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Internet censorship, at home or state-run, is a political
hot potato by Seth Finkelstein
http:
//technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2044595,00.h
tml
South Korea blocks foreign porn sites
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1570670.ece
us: Supreme Court to Hear Online Pandering Case
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3668146
Bloggers are not journalists, Lithuanian parliament
http://www.ioltechnology.c
o.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=3754044
au: Gaming, porn rife at work
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/03/26/1174
761375431.html
The impact of the Grokster decision on file sharing
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_
news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1715
nz: Editorial: It's payback time for Telecom
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/st
ory.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431380
nz: Telecom urged to reinvest in broadband
http://tvn
z.co.nz/view/page/488120/1037735
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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A Brave New Geography of the Internet Age? The Determinants
of Telecommunications Growth in Historical Perspective by
Richard Perkins & Eric Neumayer (bond School of
Economics - Department of Geography and Environment)
Abstract: The Internet is often portrayed as a novel,
uniquely disembedded technology, floating free of territory
and traditional place-based constraints. In this paper, we
contribute to a growing body of literature which challenges
such imagery. To do so, we use quantitative techniques to
examine the determinants of spatio-temporal variations in
the Internet and older communication technologies, namely,
mail, the electric telegraph and telephones. Our results
reveal striking similarities in the country-bound factors -
income, education and trade openness - influencing rates of
uptake. We conclude that, contrary to claims of novelty, the
Internet is unfolding unevenly across geographic space
according to conventional territorial and relational
attributes.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=9686
68
Swapping Print: The Impact of Immigration and the Internet
on International Newspaper Trade by Hisham S. Foad (San
Diego State University, Department of Economics)
Abstract: Why is there international trade in newspapers?
Why do even very small countries both import from and export
to large nations? New trade models founded on transport
costs and increasing returns fail to explain the high degree
of bilateral trade in cultural goods like newspapers and
periodicals. I argue that immigration is complementary to
newspaper trade, with small cosmopolitan countries having
the largest trade as a percentage of GDP. These predictions
are empirically confirmed, with a 10% increase in bilateral
immigration inducing a 4.4% increase in newspaper trade
between nations. While increased immigration has lead to
greater trade, this effect is decreasing in internet usage.
The trade-immigration elasticity is 8.5% smaller for
high-internet usage countries, reflecting the fact that
immigrants increasingly get their foreign news fix online.
These results suggest that cultural goods need not be
protected from trade as a country's economic presence on
the
global stage creates a market for its products.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=9711
31
The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online by
Paul Ohm (University of Colorado Law School)
The experts in computer security and Internet law have
failed to deliver us from fear, resulting in overbroad
prohibitions, harms to civil liberties, wasted law
enforcement resources, and misallocated economic investment.
This Article urges policymakers and partisans to stop using
tropes of fear; calls for better empirical work on the
probability of online harm; and proposes an
anti-Precautionary Principle, a presumption against new laws
designed to stop the Superuser.
http://ssrn.com/abstr
act=967372
Network Neutrality by Alfred E. Kahn (AEI-Brookings Joint
Center Working Paper)
Abstract: Much of the advocacy of legislatively-mandated
network neutrality is based on a simple fallacy - namely,
that differing charges to suppliers of content to the
Internet for correspondingly differing speeds of delivery
are inherently discriminatory. They are not; and an attempt
to prohibit them would prevent the Internet's offering a
full range of services, with widely diverging tolerances for
latency. Preservation of the open end-to-end character of
the Internet may well, however, require vigilant prohibition
of vertical squeezes and other unfair methods of competition
and authority of an antitrust agency to compel
interconnections.
http://ssrn.com/abstr
act=973513
Economists' Statement on Network Neutrality Policy
Abstract: Network neutrality is a policy proposal that would
regulate how network providers manage and price the use of
their networks. Congress has introduced several bills on
network neutrality. Proposed legislation generally would
mandate that Internet service providers exercise no control
over the content that flows over their lines and would bar
providers from charging particular services more than others
for preferentially faster access to the Internet. These
proposals must be considered carefully in light of the
underlying economics. Our basic concern is that most
proposals aimed at implementing net neutrality are likely to
do more harm than good.
