general internet news - 28 August

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

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Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

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Google unites with industry to stamp out child
pornography
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/92691/google-unites-with-industry-to-stamp-out-child-pornography.html

us: Barney the dinosaur sued after legal threats
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6109285.html

uk: Ofcom proposes measures to warn VoIP customers
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17775

The newspaper industry - More media, less news 
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7827135

The new junkies - BlackBerries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1856845,00.html

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Google unites with industry to stamp out child
pornography
Search giant Google is taking its role as a leading
Internet playing seriously by joining the fight
against child pornography.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/92691/google-unites-with-industry-to-stamp-out-child-pornography.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2162892/google-signs-anti-child-porn

us: Google Joins Industry-Wide Movement to Combat
Child Pornography (news release)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have
announced that Google has joined the Technology
Coalition and the Financial Coalition Against Child
Pornography, two critical industry initiatives to
fight commercial child pornography over the Internet.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2629

us: NCMEC Joins with Federal Agencies to Launch
Innovative Initiative to Tackle Child Pornography
(news release)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC) Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) is
partnering with the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention?s (OJJDP) Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Forces (ICAC) to launch the
first-ever U.S.-based Victim Identification Lab. Law
enforcement officers and prosecutors from across the
country, who are participating in the Crimes Against
Children Conference in Dallas, Texas this week, will
participate in this U.S. initiative to potentially
generate new leads to aid in the identification of
child victims. The Victim Identification Lab will
feature 50 images that have been sanitized and the
graphic material removed. The exposed parts of the
photos are potential clues to where the picture was
taken and where the child is located.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2644

us: U.S. Department of Justice Awards $400,000 to
Kentucky to Combat Internet Crimes Against Children
(news release)
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced an
award from the Department of Justice's Office of
Justice Programs (OJP) of $400,000 to the Kentucky
State Police to continue funding of the Kentucky
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/August/06_ag_568.html

ca: Everyone should report child porn
Wrong question. The question should be whether the
responsibility rests with every respectable member of
society to report child porn if they see it and the
answer to that question is a resounding yes.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211057

au: New porn laws for 3G phones
The Federal Government has vowed to tackle the issue
of pornography on internet-enabled devices such as 3G
mobile phones by introducing the same restrictions
that apply to internet and television content and
punishing breaches with criminal penalties.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012657301.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012657301.html

us: From their own online world, pedophiles extend
their reach
At first blush, the two conversations - taking place
almost simultaneously in different corners of the
Internet - might have seemed unremarkable, even
humdrum. In April, with summer fast approaching, both
groups of online friends chatted about jobs at
children's camps. Did anyone, one man asked, know of
girls' camps willing to hire adult males as
counselors? Meanwhile, elsewhere in cyberspace, the
second group celebrated the news that one of their own
had been offered a job leading a boys' cabin at a
sleep-away camp.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/21/america/web.0821porn.php

us: On the Web, nearly nude child porn tests laws
In the photograph, the model is shown rising out of a
bubble bath, suds dripping from her body. Her tight
panties and skimpy top are soaked and revealing. She
gazes at the viewer, her face showing a wisp of a
smile that seems to have been coaxed from off-camera.
In just over seven months, the model has become an
online phenomenon. She has thousands of fans from
around the world, membership lists show, who pay as
much as $30 a month to see images of her. According to
the posted schedule, new photographs of her - many
clearly intended to be erotic, all supposedly taken
that week - are posted online every Friday for her
growing legions of admirers.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/20/america/web.0820porn.php

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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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za: Internet a breeding ground for child exploitation
Recent investigations into child pornography have
revealed that organised crime syndicates are moving
away from their traditional forms of crime, such as
drugs and guns, into child exploitation through the
internet.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,133718,00.html

us: Barney the dinosaur sued after legal threats
Barney, the plush purple saurian, likes to sing about
love, hugs and kisses. But the dinosaur's lawyers have
taken precisely the opposite view when threatening Web
sites that display less-than-flattering images of the
plump T-Rex--a legal tactic that finally led to a
lawsuit on Wednesday from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6109285.html
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_08.php#004884

us: Violent Video Games Ban in La. Blocked
A state law that would ban sales of violent video
games to minors violates free speech rights and cannot
be enforced, a judge ruled.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LOUISIANA_VIDEO_GAMES

ca/us: CRTC asked to block access to U.S. websites
One of two U.S.-based hate websites was taken offline
Wednesday as an Ottawa lawyer and a Jewish lobby group
asked Canada's telecommunications regulator to take
the unprecedented step of blocking access to the sites
from north of the border.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1156369811829

