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Google Tries Tighter Aim for Web Ads
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27google.html
Rift delays official release of study on safety of cellphones
http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/business/mobile30.php
Gartner Says Cloud Computing Will Be As Influential As E-business [news release]
http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=707508
Search ads trigger trademark lawsuit from rival
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9979121-7.html
FBI ready to demand detailed logs of Britons' internet and travel habits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/29/privacy.internet
Dutch court rules against law that allowed file downloading
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1262747976
eBay backs off controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9104438
After Bill: Microsoft after Gates
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11614315
Microsoft: The meaning of Bill Gates: As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11622119
Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond the Gates Legacy
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html
End of an era: Bill Gates steps down at Microsoft
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4225521.ece
Internet phone calls getting popular in European homes [news release]
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1049
Landlines? One quarter of Europeans go without
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080628-landlines-one-quarter-of-europeans-go-without.html
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INTERNET USE
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Google Tries Tighter Aim for Web Ads
Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at Web users.
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27google.html
us: Top 100's Ad-Spend Growth Grinds to Halt: Internet Advertising Surges
The Top 100 U.S. advertisers last year increased ad spending by just 1.7%, while measured media spending rose a negligible 0.3% for major marketers -- the most sluggish growth since the 2001 recession. And while estimated spending in unmeasured disciplines -- largely marketing services such as promotion and direct marketing -- did better, it still increased only 3.6%, well below the typical growth seen in recent years.
http://adage.com/article.php?article_id=127793
Besieged US newspaper journalists face final deadline
In newsrooms across America scores of writers and editors are being laid off as publishers reel from the impact of the internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/29/digitalmedia.pressandpublishing
China orders phone, Internet moratorium [AP]
The government has ordered China's fast-growing phone companies to stop adding new customers in August so they can better focus on ensuring service for the Beijing Olympics, company employees said Thursday.
http://news.smh.com.au/technology/china-orders-phone-internet-moratorium-20080626-2xl1.html
http://news.theage.com.au/technology/china-orders-phone-internet-moratorium-20080626-2xl1.html
CNNIC Releases the Survey Report on Online Shopping in China 2008
On June 24, 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released, free of charge, the full text of the Survey Report on Online Shopping in China 2008. According to the survey data of the CNNIC, among four municipalities and 15 cities at sub-provincial level, the amount of online shopping in the first half of 2008 reached RMB 16.2 billion yuan.
http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2008/06/26/5201.htm
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Rift delays official release of study on safety of cellphones
For 10 years, scientists have been waiting for the outcome of a global examination of the habits of thousands of brain cancer patients to explore whether there are links between cellphone use and brain tumors.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/business/mobile30.php
Gartner Says Cloud Computing Will Be As Influential As E-business [news release]
Cloud computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner maintains that the very confusion and contradiction that surrounds the term "cloud computing" signifies its potential to change the status quo in the IT market.
http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=707508
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SPAM
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Spam fighters lay down gauntlet
New guidelines for how internet service providers should combat spam have been published. The advice, from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) recommends ISPs use separate servers for received and forwarded e-mails. It also recommends ISPs block the port - known as port 25 - through which spam travels.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7477899.stm
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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uk: Poorest families may receive free laptops to close digital divide
Ministers are considering giving free computers to the million poorest families in England to end the digital divide.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/28/children.socialexclusion
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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Search ads trigger trademark lawsuit from rival
In a case that spotlights the growing importance of search engines to commerce, NameSafe has sued a competitor, LifeLock, for trademark infringement involving ads placed next to search results.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9979121-7.html
au: Police warn of internet travel scam [AAP]
POLICE have issued a warning about an online scam promoting cheap airline tickets.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,23931333-5009000,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/27/1214472751232.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/27/1214472751232.html
Sydney rental hopefuls warned of internet scam
New South Wales Minister for Fair Trading Linda Burney is warning Sydneysiders to be on the alert for phoney landlords and real estate agents.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/29/2289010.htm
au: Deakin University on cyber terror case
DEAKIN University researchers will develop software to deal with attacks on government wireless networks by cyber terrorists and hackers.
