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Broadband Growth and Policies in OECD Countries
http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,3343,en_2649_34223_40931201_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://213.253.134.43/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9308021E.PDF (ebook download)
Bruised S.Korean government takes on "infodemics"
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-34799920080803
Life without Web virtually impossible for New Zealanders
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4642068a28.html
Six degrees separate people with PCs
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24123151-5013404,00.html
Microsoft sees end of Windows era
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7540282.stm
Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111539
Web Filtering Moves to the Cloud
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/web-filtering-moves-to-the-cloud/
Australian privacy advocates say Google's gone too far
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24129794-5013404,00.html
nz: Privacy talks pave way for Google's Street View in NZ
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4642693a28.html
nz: Internet giant upsets privacy groups
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10524966
Google accused on privacy views
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7536549.stm
Russian Security Service to keep an eye on the Internet
http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/07/31/310211
Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed
http://nytimes.com/2008/08/01/sports/olympics/01censor.html
China lifts internet firewall in time for Olympics
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4441127.ece
Grand Theft Auto withdrawn in Thailand after copycat killing
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4457144.ece
nz: Become net savvy, parents told
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1976696
nz: Expert: Why kids don't tell on cyber-bullies
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10524874
nz: Naming abusers complex issue
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/15824/naming-abusers-complex-issue
nz: Online safety
http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editorial/15999/online-safety
Australian net censorship to cost users
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24128728-15306,00.html
Filtered Internet to inflate access costs, slow speeds
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1597671662
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Broadband Growth and Policies in OECD Countries
Broadband plays a critical role in the workings of the economy and society. It connects consumers, businesses, and governments and facilitates social interaction. Hence, broadband policies are now a vital instrument to ensure the competitiveness of OECD countries and to address pressing societal concerns. This report examines broadband developments and policies, and highlights challenges such as connecting users to fibre-based networks or coverage of rural areas. It also outlines emerging issues that may need policy attention as we move to next-generation networks. The findings are also relevant to emerging and developing economies designing broadband strategies.
http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,3343,en_2649_34223_40931201_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://213.253.134.43/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9308021E.PDF (ebook download)
Determinants of Behavioral Intentions in The Mobile Internet Services Market by Pavlos A. Vlachos & Adam Vrechopoulos [Journal of Services Marketing]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the theoretical and empirical meaningfulness of a composite model of behavioral intentions in a pure mobile internet services context.This paper starts by investigating the influence of seven service quality determinants on overall service quality perceptions, employing a qualitative research design. Next, these determinants are embedded in a holistic nomological framework depicting the complex interrelationships between prominent service evaluation constructs and behavioral intentions.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1180802
Predicting Web Page Status by Pant, Gautam and Srinivasan, Padmini
Abstract: The World Wide Web has become a key intermediary between producers and consumers of information. Web's linkage structure has been exploited by contemporary search engines to decrease the search cost for consumers while usually also rewarding the producers of higher status Web pages. In addition to influencing visibility and accessibility, in-links, as marks of recognition, accord status to a Web page. In this paper we show how Web page status may be predicted at least in part by page location and topic specificity.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1186962
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INTERNET USE
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uk: Only broadband will do for monks with an internet habit
Choose to be a monk and you accept that your life will be a spartan existence dominated by prayer, chastity and reflective solitude, far from the hustle and bustle of the modern world. But such a traditional perception of monastic life is being challenged by a community of Catholic monks who live in a century-old abbey on Caldey Island, off Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Sick of being hindered by the limitations of their ancient dial-up internet connection, the tech-savvy brothers have installed a rapid wireless broadband receiver inside the abbey tower.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/only-broadband-will-do-for-monks-with-an-internet-habit-882621.html
UK: broadband suppliers blame slowdown on housing crisis
Britain's broadband boom is stuttering as consumers grapple with rising price and the crumbling housing market. Four of the UK's big six providers yesterday announced that the past three months saw demand for high-speed internet access down on the previous quarter and down on last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/01/internetphonesbroadband.internet
Bruised S.Korean government takes on "infodemics"
South Korea's unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world's most wired society. ... Now the government is working on new rules to rein in the excesses of its netizens and bring some control to the information -- and disinformation -- that bombards the nation's computer screens.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-34799920080803