http://ssrn.com/abstr
act=976889
Regulating for Local Content in the Digital Audiovisual
Environment - A View from Australia by Jason John Bosland
(University of Melbourne - Centre for Media and
Communications Law)
Abstract: This paper explores the future of Australian
content quotas in light of digital television and emergent,
internet-based television services. Part II describes the
current system of broadcasting regulation in Australia,
focusing in particular on the interaction between economic
and cultural goals. Part III considers the challenges to
existing regulation presented by digital television and the
distribution of programming via broadband internet. Finally,
Part IV examines some of the solutions that have been
proposed to achieve adequate levels of local Australian
content in the digital media age, including a consideration
of a possible solution not yet fully explored in the
Australian context: the introduction of a public service
publisher, or a PSP. Also considered is how this and other
policy responses might be limited by Australia's recent
entry into a free-trade agreement with the United States.
http://ssrn.com/abstr
act=969254
The Cybercrime Phenomenon and Latvian Cybercrime Law by Dr.
Edward Lestrade (European Newsletter, Doing Business in
Europe)
Abstract: The term 'Cybercrime' is now widely used to
describe the phenomenon of the wide variety of criminal, or
unauthorised acts which may be committed remotely from the
target area, or country, as a result of internet
technologies. With regard to the foregoing, this article
will present and examine a dominant European international
measure for combating Cybercrime - the European Convention
on Cybercrime ('ECC') - and some EU complementary measures.
Having done that, issues concerning the implementation of
these international measures will be examined from the
perspective of one of the new member states of the European
Union - the Republic of Latvia - so as to comment on the
relative effectiveness of the adopted measures in that
country to limit, deter and punish Cybercrime following the
lead of the ECC and the EU measures.
http://ssrn.com/abstr
act=971182
The Race By Robert Kuttner
By the usual indicators, daily newspapers are in a deepening
downward spiral. ... A far more hopeful picture is emerging
for newspapers. In this scenario the mainstream press,
though late to the party, figures out how to make serious
money from the Internet, uses the Web to enrich traditional
journalistic forms, and retains its professionalism—along
with a readership that is part print, part Web. Newspapers
stay alive as hybrids. The culture and civic mission of
daily print journalism endure. Can that happen? Given the
financial squeeze and the shortsightedness of many
publishers and investors, will dailies be able to navigate
such a transition without sacrificing standards of
journalism? Or will cost-cutting owners so thoroughly gut
the nation’s newsrooms that they collapse the distinction
between the rest of the Internet and everything that makes
newspapers uniquely valuable? Which newspapers are most
likely to survive? And, while we are at it, why does the
survival of
newspapers matter? In an era when the Web explodes the
monopoly of the print newspaper as authoritative assembler
of the day’s news and invites readers to be both aggregators
and originators of content, what remains distinctive about
newspapers?
http://cjr.o
rg/issues/2007/2/Kuttner.asp
Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia by Rebekah L.
Bina
The fourth and latest release in a series of publications on
the impact of media and changes in societal culture in Asia,
this book provides a study of the subnational conflicts
across Asia and the global "War on Terror." The
authors examine the condition of free press, access to
media, and diversity in news reporting to explore how media
is used as a tool to facilitate ideological coalition,
shelter populations, and maintain political stability.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v59/no2/13-Bina.pdf
What open access research can do for Wikipedia by John
Willinsky
Abstract: This study examines the degree to which Wikipedia
entries cite or reference research and scholarship, and
whether that research and scholarship is generally available
to readers. Working on the assumption that where Wikipedia
provides links to research and scholarship that readers can
readily consult, it increases the authority, reliability,
and educational quality of this popular encyclopedia, this
study examines Wikipedia’s use of open access research and
scholarship, that is, peer-reviewed journal articles that
have been made freely available online. This study
demonstrates among a sample of 100 Wikipedia entries, which
included 168 sources or references, only two percent of the
entries provided links to open access research and
scholarship. However, it proved possible to locate, using
Google Scholar and other search engines, relevant examples
of open access work for 60 percent of a sub-set of 20
Wikipedia entries. The results suggest that much more can be
done
to enrich and enhance this encyclopedia’s representation of
the current state of knowledge. To assist in this process,
the study provides a guide to help Wikipedia contributors
locate and utilize open access research and scholarship in
creating and editing encyclopedia entries.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/willinsky/in
dex.html
The potential disruptive impact of Internet 2 based
technologies by C. Pascu, D. Osimo, M. Ulbrich, G. Turlea
and J.C. Burgelman
Abstract: This paper assesses the development of emerging
computing applications that fall under the family of digital
applications and technologies. These applications and
technologies — Internet 2 based technologies for short —
enable new ways of connectivity for networking, interfacing
and producing content. They have the capacity and the force
to disrupt existing social and economic relations and thus
have major impacts on society. Hence, the term ‘e-ruptions’:
emerging e-trends with potential disruptive power. This
paper investigates the socio-economic impact of emerging
e-ruptions, in an attempt to try and contextualise their
implications and relevance for policy formulation.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/pascu/index.html
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CENSORSHIP
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Internet censorship, at home or state-run, is a political
hot potato by Seth Finkelstein
Would you be surprised to hear US civil liberties groups
arguing that internet censorship is cheap, easy, relatively
effective and difficult to circumvent? While in reaction,
the US government claimed that such efforts had an
unacceptable amount of collateral damage? Yet that's what
has been happening for more than a decade in litigation
involving censoring the internet. While these arguments
sometimes descend into a fog of statistics, the overall
implications are important for public policy. In the UK, a
different set of censorship issues has arisen with BT's
Cleanfeed project, intended to block content that is
illegal, as gathered by the Internet Watch Foundation.