Brazil prosecutors aim to sue Google
Brazilian prosecutors asked a federal judge on Tuesday
for permission to file a civil lawsuit against Google,
alleging it was withholding user information required
for a separate criminal investigation.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6108530.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d2420942-32f9-11db-87ac-0000779e2340.html

nl: Dutch farmers dating site loses Google court case
A dating site for Dutch farmers lost a court case
against Google on Thursday after demanding that the
world's biggest Internet search engine stop publishing
sponsored links to sex sites.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13285483
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2886&iArticleId=3409105

au: Inquiry into jail porn email claims
AT LEAST 22 staff at adult and juvenile jails are
being investigated for allegedly sending and receiving
pornographic emails. Two prison officers at Long Bay
jail are believed to have been suspended while they
are investigated over viewing and sending pornographic
material via email at the Department of Corrective
Services.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012675599.html

uk: Texan foils burglary in Britain via Beatles webcam
An American helped foil a burglary in northern England
whilst watching a Beatles-related webcam over the
Internet, police said on Friday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13295532
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17630549%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=nicked%2dby%2dwebcam%2d-name_page.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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cn: New regulation to monitor online video spoof craze
New regulations are in the pipeline to regulate video
content on the Internet in the wake of a surge in
short satirical films online, according to the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/17/content_4971828.htm

*****
SPAM
*****
Viet Nam Ministry of Trade Drafting Anti-Spam
Legislation
The Vietnamese Ministry of Trade is drafting a
circular governing advertising activities by
electronic means, including emails, pop-ups and mobile
phone messages.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Viet+Nam+Ministry+Of+Trade+Drafting+AntiSpam+Legislation.aspx

Spammers manipulate stock markets
Spam messages that tout stocks and shares can have
real effects on the markets, a study suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5284618.stm

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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The newspaper industry - More media, less news 
Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but
most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7827135

The new junkies
BlackBerries are more addictive than hard drugs, it
was reported yesterday. But 'crackberry' users aren't
the only techno addicts on the block. Gareth McLean
reports on the different species - and how to spot
them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1856845,00.html

eu: 23% of EU population has broadband
23 per cent of EU households have broadband internet
access, says a report by Eurobarometer.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17780

cn: Shanghai opens shelter for young internet addicts
Shanghai has opened mainland China's first shelter for
internet addicts to help them bridge the gap between
their virtual world and dysfunctional family homes.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1857784,00.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13276849

ca: 'Unable to unplug, tech addicts may sue'
A constant connection to the virtual office may be
grounds to sue, says an academic, as employees'
personal lives suffer as a result of their electronic
leash.
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2889&iArticleId=3409094

Net has attracted the eyeballs, now it waits for the
cash
The online world is scratching its head over the
disparity between the internet's growing audience and
its share of advertising budgets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,,1858099,00.html

Do BlackBerrys help or harm?
Cellular telephones and wireless BlackBerry e-mail
devices may be addictive, but most business executives
insist that mobile technology has improved the balance
between their work and home, a study said.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6109624.html

uk: Embarrassed city girl apologies as party email
goes around the globe
The trouble with throwing a party is that the guests
get in the way. Some turn up at the wrong time, others
are not dressed for the occasion and yet more fail to
mind their manners.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23364634-details/Worldwide%20humiliation%20for%20city%20girl%20as%20party%20email%20goes%20astray/article.do
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1858730,00.html

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FILE SHARING
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Online music to boost overall music sales by 2010
Online music will boost overall music sales, but not
until 2010, predicts Screen Digest, a market research
firm.
http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17752

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Revealed: world's oldest computer
It looks like a heap of rubbish. But 102 years after
the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze
mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show
that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map
the motions of the sun, moon and planets.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1854232,00.html

*****
VoIP
*****
uk: Ofcom proposes measures to warn VoIP customers
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has proposed to require
VoIP operators to warn customers about deficiencies in
their services, reports online news source
TeleGeography.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17775

uk: Skype rejects Ofcom call for new rules on web
telephony
PLANS by the telecoms regulator to introduce tough new
rules for the internet phone sector were condemned by
Skype, the internet telephony company, yesterday as
discriminatory and damaging to innovation.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-2326023,00.html

VoIP Systems Vulnerable To Attack
VoIP is well on its way to widespread adoption, but
the fact that many companies haven't taken the
necessary steps to toughen up security on their VoIP
systems could make them attractive targets for
hackers.
http://networkingpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=192300437

VoIP subscribers up 83 per cent
Subscribers to VoIP services increased by 83 per cent
last year, new figures reveal. Worldwide retail VoIP
subscribers jumped from 10.3 million at the beginning
of 2005 to over 18.7 million by the end of the year,
according to broadband analyst Point Topic.
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2162951/voip-subscribers-83-per-cent
http://clickz.com/stats/sectors/broadband/article.php/3623253

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au: Man 'used internet to lure boy'
A 41-year-old man used an internet chat room to try to
lure a 13-year-old boy into sex acts, a Sydney court
has been told.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20260148-1702,00.html
Google unites with industry to stamp out child
pornography
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/92691/google-unites-with-industry-to-stamp-out-child-pornography.html

us: Barney the dinosaur sued after legal threats
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6109285.html

uk: Ofcom proposes measures to warn VoIP customers
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17775

