[APPLe list] general internet news - 27 July

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

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For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/26/technology/companies/26mozilla.html

Monetising social networks: Tweeting all the way to the bank - Can virtual communities make billions of dollars from their millions of connections?
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14098313

The Salacious Story Behind Facebook: What the company doesn't want you to know about its ignominious start
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207953

au: ISPs give clean feed filter a technical green-light
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/312354/

au: Target cyber bullies, not censorship, expert says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/24/2634917.htm

au: How parents can help keep their children safe
http://www.theage.com.au/national/how-parents-can-help-keep-their-children-safe-20090725-dww8.html

nz: Drive to keep kids safe on the Net
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10586587

Legal Tripwires Could Scuttle Pirate Bay Buyout [AP]
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/Legal-Tripwires-Could-Scuttle-Pirate-Bay-Buyout-67694.html

French Anti-Piracy Sanctions Delayed
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i04ac5aa7296d367ceac32033a87c823d

Australians tops in illegal downloads
http://business.theage.com.au/business/australians-tops-in-illegal-downloads-20090724-dw8z.html

Skype singled out as threat to Russia's security
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56N42Z20090724

Internet Plan Targets Three Billion Users in Rural Areas
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/628842/-/u8wvrmz/-/index.html

East Africa finally joins broadband revolution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/23/east-africa-broadband-revolution

Independent commission plans second report on cybersecurity requirements
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090724_5986.php

Advocates Ask Google for Privacy Guarantees in Online Library
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/advocates-ask-google-for-privacy-guarantees-in-online-library/

EFF urges members to pressure Google on books privacy [IDG]
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072309-eff-urges-members-to-pressure.html

us: Experts Debate Information, Privacy
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/07/experts-debate-information-pri.php

How China polices the internet
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e716cfc6-71a1-11de-a821-00144feabdc0.html


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INTERNET USE
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For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky
Boxes lined the cubicles and hallways in the offices of Mozilla on a recent afternoon, and its chief executive, John Lilly, seemed a bit disoriented as he looked for a place to sit. Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser, had just moved from one end of this city to the other, mainly to gain more space for its growing work force.
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/26/technology/companies/26mozilla.html

Virtual worlds for children: Online playgrounds - There is life in virtual reality after all
Remember Second Life, the virtual world that was supposed to become almost as important as the first one? Now populated by no more than 84,000 avatars at a time, it has turned out to be a prime example of how short-lived internet fads can be. Yet if many adults seem to have given up on virtual worlds, those that cater to children and teenagers are thriving. Several have even found a way to make money.
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14098380

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Monetising social networks: Tweeting all the way to the bank - Can virtual communities make billions of dollars from their millions of connections?
Whenever the founders of Twitter, a social-networking service, have been asked about how much revenue they expect to generate from their creation, they have politely deflected the question. So when a hacker recently leaked documents after gaining access to the private e-mail accounts of a Twitter employee and the wife of one of its founders, the blogosphere was abuzz. The haul included a spreadsheet showing revenues reaching $140m by the end of 2010, up from $4.4m this year. Twitter dismissed the document as out of date, but it showed the firm’s owners believe it has the potential to mint serious money.
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14098313

The Salacious Story Behind Facebook: What the company doesn't want you to know about its ignominious start
In The Accidental Billionaires , author Ben Mezrich takes the story of the founding of Facebook —back at Harvard in 2004—and weaves it into a story full of sex, betrayal, and the hunt for the venture capital that currently keeps the site afloat. To write the story, Mezrich spoke with former classmates (and some enemies) of Mark Zuckerberg, the young entreprenuer who founded Facebook five years ago. Unsurprisingly, it's a book that the company and Zuckerberg are staying far away from; they didn't speak to Mezrich, and journalists writing about Facebook are (politely) asked not to broach the topic. Mezrich spoke with NEWSWEEK's Kurt Soller about his new book, why so many of Zuckerberg's former classmates are upset, and about Aaron Sorkin's plans to adapt the book into a movie.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207953

