[APPLe list] general internet news - 20 November

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

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Study Finds Teenagers' Internet Socializing Isn't Such a Bad Thing
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/20internet.html

Internet-savvy Britons lead digital league
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/396486f4-b66f-11dd-89dd-0000779fd18c.html

us: Wife's iPhone plea as hubby emails raunchy pictures to lover
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/19/1226770499391.html

High-street shopping losing appeal in plugged-in Asia
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4AJ1E220081120

Europeans becoming "connect-aholics"
http://in.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=93940

Global broadband hits 400 million users
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2230846/global-broadband-hits-400

Newspapers will survive by changing, says Murdoch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/18/rupertmurdoch-pressandpublishing

Australian electronic waste tax ruled out by Environment Minister Peter Garrett
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24676339-15306,00.html

How Much Does Spam Cost You? Google Will Calculate [IDG]
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154196/.html

Answers Trickle Out as Spammer Networks Remain Compromised
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.html

Cybercrime as destructive as credit crisis: experts
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4AI6K620081119

Black Monday fear for malware spike
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4765907a28.html

Broadband Explosion in China And India To Fuel Bots, Spam
http://darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100876

Obama administration to inherit tough cybersecurity challenges
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120918

Film industry sues iiNet over BitTorrent downloads
http://computerworld.com.au/article/268184/

Fears over Australia's £55m plan to censor the internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/australia-internet-filter-censorship

OpenNet Initiative: Australia’s content filtering "frightening"
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/267938/

Microsoft stays open to collaborative search deal with Yahoo
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/technology/yahoo.php

Yahoo back on takeover alert as Yang quits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/19/microsoft-yahoo-mergers

Total merger of TUANZ and InternetNZ unlikely, says chair
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D0B9C52DA81E0E11CC2575040007644B

Mobile messaging grows globally
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10101482-94.html


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INTERNET USE
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Study Finds Teenagers' Internet Socializing Isn't Such a Bad Thing
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation.
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/20internet.html

Internet-savvy Britons lead digital league
Britons emerge as a nation of gadget-savvy internet junkies – spending more time than the rest of Europe browsing the internet, social networking and playing video games – in new research by the communications regulator.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/396486f4-b66f-11dd-89dd-0000779fd18c.html

us: Wife's iPhone plea as hubby emails raunchy pictures to lover
A US woman has discovered her husband using his iPhone to send raunchy pictures of his genitals to a lover, which he tried to explain was caused by an Apple bug.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/19/1226770499391.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/11/19/1226770499391.html

Taming Korea's Wild Wild Web by Katharine H.S. Moon, professor in the Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, and an Asia Society associate fellow.
In a society where over 97% of households have high-speed broadband access, the Internet has the power to make or break the careers of South Korean politicians and entertainers and to publicize the private lives of common individuals. Live Web-casts of political rallies and street protests, like those this summer against U.S. beef imports, are common. And “netizens” are vigilant in their monitoring of politicians and the press.
http://www.feer.com/politics/2008/november/Taming-Koreas-Wild-Wild-Web

High-street shopping losing appeal in plugged-in Asia
The Internet is replacing the high street as the shopping destination of choice in the Asia Pacific, with a new survey showing a majority of Internet users prefer to go online to buy everything from electronics to holidays.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4AJ1E220081120

Europeans becoming "connect-aholics"
According to a new survey conducted for the chipmaker AMD by YouGov, 77 percent of Europeans say they couldn't live without the internet.
http://in.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=93940

Global broadband hits 400 million users
An analysis of the market for global broadband has found that the total number of subscribers has reached 400 million.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2230846/global-broadband-hits-400

Murdoch attacks newspaper doomsayers
Rupert Murdoch tore into the "doom and gloomers" predicting the demise of newspapers yesterday, backing the industry to hit new heights this century, but admitted this involved "moving beyond dead trees".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/murdoch-attacks-newspaper-doomsayers-1023214.html

