded is .nz name servers - ns8.dns.net.nz and ns9.dns.net.nz, located in Wellington and Albany respectively - to support IPv6 addresses. Both are connected to the NZ IPv6 Internet Exchange. NZRS has also introduced an IPv6 capable Whois server accessible at whois.ipv6.srs.net.nz. http://itwire.com.au/content/view/12848/127/ http://m-net.net.nz/1700/latest-news/latest-news/billions-upon-billions-of-addresses-now-available-to-nz-inter.php http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inane/3115 cz: Proposal Suggests Changes to Domain Name UDRP Ask any large company or small time domainer and each will tell you that the UDRP domain name dispute process is flawed. But UDRP doesn’t have much reason to change. Between WIPO, National Arbitration Forum and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre, UDRP dispute providers don’t need to do much to win competition. They just need to court large companies to their services in the cyber version of “venue shopping”. So it’s refreshing to see a proposal by an organization to provide UDRP services and suggest changes to existing practices. Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), which handles .eu disputes, filed a proposal with ICANN to offer services. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/12/proposal-suggests-changes-to-domain-name-udrp/ Domain registrations forshadow climate initiative A few weeks ago Google registered some new domain names that were open to speculation — these were along the lines of ClimateSaverPC.com. Today Google, along with over 25 other organizations, announced their involvement in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative aiming to reduce emissions 50% by 2010. This translates into an estimated cost savings for end users of $5.5 billion. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=606 ICANN Advisory Regarding Venue for October 2007 Meeting ICANN advises that the Los Angeles Airport Hilton has been selected as the venue for the third public meeting of 2007, scheduled for 29 October through 2 November. ICANN is serving as the local host for this meeting and the website with information regarding booking of guest rooms will be available during the upcoming San Juan public meeting. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-12jun07.htm ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6 (news release) On 7 May 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees passed a resolution advising the Internet technical community that migration to a new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will be necessary to allow continued growth of the Internet. http://arin.net/media/releases/070521-v6-resolution.pdf What's Wrong wth .biz Domain Names Question: I have a .biz website that ranks well in some of the major search engines for a few keywords, but does not rank as well as I would like for many other keywords. Should I consider switching to a .com domain name? Answer: In the long run I think it is worth moving away from .biz if you are creating a real long-term business. The web was created to share information, and businesses are generally viewed less admirably than the individuals that work in them. As long as relevancy algorithms are based largely on links, then a .biz extension could hurt your exposure in most fields. http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/11/whats-wrong-wth-biz-domain-names Domain Name Transaction Firm, Reports Over $1.2 Million Silent Auction Sale (news release) Moniker.com reported that over $1.2 million worth of domain names were sold during its silent auction, held at the Casino Affiliate Convention Amsterdam 2007. http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-transaction-firm-reports-over-1-2-million-silent-auction-sale-3115.html Seven Figure Sale Lights Up the Domain Scoreboard After Being Finalized This Week Moniker.com auctioned off Scores.com at the Casino Affiliates Convention last month in Amsterdam. The high bid was a whopping $1,180,000 and that blockbuster deal was closed this week to easily claim the top spot on our new Top 20 domain sales chart. In fact that is the third highest sale reported so far in 2007. Moniker also had the number two slot with Mozambique.com at $82,500. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales06-12-07.htm Rick Latona Lights Up the Top 20 With Three Charted Domains Including Iran.com at $400,000 Rick Latona of DigiPawn.com went on a spending spree this week and more than half a million dollars later he was the proud new owner of Iran.com ($400,000), TrackAndField.com ($57,000), Territory.com ($30,000) and Gutter.com ($12,500). http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales06-19-07.htm ********************** OTHER INTERNET NEWS ********************** Yahoo condemns lack of free speech in China (AP) Yahoo criticized Chine in a brief statement one day after the mother of a jailed Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son. http://iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/11/asia/AS-GEN-Hong-Kong-Yahoo-Jailed-Reporter.php http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6113550 Yahoo: China's censoring Flickr Yahoo's Flickr, one of the world's most popular photo-sharing sites, is likely being blocked by the Chinese government, Yahoo's Hong Kong unit said Tuesday. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6190356.html http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-06-12-yahoo-china-flickr-block_N.htm Yahoo Stockholders Vote Against Anticensorship Proposal The proposal would have had Yahoo implement policies such as not hosting data where political dissent is a crime. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132835-c,companynews/article.html Web forums hijacked to spread child porn Online forums on legitimate web pages are increasingly been taken over by cyber-criminals to promote child pornography, experts warned. Security firm Sophos said that the majority of hijacked forums are on legitimate websites, and one is even on a site designed for children. All the posts contain offensive words and hidden links to pornography sites. http://itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=54136 http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2191910/perverts-hijack-web-forums Developing safe and smart Internet citizens As is the case when supervising kids in the offline world, dealing with their behavior online and when they are using the cell phone requires controls appropriate to their age group. Attorney and child advocate Parry Aftab offers strategies for parents with children in any or all of the five age groups identified on this list. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6190554.html Hackers spread illegal child content through web message boards Legitimate web pages taken over by cybercriminals to promote child pornography (news release) IT security and control firm Sophos is warning web hosts of the dangers of not screening content posted on message boards, following the discovery that legitimate web pages have been taken over by cybercriminals using the forums to promote child pornography. http://sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/06/message-boards.html au: Viewers must share the blame for child porn People who look at child pornography should understand that every image has a story behind it: children abused, in extreme cases stolen or sold, tortured, perhaps murdered. Viewing child pornography is not a victimless crime. There are thousands of victims every year. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414298101.html OpenDNS Launches Free Porn Filter OpenDNS, a innovative startup that uses the domain name lookup architecture to fix misspellings and block attempts to surf phishing sites, now lets home users and IT administrators alike to block access to adult-oriented sites, using a long list of verboten URLs provided by St. Bernard's human-edited database iGuard. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/opendns_launche.html Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. ... The almost unanswerable question is whether it was the Russian government that launched the attack or whether it was Russian hackers. Estonia, it seems, provoked the attack when the Estonian government removed a statue (in Tallinn) that commemorates Soviet troops who were killed fighting the Nazis. Estonian officials claim some of the attacking computers had Kremlin IP addresses, but - and I'm sure the Russians would suggest this - such computers could have been infected by viruses and used as bots by Russian hackers. That's what you call plausible deniability. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/dos_security_cyberwarfare/ us: FBI cracks down on 'bot herders' The tech security world cheered the FBI's announcement Wednesday of a crackdown on cybercrooks who control networks of compromised computers, called botnets, to spread spam and carry out scams. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2007-06-13-fbi-arrests_N.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/millionth_botnet_address/ http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/14/1181414391048.html us: Operation: Bot Roast - ‘Bot-herders’ Charged as Part of Initiative (news release) They’re called “bot-herders:” hackers who install malicious software on computers through the Internet without the owners’ knowledge. Once the software is loaded, they can control the computer remotely. And once they’ve compromised enough computers, they have a robot network or botnet. Some botnets are huge: tens of thousands of infected computers. Or more. As a result of Operation Bot Roast, an ongoing and coordinated initiative to disrupt and dismantle these bot-herders, we’ve identified about 1 million computers across the country that have been compromised. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june07/botnet061307.htm Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe When Estonia suffered a series of cyber attacks in recent months, US official John Negroponte told the Financial Times: “We need to prepare ourselves because this is likely only to become more of an issue in the future.” Well, the future is here. And the wave of cyber attacks has moved from Eastern to Western Europe. It has recently been disclosed that around the time Estonia was under cyber attack, an important Spanish domain-registration company was also waging a battle against unknown cyber pirates. The Cyber Terrorism Division of the Spanish Police is investigating the incident. If identified, the hackers involved could be prosecuted for blackmailing a company to prevent the disclosure of confidential information. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1782 Google complains to DOJ about Vista search Google has complained to federal antitrust officials that the search tool in Microsoft's Windows Vista discourages customers from using its own search utility, the company confirmed Sunday. On Sunday, Google spokesman Ricardo Reyes confirmed the charge. "Microsoft's current approach with Vista desktop search violates its agreement with the government and hurts consumers." he said in an e-mail to Computerworld. "The search boxes built throughout Vista are hard-wired to Microsoft's own desktop search product, with no way for users to choose an alternate provider from these visible search access points. Likewise, Vista makes it impractical to turn off Microsoft's search index." http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/11/google-complains_1.html http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9024287 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061102177.html Memo Hints DoJ Favored Microsoft Over Google A memo apparently written by a key antitrust enforcement official in the U.S. Justice Department is raising suspicions that the Bush Administration unduly favored Microsoft's positions. Issued by Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett, a former antitrust partner at Covington & Burlington, the memo reportedly urges state attorneys general not to pursue a confidential complaint levied by Google. The search engine giant has accused Microsoft of designing its Vista operating system to discourage the use of desktop search engines. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57786.html What's Behind Google's Sneak Attack Against Microsoft? Another day, another charge that Microsoft has violated its consent decree -- or so it must seem to the software titan, which has been battling such accusations ever since the mega antitrust case against it ended in 2002. In the latest controversy, though, the company lodging the complaint is none other than Google, an adversary almost equal to the European Commission, which has been lobbing the most successful -- and costly -- complaints at Microsoft. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57815.html Google cuts data retention times Google is to cut the length of time it holds users' personal search data to 18 months rather than the previous period of 18 to 24 months. The move comes in response to a data protection group that wrote to the firm questioning its privacy policies. The European advisory body, called Article 29, said Google's current data retention practices could be breaking European privacy laws. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6745191.stm http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/12/business/google.php http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/technology/13google.html http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2100935,00.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/google_limits_information_retention/ EU Official Welcomes Google Privacy Move (AP) A European Union official on Wednesday applauded Google Inc.'s offer to cut by a quarter the time it retains data on its users' searches. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/14/1181414391048.html http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6130894 Data retention laws do not cover Google searches, says Europe Google is not bound by the Data Retention Directive when it comes to search engine logs, Europe's data protection committee has said. Google has used the Directive to justify keeping data, but OUT-LAW has learned that the law does not apply. http://out-law.com/page-8147 Are Google's moves creeping you out? One lazy afternoon, Maer Israel and a colleague ducked out of work to have a double espresso at a nearby cafe in San Francisco. Several weeks later, the information technology manager at the French American International School was alerted that a picture of him sitting at the cafe could be found on Google's online map as part of the search giant's new street-level photo view. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6190319.html http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-12-google-street-view_N.htm YouTube Sets Tests of Video Blocking Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/technology/12google.html Net security purr-fected: Kittens are the unlikely new weapon against online fraud There's a new way to combat internet fraud, prevent spam and keep online shopping secure. But your first impressions may be that it's not exactly high tech. It takes the form of a simple question: from a gallery of fluffy-animal snaps, can you tell which are cats and which are dogs? Your answer is enough to find out whether you are human or an automated spam program, designed to send unwanted email. The dog/cat question is the latest example of a security device called a Captcha, a simple puzzle that usually takes the form of a string of distorted letters and numbers. http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2652498.ece Captchas, online gatekeepers against spam, need an overhaul Designed to ensure the humanity of Web site users, captchas have grown ever more challenging as online mischief makers design better ways to defeat them. http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/business/codes.php au: Hated blogger leaves U.S. for Australia, threatens lawsuits A failed real estate speculator who created a popular Web site touting his exploits has begun threatening to sue his critics and claims to be in hiding in Australia. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6190628.html us: Libby’s Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom tactic: the “bloggers can be mean” defense. The issue was whether to release the more than 150 letters written to Judge Reggie B. Walton of Federal District Court in Washington, nearly all in support of Mr. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. ... When representatives of the news media asked that the letters be released, Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued against that, saying it “needlessly risks undermining the fair administration of justice.” Then, alluding to the sometimes combative world of online media, they added there was “the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11scooter.html us: Who's afraid of bloggers? by Gal Beckerman The lawyers for Scooter Libby made a bizarre argument - at least to my ears - for why the letters attesting to Libby's character, written to the judge in his perjury case, should be kept out of the public eye: "the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed, even mocked, by bloggers." http://cjr.org/the_kicker/whos_afraid_of_bloggers.php Australia lags, says net guru One of the internet's original architects says Australia's living standards are in danger of slipping out of the top tier because it is not gearing up for the next level of web infrastructure. Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, says "real broadband" would allow connections 1000 times the speed of the current average Australian connection - and 80 times the speed the Government and Labor propose. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414217248.html NZ internet speed 'a baby's crawl' New Zealand's slow internet speeds are threatening to leave the nation out of the global economy, one of the web's founders says. Larry Smarr, director of the Californian Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, said New Zealand's speeds were "a baby's crawl compared to the spaceship" on the international scene. http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4092811a28.html Bail Denied for Alleged 'Spam King' A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said one of his concerns was that online crimes such as those charged against Robert Soloway _ dubbed the "Spam King" by federal investigators _ can be committed anywhere at anytime. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/14/1181414424478.html http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPAM_KING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-13-22-05-35 au: All work and some porn Public servants are among the most frequent users of porn in Australian workplaces, data from computer security firm MessageLabs has revealed. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414193388.html http://bowral.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=595289 Disney's sports arm buys cricket website with 7m users Disney's US sports network ESPN has acquired cricket website Cricinfo for an undisclosed sum. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricket/story/0,,2100863,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414267395.html Half the electricity in a PC is wasted: Intel, Google An awful lot of juice meant to power PCs never gets used so tech companies -- including Google and Intel -- have teamed up to try and make PCs and servers run more efficiently. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39287516,00.htm http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1926766.ece http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN1228535020070613 Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet I THOUGHT I was pretty good about energy conservation, but it turns out that I’ve been a bit of a hypocrite. I drive a reasonably fuel-efficient car, I work at home so I don’t use fuel to commute and I am replacing incandescent bulbs in my home with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs. But I am also a prodigious computer user, and it looks as if that makes me an energy hog. I started checking how much electricity my electronics were consuming when I wasn’t using them. I used a Kill A Watt EZ energy meter (available online for about $25) and began measuring. My PC was continuously drawing 134 watts all night. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/technology/14basics.html Google backs green computer plan Search engine giant Google and US semiconductor firm Intel have thrown their weight behind a massive scheme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6747323.stm Would You Spend US$20 To Save the Earth? Increased energy efficiency would add $20 to the cost of a PC and $30 to the cost of a server. http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004647.html Active Home Internet Users by Country, April 2007 Active home Internet usage went down slightly in the 10 countries tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings. Home Internet users increased in Spain (4.04 percent); Australia (1.30 percent); and the U.K. (0.60 percent). The number of active users dropped in Italy (-7.63 percent); Brazil (-2.40 percent); Japan (-2.32 percent); Switzerland (-2.23 percent); France (-0.64 percent); Germany (-0.58 percent); and the U.S. (-0.32 percent). The number of active Internet home users across the 10 countries fell less than 1 percent (-0.87 percent). http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626136 Apple announces Windows browser Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows XP and Vista. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6742439.stm http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414247904.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6190159.html http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/12/business/browser.php Flaws Abound In Apple's Safari Beta For Windows Researchers report pulling up bug after bug in the brand new code of Apple's Web browser for Windows XP. http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903540 Why Safari For Windows? Why Now? Boy, how times change. A few years ago, when Windows users seemed doomed to live in a world in which Internet Explorer was the only viable browser option, the arrival of Safari for Windows might have been a gigantic deal. Or think back to late 2006--if Apple had announced that it had struck a deal to bundle Firefox with OS X and was discontinuing Safari development, it would have been newsworthy but not a stunner. http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/004627.html Google's e-mail for universities Google is expanding its empire into universities - with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google's e-mail service. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6741797.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/13/ngoogle113.xml Sir Tim Berners-Lee gets Queen's honour The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins an elite group who have received the honour from the Queen for exceptional contributions in arts, sciences and other areas. The British academic invented the web's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1991, ultimately revolutionising global communication. Previously, he was named Greatest Briton at a ceremony in 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6750395.stm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2007 --------- David Goldstein address: 4/3 Abbott Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile); +61 2 9665 5773 (home) "Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. Every time you forgo fossil fuels, you're being part of the solution" - Dr Tim Flannery _________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
