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general internet news - 25 September
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Bad news for Google in Belgium
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/22/business/google.php
us: Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web
Sites
http://nytimes.com/2006/09/21/us/21porn.html
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/21/news/web.php
China's internet population soars
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20456839%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
tw: The digital revolution hits Taiwan
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1879584,00.html
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: Bebo beats cyberbullies to the punch
Bebo is looking to take some of the rejection out of
rock music. The music social networking site announced
a new feature on Thursday that allows Web page owners
to pre-vet all posts to their pages.
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6118168.html
uk: Internet Watch Foundation welcomes children?s
online safety campaign (news release)
The UK organisation focused on tackling child sex
abuse ? the Child Exploitation and Online Protection
(CEOP) Centre - has launched a ?have fun, stay in
control, know how to report? education campaign going
into schools, foster homes and other youth
environments across England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland.
http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.175.htm
uk: Pupils reminded of internet safety
Internet savvy schoolchildren are to be reminded about
the dangers of revealing personal details online as
part of an expanding web safety campaign.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/5363678.stm
us: CDT Cautions Against Dramatic Expansion of
Indecency Rules
CDT today urged the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) not to allow a small but vocal minority that is
offended by certain content to limit the ability of
adults to view material that is perfectly lawful and
worthwhile. In comments submitted Thursday, CDT
pointed out that the same types of voluntary parental
control tools that help to protect kids from
inappropriate material online are increasingly
available to parents in the broadcast context.
http://cdt.org/speech/
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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Google relents, publishes Belgian court ruling
(Reuters)
Google on Saturday published on its Belgian Web site a
court order that forbids the Internet search engine to
reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its news
amalgamation service.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6118856.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=13579141
Publishers aim for some control of search results
(Reuters)
Global publishers, fearing that Web search engines
such as Google Inc. are encroaching on their ability
to generate revenue, plan to launch an automated
system for granting permission on how to use their
content.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13572150
Bad news for Google in Belgium
A copyright dispute between Google and a group of
publishers in Belgium escalated Friday as the Internet
search engine defied a court order to publish an
earlier decision in the case on its Belgian Web sites.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/22/business/google.php
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-09-22-belgium-google_x.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/22/google_loses_news_appeal/
Belgium Court Rejects Google Appeal
Google Inc. lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's
requirement that the Internet search company publish
on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_NEWS_LAWSUIT
uk: Cyber-crime cops have 200 'grooming' cases a month
UP TO 200 reports a month of paedophiles trying to
groom children on the internet are being investigated
by a new police cyber-crime unit.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2367762,00.html
us: Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web
Sites
As part of the battle against the spread of child
pornography on the Internet, an initiative has begun
allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites
offering illicit images of minors, even in cases where
no criminal investigation is being conducted.
http://nytimes.com/2006/09/21/us/21porn.html
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/21/news/web.php
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6118045.html
ca: Teens posting schoolyard fights on-line
Ontario premier McGuinty calls practice ?sick' -
Police say they can't take any action because the
fighting at schools such as Orangeville District
Secondary School is consensual. The premier says
parents should be responsible for what their children
are doing.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060922.gtonlinefights0922/BNStory/Technology/home
Information-sharing an obstacle in cyber war games
The results of an international cyber war game that
involved Australia were released by the US Department
of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security
Division last week.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;94679771;fp;2;fpid;1
Porn site exploits IE security hole
A handful of Russian porn sites have become the first
to take advantage of a "critical" security hole in
Internet Explorer.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/20/1158431772699.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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zw: Debt Throws Harare Off Cyberspace Radar
ZIMBABWE's telecommunications problems have worsened
as the country's internet service almost ground to a
halt after a major narrowing of the cyberspace
bandwidth due to nonpayment of arrears.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609220369.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609210298.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6117553.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13543551
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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au: Broadband hits halfway mark
THERE are now almost 6 million active internet
subscribers in Australia, with more than half of them
using broadband services.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20457120%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
au: Switch of the flicks: movie kiosk joins race for
instant delivery
EACH time you visit the video store it has changed,
from old-style borrowing library to general
store-cum-DVD shop and phonecard shop. It is only a
matter of time, it seems, before it goes the way of
the Kodak film developing shop, the latest victim of
the march of the internet.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/22/1158431904471.html
China's internet population soars
THE internet is becoming more and more popular in
China, where 123 million users were counted by the end
of June, second in the world only to the US.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20456839%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Irish communications minister ups broadband target
Irish communications minister Noel Dempsey wants
500,000 broadband connections by 2H 2007
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=18474
Spaniards embrace new internet technologies - study
New internet technologies, such as RSS feeds,
vodcasts, podcasts and music, VOIP (with or without
webcam) and weblogs are becoming increasingly popular
in Europe, particularly in Southern Europe.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=18436
ca: With 21 million Internet users, Canada is
most-wired nation
How has the Internet changed the lives of Canadians?