Newspapers will survive by changing, says Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch has dismissed suggestions that the internet will kill off newspapers, saying that industry doomsayers predicting their death were "misguided cynics". Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which owns titles including the Sun and Times in the UK and the Wall Street Journal in the US, said that while other industries were embracing the web too many journalists took a perverse pleasure in mulling over the death of newspapers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/18/rupertmurdoch-pressandpublishing

Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
Over the last two years, some of San Diego's city's darkest secrets have been dragged into the light -- city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/media/18voice.html

France takes lead in digital library
France has never been shy about promoting its culture, so few were surprised that Paris took a close interest in a new European digital library designed to showcase the Continent's history, literature, arts and science. But when the new site, called Europeana, begins life Thursday, more than half of its two million items come from just one of the 27 countries in the European Union: France.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/business/digital.php
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/worldbusiness/20digital.html

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Australian electronic waste tax ruled out by Environment Minister Peter Garrett
Consumers won't be taxed for recycling electronic goods such as computers, TVs and mobile phones. Instead the federal Government will look at developing policy to encourage consumers to dispose electronic waste in a proper manner.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24676339-15306,00.html

Garrett taxed by dumped computers
Australia is at risk of falling behind OECD computer recycling standards after federal environment minister Peter Garrett refused to mandate a national e-waste policy.
http://computerworld.com.au/article/267986/
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/267986/

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SPAM
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How Much Does Spam Cost You? Google Will Calculate [IDG]
How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator Wednesday to help you add it up.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154196/.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/How_much_does_spam_cost_you_Google_will_calculate_1.html
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120872

Hosting firm takedown bags 500,000 bots
The shutdown last week of a US-based Web hosting company crippled more than 500,000 bots, or compromised computers, which no longer are able to receive commands from criminals, a security researcher said Tuesday.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/267909/
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=107308

Answers Trickle Out as Spammer Networks Remain Compromised
At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern time last Tuesday, the volume of junk e-mail arriving at inboxes around the world suddenly plummeted by about 65 percent. Confronted with information that one Silicon Valley computer firm was hosting organizations that controlled the distribution of much of the world's spam, Internet service providers pulled the plug and McColo Corp., the hosting firm, went dark.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.html

Spam drop could boost Trojan attacks
After rogue ISP McColo was taken offline global spam was estimated to have dropped from 50 to 80 percent, but spammers are starting to reconstitute botnets elsewhere
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=107159
http://www.pcworld.com/article/153991/.html
http://computerworld.com.au/article/267662/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Spam_drop_could_boost_Trojan_attacks_1.html

Dodgy ISP McColo briefly comes online, updates botnet [IDG]
An ISP associated with online crime and child pornography briefly came back online over the weekend before being cut off again, according to security vendors.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120538
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111708-dodgy-isp-briefly-comes-online.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/153999/.html

Hyarchis busted in ACMA spam crackdown
Premium SMS provider Hyarchis Company is the latest to feature on a growing hitlist of firms caught by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for alleged breaches of the Spam Act.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=89360
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/89360,hyarchis-busted-in-acma-spam-crackdown.aspx
http://www.crn.com.au/News/89360,hyarchis-busted-in-acma-spam-crackdown.aspx

ACMA issues formal warning to Hyarchis Company Ltd. for alleged breaches of the Spam Act [news release]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued a formal warning to Hyarchis Company Limited for alleged breaches of the Spam Act 2003. The alleged breaches were in relation to the sending of commercial electronic messages by SMS, without the consent of the recipient.
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311536

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Ads seek to bolster distribution of laptops for Third World children
After a rocky beginning, the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child thinks that an advertising campaign will give a lift to its effort to place low-cost laptops in the hands of children in developing nations.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/17/technology/laptop.php

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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Cybercrime as destructive as credit crisis: experts
Cybercrime is likely to wreak as much havoc as the credit crisis in the coming years if international regulation is not improved, some of the world's top crime experts said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE4AI6K620081119
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-36589120081119
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4AI6K620081119

