general internet news - 4 May

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

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uk: School children - Girls take over tech revolution
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1766326,00.html

Ofcom publishes report on children?s media literacy in
the UK (news release)
http://ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2006/05/nr_20060502

Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst
children - the report
http://ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/children/

Media holds its own in trust poll
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4965550.stm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12045565

S Koreans 'trust internet news'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4967578.stm

Good and bad sides of the Internet as it relates to
children
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=17670

Asian governments among the worst enemies of Internet
freedom
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/116020.asp
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asiapacific/detail.asp?GRP=C&id=81552

uk: UK computer crime laws 'ridiculous'
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1763989,00.html

Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02google.html
http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/02/business/google.php

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: There?s no escape from bullies in a cyber world
Welcome to the age of cyber bullying. On-line bullying
in chat rooms, discussion groups, through emails,
instant mes- sages and on web pages is reaching
epidemic proportions. Girlfriend magazine recently
conducted a survey to expose the prevalence of cyber
bully- ing and its impact on young girls, but even the
magazine was alarmed by the results. While they had
expected the level of bullying to be high, they were
not prepared for the results.
http://coffscoastadvocate.com.au/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3682447&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

us: Hearing on Sexual Exploitation of Children Over
the Internet
C-Span is braodcasting this at 14.00 ET in the US.
http://www.c-span.org/

Asian governments among the worst enemies of Internet
freedom
Governments in Asia are considered among the world's
worst "enemies" of Internet freedom, as they
increasingly censor websites and jail people who
express views deemed dangerous online.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/116020.asp
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asiapacific/detail.asp?GRP=C&id=81552
http://www.physorg.com/news65805342.html
http://mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=270514
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=37395
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/05/03/2003305895
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=323631

Blocking Data at China's Whim
Here's another do-gooder campaign shareholders might
be tempted to ignore: Amnesty International next week
plans to use Google's annual meeting to call on it and
Microsoft to stop cooperating with censors in China.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114661980708242214.html

Chinese Net activists challenge government censorship
A coalition of Chinese Web activists has launched a
petition decrying censorship of the Internet and
challenging the legality of government information
controls on China's more than 100 million Net users.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6067084.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12024492

us: MySpace faces call to crackdown on predators
Massachusetts on Tuesday called on popular teen social
networking Web site MySpace.com to strengthen
protection of children against sexual predators,
including raising the minimum age for users to 18 from
14.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6067732.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12046834

Murdoch wants teenagers'...digital identities, says
campaigner
Teenagers should beware of Murdoch-owned website
MySpace.com snatching their digital identities, child
campaigners have warned.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/03/myspace_terms/

us: Kids pushed around on Internet
As if teachers don?t have enough to worry about with
bullying on the playground, now they have to worry
about bullying on the Internet.
http://www.chathamthisweek.com/story.php?id=227869

us: School to sponsor Internet safety seminar
Technology and children go hand in hand today. Often,
their ability to understand advancements in technology
better than their parents is a good thing. Sometimes,
however, it may pose a danger.
http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/288303895255519.php

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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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uk: UK computer crime laws 'ridiculous'
A British man labelled one of the world's most
dangerous hackers railed against the UK's computer
crime laws.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1763989,00.html

us: Web firm charged with selling confidential data
An American internet company has been accused of
selling millions of e-mail addresses to marketing
firms despite promising its customers confidentiality.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2102020.html

us: The anxious new dawn of cybersnooping
For years, government agencies have been exploiting a
loophole in federal privacy law that allows them to
buy personal data about American citizens from
commercial data brokers, rather than collecting and
storing that information themselves. A recent report
by the General Accountability Office illustrates how
this loophole has undermined one of the key laws
protecting Americans from government snooping.
http://news.com.com/The+anxious+new+dawn+of+cybersnooping/2010-1028_3-6067598.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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European Court of Justice confirms legality of the
establishment of the European Network and Information
Security Agency
The European Court of Justice confirmed on 2 May that
the European Network and Information Security Agency
(ENISA), established in 2004 with its seat now in
Heraklion (Greece), was correctly established on the
basis of the single market clause in Article 95 of the
EC Treaty. The Court thereby rejected a legal
challenge made by the United Kingdom.
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=2615

au: Digital focus to federal budget
Digital TV and radio, faster internet and a world of
new services delivered to your mobile phone - get
ready for the high-tech budget. The federal budget is
expected to include new measures to prepare the way
for Australia's digital future.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Digital-focus-to-federal-budget/2006/05/03/1146335776534.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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uk: School children - Girls take over tech revolution
They mature more quickly, are said to be more
responsible and do better at school. Now media-savvy
girls are putting another one over the boys by leading
the digital communications revolution.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1766326,00.html

Ofcom publishes report on children?s media literacy in
the UK (news release)
Ofcom today published the results of detailed research
to assess the extent of children?s media literacy in
the UK. Ofcom defines media literacy as the ability to
access, understand and create communications in a
variety of contexts. The audit focuses on the four
main digital media platforms ? digital television,
digital radio, the internet and mobile phones. Over
1,500 children aged 8 to 15 plus their parents were
interviewed for the research.
http://ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2006/05/nr_20060502

Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst
children - the report
http://ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/children/

Media holds its own in trust poll
People worldwide trust the media more than
governments, a poll suggests, while the young
increasingly go online for news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4965550.stm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12045565

S Koreans 'trust internet news'
South Koreans have considerable faith in the internet
as a source of news, according to an opinion poll
carried out for the BBC and Reuters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4967578.stm

Good and bad sides of the Internet as it relates to
children
Between 75 and 90 percent of teenagers in the United
States use the Internet to email, instant message
(IM), visit chat rooms and explore other sites on the
World Wide Web. According to the latest research
presented in a special issue of Developmental
Psychology, published by the American Psychological
Association (APA), spending a lot of time on the Web
can have both negative and positive effects on young
people, i.e., the sharing of self-injury practices by
some and the improvement of academic performance and
health awareness by others.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=17670

uk: Kids texting not sleeping
Kids are going to school too tired to learn because of
the temptations of late night texting and playing
computer games.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/03/kids_text_not_sleep/

uk: Internet culture spells doom for strait-laced
orthographers
If you believe the internet is the fount of all
wisdom, giving free rein to bloggers to exercise their
vocal cords, think again. Ancient English cliches and
expressions are being mangled by the culture of cut
and paste and the spread of unchecked writing on the
internet.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1764990,00.html

In the age of the Internet, newspapers are still big
business
The sun-dappled waters of Puget Sound were calm and
sparkling last week, but a few blocks inland, where
editors of America's daily newspapers were gathered in
annual conclave, it sounded like a perfect storm was
besetting their profession.
http://csmonitor.com/2006/0503/p09s01-cojh.html

AOL programming change adds to users
To regain teen users, AOL will launch AIM Pages, which
promises to let teens create a MySpace-like "world"
through AOL.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-02-aol-myspace_x.htm

Change for the better, change for the worse
The difference between the first internet boom and the
present growth online is that the internet service
providers are introducing ways for them to make big
money, and not all of them are necessarily bad.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8213-2045401.html

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FILE SHARING
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uk: One in four admit illegal downloads
A QUARTER of young people in England and Wales have
downloaded music, films or software from the internet
illegally, according to a government study published.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2159696.html

fr: French Senate's version of 'iPod law' to fit
corporate interests better
The Senate version of a controversial French copyright
bill will be more sympathetic to software companies
than was the version passed overwhelmingly by the
National Assembly in March.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/02/business/copyright.php

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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A Microsoft, Yahoo Tie-Up? MSN Veterans Want a Pact To
Bolster Web-Search Ads And Better Challenge Google
One faction within Microsoft Corp. is promoting a bold
strategy in the company's battle with Google Inc: Join
forces with Yahoo Inc. That would be a major departure
for Microsoft, the software maker that is legendary
for toiling on its own until it captures a new market.
However, people familiar with the situation say that
Microsoft has considered the idea of acquiring a stake
in Yahoo, and that the two companies have discussed
possible options over the course of the past year.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114662449016042303.html

Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race
The rivalry between the companies is growing more
combative as the outcome is likely to shape the future
of competition in computing and the way people use
information technology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02google.html
http://iht.com/articles/2006/05/02/business/google.php

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VoIP
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au: Melbourne Uni touts VoIP security application
The University of Melbourne is hoping to commercialise
an internally developed security application that is
designed to protect Voice Over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) networks from attack.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Melbourne_Uni_touts_VoIP_security_application/0,2000061744,39254756,00.htm

au: Science eyes VoIP
PHONE systems planned for the federal Science,
Education and Training Department will lay the
groundwork for a new communications environment
embracing voice, video, data and wireless.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18994360%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

VoIP plays finally ready for prime time
The telecommunications equipment niche known as
?enterprise telephony? is a US$8.7-billion-a-year
business that appears to be going nowhere. Global
sales fell 7% in 2005, following a 9% drop in 2004.
Yet the decline in the business of selling phone
systems to businesses disguises a dramatic rebirth ?
and opportunities for investment.
http://investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?id=33736&IdSection=23

Skype-Polycom Partnership Pumps Up Enterprise VoIP
Enterprises are interested in using VoIP from
companies such as Skype and Vonage not only for cost
savings, but also for flexibility, as the technology
offering separates service from network, according to
Yankee Group Senior Analyst Zeus Kerravala.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/50299.html

Skype plans Web-phone conversations for groups
Web phone-calling company Skype is bringing social
networking to crowds as it unveils a service for
groups of up to 100 people to hold spontaneous
conversations online.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12046200

Tele2 launches VoIP service
Swedish alternative telco Tele2 has launched Parlino,
a free VoIP service which offering free calls from PCs
to other Parlino users worldwide. The free Parlino
software, available for both incoming and outgoing
calls, can be downloaded from the Parlino website.
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=15166

Irish consumers turn to VoIP - survey
Voice over IP - using IP networks like the Internet to
make phone calls - is making substantial inroads into
Irish homes, according to new research commissioned by
Blueface.
http://www.sbpost.ie/breakingnews/breaking_story.asp?j=221512251&p=zzy5y3yy4&n=221513194&x=

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