Findings from a recent national poll conducted by the
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) show
that more then 85 per cent of respondents say that the
Internet has removed geographical or financial
boundaries in their daily lives and more than 55 per
cent are more interested in the world around them.
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=19794
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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in: Internet and computing business shoud be free of
barriers: Desai
The government should keep internet and computing
business free of barriers to allow innovation in web
technology, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary
General for World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)
Nitin Desai said.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=24982
India fastest in bridging digital divide
LIRNEasia, a regional communication technology policy
and regulation research organization opines that in
order to improve the digital opportunity index (DOI),
a tool for better measurement of the digital divide,
India should replicate the urban competitive model in
its mobile telephony segment in the rural areas.
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/33154
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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tw: The digital revolution hits Taiwan
Yahoo! is surging ahead in the hi-tech country, where
even political unrest happens via the web.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1879584,00.html
au: National network reaping benefits
When Melbourne surgeon Chris Kimber held a
post-operative conference with Hanoi-based Professor
Nguyen Thanh Liem recently, both could examine Mr
Kimber's infant patient and discuss progress and
treatment despite being thousands of kilometres apart.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640608.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640608.html
'Hacktivists' offer stealth web
A GROUP calling itself "Hacktivismo" has launched a
web browser that lets users surf the web with privacy.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20456822%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6118547.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/21/1158431835805.html
Global web celebrations under way
People around the world are coming together on Friday
to celebrate the world wide web. Susan Crawford, the
founder of OneWebDay, said she wanted people to
reflect on how the web had changed their lives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5368190.stm
Twist, jive, bop ... now do the web
YouTube is the biggest craze on the internet. And
Judson is the No 1 attraction on YouTube: When the
unstoppable force of the internet generates its own
icons of popular culture, what do they look like? Here
is one answer. He wears an orange T-shirt, looks like
a geek and dances with a unique brilliance.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1879646,00.html
Happy birthday, hard disk drive - and my, how you've
grown
The hard disk is 50 years old this month. On 13
September 1956, IBM unveiled its IBM 305 Ramac
computer, whose major selling point was that it had
something called a 'disk drive': the 350 Disk File
unit. Up to then, data had been stored either on
magnetic drums or on tape, either of which made
accessing files a painfully slow process.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1879479,00.html
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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au: Costs could kill mobile TV
THE federal Government's plan to develop TV services
for mobile phones in Australia could fail if content
companies become too greedy or the cost of the
spectrum skyrockets, according to the company
trialling the service.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20447929%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
us: Lawmakers study changes in telecommunications law
In early 2007, Verizon plans to bust into the cable
industry for the first time in Pennsylvania offering
competition to Comcast over newly built fiber-optics
lines in the southeastern part of the state.
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17231808&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247
nz: NZ - a nation of wholesalers?
After a few months circling each other nervously,
Telecom and rival ISPs are sparring once more. The
cause of the angst: tomorrow's (official) announcement
by Telecom of Xtra broadband plans that its wholesale
customers fear may put them out of business.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3807062a28,00.html
nz: Telecom 'abusing position' with cut-price internet
Telecom's plan to sell broadband internet access to
its Xtra customers for less than it charges its
wholesale customers is a sign the telecommunications
company is continuing to abuse its dominant market
position, its competitors say.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10402422
nz: Split up Telecom and include NGN in regulation:
ISPANZ
The New Zealand ISP association ISPANZ, which
comprises most providers except for Telecom's Xtra,
wants the new regulation to ensure retail parity as
well as consultation on the Next Generation Network
rollout.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FE463DD583F44483CC2571EF000DB04C
InternetNZ questions Telecom's retail tactics (news
release)
InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) is
concerned at the competitive implications in media
reports this week
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2005-09-21-telecom
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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uk: Pair admit to child porn charges
A former priest and a pro-paedophilia campaigner are
facing jail after 50,000 images of child porn were
discovered in the ex-cleric Michael Studdert's home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/5367968.stm
gr: Alarm over extreme child porn
A medical student who allegedly traded images of
babies being sexually abused was yesterday charged
with being a child pornographer by a prosecutor in
Kavala, northern Greece, as experts expressed their
shock at the type of material found in the
25-year-old?s possession.
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_22/09/2006_74517
http://mrt.com.mk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1170
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