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKSEO7244220080803
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/04/2323139.htm
Life without Web virtually impossible for New Zealanders
Studies have revealed our love-hate relationship with the Internet, with most unable to imagine life without it - except for the 16 per cent who have never ventured online. The New Zealand World Internet Project report issued by AUT University has unveiled the first real insight in to the culture of Kiwis' Internet use.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4642068a28.html
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4641838a6479.html
InternetNZ encouraged by broadband subscriber growth [news release]
InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) is encouraged by a Statistics New Zealand survey that shows the number of broadband subscribers has increased 10.7 percent to 891,000.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2008/ispsurvey
Nearly two million subscribers online in NZ
The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show 1.5 million subscribers are now hooked up to the internet and most have broadband.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10524903
Increase in broadband users pleasing - InternetNZ
The rising numbers of broadband fast internet users is encouraging, although large numbers of New Zealanders still rely on "last century" dial-up internet, says InternetNZ.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/15982/increase-broadband-users-pleasing-internetnz
The Google Killer engine has arrived ... er, no it hasn't
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. We saw two examples of this last week. The first came when a new search engine - Cuil (www.cuil.com) - was unveiled. The launch was an old-style PR operation. Some influential bloggers and mainstream reporters had been briefed in advance, and whispers were circulating in cyberspace that this would be Something Big. Cuil would be the 'Google Killer' everyone had been waiting for.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/03/google
Study revives six degrees theory
A US study of instant messaging suggests the theory that it takes only six steps to link everyone may be right - though seven seems more accurate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7539329.stm
Six degrees separate people with PCs
A study into electronic communication records has given credence to the theory that any two people on the planet have only "six degrees of separation" between them - though researchers suggest the actual number may be closer to seven.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24123151-5013404,00.html
au: AARNet hikes high-speed net links
Researchers and academics in Australia have been given a ten-fold bandwidth boost thanks to a network upgrade by Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet). The improvements will see users' 1Gbps link increased to 10Gbps.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24124325-15306,00.html
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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au: AFP to use MySpace, Facebook to find missing persons
The Australian Federal Police will use online social networking sites to try to reduce the number of missing persons in the country.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/04/2323861.htm
Computer games move into guerrilla marketing
Two weeks ago, an e-mail landed in the inbox of Ben Stiller, the Hollywood actor. With the release of Tropic Thunder, an upcoming action comedy, would he allow his image to be used in a computer game to be distributed on Facebook?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4454170.ece
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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au: Substitution of fixed-line by mobile services is now emerging, but prospects for convergence of fixed and mobile services low in the short-term, says ACMA [news release]
The substitution of mobile services for fixed line is established and growing in Australia, according to research released today by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. However the prospects for convergence of fixed-line and mobile services into a single seamless service - apparent in some overseas markets - are low in the short term.
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311281
Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7540282.stm
Midori musings: Thoughts on a "post-Windows" OS
The big excitement in Microsoftland this week has been further news of Midori. Midori is claimed to be Microsoft's "post-Windows" operating system—a new platform for the future. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents describing the company's plans for the new OS, and it says that Midori will be a commercial derivative of the Singularity project. Say hello to a cloud-computing-ready .NET OS.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-midori-musings-thoughts-on-a-post-windows-os.html
Cloud Computing, Microsoft's Midori, and the End of Windows
Cloud computing, which offloads applications from local PC installations to the Internet or company networks, stands poised to free business from many uncomfortable tethers. For one thing, those local PC installations, and the operating systems they require, can be a royal pain to manage and update. Not to mention the potential for data loss with local storage - sure, you can create good backup policies and train users to store files on network drives, but you're still going to run into situations where a drive blows and someone loses a critical document.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/larkin_on_the_web/149373/cloud_computing_microsofts_midori_and_the_end_of_windows.html
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Taiwan helps open 41 digital centers in APEC initiative
Taiwan will have helped establish 41 digital opportunity centers in seven developing nations by the end of this year under an APEC initiative to bridge the digital divide, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2008/08/03/2003419259
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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F.C.C. Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage
The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.
