[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
general internet news - 6 November
Don't forget to check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news - already online! And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for recent updates and news, including for wrap-up of the IGF.
**********************************************************
Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/
**********************************************************
Why you should care about the Stern Review
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39284493,00.htm
China forced to face its critics over internet censorship
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1939801,00.html
Blatant censorship is one thing. But who controls the controllers?
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5043104
uk: Spy planes, clothes scanners and secret cameras: Britain's surveillance future
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1937102,00.html
Google Moving Fast to Curb YouTube Copyright Concerns
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54083.html
******************************************
CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
******************************************
China forced to face its critics over internet censorship
This time there was no hiding place. Countries accused of turning the
internet into a tool of repression - and the companies accused of
helping them do it - were confronted with the full force of
international condemnation at a special United Nations conference in
Athens last week.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1939801,00.html
Google: Still Trying to Click in China
Despite an off-key name, censorship issues, and strong local rivals,
the U.S. search giant remains confident it can be No. 1 on the mainland
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2006/gb20061101_490769.htm
Turkey vows to loosen laws on free speech
Turkey's foreign minister Abdullah Gul vowed yesterday to end problems
stemming from an article in the country's penal code that is used to
charge writers, journalists and academics for expressing their
opinions, Europe's human rights watchdog said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1939482,00.html
Cyber bullying rises in S Korea
South Korea is one of the most connected places on earth, but as Dan
Simmons reports, spending so much time online has created a whole new
set of social problems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6112754.stm
Blatant censorship is one thing. But who controls the controllers?
Blatant censorship is fine. But who controls the controllers? What
about the more subtle forms of control and blockages, that often can
work in the more brutal ways of the unseen hand? APC
member-organisation RITS's Carlos Afonso, made this point strongly at
the Internet Governance Forum in Athens.
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5043104
Good or bad? Harmful or not? Legal or illegal? – the challenge of regulating internet content
What is harmful content? What constitutes illegal content? What is
pornography? Should content be regulated? These were some of the key
questions addressed by the participants at today’s panel discussion
“Content regulations from gender and development perspective” organized
by the Association for Progressive Communications - Women's Networking
Support Programme (APC WNSP) in the ongoing IGF.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=f--e94984-1&x=94984
nz: Text bullying action
Anyone who receives four or more text messages from bullies can now complain to police.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10408796
***************************************
CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
***************************************
uk: How to hide in a connected world
As we enter a more connected world, where devices talk to each other
and make sense of the masses of data we create, the issue of how much
control we have over this process becomes more important.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6107764.stm
uk: Online casinos 'used to launder cash'
ONLINE gaming sites have created a money-laundering “arms race” as
criminals try to exploit internet casinos to hide stolen money,
ministers have been told.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2431354,00.html
Microsoft to combat internet fraudsters
Microsoft is to introduce a sophisticated protection system aimed at
preventing online fraud. The company is urging rival companies to adopt
a similar technique.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1939873,00.html
us: Viewing child porn not a crime, panel rules
Just looking at child pornography on the Internet is not a crime under Pennsylvania law, a state Superior Court panel ruled.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/capitol/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1162524319132810.xml&coll=1
uk: Spy planes, clothes scanners and secret cameras: Britain's surveillance future
It sounds like a scene from the Tom Cruise futuristic thriller Minority
Report. A teenager enters a record shop and a scanner hidden in the
doorway instantly reads data secreted in electronic tags embedded in
his clothes. The scanner clocks the brand of clothing and where it was
purchased, flashing to a database which analyses what type of person
would have bought that line of clothing and predicts what other
products that person would like to buy. In an instant, adverts for
those products are beamed to eye-level billboards for the teenager to
see.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1937102,00.html
Who's watching as we watch ourselves?
Last week, footage of a girl being badly bullied in a New Zealand
school playground had to be take down from YouTube, the hugely
successful video hosting site now owned by Google. It was rightly
removed because in a perverse act of glorification it had been uploaded
by the gang that had committed the offence. But it could easily have
been taken by an onlooker and used as evidence against the gang.
Surveillance is now expanding too fast for its effects to be fully
understood.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1936679,00.html
Google in talks over content
Google is holding negotiations with media companies to try to persuade
them to supply content to YouTube, the video website it bought last
month for $1.65 billion (£865 million).
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2436146,00.html
Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat
Google executives have met CBS, Viacom, Time Warner, NBC Universal,
News Corp and others in a frantic round of negotiations, offering tens
of millions of dollars in upfront payments for the right to broadcast
their video content legally on YouTube.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0cf8ea76-6aa2-11db-83d9-0000779e2340.html
Google would be wise to avoid making enemies
Google is poised to become the dominant force in British advertising.
In 2008, if ITV cannot sort itself out, the internet search engine
could be the biggest recipient of advertising pounds in the country.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2434885,00.html
U.S. government fines adware company US$3 million for invading user computers
An online media and advertising company accused of unfairly and
deceptively downloading its software onto consumers' computers has
agreed to pay a US$3 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/articles/2006/11/04/1162340083392.html
us: Group asks FTC to probe Web ads
A non-profit consumer advocacy group plans to ask federal regulators
Wednesday to rein in the fast-growing $100 billion online marketing
industry.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-31-web-ads-privacy_x.htm
us: Police blotter: Child porn blamed on computer virus
A former Georgia teacher blames computer viruses for altering his Web sites and uploading child porn images.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6130218.html
us: Man posts sex offender photo on MySpace (AP)
A man who posted his own sex offender registry photo on the social networking site MySpace.com is back behind bars.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-03-myspace-offender_x.htm
Will The Web We Wove Protect Us From Evil?