The Father of Social Networking: The next goal? To finally turn the company profitable.
It's the stuff of dotcom legend. Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg and a few friends hack into the university's photo ID database and create a site for students to rate and/or berate their classmates' pictures. Since Facebook's launch in 2004, it's become a cultural phenomenon that's outgrown its Ivy League origins, into middle America and started to expand into countries around the world. NEWSWEEK's Dan Lyons spoke with Zuckerberg about Facebook's rapid growth, how it's reshaped how we think about privacy and whether the site can get too big for its own good.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207897

Facebook at Age Five: five years after its inception, a look at whether it can last another five.
First, a confession from the sometimes-embarrassing world of Web 2.0: when I joined Facebook, it was just another site, one of the many social networks I thought would prepare me, then a high school senior, for college life. It was April 2004, just two months after geeky guys in a Harvard dorm had created the site. For me, joining up was little more than the next thing on my to do list before moving away from home: I used the same profile information I had already logged on Friendster; the picture, me with a white-boy afro, came cropped from my MySpace profile.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/207843

Does Facebook Make Workers Less Productive?
About 77% of employees have Facebook accounts and nearly two-thirds access the site during work hours, according to a new report from Nucleus Research. The survey of 237 randomly-selected office workers found that employees used Facebook at work for an average of 15 minutes per day. That adds up to nearly 1.5% of total lost productivity across the entire employee population.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/technology_at_work/archives/2009/07/does_facebook_m.html

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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Wireless power system shown off
A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm

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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: ISPs give clean feed filter a technical green-light
More than half of the Internet service providers (ISPs) taking part in the Federal Government’s ISP filtering trial have reported minimal speed disruptions or technology problems.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/312354/

au: Target cyber bullies, not censorship, expert says
The Federal Government should focus on stopping cyber bullying instead of pushing ahead with its controversial plan to filter the internet, an internet rights expert says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/24/2634917.htm

'Depression not web killed Chanelle'
When renowned child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg visits the Geelong high school where 14-year-old Chanelle Rae last week became the fourth student this year to kill herself, he will carry a blunt message to parents.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25832122-2702,00.html

Looking for a way to talk about suicide
It is one of Australia's better good news stories, but you probably haven't heard about it: teenage suicide rates have fallen dramatically from 508 in 1997 to an average of 300 a year. But this welcome change is unlikely to be of any comfort to the four grieving families in Geelong (or others elsewhere) now mourning the loss of a child who has taken their own life.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/looking-for-a-way-to-talk-about-suicide-20090724-dw8h.html

au: How parents can help keep their children safe
Victoria's chief child psychiatrist has urged parents to remove computers from children's bedrooms, following the suicides of four Geelong teenagers, one of which had links to cyber bullying.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/how-parents-can-help-keep-their-children-safe-20090725-dww8.html

Teens' view of cyber threats
Imagine if someone hacked into your email account and sent abusive messages to all your friends. Your social circle would disappear overnight. Or what if your most private pictures were posted on the internet for all to see and comment on?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/teens-view-of-cyber-threats-20090725-dww9.html

Spate of teen suicides challenges reporting taboo
There was a time when suicides were not reported by the media. Counter-intuitive in a profession dedicated to disclosure, it was one of the media's great taboos and to some extent still is.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25838641-7582,00.html

nz: Drive to keep kids safe on the Net
Three organisations are teaming up in an effort to help parents protect their children from the dangers of technology. Telecom, police and Net Safe are joining forces to ensure young people are aware of how to stay safe online, and through text messaging. Their pamphlet, Keeping Kiwi Kids Safer in Cyberspace is being distributed to schools.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10586587

nz: Online safety for children promoted
It's hoped parents will make a concerted effort to protect their children from the dangers of technology. Telecom has teamed up with police and Net Safe to produce the Keeping Kiwi Kids Safer in Cyberspace pamphlet.
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/online-safety-children-promoted-2870862

nz: Telecom, police and Net Safe have teamed up to distribute a pamphlet on 'Keeping Kiwi Kids Safe in Cyberspace'
It is hoped parents will make a concerted effort to protect their children from the dangers of technology.
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=103032

nz: Concerns over effectiveness of child porn filtering system
Some internet users – and providers – are concerned about the imminent launch of a filtering system aimed at blocking sites containing child pornography.
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/National/Concerns-over-effectiveness-of-child-porn-filtering-system/tabid/423/articleID/113844/Default.aspx?ArticleID=113844