http:
//technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2044595,00.h
tml
South Korea blocks foreign porn sites
South Korea said today that it will block foreign porn sites
as it steps up its campaign against adult content on the
internet.
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1570670.ece
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200703/k
t2007032620151011900.htm
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.
asp?parentid=66565
South Korea's Net Porn Problem
Instances of obscene material being posted to major Web
sites has the government and Internet companies joining
hands to fight back: Earlier this month, a porn video clip
was posted and left for six hours on Yahoo Korea's Web site.
Major portals Naver and Daum have also experienced similar
problems in the past.
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content
/mar2007/gb20070328_879359.htm
Beijing threatens jail for mobile porn (AP)
Beijing police are threatening jail and fines for people who
transmit pornography via cellphones after merchants were
caught selling such movies on phone memory chips, a report
said Wednesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/
techpolicy/2007-03-28-beijing-porn-ban_N.htm
Belarusian authorities restrict internet access
On March, 25 a number of Belarusian web-sites ucpb.org,
svaboda.org, charter97.org, belhelcom.org,
belaruspartisan.org, gazetaby.com and livejournal.com
providing independent news and information were unavailable
from 9.00 till 16.00 within the country borders.
http://e-bel
arus.org/news/200703261.html
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Children’s Internet Protection Act: a good Combination of
Internet Access and Protection for Children
In 2000, the United States Congress passed the
Children"s Internet Protection Act (“CIPA”) with the
following objective: to 'assist most schools and libraries
in the US to obtain affordable telecommunications and
Internet accesses provided that certain online protection
measures are followed. The combination cannot not be wiser,
discount internet access and telecommunications to schools
and libraries, specially those serving underpriviledged
areas, in exchange of online protective measures for
children. This program is commonly known as ‘E-rate’ program
and is found in CIPA, section 1711.
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_
news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1719
uk: Schools 'punish' bullying victims
Children should not be expelled from school for fighting
back against bullies, MPs said yesterday. The Commons
Education Select Committee expressed concern that some
victims of bullying were being thrown out for retaliating.
They said pupils should help decide how to punish playground
bullies and called on ministers to tell schools not to
exclude children who have been victims.
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2396013
.ece
uk: School bullies targeting special needs children
MPs will tomorrow (27/3) demand more government action to
combat bullying in schools in the wake of new evidence
highlighting attacks on special needs children and minority
groups. ... There were also claims of an increase in
cyber-bullying, with pupils (including an increasing number
of girls) text-messaging threats and abuse. A survey by
psychologists has revealed 28 per cent of girls and 10 per
cent of boys had been victims of cyber-bullying.