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/06/26/15434_news.html
EasyJet warns 'several websites' to stop selling its flights
EasyJet has confirmed that Expedia is not the only online travel firm to have felt the airline’s wrath – it has also fired off letters to several other UK websites warning them to stop selling its flights.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/easyjet_travel_sites_warned/
http://out-law.com/page-9213
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PRIVACY
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FBI ready to demand detailed logs of Britons' internet and travel habits
The EU is close to finalising an agreement with the US that would allow the FBI to see the internet browsing habits and credit card histories of UK citizens.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/29/privacy.internet
A Company Computer and Questions About E-Mail Privacy
A lawsuit involves an unsettled area of the law, where changes in technology create tension between expectations of personal privacy and companies’ rights to monitor equipment
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27mail.html
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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Dutch court rules against law that allowed file downloading
A court in the Netherlands has ruled against an interpretation of local copyright law that allowed for downloading of copyrighted materials.
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1262747976
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1262747976
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CENSORSHIP
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UAE Media censorship policy lacks consistency
Skype, Orkut, Twitter, Flickr and the Pirate Bay. This is not simply a list of some of the most popular dot-com sites on the internet; it is also a list of blocked websites within the United Arab Emirates. When a web surfer here visits such a site an apology comes on to the screen explaining that the site has been “blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE”.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080628/OPINION/680395467/-1/NEWS
Human flesh search engines: Chinese vigilantes that hunt victims on the web
She looks like any other disgruntled young person. Arms tightly crossed, mouth twisted in contempt, she could be letting off steam about parents, school, or boyfriends.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4213681.ece
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Boy, 12, had terrorist murder videos on mobile
Beheading footage was found on the mobile phone of a child after he send clips to classmates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/26/ukcrime.uksecurity
au: 13yos caught up in rugby league cyber-bullying
The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is investigating explosive claims of cyber-bullying within its junior ranks.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080626/21/17g7e.html
au: White-collar sex crims
TASMANIANS charged with online child-exploitation offences are usually white-collar men with good jobs who are held in high esteem by society, police say.
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23940869-3462,00.html
Battling the online bullies
Cyber-bullying used to involve sending threatening texts or e-mails, but the class of 2008 are finding social networks to be a fertile, and occasionally dangerous breeding ground, as Ian Hardy found out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7477008.stm
Austrian node offers e-learning courses on safe web 2.0 use
Saferinternet.at supports teachers with online further education courses and a new teachers' handbook: The Austrian node Saferinternet.at is delivering e-learning courses for teachers this summer, as part of a school focus on web 2.0 safety issues.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0608/e_learning.htm
Teens & ICT: risks and opportunities (TIRO) - new research by Belgian universities
Is your teenager a forager, tribal blogger, ex-time blogster or Net babbler? Should you be worried if you have a free rider of the Chat, a club member, a player mercenary or a DOFUS fanatic? New research carried out by TIRO gives a typology of teenagers and the risks and opportunities they might face in their use of the Internet.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0608/tiro_project.htm
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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au: Watchdog bid to hear eBay clients
eBay's angry customers get the chance tomorrow to air their grievances with the company's plan to make them use a single payment system.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/28/1214677822326.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/28/1214677822326.html
PayPal policy delayed again
eBay has delayed its July 15 deadline to impose a new payment system until a review by the competition watchdog is completed.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23926666-16123,00.html
eBay backs off controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia
EBay Inc. has, for the moment, backed off a plan that would force sellers in Australia to only use PayPal, which eBay owns, as their online payment method.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9104438
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1605388210
nz: Better protection promised for online bank users [NZPA]
Better protection for users of internet banking services is expected under revisions to the banking industry's Code of Banking Practice.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10519176
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/better-protection-seen-internet-banking-users-32620
nz: Better protection for internet bankers
Internet banking customers are better protected as of on Monday.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1881417
nz: New internet banking code limits liability for fraud
An internet banking code released today limits the circumstances under which customers can be held liable for online fraud losses, but stops short of providing a strings-free guarantee that banks must reimburse customers.