http://nytimes.com/2008/08/02/technology/02fcc.html
Australian online movie fans face scrutiny
Internet users who download illegal copies of the latest movies and television shows could get warning letters in the mail. The film production industry is pressuring Australian internet providers to start sending "we know what you're doing"-type letters to customers who are tracked downloading copyright content, warning them they face disconnection or even legal action if they continue.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/03/1217701901151.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/03/1217701901151.html
EFF urges judge to dismiss MySpace case
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is opposing the prosecution of a Missouri mom who allegedly created a fake MySpace account to harass a teenage neighbor, saying the prosecutors' misuse of a federal law that targets computer fraud could turn millions of Americans into criminals.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10006165-93.html
Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher
Scammers have duped hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars each using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, reports said today. A security expert warned that more will follow.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111539
Beijing Games hit by Internet ticket scam
Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKPEK25562820080804
No compensation for ticket victims
Beijing Olympic organisers have said they can do nothing to compensate people who bought tickets from websites that have turned out to be fakes. The Australian Olympic Committee also said it was powerless to provide replacement tickets.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/04/1217701946454.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/04/1217701946454.html
nz: Sniffing out copyright thieves
Some argue that online copyright stifles creative freedom. Others believe that copyright is an impossible concept in an online world. And then there are those that claim they are losing millions, if not billions, of dollars annually to internet pirates.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4642976a28.html
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PRIVACY
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Web Filtering Moves to the Cloud
For those of you spending your workdays posting videos of the cat to YouTube or trading messages with friends on Facebook, you’d better start cultivating another pastime. Web filtering software is moving to the cloud — that all-knowing, pervasive, sometimes unreliable cluster of computers in the digital ether — and it’s going to watch your every move online and tattle to your boss.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/web-filtering-moves-to-the-cloud/
Australian privacy advocates say Google's gone too far
Google is back in the privacy firing line over its latest internet mapping blitz, which will make Australian streets some of the most scrutinised in the world.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24129794-5013404,00.html
nz: Privacy talks pave way for Google's Street View in NZ
Google will launch a New Zealand edition of its controversial Street View application within the next few months after agreeing to protect the identity of people filmed in public places, following talks with the privacy commissioner.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4642693a28.html
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4642693a27483.html
http://businessday.co.nz/industries/telco_it/4642668
nz: Internet giant upsets privacy groups
Privacy groups are keeping a close eye on internet giant Google as it prepares to publish images of thousands of Kiwi homes on its Street View website.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10524966
Google accused on privacy views
Google has been accused of "hypocrisy" over its stance on personal privacy. In court documents defending a lawsuit brought against its Street View mapping tool it has asserted that "complete privacy doesn't exist."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7536549.stm
US lawmakers Demand Info on Web Tracking Practices [AP]
A congressional committee wants the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries and Web surfing habits.
http://nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Web-Tracking.html
Google StreetView: Privacy doesn't exist
Google has been accused of hypocrisy after the search engine defended its Street View tool by saying "complete privacy doesn't exist."
http://www.itworld.com/security/54021/google-streetview-privacy-doesnt-exist
US Congress wants privacy answers from Google, MS, AOL
"Committee on Energy and Commerce" and "rampage" don't often appear in the same sentence, but the House committee is certainly on a tear when it comes to behavioral advertising. Not content with firing off a bipartisan list of sharp questions to ISPs who installed NeduAd traffic analysis hardware, the Committee on Friday expanded its nastygram list to include "33 leading Internet and broadband companies" including Google, Microsoft, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast. Legislation on the issue could be coming.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-congress-wants-privacy-answers-from-google-ms-aol.html
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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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F.C.C. Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage
The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.