Black Monday fear for malware spike
Security researchers have deemed November 24 "black Monday" following predictions it will herald this year's peak in the spread of information-stealing malware.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/11/18/1226770427165.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/18/1226770427165.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4765907a28.html

November 24 Deemed Black Monday
A group of researchers is warning that the most dangerous day to be online this year will be next Monday, Nov. 24 -- just in time for the online holiday shopping season. But other researchers argue that singling out one day as the most treacherous could be dangerous.
http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100322

Broadband Explosion in China And India To Fuel Bots, Spam
Botnet operators have begun to quietly expand their recruiting efforts to China and India, as broadband adoption begins to take off in these countries.
http://darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100876

Obama administration to inherit tough cybersecurity challenges
As President Bush prepares to leave office, the task of upgrading the security of federal information systems to deal with new cyberthreats continues to be very much a work in progress.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120918

Microsoft to offer free security
In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7737520.stm

UK identities sold for £80 online
Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for just £80, according to an online safety group.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7732569.stm

au: Academic urges internet contract caution
A Gold Coast academic says people should be vigilant about internet contracts.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/17/2421527.htm

US 'cyber-bullying' case begins
Initial jury selection has begun in the trial of a Missouri woman alleged to have used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later killed herself. Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a boy on the website to befriend Megan Meier, 13, who hanged herself after the "boy" broke off the virtual relationship.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7736078.stm

U.S. woman posed as teen online, teased girl: attorney
A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday in a trial that is being closely watched by the burgeoning social networking industry.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4AJ14O20081120

Vietnam police bust porn Web site and arrest 15
Vietnamese police have arrested at least 15 people for operating a popular pornographic Web site that allowed people to upload and download home-made sex photos and videos, state media reported on Thursday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE4AJ0YT20081120

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PRIVACY
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us: A New Voice in Online Privacy - Group Wants Tighter Rules for Collecting, Using Consumer Data
A group of privacy scholars, lawyers and corporate officials are launching an advocacy group today designed to help shape standards around how companies collect, store and use consumer data for business and advertising.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111601624.html

Internet Expert: Online privacy has gone too far
Legal scholar and technology expert Orin S. Kerr '97 spoke on an important and long-standing Fourth Amendment issue: search and seizure protection in the age of the Internet. Kerr is currently a Professor at George Washington University School of Law. The Harvard Federalist Society sponsored the event.
http://www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2008/11/20/News/Internet.Expert.Online.Privacy.Has.Gone.Too.Far-3554284.shtml

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Film industry sues iiNet over BitTorrent downloads
The leading film studios and Channel 7 have taken legal action against iiNet claiming the ISP is complicit in the infringement over their copyrighted material.
http://computerworld.com.au/article/268184/
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/268184/

Studios sue iiNet over video piracy
iiNet was today dragged into the federal court as major film studios filed a case against the ISP for allegedly letting its users download pirated movies and television series.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Studios-sue-iiNet-over-video-piracy/0,130061791,339293425,00.htm

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CENSORSHIP
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German lawmaker apologises for blocking Wikipedia
A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologised on Tuesday for overreacting.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-36569520081118

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Fears over Australia's £55m plan to censor the internet
Won't somebody think of the children? This mantra is being used with great effect by the Australian government to increase its control over what Australians see, watch and do - all, ostensibly, in the name of protecting the nation's youth. And a scheme that amounts to censorship is coming closer: the government has said that it wants to start live trials of ISP-level content filtering before Christmas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/australia-internet-filter-censorship

OpenNet Initiative: Australia’s content filtering "frightening"
The principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has labelled the federal government’s proposed mandatory Internet filtering scheme “frightening” and typical of non-democratic regimes.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/267938/
http://computerworld.com.au/article/267938/
http://www.cio.com.au/article/267938/

au: ACS creates task force, UNSW to hold forum on Internet filtering
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and UNSW are assembling e-security and ISP filtering experts to examine the merits of the government’s proposed Internet content filtering scheme.
http://computerworld.com.au/article/267818/
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/267818/

