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general internet news - 5 October
Hi all
In addition to be able to go to http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, more recent than this one, I've recommenced updating my website with some of the key news. Hopefully this time I'll be able to keep it up to date. There's also a new domain name - http://technewsreview.com.au/
Cheers
David
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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uk: Web of hate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1887102,00.html
us: In Washington, a Net protector or predator?
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6122045.html
U.S. move costs online betting sites billions
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/02/business/gamble.php
us: Gamblers adapt to loss of U.S. online sites (Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=13682411
uk: Online gaming firms look east after U.S. ban (Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13676180
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Web of hate
On the rightwing website Redwatch, hosted in the US but registered and
run from the UK, hundreds of photographs of anti-war and anti-fascist
activists are posted - with the message that they will 'pay for their
crimes'. And now a number of those people have been attacked. So why
hasn't the site been closed down? Matthew Taylor of The Guardian
investigates.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1887102,00.html
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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us: N.Y. Proposal Would Designate Lawyer Blogs as Advertising
The storm was set off by a proposal that "computer-accessed
communications" such as blogs be included in New York’s definition of
legal advertising, and therefore require state scrutiny. The proposal,
by a committee created by the state’s Administrative Board of Courts,
also suggests the state code of professional responsibility extend
court jurisdiction to out-of-state legal advertising that appears in
New York.
http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/s29blog.html
us: Judge sides with Google in dispute over keywords
A federal court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Google over its
practice of allowing companies to buy search-related ads that are
displayed when people type in the name of a competitor.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6121483.html
Cyber-spies tracking terror on Web (CNN)
There is an unconventional war being waged on the Internet. The battles
here know no boundaries; and are fought from homes and offices from
small Midwestern towns to Europe and the Middle East.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/28/internet.spying
eu: Intel likely to face EU antitrust charges
European Union antitrust regulators are close to issuing formal
antitrust charges against Intel, alleging that the world’s biggest chip
manufacturer is abusing its dominant market position.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7ec07504-532b-11db-99c5-0000779e2340.html
Microsoft says appeals 281 million euro fine (Reuters)
Software giant Microsoft has filed an appeal against a 280.5 million
euro ($356.4 million) fine the European Commission imposed in July,
holding it defied a 2004 antitrust ruling.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2521365
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: In Washington, a Net protector or predator?
Mark Foley, who abruptly resigned from the U.S. House of
Representatives last week after disclosures of inappropriate
conversations with a teenage page, had spent years positioning himself
as Congress' leading defender of children on the Internet.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6122045.html
U.S. move costs online betting sites billions
On a Black Monday for the online gambling industry, companies that
operate Internet betting sites and payment systems lost billions of
dollars in market value after the U.S. government moved to criminalize
the processing of online wagers.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/10/02/business/gamble.php
us: Gamblers adapt to loss of U.S. online sites (Reuters)
Last weekend, when the U.S. Congress passed a bill making it illegal
for banks and credit-card companies to make payments to Internet
gambling sites, a legion of online gamblers were sent scrambling to
find new ways to place their bets.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=13682411
uk: Online gaming firms look east after U.S. ban (Reuters)
Britain's online gambling firms switched their sights away from the
United States to look for new growth areas on Tuesday after the U.S.
Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming in their biggest
market.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13676180
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us: Spammers face jail
Two spammers could go to jail after an investigation by EarthLink found
they were sending thousands of unsolicited messages from PeoplePC
accounts.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39283813,00.htm
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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UK online ad spend worth almost £1bn
Media: UK internet advertising is worth almost half of TV advertising revenues, according to research.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Media/site/story/0,,1886748,00.html
uk: Online ads surge 40 percent (Reuters)
Online advertising spending in the country jumped 40 percent to 917.2
million pounds in the first half of 2006 compared with a year ago,
taking a market share of 10.5 percent, data showed on Wednesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13682547
Broadband line growth hits new low
Even though the second quarter of 2006 saw the steepest drop in DSL
prices in four years, it was also the quarter with the lowest broadband
growth rate ever.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;987146517;fp;2;fpid;1
us: Newspaper Web site readership grows 31 pct - study (Reuters)
The average number of monthly visitors to U.S. newspaper Web sites rose
by nearly a third in the first half of 2006, a study released on
Wednesday said, though print readership at some larger U.S. newspapers
fell.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13683182
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FILE SHARING
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Swedish man acquitted in file sharing case
A 29-year-old Swedish man suspected of sharing local movie Hip Hip Hora was acquitted by the Svea Court of Appeal yesterday.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/file_sharer_acquitted/
se: Swedish Court Overturns Piracy Ruling (AP)
An appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction against a Swedish
man for online piracy in sharing files illegally on the Internet.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20061002&ID=6068652
us: Analysts don't like YouTube's chances
Internet research firm Forrester has predicted doom for YouTube's
business model. Copyright issues that have plagued video-sharing site
YouTube since its official launch almost a year ago will mean that
"YouTube will get sued. And it will lose," wrote Josh Bernoff and Ted
Schadler, analysts for Forrester Research, on a blog posted last week.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6121902.html
us: Fox streams TV shows to MySpace, local network sites
Last spring, it was considered a bold move when the Disney-owned ABC
made four of its primetime shows available online in a free,
ad-supported format after their broadcast premieres. But this fall, not
only did ABC expand its offerings, but rival network NBC announced a
similar plan to make episodes of selected broadcast shows available
online. Now, Fox has jumped on the trend and announced the Tuesday
launch of "Fox On Demand," a collaboration with parent company News
Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media and Fox Television Stations branches.
http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9595_22-6122304.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-03-fox-myspace_x.htm
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Nokia targets Web 2.0
Nokia is getting ready to embrace Web 2.0 — but how far the
user-generated content revolution will affect the Finnish phone company
is yet to be determined.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39283812,00.htm
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VoIP, mobile security top SANS 2007 'hit list'
IT managers are being warned of the threats that are likely to keep
them awake nights in 2007, with laptop security, VoIP and the
contentious issue of mobile phone viruses all featuring on one
organisation's 'hit-list'.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/VoIP_mobile_security_top_SANS_2007_hit_list_/0,130061744,339271411,00.htm
VOIP presents major security risk
Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VOIP are
making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are
currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security
researcher warned.
http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=4158&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=98
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Police to appeal dismissal of child porn charges
Tasmanian Police will lodge an appeal against a decision by a
magistrate in Burnie, on the state's north-west coast, to dismiss
charges in a child pornography case.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1755606.htm
http://www.theadvocate.com.au/news.cgi?type=1&id=280105
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