Initiative taken by three organizations to keep kids safe on Net
With the aim to aid parents protect their children from the dangers of technology, three organizations -Telecom, police and Net Safe - are joining hands together in an initiative called Keeping Kiwi Kids Safer in Cyberspace. Their target would be to make sure that young people are aware of how to stay safe online. It is through text messaging that all schools are receiving their ‘net safety’ notes.
http://topnews.net.nz/content/2304-initiative-taken-three-organizations-keep-kids-safe-net

Kiwi Kids Urged To Keep Safe Online
More than half of kiwi teens say they spend two hours or more a day on the Internet and texting friends* and key organisations are joining forces to ensure they are aware of how to stay safe.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/kiwi-kids-urged-keep-safe-online/5/19103

Telecom issues safe online advice brochure [news release]
Telecom New Zealand, together with Netsafe and the New Zealand Police, have published a pamphlet for parents and caregivers about how to keep children safe online.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/

Teen's death puts spotlight on cyber bullying
The suicide of a 14-year-old girl in southern Victoria last week has pushed the issue of cyber bullying into the spotlight. The child’s mother has blamed the suicide on the Internet. The case, the fourth suicide in six months among students from the same school, has highlighted the severe impact of cyber bullying on young people.
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/312190/
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/07/23/teens-death-puts-spotlight-cyber-bullying
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=A83907ED-1A64-67EA-E43C717DFF3477E4
http://www.cio.com.au/article/312190/
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet/teens-death-puts-spotlight-cyber-bullying-465
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072309-teens-death-puts-spotlight-on.html

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ONLINE TV & MUSIC
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Legal Tripwires Could Scuttle Pirate Bay Buyout [AP]
The would-be buyer of Web site The Pirate Bay backpedaled in a Dutch court Tuesday, saying that it is uncertain whether the purchase will ever be completed. Lawyer Ricardo Dijkstra said Sweden's Global Gaming Factory X would only buy The Pirate Bay if it can turn it into a "legitimate business."
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/Legal-Tripwires-Could-Scuttle-Pirate-Bay-Buyout-67694.html

French Anti-Piracy Sanctions Delayed
The French music business has expressed its disappointment after the National Assembly president's decision to postpone until September the vote on the sanctions side of the Creation and Internet law.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i04ac5aa7296d367ceac32033a87c823d

Australians tops in illegal downloads
The proportion of young Australians illegally downloading music has risen in the past year. But British youngsters are shunning the practice, two surveys show. According to the youth marketing agency Lifelounge, which surveyed 1662 Australian adults aged 18-30, a hefty 34.4 per cent illegally download music. This compares with last year's figure of 30.4 per cent.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/australians-tops-in-illegal-downloads-20090724-dw8z.html
http://business.watoday.com.au/business/australians-tops-in-illegal-downloads-20090724-dw8z.html

BBC Dumps Commercial Internet-TV Plan
British Broadcasting Corp. and two other TV networks ended an ill-fated attempt to establish a commercial Internet TV service in the U.K. Thursday, agreeing to sell the technology behind the scheme to Arqiva Ltd.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124836281964876093.html

Plug pulled on suspected British pirates
Web users suspected of file-sharing are being cut off without warning by ISP Karoo, based in Hull.Karoo, the only ISP in the area, makes customers sign a document promising not to repeat the offence in order to get their service restored. Some customers have had their accounts suspended for more than two years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8166640.stm

British ISP pulls the plug on illegal filesharers
Internet users in Hull risk having their connection cut if they illegally share files, under a controversial "three strikes and out policy" operated by the only internet service provider in the area.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/24/hull-isp-pulls-plug-filesharers

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Skype singled out as threat to Russia's security
Russia's most powerful business lobby moved to clamp down on Skype and its peers this week, telling lawmakers that the Internet phone services are a threat to Russian businesses and to national security.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56N42Z20090724
http://in.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idINTRE56N41I20090724