http://stuff.co.nz/nelsonmail/4601408a6420.html
InternetNZ - Banking industry takes on board Code of Practice concerns [news release]
The New Zealand banking industry has revised its Code of Banking Practice following an in-depth
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2008/bankingcode
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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After Bill: Microsoft after Gates
Microsoft knows what it wants to do when Bill Gates leaves—but the road ahead will not be easy
“Does Microsoft still have a big, hairy audacious goal?” Not everybody would presume to ask Bill Gates a question like that. But Mr Gates was this week due to remove himself from the firm’s day-to-day business, to become its non-executive chairman, and Tim O’Reilly, a noted internet guru, felt emboldened to commit lèse majesté. Putting “a computer on every desk and in every home” had been the original mission of Microsoft, which Mr Gates founded more than 30 years ago. But now the job is pretty much done, at least in the West, and Microsoft is the world’s largest software company. What is its mission now, Mr O’Reilly recently asked at a technological shindig, called “All Things Digital”—other than just to sell as much software as it can?
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11614315
Microsoft: The meaning of Bill Gates: As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated
When Bill Gates helped to found Microsoft 33 years ago there was a company rule that no employees should work for a boss who wrote worse computer code than they did. Just five years later, with Microsoft choking on its own growth, Mr Gates hired a business manager, Steve Ballmer, who had cut his teeth at Procter & Gamble, which sells soap. The founder had chucked his coding rule out of the window.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11622119
Bill Gates logs off today
In a corner office on Microsoft's leafy, low-rise campus in suburban Seattle, a bespectacled, slightly portly middle-aged man has been packing up his belongings. Bill Gates logs off today after 33 years in day-to-day control of the world's biggest software company.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/27/microsoft.microsoft1
Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond the Gates Legacy
Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world’s richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He will still be Microsoft’s chairman and largest shareholder, but Friday is his last day as a full-time worker at the software giant, marking the unofficial end of his career as a business leader.
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html
End of an era: Bill Gates steps down at Microsoft
Almost 30 years after setting up a small IT business with his childhood friend Paul Allen, Bill Gates is stepping down as the chairman of the world's biggest software company.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4225521.ece
As Gates Steps Away, Let Us Ponder His Legacy
Microsoft experienced a ritual yesterday that is common to offices across America: a valued employee's last day. Co-workers paused to gather around their departing colleague, speeches were made and perhaps some cake was consumed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700421.html
Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air
MICROSOFT Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years. Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware — is there anything Windows doesn’t try to do?
http://nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29digi.html
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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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EU acts to cut mobile phone costs
The European Commission plans to cut the cost of mobile phone calls by reducing the fees operators charge each other for using their networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7475965.stm
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VoIP
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Internet phone calls getting popular in European homes [news release]
An EU-wide survey of 27,000 households has revealed the emergence of new consumption patterns in telecoms services in Europe. Technological progress and competition have brought more choice to European consumers; 24% of households have given up their fixed telephone in favour of mobile phones while 22% of them are using their computer from home to make phone calls over the Internet.
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1049
Landlines? One quarter of Europeans go without
A new study from the EU says Europeans are joining Americans in ditching traditional landline telephone service for mobile phones and VoIP. Looks like the incumbent telcos just aren't safe anywhere.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080628-landlines-one-quarter-of-europeans-go-without.html
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Child porn conviction for upskirt teacher [AAP]
A FORMER Sydney school teacher who filmed up the skirts of schoolgirls with a hidden camera has been convicted of possessing and producing child pornography.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23925179-5005361,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23925179-12377,00.html
au: Outrage at light kid-porn sentence
THE first man sentenced as part of Australia's largest online child pornography sting will be free in 12 months despite being previously jailed for child sex offences, raising fresh concerns about lenient child porn sentences.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23929477-601,00.html
uk: Man Jailed For Britain's Worst Child Porn
A paedophile has been jailed indefinitely for possessing the worst child porn collection ever found in Britain.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1320297,00.html?&lid=NEWS_TAB_MAN_JAILED_FOR_BRITAINS_WORST_CHILD_PORN
Spain: wide net cast against child pornography
Insafe node PROTEGELES' tips contributed to one of the largest police operations in Spain against child abuse images on the Internet with the arrests of 55 people and the seizing of 179 hard drives, 19 laptops, 17 computers and 2,500 external storage devices.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/0608/wide_net_cast.htm
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