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general internet news - 11 June
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uk: Internet romance can be a peril, says judge
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article1901373.ece
Could US repel a cyberattack?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0607/p01s01-usmi.html
Russia monitors Internet to dampen ethnic violence (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL0671273620070607
Google's the worst, says privacy group (AP)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414177563.html
Google - Now you see it, now you don't
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414180933.html
Cyber warming: PCs produce same CO2 emissions as airlines
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2640428.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6738547.stm
Anti-spam laws in Singapore to take effect next week
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/09/1181089361250.html
Wireless energy promise powers up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm
If the net is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2099281,00.html
nz: Porn-again Christians turn to net-support software
http://stuff.co.nz/4088582a6530.html
Bowie wins web award
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1893753.ece
us: TorrentSpy ordered to start tracking visitors
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6189866.html
Vodafone says VoIP is 'expensive' and 'unsafe'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/voip_continues/
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CENSORSHIP
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th: Political website fights govt block
The pro-Thaksin Saturday Voice Against Dictatorship group held a rally outside the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry yesterday, demanding the ministry unblock its website, www.saturdayvoice.com. The website was closed down on Thursday.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/09Jun2007_news13.php
Vietnam Frees Prominent Cyber-Dissident (AP)
Vietnam has released a prominent government critic convicted of spying against the communist government, two weeks before Vietnam's president makes a historic visit to the U.S., an official said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIETNAM_DISSIDENT_RELEASE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-10-12-51-56
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: ICE Operation Predator arrests of child exploiters top 10,000 (news release)
Just four years after the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Predator, an initiative aimed at those who sexually exploit children, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that its arrests had topped 10,000.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=3217
us: Internet Safety Campaign for Teens Builds Momentum, Extends Message with Family/Educator Toolbox (news release)
Just in time for June’s Internet Safety Month, the partners behind the 2 SMRT 4U campaign, which encourages teens to make safe, smart choices when posting information about themselves on social networking web sites and blogs, are reaching out to an even wider audience with a Family/Educator Toolbox.
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=3213
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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uk: Internet romance can be a peril, says judge
Romance over the internet that leads to marriage is posing a new headache for the courts when relationships go sour, a senior judge said yesterday. Lord Justice Thorpe was ruling in favour of a mother who wants to take her two young daughters back home to Texas after a “brief and stormy” marriage to a British man she met online.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article1901373.ece
Vietnamese fishermen "salvage" Internet lines (Reuters)
Fishermen who were allowed to take unused war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, "salvaging" fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam's Internet and other international communications.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKHAN1727620070607
Could US repel a cyberattack?
The nation's defense relies on a small group that operates on a tiny budget and with little clout, experts say.
Evidence is mounting that cyberwarfare tactics are part of the 21st-century arsenals of powers like Russia and China, yet the United States has not made Internet defenses a major priority. A two-week cyberattack on Estonia – which overloaded government websites, knocked a bank's overseas customers offline, and caused Internet service to slow to a crawl – has brought the issue to the fore for US defense officials. While the tiny Baltic nation reacted well, experts say, the US may be at greater risk for mass disruptions of banking, telecommunications, and government services. The reasons: a lack of coordination, funding, and centralized authority.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0607/p01s01-usmi.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2007-06-07-us-cyberattack-preparation_N.htm
Russia monitors Internet to dampen ethnic violence (Reuters)
Russian authorities for the first time blocked nationalists from using a popular Internet blog to organise anti-migrant demonstrations, one of the leaders of a nationalist group told Reuters on Wednesday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL0671273620070607
Google's the worst, says privacy group (AP)
Google's privacy practices are the worst among the internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy".
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414177563.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/10/Google-hostile-to-privacy_1.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060900840.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_PRIVACY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-09-22-11-35
Google - Now you see it, now you don't
The party has been spoiled for some armchair tourists using Google's Street View - the all-seeing search giant has begun removing "objectionable" images at the request of users.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414180933.html
Digital signatures get Web standards nod
A standards group has completed work on digital signature technology designed to ensure data authenticity between interacting Web servers.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6189527.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-6189527.html
us: 3rd Circuit Overturns Lifetime Computer Ban
Issuing a stern rebuke to a trial judge for imposing too harsh a sentence on a man who confessed to receiving child pornography, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the facts of the man's case did not justify a lifetime ban on using computers and accessing the Internet.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1181293538203
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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Cyber warming: PCs produce same CO2 emissions as airlines
British Ministers act to counter health risk from dumped computers and Wi-Fi technology.