The newspaper industry - More media, less news 
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7827135

The new junkies - BlackBerries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1856845,00.html

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
******************************************
Google unites with industry to stamp out child
pornography
Search giant Google is taking its role as a leading
Internet playing seriously by joining the fight
against child pornography.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/92691/google-unites-with-industry-to-stamp-out-child-pornography.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2162892/google-signs-anti-child-porn

us: Google Joins Industry-Wide Movement to Combat
Child Pornography (news release)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have
announced that Google has joined the Technology
Coalition and the Financial Coalition Against Child
Pornography, two critical industry initiatives to
fight commercial child pornography over the Internet.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2629

us: NCMEC Joins with Federal Agencies to Launch
Innovative Initiative to Tackle Child Pornography
(news release)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
(NCMEC) Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) is
partnering with the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention?s (OJJDP) Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Forces (ICAC) to launch the
first-ever U.S.-based Victim Identification Lab. Law
enforcement officers and prosecutors from across the
country, who are participating in the Crimes Against
Children Conference in Dallas, Texas this week, will
participate in this U.S. initiative to potentially
generate new leads to aid in the identification of
child victims. The Victim Identification Lab will
feature 50 images that have been sanitized and the
graphic material removed. The exposed parts of the
photos are potential clues to where the picture was
taken and where the child is located.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2644

us: U.S. Department of Justice Awards $400,000 to
Kentucky to Combat Internet Crimes Against Children
(news release)
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced an
award from the Department of Justice's Office of
Justice Programs (OJP) of $400,000 to the Kentucky
State Police to continue funding of the Kentucky
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/August/06_ag_568.html

ca: Everyone should report child porn
Wrong question. The question should be whether the
responsibility rests with every respectable member of
society to report child porn if they see it and the
answer to that question is a resounding yes.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211057

au: New porn laws for 3G phones
The Federal Government has vowed to tackle the issue
of pornography on internet-enabled devices such as 3G
mobile phones by introducing the same restrictions
that apply to internet and television content and
punishing breaches with criminal penalties.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012657301.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012657301.html

us: From their own online world, pedophiles extend
their reach
At first blush, the two conversations - taking place
almost simultaneously in different corners of the
Internet - might have seemed unremarkable, even
humdrum. In April, with summer fast approaching, both
groups of online friends chatted about jobs at
children's camps. Did anyone, one man asked, know of
girls' camps willing to hire adult males as
counselors? Meanwhile, elsewhere in cyberspace, the
second group celebrated the news that one of their own
had been offered a job leading a boys' cabin at a
sleep-away camp.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/21/america/web.0821porn.php

us: On the Web, nearly nude child porn tests laws
In the photograph, the model is shown rising out of a
bubble bath, suds dripping from her body. Her tight
panties and skimpy top are soaked and revealing. She
gazes at the viewer, her face showing a wisp of a
smile that seems to have been coaxed from off-camera.
In just over seven months, the model has become an
online phenomenon. She has thousands of fans from
around the world, membership lists show, who pay as
much as $30 a month to see images of her. According to
the posted schedule, new photographs of her - many
clearly intended to be erotic, all supposedly taken
that week - are posted online every Friday for her
growing legions of admirers.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/20/america/web.0820porn.php

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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
***************************************
za: Internet a breeding ground for child exploitation
Recent investigations into child pornography have
revealed that organised crime syndicates are moving
away from their traditional forms of crime, such as
drugs and guns, into child exploitation through the
internet.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,133718,00.html

us: Barney the dinosaur sued after legal threats
Barney, the plush purple saurian, likes to sing about
love, hugs and kisses. But the dinosaur's lawyers have
taken precisely the opposite view when threatening Web
sites that display less-than-flattering images of the
plump T-Rex--a legal tactic that finally led to a
lawsuit on Wednesday from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6109285.html
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_08.php#004884

us: Violent Video Games Ban in La. Blocked
A state law that would ban sales of violent video
games to minors violates free speech rights and cannot
be enforced, a judge ruled.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LOUISIANA_VIDEO_GAMES

ca/us: CRTC asked to block access to U.S. websites
One of two U.S.-based hate websites was taken offline
Wednesday as an Ottawa lawyer and a Jewish lobby group
asked Canada's telecommunications regulator to take
the unprecedented step of blocking access to the sites
from north of the border.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1156369811829