http://nytimes.com/2008/08/02/technology/02fcc.html
uk: Illegal filesharing: Government hits back at BPI over last-minute letter
A hardline letter sent by the BPI at the 11th hour threatened to undermine a deal to tackle illegal filesharing, prompting the government to express its displeasure of the music industry body in a terse response to record label executives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/31/digitalmedia.downloads
IETF tackling P2P data traffic
Previously, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has refrained from standardising peer-to-peer (P2P) applications used for filesharing, TV streaming, and other applications. Now the working group is tackling ways to make data traffic between P2P users more effective. At the Dublin developers' meeting there were opponents of an application layer traffic optimisation (ALTO) protocol who could not be won over. However, Jon Peterson, an IETF Area Director for Real-time Applications and Infrastructure, warned that the problem should not be put off. He underscored this by pointing to the interest of P2P companies like BitTorrent.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/113590
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CENSORSHIP
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Russian Security Service to keep an eye on the Internet
Russia’s presidential apparatus, the government, and the Federal Security Service will create mass media and internet monitoring systems. The project is estimated at 100m rubles ($4.3mln). Some experts think the system will help fight extremism, others fear some officials will use it in their own interests.
http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/07/31/310211
Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed
The Chinese authorities appear to have lifted some of the restrictions that blocked Web sites for journalists working at the Olympic Village although other politically sensitive sites, including those on Tibet, remained inaccessible on Friday morning.
http://nytimes.com/2008/08/01/sports/olympics/01censor.html
China lifts ban on Tiananmen sites
Websites on sensitive subjects such as the bloody crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were accessible in the Chinese capital yesterday as the authorities lifted more internet restrictions in order to meet their Olympic Games commitments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/03/china.humanrights
IOC denies deal on internet curbs
Olympic officials have denied agreeing to curbs on internet access for foreign journalists covering the Beijing Games. Reporters found a number of politically sensitive websites blocked earlier this week, and some senior Olympic officials said they had been aware of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7538434.stm
IOC convinces China to unblock net
The International Olympic Committee bowed to world media outrage yesterday and forced China to begin unblocking the internet for the Olympic Games.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24115540-601,00.html
Chinese Government relaxes Olympic internet censorship [AAP]
The Chinese appear to have relaxed censorship of the internet for Olympic journalists as human rights groups demand better access.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,27313,24112127-5014197,00.html
China lifts internet firewall in time for Olympics
China has opened crevices in the Great Firewall that blocks access to many internet sites, allowing the public to see some quarters of cyberspace that it has long blocked.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4441127.ece
China lifts more internet curbs
China unblocks more websites in a bid to end a row over internet access for Olympic journalists, a week before the Games open.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7536583.stm
Chinese netizens rail against Great Firewall
The current fad in China for push-ups is not inspired by the approach of the Olympic Games; nor is it part of a campaign to improve physical fitness. In a country that employs a vast bureaucracy to monitor all types of internet activity and where posting a comment critical of the authorities can land you in re-education camp, people have to choose their words very carefully.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/01/1217097503184.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/01/1217097503184.html
Inside the Great Firewall of China
With 253 million people online, China now has the most internet users of any country. Beijing employs a vast bureaucracy of censors and a phalanx of technically advanced filters to police how its citizens use the internet.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/07/31/1217097481138.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/07/31/1217097481138.html
Sudan Authorities Block Youtube [news release]
On 29 July 2008, ANHRI denounced the government's decision to block the YouTube website ( http://www.youtube.com ). Since 22 July, Internet users in Sudan have been unable to access the site, instead receiving an error message stating that the site was blocked by the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808040076.html
uk: Birmingham Council faces legal threat over internet filtering
Birmingham City Council could be facing legal action after it installed an internet filtering system that breaks religious discrimination rules.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223151/birmingham-council-faces-legal-filtering
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/news/2223151/birmingham-council-faces-legal-filtering