Conroy's Web
The Labor Party's "Plan for Cyber Safety" is much like the itsy bitsy spider trying to climb the water spout. It popped out on a sunny day five days prior to the Federal election, got washed away with the first drops of public criticism, and crawled back into its hole to regroup. Once the rain had cleared, it attempted the climb again.
http://newmatilda.com/2008/11/20/conroys-web

au: New task force to examine ISP level content filtering
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has formed a new e-security task force to look into the Federal government’s controversial ISP filtering scheme.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=89256

Why internet filtering is bad for business
As reported in SmartCompany last week the Federal Government is proceeding with trials of internet filters that will restrict Australian access to the world wide web.
http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Blog/Paul-Wallbank/20081117-Why-internet-filtering-is-bad-for-business.html

Government internet filters are 'stone age'
INTERNET filtering will be catastrophic for local business and send broadband back to the Stone Age, according to one Coffs Coast IT consultant.
http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/story/2008/11/18/government-internet-filters-are-stone-age/

Your Turn: Censor this!
... A recent article on the SMH website finally riled me up enough to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard as the case may be). The story I am referring to is the Federal Government's planned introduction of an Australia-wide internet filter and the fact that they are misleading the public and ignoring all opposition to it by both experts and the community.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/screenplay/archives/020602.html
http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives/011072.html

Your Turn: Nanny state
... There are legitimate concerns amongst the tech community regarding the Australian Federal Government's plans to introduce mandatory internet filtering. These concerns include limitations to free speech, censorship of legal content, degraded internet speeds, and false blocking of legitimate websites whilst letting through illegal sites. The ISP-level filters pose a massive technological and financial burden to ISPs and the government, but the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to pass this legislation with the backing of lobby groups such as the Australian Family Association and the Australian Christian Lobby, and Senators Nick Xenophon and Steven Fielding.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/screenplay/archives/020597.html
http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives/011071.html

ZDNet.com.au readers slam content filtering
In last Friday's Week in Review newsletter, we asked readers to respond with an email indicating what they thought about the government's plan to filter internet content at the ISP level. The response was overwhelming, and as of November 19, 2008, the results stand at:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/ZDNet-com-au-readers-slam-content-filtering/0,130061791,339293387,00.htm

us: Broadband Mapping Bill, Containing Child Internet Protection Amendments, Now In Effect
On October 10, President Bush signed into law the "Broadband Data Improvement Act," designed to improve broadband data collection and promote the deployment of affordable broadband services. The Act imposes additional broadband fact-gathering and reporting obligations on the FCC as well as on the Census Bureau, the GAO, and the SBA, and establishes a Commerce Department grant program to develop statewide initiatives to identify barriers to broadband adoption. The Act also includes provisions of the "Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act" that, in part, create a new public awareness campaign on Internet use by children.
http://mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=69958

us: Church anti-internet porn resource in high demand
Christian charity CARE’s new resource to help churches in their work to support internet pornography users is already generating huge interest despite not being on sale yet.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.antiinternet.porn.resource.in.high.demand/21930.htm

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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ca: CRTC to rule on Internet 'traffic shaping'
The battle between Bell Canada and a consortium of independent Internet service providers over how online traffic is allowed to flow will come to a head Thursday when the country's telecom regulator releases a decision which could have lasting implications on how millions of Canadians access the Web.
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081119.wgtbell1119/GIStory/

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Microsoft stays open to collaborative search deal with Yahoo
Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said Wednesday that the company was still interested in some sort of Internet search deal with Yahoo.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/technology/yahoo.php

Yahoo back on takeover alert as Yang quits
Microsoft could be poised to make a fresh bid for its internet rival Yahoo, after Yahoo's chief executive, Jerry Yang, announced his intention of stepping down from the struggling web giant.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/19/microsoft-yahoo-mergers