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2393314
.ece
uk: Bullying: calls for national inquiry
A national inquiry into the scale of bullying should be
undertaken by ministers because of fears that the problem is
being downplayed by schools seeking to protect their
reputations, a report demands today. New guidance is also
needed to ensure that victims who dare to fight back are not
suspended or expelled.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/pupilbehaviour/story/0
,,2043694,00.html
uk: Pupils 'should penalise bullies'
Pupils should be able to suggest suitable punishments for
bullies in their school, according to an MPs' report into
bullying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6496725.stm
ca: Cyberbullying on the Rise: Kids Share Fears
Children who bully appear to have found a new platform to
intimidate and taunt their peers and preliminary research
from the University of Toronto indicates that cyber bullying
is becoming more prevalent.
http://news
wise.com/articles/view/528453/
ca: Schoolgirls bullied into stripping online (Reuters)
Bullies are no longer content to taunt their victims in the
playground but are turning to cyberspace, according to
Canadian researchers.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/
reuters/2007/03/28/technology/schoolgirls-bullied-into-strip
ping-online.html
http://aus
tralianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21467319%5e15306%5
e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/i
dUKL2841434120070328
us: Chat rooms and Web sites are an open door for online
predators
This is the third of a five-part series looking at the
dangers that lurk on the Internet, and how parents, school
officials, employers and others deal with the Web's various
hazards:
http://newportdailynews.com/articles/2007/03/28/ne
ws/news1.txt
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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E-mail users want more control of inboxes (Reuters)
Bombarded by spam, e-mail users are eager for tools like a
"report fraud" button that would help weed out
unwanted messages that litter inboxes, according to a survey
by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition released on
Tuesday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN
2635299820070328
Call for blogging code of conduct
The support for a blogger hounded by death threats has
intensified with some high profile web experts calling for a
code of conduct in the blogosphere.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502643.stm
Blog death threats spark debate
Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere
to combat the culture of abuse online. It follows a series
of death threats which have forced her to cancel a public
appearance and suspend her blog.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm
uk: Many net users 'not safety-aware'
Fewer than half of the UK's 29m adult internet users believe
they are responsible for protecting personal information
online, a survey suggests.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6472723.stm
Survey says one in 10 is victim of online fraud (Reuters)
One in 10 Internet users fell victim to online fraud last
year, losing an average of 875 pounds each, according to a
survey on Monday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL
2625108320070327
uk: SOCA: We are tackling e-crime
The Serious Organised Crime Agency has hit back at claims
that it does not have the necessary remit or resources to
tackle e-crime.
http://news.zdnet.
co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286506,00.htm
us: Supreme Court to Hear Online Pandering Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case
involving the overturned conviction of a Florida man for
soliciting or offering online child pornography. The 11th
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law includes protected
free speech and is unconstitutional.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3668146
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?arti
cleid=190956
us: Justices Agree to Revisit Child Pornography Laws
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to undertake its latest
effort to define the permissible boundary between free
speech and the government’s prohibition of child
pornography.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/washington/27scotus.
html
h
ttp://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-porn27mar27,1,798
3878.story
http://seattletimes.nwsource.co
m/html/nationworld/2003636699_webscotusporn26.html
us: MySpace files phishing and spam suit against Sanford
Wallace
News Corporation's interactive media company MySpace said it
has filed a lawsuit against spammer Sanford Wallace in the
US District Court in Los Angeles.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/0
3/27/afx3554633.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-briefs27.6mar27,1,3560821.story
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/myspace_su
es_spamford/
gh: Police Advocate for Laws to Combat Cyber Fraud
The absence of a cyber law in Ghana is frustrating the
efforts of the Vetting Crime Intelligence Analysis, (VCIA)
unit of the Ghana Police Service to fighting computer fraud
and also to prosecute perpetrators of internet fraud.
http:/
/allafrica.com/stories/200703260806.html
Saudi Arabia sets jail penalties for cybercrimes (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it will impose 1-year prison
sentences and fines of 500,000 riyals (68,000 pounds) for
Internet hacking and misuse of mobile telephone cameras,
such as taking unauthorised pictures.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL
2669502020070327
Webcam lets your face be your password
A Canadian company on Wednesday in the US announced a new
camera that doubles as a security system that scans a face
in three dimensions and a Webcam for online video.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/h
ardware/soa/Webcam_lets_your_face_be_your_password/0,130
061702,339274571,00.htm
us: MySpace sues the ‘Spam King’ for $100m
Alleges violations of state, federal laws
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3af660de-dcb2-11db-a21d
-000b5df10621.html
How to crack the problem of internet password security
It's a good bet that if you have 20 online accounts, you
don't have 20 different passwords. In fact, according to a
survey by Kaspersky Lab, most people (51% of us) only have
between one and four passwords for 20 accounts. We are
insecure. But recent developments mean we could be more
secure in the near future.