British Ministers will this week embark on a campaign to curb "cyber-warming" from computers and information technology equipment that now does as much damage to the climate as aircraft emissions. Meanwhile, the Health Protection Agency is to start measuring levels of radiation from Wi-Fi systems in response to mounting concerns. The two initiatives will mark the biggest official attempt to address some of the environmental consequences of the extraordinarily rapid spread of IT into almost every aspect of daily life. Up to eight million new computers are sold in Britain every year, along with 1.8 million Wi-Fi terminals in the past 18 months. ... New research shows that computers generate an estimated 35 million tons of the gas each year - the equivalent of one million typical flights to and from the UK. And Gartner, the international information technology research company, estimates that globally the IT industry accounts for around 2 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions -
much the same as aviation.
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2640428.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6738547.stm
itu: Meeting of High-Level Experts on Competitive Platforms for the Delivery of Digital Content
The International Telecommunication Union and the European Broadcasting Union will jointly organize a Meeting of High-Level Experts on “Competitive Platforms for the Delivery of Digital Content” to identify global trends and to address the new technological and policy challenges in the digital content delivery environment.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Meetting+Agenda+Meeting+Of+HighLevel+Experts+On+Competitive+Platforms+For+The+Delivery+Of+Digital+Content+.aspx
us: Experts testify in Congress on behalf of internet gambling industry
House of Cards Supporters of a regulated internet gambling environment testified before Congress yesterday, offering evidence that many of the alleged social ills associated with the industry are already being adequately addressed in jurisdictions that offer regulated gaming environments.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/09/frank_gambling_legislation/
us: Online Gambling Is Illegal (news release)
If you’ve ever thought about visiting a cyber casino, here’s something you should know: it’s illegal to gamble online in the United States. “You can go to Vegas. You can go to Atlantic City. You can go to a racetrack. You can go to those places and gamble legally. But don’t do it online. It’s against the law,” says Leslie Bryant, head of our Cyber Crime Fraud unit at FBI Headquarters.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june07/gambling060607.htm
Brighter Days for Online Betting?
Signs that the U.S. may reconsider its 2006 online gambling ban offer European operators hope for reentry into the lucrative U.S. market
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070605_413352.htm
uk: British PM's website goes international
The new Arabic version of the British prime minister's website is the start of an expansion into other languages aimed at attracting a wider international audience, a spokesperson said on Sunday.
http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2883&iArticleId=5017099
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Anti-spam laws in Singapore to take effect next week
Singapore's Spam Control Act will take effect next week as the city-state seeks to control unsolicited advertising, the government said Friday.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/09/1181089361250.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Wireless energy promise powers up
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/08/1181089277018.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2631620.ece
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1901424.ece
If the net is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well?
Fed up with newspaper woe? Bored to distraction by dirges about digital demise? Then - like a dose of salts - try some quite exceptionally cheery statistics for a change: global newspaper sales up 2.3 per cent last year (and 9.48 per cent in the past five years), ad revenues up 3.7 per cent and 15.7 per cent over the same two spans. If this is doom and gloom, give me another helping... But hang on (you say): circulation figures like these, as diligently collated by the World Association of Newspapers, always look on the bright side because China (up 15.5 per cent since 2002) and India (up 53.6 per cent) skew everything. The depression in Europe and America is palpable. Except that it's not. In fact, European paid-for daily titles sold 0.74 per cent more copies last year than the year before.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2099281,00.html
Video: Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
Inventor of the world wide web argues why the Semantic Web is better than APIs for data access
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39287452,00.htm
nz: Porn-again Christians turn to net-support software
New Zealand churches are targeting internet pornography with new software that allows porn addicts to electronically monitor and support each other.
http://stuff.co.nz/4088582a6530.html
us: Bankruptcy Filing May Delay Pornography on Cellphones
Amp’d Mobile’s filing for protection from bankruptcy may delay the introduction of sex-oriented programming on cellphones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/technology/11mobile.html
Over Half of U.S. Households Using Broadband Service
A new consumer research conducted by Leichtman Research Group finds that 53% of all US households now subscribe to a broadband high-speed Internet service at home. Broadband services now account for about 72% of total home Internet subscriptions as compared to 60% last year. his report has also noted that income still plays a major role in broadband adoption... Leichtman Research Group forecasts that the total number of broadband subscribers will increase by over 40 million over the next five years.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/over_half_households_use_broadband_service/
The end of analog for U.S. TV nears
At midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, the rabbit ears and the rooftop antennas that still guide television signals into nearly one of every five U.S. homes will be rendered useless - unless they are tethered to a new device.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/07/business/digital.php
Hello Kitty dons new pink laptop to woo working women (AP)
Japan's cutest cat in glittering crystal decorates NEC Corp.'s new pink laptop in the Japanese electronics maker's latest effort to woo working women.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6082889
Bowie wins web award
David Bowie – and a website that explains why Canada has less gravity – have triumphed at the internet's equivalent of the Oscars
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1893753.ece
YouTube's Chen: Better Content Needed (AP)
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TAIWAN_YOUTUBE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-09-05-04-45
uk: Cathedral to demand Sony apology
The Church of England will ask Sony to apologise over the use of Manchester Cathedral in a violent game.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6739575.stm
Church of England: Sony game is 'sick' (AP)
The Church of England accused Sony on Saturday of using an English cathedral as the backdrop to a violent computer game and said it should be withdrawn from shop shelves.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2007-06-10-church-england-sony_N.htm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHURCH_OF_ENGLAND_SONY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-06-09-07-18-47
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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ph: Laptop for children tries to break digital divide
In an effort to further narrow the gap of the digital divide, major tech companies have been developing ways to bring down the cost of computers and Internet access particularly in third world countries. Another way of getting rid of the divide is to bring computers that are solely developed for schoolchildren.