Grand Theft Auto withdrawn in Thailand after copycat killing
One of the largest video game distributors in Asia has halted sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV in Thailand after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4457144.ece
Thailand bans Grand Theft Auto IV
Copies of Grand Theft Auto IV have been pulled in Thailand after a teenager confessed to murdering a taxi driver. The 18-year-old high school student is accused of stabbing the cab driver to death by trying to copy a scene from the game.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7540000/7540623.stm
Thailand halts Grand Theft Auto sales after murder
A Thai video game distributor halted sales of "Grand Theft Auto" on Monday after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the controversial game.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSBKK22888820080804
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKBKK22888820080804
Thai slaying highlights world's struggles with violent games
Games are increasingly being made for adults, but that causes friction around the world as different cultures deal with the new art form. After a GTA-inspired killing in Thailand, we look at a few controversies in gaming around the globe.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-thai-slaying-highlights-worlds-struggles-with-violent-games.html
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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nz: Become net savvy, parents told
With kids becoming increasingly internet savvy, parents are being urged to be more aware of what they are up to. There are concerns about photos taken by young people of themselves, being used as pornography on the net.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1976696
nz: Expert: Why kids don't tell on cyber-bullies
Many young people keep quiet about online bullying for fear they will not be allowed to keep using computers, says a bullying expert.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10524874
nz: Naming abusers complex issue
Naming people charged with child sex offences can pressure them into reoffending, a psychologist specialising in rehabilitating cyber-sex criminals told the Otago Daily Times.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/15824/naming-abusers-complex-issue
nz: Online safety
Arguably, no single innovation has changed the shape of modern life quite as much.
http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editorial/15999/online-safety
Australian net censorship to cost users
Internet users could be forced to subsidise the federal Government's quest to censor the internet, with early estimates indicating the scheme could cost $60 million a year.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24128728-15306,00.html
Filtered Internet to inflate access costs, slow speeds
Broadband costs will rise and access speeds may suffer if the government's national Internet content filtering scheme is mandated, according to network experts.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1597671662
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1597671662
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1597671662
Child porn filters to cut Aussie broadband speeds
The Federal Government is distancing itself from some results in this week’s ISP-level content filtering study, as industry criticism mounts over the test methodology.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=81630
Aussie 'net filtering trial set for failure, say critics
A glowing report on the government's national internet content filtering scheme has again outraged telecommunications providers and privacy advocates who declared the results biased and worthless.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/0432344F475D00E5CC2574980001C123
au: Minister welcomes advances in internet filtering technology [news release]
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today welcomed a report demonstrating advances in internet content filtering technologies.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/minister_welcomes_advances_in_internet_filtering_technology
Australian Study - ISP Level Filters Improved, but Insufficient for P2P
The timing couldn't have been better. A new study coming out of Australia has concluded that content filtering technology has shown significant improvement, but couldn't tell the difference between legal and illegal content over a file-sharing network.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9680/Australian+Study+-+ISP+Level+Filters+Improved,+but+Insufficient+for+P2P/
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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Travellers to US warned of laptop seizure threat [IDG]
Travellers to the United States are being warned that US agents now have the authority to seize and retain their laptops indefinitely, according to a new policy detailed in documents issued by the US Department of Homeland Security.
http://techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsid=102280
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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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WiMAX not ready for prime time, says Forrester
While WiMAX has the potential to deliver mobile broadband services to U.S. companies, its success will depend largely on how well and quickly the Sprint-Clearwire coalition builds out its nationwide network, says a new report from Forrester Research.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080408-wimax.html
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