http:
//technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2044606,00.h
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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uk: Extreme Pornography - BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
discussion
The Government will introduce new measures to deal with
extreme pornography this spring. It is currently illegal to
produce or to distribute images of extreme sexual violence –
but it is not against the law to possess them. The new
Criminal Justice Bill will settle this anomaly and
criminalise the possession of these images. How easy is it
to define what constitutes extreme pornography? What do we
actually know about the connections between looking at
images of sexual violence and committing violent sexual
offences? And, how easy will it be to police the downloading
of images that are frequently accessed via the internet on
sites owned abroad? Jenni talks to Clare McGlynn, Professor
of Law at the University of Durham and Jim Gamble, Chief
Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection
Centre about the proposed changes to the law.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_13_tue
.shtml
Bloggers are not journalists, Lithuanian parliament
Bloggers are not journalists, and therefore do not have the
rights and protections accorded to them, says the Lithuanian
parliament.
http://www.ioltechnology.c
o.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=3754044
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SPAM
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Spamming under the law of Poland
In Poland, some of the main legal aspects of e-commerce are
regulated under the Act of July 18, 2002 on Providing
Services by Electronic Means (the “E-Commerce Act.”) This
Act also contains several provisions addressing the issue of
unsolicited commercial communications, often referred to as
spamming. Spamming under the law of Poland is regarded as an
unfair competition practice.
htt
p://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articl
es&id=D62C5C4A-854C-49AB-80C0-F6C11BB9E441
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Poll contradicts concern over future of newspapers
Newspaper editors are overwhelmingly optimistic about their
businesses, despite uncertainty about future business
models, according to a new global poll of newsroom.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3e18ed06-dcc9-11db-a21d
-000b5df10621.html
au: Gaming, porn rife at work
One in seven Australian office workers has looked at online
porn at work, and even more use office hours for online
gambling, according to security company Websense. Since the
start of last year, Websense has collected data from 52,000
people in Australian organisations using its security
risk-assessment service.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/03/26/1174
761375431.html
Get real. The internet is not fantasy
Our columnist on cruelty, fraud, snooping and rudeness -
online: Kevin Whitrick is dead. He killed himself. That is
real. His last companions were the “insult” chat room
frequenters on Paltalk, some of whom goaded him on,
apparently shouting abuse over microphones or the screen,
saying “F****** do it, get it round your neck, for f***’s
sake do it properly”. In a similar case in Arizona, Brandon
Vedas took poison to jeers of “Eat more!”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article1572434.ece
Active Home Internet Users by Country, February 2007
The number of active Internet home users dipped by 0.13
percent in February in the 10 countries tracked by
Nielsen//NetRatings. Spain (-3.31 percent); the U.S. (-1.50
percent); and Germany (-0.96 percent) accounted for the dip
in the number of active home users. The number of users was
down 426,498 compared to January data.
http://c
lickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625342
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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us: Latinos hurt by digital divide, report says
Twice a week after school, Juan Manuel Reyes-Hernandez
spends time doing his homework and accessing games on a
computer in the library at Parrish Middle School.
http://www.statesmanjournal.co
m/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070328/NEWS/703280341
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FILE SHARING
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Napster lawsuits near resolution
Bertelsmann said Monday that it had settled the last lawsuit
filed by a record company over the German media
conglomerate's role in funding the original Napster
electronic file-swapping service that was once the scourge
of the music industry.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-napster27mar27
,1,3736811.story
The impact of the Grokster decision on file sharing
How will providers of file-sharing software operate after
the United States Supreme Court decision in Grokster? What
is the precedent set in the decision and has the
file-sharing technology been rendered illegal? And what
about Israel?
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_
news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1715
MySpace, Eisner in online video deal
MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corp, has
made its biggest push yet into providing its millions of
members with original video content.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2153e480-dd8e-11db-8d42
-000b5df10621.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Wikipedia braces itself for April Fools' Day
Jenny Kleeman: The online encyclopaedia anyone can edit has
been the target of joke contributions since its launch in
2001, but April Fools' Day has proved an irresistible
opportunity for internet pranksters, as well as normally
trustworthy contributors inspired to let their hair down.
http://www.guard
ian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2044243,00.html
Wikipedia rival takes to the web
Citizendium, a self-proclaimed "citizens'
compendium" of general knowledge, works much like
Wikipedia in that anyone can submit information. This
community encyclopedia, however, requires users to register
with their real names, and its articles are governed by an
editorial board.