Now comes the hard part as Yahoo wrestles with a question of direction
... But even before its new boss is selected, Yahoo has an even more fundamental decision to make, say analysts and other Internet watchers. Does it want to remain an independent company, trying to expand in a range of businesses while it combats Google in the crucial arena of Web search? Or should it finally listen to the devotees of deal-making and sell some or all of itself to another Internet player, most likely Microsoft?
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/19/technology/companies/19yahoo.html
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/technology/19yahoo.php

Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down
Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said he was stepping down.
http://nytimes.com/2008/11/18/technology/companies/18yahoo.html
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/technology/18yahoo.php

Yang to step down as Yahoo chief
After months of mounting pressure Yahoo confirmed today that chief executive Jerry Yang will be stepping down – as soon as the company can find a successor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/18/yahoo-yahoo

Jerry Yang to quit Yahoo CEO job
Yahoo said Monday evening that Jerry Yang, its chief executive, would step down from that role after the company finds a replacement.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/business/yang.php

Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo boss
Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, is to stand down as the internet portal's chief executive officer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7734717.stm

Yahoo Founder, CEO Yang Steps Down
Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang will step down, the company announced last night, as the once-highflying Internet portal struggles to steady itself in the turbulent environment for Web media.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111702957.html

Yang To Step Down As Yahoo! CEO
It's over. The battle by Jerry Yang to reinvigorate the company he co-founded at the outset of the Web era is through.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/11/17/yang-steps-down-tech-internet-cx_bc_1117yang.html

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Spanish regulator in talks with EU about Internet access
The Spanish telecommunications regulator said Tuesday that it was in talks with the European Commission over access to the former state monopoly's new high-speed broadband network.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/technology/telecom.php

Children watching 'illicit' content on online TV
Children are increasingly watching "illicit" content as more Britons are "time shifting" and creating their own TV schedule. A YouGov poll suggests the success of online television services like Sky Plus and BBC iPlayer has changed people's viewing habits. Catch-up TV, also known as time shifting, has become an important part of digital Britain, the poll of 1,162 consumers' viewing habits shows.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/3475146/Children-watching-illicit-content-on-online-TV.html

Total merger of TUANZ and InternetNZ unlikely, says chair
TUANZ chairman Chris O’Connell concedes that plans for closer collaboration between TUANZ and InternetNZ are in sympathy with his views as “one of the internet generation”, but the move is not specifically an initiative of his, he says.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D0B9C52DA81E0E11CC2575040007644B

Aussie ISPs have content ambitions
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Aussie-ISPs-have-content-ambitions/0,130061791,339293380,00.htm

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Mobile messaging grows globally
Worldwide mobile messaging grew nearly 10 percent in the third quarter compared to the second quarter of the year, fueled by new trends in the messaging market, according to VeriSign, which provides Internet infrastructure services and delivers messages on behalf of carriers and content providers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10101482-94.html

Mobile Messaging Usage Continues to Grow Globally, VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media Reports [news release]
Thanks to new avenues of growth for mobile messaging, VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced today another record-breaking quarter for the technology, based on the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by VeriSign's Messaging and Mobile Media division.
https://press.verisign.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=AFC0FF0DB5C560D3&version=live&prid=452892&releasejsp=custom_97

Ofcom says Irish the heaviest users of mobile phones
Residents in the Republic of Ireland spent the most time on their mobile phones and sent the most text messages per head in the world in 2007, according to a report which examines changes in the communications industry.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE4AJ01L20081120

China Mobile seeking stakes in other operators [IDG]
The global financial crisis has brought about one unexpected benefit for China Mobile, the chance to buy stakes on the cheap in foreign mobile network operators.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111808-china-mobile-seeking-stakes-in.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154071/.html

India's mobile phone demand to continue growing [IDG]
India's mobile phone demand is forecast to continue growing next year, despite the global economic slowdown, according to research firm iSuppli.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111808-indias-mobile-phone-demand-to.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154070/.html

Intel, Alvarion Take WiMAX Kit to Africa
WiMAX company Alvarion on Monday said it will market a pre-packaged “kit” that allows African carriers or non-governmental organizations to quickly and inexpensively set up small high-speed networks.
http://redherring.com/home/25504


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