Final Frontier for Wireless Hard to Break Through
With a vast, unserved population, Africa used to be a no-lose proposition for mobile phone operators looking for new customers. But after a wave of investment, the wireless industry’s final frontier is showing signs of age.
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/27/technology/27iht-telecom27.html

The man who is allergic to Wi-Fi
A club DJ, Steve Miller, has revealed he has been forced into exile by a powerful allergy to Wi-Fi internet waves which leaves him feeling dizzy, sick and disorientated.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5898353/The-man-who-is-allergic-to-Wi-Fi.html

Kenya to register mobile users to cut crime
Kenya will soon require all mobile phone users to register SIM cards in an effort to curb criminal activity such as sending hate messages and making ransom demands, a senior official said on Thursday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-41270420090723

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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Internet Plan Targets Three Billion Users in Rural Areas
An ambitious $650 million undertaking by Internet giant Google and international bank HSBC will see Internet services extended to nearly three billion people in rural areas across the world. ... The project's objective is to extend internet services to users in areas that are not covered by current offerings, such as fibre optic networks and satellites, which are traditionally accessible in urban and peri-urban areas.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/628842/-/u8wvrmz/-/index.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200907230988.html

East Africa finally joins broadband revolution
The jigsaw is finally complete. East Africa shed its tag as the only major inhabited coastline excluded from the global broadband map today when an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to networks in Europe and India went live.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/23/east-africa-broadband-revolution

East Africa gets high-speed web
The first undersea cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa has gone live. The fibre-optic cable, operated by African-owned firm Seacom, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8165077.stm

Internet Flurry As Kenya Goes Live On Seacom Cable
The connection of Kenya and eastern Africa to the rest of the world via the 17,000-km Seacom fibre optic cable on Friday was marked by excitement.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/629306/-/ul2ena/-/index.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/200907250003.html

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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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au: Twitter: the new crime-fighting tool?
Northern Territory police are considering using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to fight crime.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/26/2636471.htm

au: MIFF website hacked amid Chinese film row
Police are investigating attacks on the website of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/26/2636571.htm

Time to advise Europe on security. Call for new Experts to the EU Agency ENISA’s Permanent Stakeholders’ Group [news release]
Do you feel you have the competence to be one of the Experts advising ENISA? The European Network and Information Security Agency, i.e. the EU Agency ENISA, is launching the call for new members to its Permanent Stakeholders’ Group (PSG). The PSG advises the Executive Director in e.g. drawing up a proposal for the Agency’s work programme, and all issues related thereto.
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2009_07_17_psg_call.html

DNS remains vulnerable one year after Kaminsky bug
A year has passed since security researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious flaw in the DNS that makes it possible for hackers to launch cache poisoning attacks, where traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or end user knowing.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072409-kaminsky-bug-one-year-later.html
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/dns-remains-vulnerable-one-year-after-kaminsky-discovered-bug-629
http://www.cio.com/article/498044/DNS_Remains_Vulnerable_One_Year_After_Kaminsky_Bug
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=AD1ABE3B-1A64-6A71-CEBD81EADED3E52D

Independent commission plans second report on cybersecurity requirements
The commission that provided the Obama administration with widely lauded recommendations for cybersecurity policies will develop recommendations for how the government can address possible issues such as privacy protection that could hinder the implementation of a plan to protect federal computer networks, commission members and industry representatives said on Thursday.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090724_5986.php

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PRIVACY
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Advocates Ask Google for Privacy Guarantees in Online Library
Three advocacy groups have asked Google to commit to protect the privacy of readers in its book search service, which is poised for a major expansion under a pending class-action settlement. The groups, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, have asked Google to limit the data it collects about users’ reading habits, to commit to protect reader records by handing them over only in response to subpoenas or court orders, and to put into effect measures giving users control of their data.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/advocates-ask-google-for-privacy-guarantees-in-online-library/