http://news.zdnet.
co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39286499,00.htm
Vista shifts 20 million copies
Microsoft claims Windows Vista is off to a fast start,
having sold more than 20 million copies since its 30 January
consumer release. By comparison, in its first two months,
Windows XP sold 17 million copies, Microsoft said.
http://news.zdnet.
co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286485,00.htm
http://aus
tralianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21454079%5E16123%5
E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/03/2
8/ms_vista_shipments_claims/
EU Gives Microsoft More Time to Correct 'Abuses'
European Union antitrust regulators have given Microsoft
more time to prove it is complying with a requirement to
fairly license its server software communications protocols.
Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to charges from
the European Commission, which has said that Microsoft has
yet to fully comply with a condition of its 2004 antitrust
ruling.
http://eco
mmercetimes.com/story/56518.html
Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free
Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday.
The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail
providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not
be the last.
http:
//news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6171111.html
http://n
ews.com.com/2100-1038_3-6171111.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/29/1174761604
346.html
Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders
Yahoo is expected to release software that will allow
third-party developers to write applications using Yahoo
Mail.
http:
//news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6171378.html
Project Failure? Blame Poor Governance
Poor IT governance is one of the key causes of failure in
big business transformation projects, according to the
latest research. A report from analyst house the Butler
Group found IT governance initiatives were usually deployed
only within the IT department, leading to a lack of
co-ordination between the IT-led elements of projects and
the wider management of business transformation
initiatives.
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content
/mar2007/gb20070328_519010.htm
Putting The World's Books On The Web
Two years ago Google, the Internet search firm, began
scanning hundreds of thousands of books and making their
contents available on the Web. Could this signal the end of
libraries as we know them?
http://www.spie
gel.de/international/0,1518,473529,00.html
uk: Google extends UK online ad lead
Google has increased its grip on the UK online ad market,
claiming 43% of the record £2bn spent last year, according
to figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau.
http://
technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2044577,00.html
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nz: Editorial: It's payback time for Telecom
Over the years, Telecom's shareholders were well rewarded as
the company took full advantage of its position as de facto
regulator of the telecommunications industry. They prospered
as Telecom employed formidable lobbying and legal haggling
to preserve its status far beyond any reasonable
expectation. The same could not be said for Telecom's
customers. They fumed as the company's ageing equipment
creaked. Telecom's approach, rational enough in the
circumstances, was to minimise capital expenditure while
maximising its returns to shareholders.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/st
ory.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431380
nz: Telecom urged to reinvest in broadband
Telecom is being urged to upgrade its network with the more
than $2 billion it will get from the sale of its Yellow
Pages Group.
http://tvn
z.co.nz/view/page/488120/1037735
Nokia: "Convergence" on the Future of Mobility
(news release)
"Convergence" isn't just about technologies coming
together. It's about a rapidly-consolidating playing field
where companies "converge" to lead the future of
business mobility.
http://w
ww.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1114793
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachricht
en-2007-03/artikel-7972130.asp
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VoIP
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Small biz loves VoIP
Right now 25 per cent of small businesses are using Voice
over Internet Protocol to make calls. This is expected to
almost double to 48 per cent by this time next year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/smallbiz_voip/
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au: Top school rocked by child porn allegations
One of the oldest private schools in rural Australia, The
Armidale School, has been left reeling by allegations that
one of its senior teachers has been engaged in internet
child pornography.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/27/1174761471
710.html
au: Man charged with grooming US boy
A 51-year-old man has been charged with grooming a teenage
boy in the US for sex after allegedly sending him explicit
photographs and messages over the internet. Child
pornography was found among computers, DVDs, movie reels and
documents siezed from the man's home in Orange, in
central-west NSW, yesterday, police say.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/28/1174761511
633.html
nz: Father jailed for posessing child porn
A 49-year-old Rotorua father has been jailed for four months
for possessing and distributing child pornography.
h
ttp://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=71652
Polish police bust child porn ring (Reuters)
Polish police have detained 33 people in a sting operation
against suspected users and dealers of Internet child
pornography, officials say.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/27/po
land.pornography.reut/
http://ecanadan
ow.com/world/2007/03/27/massive-online-child-pornography-rin
g-uncovered-in-poland/
http://www.ioltechnology.c
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