http://manilatimes.net/national/2007/june/11/yehey/techtimes/20070611tech1.html
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FILE SHARING
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us: TorrentSpy ordered to start tracking visitors
A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday in the Central District of California in Los Angeles orders TorrentSpy to create logs detailing users' activities on the site. The ruling could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit. The judge, Jacqueline Chooljian, however, granted a stay of the order on Friday to allow TorrentSpy to file an appeal.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6189866.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Google and Salesforce.com: Webbing together
As the largest search engine on the web, Google mostly helps consumers look for information. Less understood is its role, as the largest online advertising agency, in helping small businesses to market themselves. Those same small businesses also need software to keep track of sales leads, which they increasingly choose to buy from firms such as Salesforce.com that deliver it as a service through the web browser, just as Google delivers search results. It therefore “came naturally”, says Marc Benioff, Salesforce's boss, for the two companies to team up.
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9304225
us: Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
A company the government once tried to break up has been repeatedly defended by the Bush administration against charges of anticompetitive conduct.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/06/10/frontpage/msft11.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?hp
Taking storage to the next dimension
Computing: After years of development, holographic data-storage systems are finally ready to go on sale
http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249350
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Home truths about telecoms
Technology and society: Anthropologists investigate the use of communications technology and reach some surprising conclusions
SUCH is the social significance of mobile phones that when it comes to evaluating their use and planning new products and services, mobile operators and handset-makers cannot rely on the technology-driven, engineering mindset that has traditionally dominated the telecoms industry. Most famously, industry leaders expected people to embrace videotelephony, which flopped, but failed to anticipate the success of text-messaging. So they are turning to social scientists, and in particular to anthropologists, the better to understand how telephones are used.
http://economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=894408&story_id=9249302
Telstra ultimatum on fibre
TELSTRA chief Sol Trujillo has given the Government a month to decide who will build Australia's high-speed broadband network.
http://australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21868192-16123,00.html
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MOBILE
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India: Will RFID Tags Click?
Though the country has been slow to adopt the radio tracking technology, Indian businesses and the government are eager start
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2007/gb20070531_589653.htm
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VoIP
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VoIP market evolves in 2007
And while it seems that every year is billed as VoIP's, Infonetics is quick to point out that IP PBX sales are increasing rapidly as TDM sales enjoy a small increase that will lead to an inevitable plummet.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/06/08/224630/voip-market-evolves-in-2007.htm
Vodafone says VoIP is 'expensive' and 'unsafe'
Vodafone is telling customers that VoIP services are insecure - even as Sky News is reporting that VoIP calls threaten our war on terror because such calls can't be intercepted.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/voip_continues/
VoIP War Rages On
After a solid week of speculation, the fate of Avaya is now somewhat clear. The world was aware that the company was in play, and the world, as it is wont to do, could not help but speculate about what might happen to the company that began as Ma Bell and lived as a part of Lucent Technologies before being cast off on its own to fend for itself.
http://www.crn.com/networking/199902039
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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us: Pop-up porn case to get new trial
A new trial has been ordered in a case that became an internet cause celebre. It involves substitute teacher Julie Amero who faced a 40-year jail sentence for allegedly letting school children view pornography on a class computer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6729905.stm
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/57740.html
http://out-law.com/page-8125
Teacher's porn case highlights problem with Windows
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12728/1023/
nz: Child pornography user heads to Vietnam
An internet child pornography user is heading for Vietnam after being given permission to end his prison release conditions early. Garth Llewellyn Boyte, 42, will take up a position as group operations manager for a hotel chain based in Ho Chi Minh City.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/070607/3/lhr.html
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