The Internet, which began as a U.S. military construct for global
communications, quickly became the international communications
utility. Today it is the globe-eating spider-web of consumerism,
expression (free and otherwise), love, hate, politics and religion.
Perhaps it will be a protector of free expression and defense against
closed, authoritarian governments and oligarchies. Or it will be
another force for censorship and control.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/04/110146.php
**************************
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
**************************
us: GOP May Have Overplayed Its Hand on Gambling Bill
A Republican-sponsored effort to clamp down on Internet gambling may
turn out to be a bad bet for the GOP. The Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act, which President Bush signed into law Oct. 13, has
infuriated many voters who enjoy betting on sports or playing poker
online, analysts said.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54073.html
*****************************
INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
*****************************
Berners-Lee to head web research project
The influence the internet has on the way we socialise and live our
lives is to become the focus of a new field of study under the
leadership of the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,1937955,00.html
Web inventor fears for the future
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British developer of the world wide web, says
he is worried about the way it could be used to spread "misinformation
and "undemocratic forces".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6108578.stm
Sexual encounters on the Web
The internet is bringing humans closer together at the same time as the
gene pool is getting more mixed up, says Professor Steve Jones. But
there are risks...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2006/11/04/ecsex04.xml
This week we want to know all about ... MyDeathSpace
In the beginning there was MySpace.com, a networking website that has
attracted more than 123 million users. Two years on, a more sinister
site has emerged. It began when Mike Patterson, from San Francisco,
read about a father who had brutally murdered his family and then
committed suicide.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1939807,00.html
Back to the future, with a Victorian flavour
There's a line of thought which argues that the internet will liberate
the masses and allow us to achieve self-actualisation. "With
technology," the proponents exclaim, "economies will spiral upwards,
national boundaries will dissolve and people will work only for
self-enlightenment!" And today's mighty panacea, often referred to as
"user-generated content", will bring joy to the world and peace to us
all.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1936560,00.html
How to make the web go worldwide
Only one billion people out of the six billion-strong world population
have internet access. So what is being done to connect up all the
world's citizens?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6109008.stm
nz: ISPs not satisfying customers
Internet companies are being told they are over-promising and
under-delivering. The results of an annual consumer survey of more than
10,000 Internet Service Providers are being described as shocking by
the Consumers Institute.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/877770
************
FILE SHARING
************
Google Moving Fast to Curb YouTube Copyright Concerns
Google is reportedly offering media companies millions of dollars in
upfront payments if those outlets allow their content to be shared on
the YouTube video sharing site that Google has agreed to buy. Reports
say Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading an effort to convince media
companies to allow users of YouTube to share video clips of their
television shows and movies.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54083.html
Kazaa settles 3rd suit on file-sharing
Kazaa, the file-sharing network, has reached a tentative settlement in
the last of three major lawsuits brought against it by the music and
motion picture industries.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/business/patent.php
Spanish court dismisses music file-sharing case (AP)
A Spanish judge has dismissed a case against a man who shared music
files on the Internet, saying he committed no crime because his aim was
not to make money.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15913265.htm
us: Two sued for downloading over 1,000 songs (AP)
Patricia Santangelo wouldn't concede in her fight with record companies
that accused her of pirating songs over the Internet. Now the companies
are hoping for an easier tussle against her kids.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-02-download-suit_x.htm
*********************************
COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
*********************************
Why you should care about the Stern Review
Sir Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist, lobbed a
bombshell into the heart of the climate change debate on Monday. His
report, compiled at the behest of the Chancellor, laid out in stark
terms the measures needed to stop global warming. Its conclusions are
not pretty, and have major implications for businesses and IT
professionals.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39284493,00.htm
'Next step' in science studies: The Web
In little more than a decade, the Internet has grown to become such a
pervasive force in commerce and culture that a group of leading
university researchers is trying to make the Web a field of study on
its own.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/business/compute.php
Microsoft names Vista launch day
Vista, the new version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, will be launched on 30 November.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6110958.stm
What a tangled web we are weaving
I was born in Nairobi. But not according to my Wikipedia entry which,
until last month, stated categorically that I was born in Rome. Another
line said I am anti-semitic. Wikipedia allows anyone to contribute to
any entry and operates on the premise of cumulative knowledge. With so
many people reading each entry, mistakes are quickly corrected. The
anti-semitism slur was soon deleted ('unsourced information').
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1939793,00.html
*****
VoIP
*****
Presentation on VoIP at the Telecom Evolution Business Forum 2006
The Telecom Evolution Business Forum 2006 was held in Moscow, Russia,
from 23-26 October 2006 to evaluate current trends in telecommunication
markets and the strategy options open to operators in response to an
evolving market.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Presentation+On+VoIP+At+The+Telecom+Evolution+Business+Forum+2006.aspx
**********************************
ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
**********************************
ca: Undercover Internet Operation Leads to Pedophile's Arrest
A man who was sexually abusing a young girl in his home was arrested
after he transmitted images of the assault via the Internet to an
undercover detective, police said Thursday. The girl, a preschooler,
was rescued two hours later in what Toronto police's child exploitation
unit said was its first case of observing a live assault.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54075.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-11-03-web-sex-assault_x.htm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13966738
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CANADA_INTERNET_ASSAULT
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news - already online!
The domain name news is supported by auDA.
Also see http://internews.tv/mailman/admin/internetnews_internews.tv
for an archive and to subscribe to the domain name or general internet
news and http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent updates and news.
Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(c) David Goldstein 2006
---------
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
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