EFF urges members to pressure Google on books privacy [IDG]
Digital liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging its supporters to pressure Google to build significant privacy protections into its Book Search service, with the EFF suggesting the service gives Google access to new personal information.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072309-eff-urges-members-to-pressure.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135857/EFF_urges_members_to_pressure_Google_on_books_privacy
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/312274/

us: Experts Debate Information, Privacy
Center for Democracy and Technology President Leslie Harris and Google public policy chief Alan Davidson on Friday dismissed a recent Technology Policy Institute report that argues there is a trade-off between increasing Internet privacy protections for consumers and the free flow of Web-based goods and services. Harris said "In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy" should be renamed "In Defense of Straw Men." "Privacy and having a robust marketplace online are not inconsistent," she said at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by TPI.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/07/experts-debate-information-pri.php

us: White House Wants Cookie Feedback
NextGov reports that Bev Godwin, director of online resources and interagency development for the White House new media team, asked the public on Friday to weigh in on the decade-old federal policy that does not allow agencies to use persistent cookies on their Web sites. The reason has to do with privacy, but it makes it harder for agencies to create Web services like those in the private sector. The White House wants the public to tell them what they think. White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and Michael Fitzpatrick, associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, provided details on the administration's Open Government blog and the Office of Science and Technology Policy's blog.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/07/white-house-wants-cookie-feedb.php

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CENSORSHIP
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How China polices the internet
On the night of January 29 this year, five peasants were delivered into Jinning detention centre, a dark little facility in the province of Yunnan in south­western China. They were accused of illegal logging, a lucrative sideline for many farmers in this impoverished region.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e716cfc6-71a1-11de-a821-00144feabdc0.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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Canada: We actually want to hear from public on copyright
In 2008, the Canadian government discovered a new "third rail" of politics: copyright reform. Long considered a wonky subject of interest only to legislators and rightsholders, interest in copyright has exploded in recent years, and Canadians showed a keen interest in talking about term length, time shifting, DRM circumvention rules, format shifting, mashups, remixes, the public domain, and the levies that Canadians currently pay on things like blank CD-Rs.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/canada-we-actually-want-to-hear-from-public-on-copyright.ars

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MISCELLANEOUS
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For Some, Move To Windows 7 Will Be Tough
On October 22, Microsoft will finally release a new version of Windows that will be as good as the deeply disappointing Windows Vista should have been when it came out in January 2007. The new edition, called Windows 7, is a big improvement over both Vista and the sturdy, 2001-vintage Windows XP still widely in use. It will give Apple’s long-superior Mac OS X operating system a run for its money (though Apple might maintain its edge with a new version, called Snow Leopard, due in September).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204900904574304283334746634.html

Microsoft’s Revenue Falls 17%; PC Slump Continues
Microsoft has closed out perhaps its most difficult year as a public company in less than stellar fashion. On Thursday, the company significantly missed Wall Street’s fourth-quarter revenue target and reported the first decline in full-year revenue in its 34-year history.
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/24/technology/companies/24soft.html

Microsoft Can’t Evade Downturn’s Tight Grip
Microsoft, the once-swaggering giant of the personal computer industry, has been humbled, both by the recession and by problems of its own making.
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/24/technology/companies/24soft.html

Google faces property ads war
Google is facing the greatest challenge yet to its might in Australia as two of its largest media customers threaten to pull their business in retaliation against the internet company's decision to enter the real estate listings market.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/google-faces-property-ads-war-20090726-dxga.html

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Vodafone continues with cost-cutting drive
Vodafone, the mobile phone operator, expects to be two thirds of the way through its £1 billion cost-cutting drive by the end of its current financial year next March, the company said in a trading statement this morning.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article6725847.ece

China telecoms market to surpass Japan by 2014
China's telecommunications market is on track to generate US$187 billion by 2014, fueled by mobile uptake in its rural areas and 3G, according to Pyramid Research.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62056357,00.htm

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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Australia Post manager helped run child porn ring
An Australia Post worker found to have almost 80,000 child porn files in his home computer was a "core member" of a sophisticated online child pornography ring, a court has heard.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/australia-post-manager-helped-run-child-porn-ring-20090724-dvpx.html

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