Brazil prosecutors aim to sue Google
Brazilian prosecutors asked a federal judge on Tuesday
for permission to file a civil lawsuit against Google,
alleging it was withholding user information required
for a separate criminal investigation.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6108530.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d2420942-32f9-11db-87ac-0000779e2340.html

nl: Dutch farmers dating site loses Google court case
A dating site for Dutch farmers lost a court case
against Google on Thursday after demanding that the
world's biggest Internet search engine stop publishing
sponsored links to sex sites.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13285483
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2886&iArticleId=3409105

au: Inquiry into jail porn email claims
AT LEAST 22 staff at adult and juvenile jails are
being investigated for allegedly sending and receiving
pornographic emails. Two prison officers at Long Bay
jail are believed to have been suspended while they
are investigated over viewing and sending pornographic
material via email at the Department of Corrective
Services.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/24/1156012675599.html

uk: Texan foils burglary in Britain via Beatles webcam
An American helped foil a burglary in northern England
whilst watching a Beatles-related webcam over the
Internet, police said on Friday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13295532
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17630549%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=nicked%2dby%2dwebcam%2d-name_page.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
**************************
cn: New regulation to monitor online video spoof craze
New regulations are in the pipeline to regulate video
content on the Internet in the wake of a surge in
short satirical films online, according to the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/17/content_4971828.htm

*****
SPAM
*****
Viet Nam Ministry of Trade Drafting Anti-Spam
Legislation
The Vietnamese Ministry of Trade is drafting a
circular governing advertising activities by
electronic means, including emails, pop-ups and mobile
phone messages.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Viet+Nam+Ministry+Of+Trade+Drafting+AntiSpam+Legislation.aspx

Spammers manipulate stock markets
Spam messages that tout stocks and shares can have
real effects on the markets, a study suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5284618.stm

*****************************
INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
*****************************
The newspaper industry - More media, less news 
Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but
most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7827135

The new junkies
BlackBerries are more addictive than hard drugs, it
was reported yesterday. But 'crackberry' users aren't
the only techno addicts on the block. Gareth McLean
reports on the different species - and how to spot
them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1856845,00.html

eu: 23% of EU population has broadband
23 per cent of EU households have broadband internet
access, says a report by Eurobarometer.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17780

cn: Shanghai opens shelter for young internet addicts
Shanghai has opened mainland China's first shelter for
internet addicts to help them bridge the gap between
their virtual world and dysfunctional family homes.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1857784,00.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13276849

ca: 'Unable to unplug, tech addicts may sue'
A constant connection to the virtual office may be
grounds to sue, says an academic, as employees'
personal lives suffer as a result of their electronic
leash.
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2889&iArticleId=3409094

Net has attracted the eyeballs, now it waits for the
cash
The online world is scratching its head over the
disparity between the internet's growing audience and
its share of advertising budgets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,,1858099,00.html

Do BlackBerrys help or harm?
Cellular telephones and wireless BlackBerry e-mail
devices may be addictive, but most business executives
insist that mobile technology has improved the balance
between their work and home, a study said.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6109624.html

uk: Embarrassed city girl apologies as party email
goes around the globe
The trouble with throwing a party is that the guests
get in the way. Some turn up at the wrong time, others
are not dressed for the occasion and yet more fail to
mind their manners.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23364634-details/Worldwide%20humiliation%20for%20city%20girl%20as%20party%20email%20goes%20astray/article.do
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1858730,00.html

************
FILE SHARING
************
Online music to boost overall music sales by 2010
Online music will boost overall music sales, but not
until 2010, predicts Screen Digest, a market research
firm.
http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17752

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
*********************************
Revealed: world's oldest computer
It looks like a heap of rubbish. But 102 years after
the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze
mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show
that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map
the motions of the sun, moon and planets.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1854232,00.html

*****
VoIP
*****
uk: Ofcom proposes measures to warn VoIP customers
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has proposed to require
VoIP operators to warn customers about deficiencies in
their services, reports online news source
TeleGeography.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17775

uk: Skype rejects Ofcom call for new rules on web
telephony
PLANS by the telecoms regulator to introduce tough new
rules for the internet phone sector were condemned by
Skype, the internet telephony company, yesterday as
discriminatory and damaging to innovation.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-2326023,00.html

VoIP Systems Vulnerable To Attack
VoIP is well on its way to widespread adoption, but
the fact that many companies haven't taken the
necessary steps to toughen up security on their VoIP
systems could make them attractive targets for
hackers.
http://networkingpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=192300437

VoIP subscribers up 83 per cent
Subscribers to VoIP services increased by 83 per cent
last year, new figures reveal. Worldwide retail VoIP
subscribers jumped from 10.3 million at the beginning
of 2005 to over 18.7 million by the end of the year,
according to broadband analyst Point Topic.
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2162951/voip-subscribers-83-per-cent
http://clickz.com/stats/sectors/broadband/article.php/3623253

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au: Man 'used internet to lure boy'
A 41-year-old man used an internet chat room to try to
lure a 13-year-old boy into sex acts, a Sydney court
has been told.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20260148-1702,00.html

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