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Survey Pegs Cell Phone as Americans' Most Valued Tech Tool
http://
www.technewsworld.com/story/61998.html
Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3511863.ece
Google Report Highlights Spam As Top Security Issue
http://www.informationweek.com/news/sho
wArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902563
Internet wiretapping: Bugging the cloud
http://www.economist.com/printedition/di
splaystory.cfm?story_id=10789393
nz: ‘Akill’ could face extradition, says criminal law
expert
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scr
t/3EDB2EB22058A3FFCC25740400783B04
US Web publisher fights to save comment forums from trade
mark suit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/
plastic_surgery_review_comments/
uk: Tories call for big changes to cybercrime offences
http://out-law.com/page-
8919
Israeli internet providers ordered to block file sharing
website
http://www.ynetnew
s.com/articles/0,7340,L-3515275,00.html
Pentagon bans Google from mapping military bases
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/0
7/google.internet1
http:
//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7282635.stm
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/
tol/news/tech_and_web/article3503624.ece
Face haunts pedophile-busters
http://w
ww.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23338907-2702,00.h
tml
AFP to get new paedophile tracking technology
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2182898.htm
Australian study targets 'toxic' cyber-bullying
http://w
ww.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23347281-5013
404,00.html
au: Govt sticks to guns on internet porn filters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181828.h
tm
au: AFP launches online child porn tracker
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183002.h
tm
NZ Internal Affairs crack child porn ring [AAP]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/st
ory.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10496524
http://stuff.co.nz
/4428364a10.html
NZ gardening group hid porn ring
http://stuff.co.nz/news.
html
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Mobile Access to Data and Information [news release]
62% of Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population
that participates in digital activities away from home or
work
ht
tp://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=300
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INTERNET USE
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CONFERENCE: The Future of the Internet
The internet has caused far-reaching changes and has become
today a critical infrastructure for economy and society.
Todays' 1 billion fixed network users will soon be joined by
3 billion more as mobile devices become more cost effective,
making use of a fully pervasive wireless Internet
infrastructure, anywhere, anytime.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_s
ociety/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3962
http://www.fi-bled.eu/
Survey Pegs Cell Phone as Americans' Most Valued Tech Tool
Cell phones are valued by more Americans than TV or the
Internet, according to a study from the Pew Internet &
American Life Project. The cell phone was regarded as being
"very hard to give up" by just over half of the
respondents, compared to 43 percent who felt the same way
about TV. Last year, respondents most commonly expressed
attachment to their land line phones.
http://
www.technewsworld.com/story/61998.html
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/handheld-devi
ces/61998.html
The battle for Wikipedia's soul
The internet: The popular online encyclopedia, written by
volunteer contributors, has unlimited space. So does it
matter if it includes trivia?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/di
splaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354
Thou shalt not steal sermons from the internet, priests told
Young Catholic priests who download sermons from the
internet to save themselves the trouble of writing their own
have been told that they could be prosecuted for plagiarism.
The warning was issued by a leading Polish priest, and has
been taken up by Catholic newspapers around the world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/thou-shalt-not-stea
l-sermons-from-the-internet-priests-told-793134.html
comScore Releases Top German Web Rankings for January 2008
[news release]
comScore released its January rankings of the largest and
fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in
Germany based on data from the comScore World Metrix
audience measurement service. The month saw increases to
travel, career, real estate and politics sites as
German Internet users reflected on the year past and
prepared for 2008. eBay, with 17.6 million unique visitors,
grabbed the second position among all Web properties,
trailing only Google Sites.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2084
How Flickr developed into a classic Web 2.0 success
According to some market research I read recently, the world
market for digital cameras is predicted to reach 122 million
units by 2010. That seems like an underestimate to me.
Everyone I know has at least one camera, and most cellphones
seem to have one. Some Nokia phones now come with 5
megapixel cameras and Zeiss lenses, enabling their users to
produce images of quite startling quality.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/09/web20.inte
rnet
Email 'a broken business tool' as staff spend hours wading
through inboxes
The deluge of email flooding workers' inboxes every day has
become so overwhelming that it is now a 'broken business
tool' in urgent need of fixing, companies have been warned.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/intern
et
Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users
The internet began as an almost exclusively male preserve.
Now young women, from primary school age upwards, are now
making it their own
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3511863.ece
When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook 'Friend'
When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently
to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend
request. It was from his dad.
http://www.washingtonpost.co
m/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030801034.html
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)
As president of the Walt Disney Company’s children’s
book and magazine publishing unit, Russell Hampton knows a
thing or two about teenagers. Or he thought as much until he
was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Katie, and two friends
to a play last year in Los Angeles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09cell.html
Russia: internet advertising market doubles
The Runet internet advertising market doubled over the
previous year surpassing $400 mln and occupying about 4% of
the total media advertising volume. Market participants
forecast in 2008 the market will grow by 50-70% net of
expenses for promotion, creation and online PR. Business
total expenditure for intern advertising has not been
calculated yet.
http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/03/0
4/290590
Stream expands into regions: broadband internet market hots
up
The Comstar UTS Company has approved the technical,
financial and marketing strategis up to 2011. Infrastructure
development and active promotion of the company’s services
in the regions, first of all the broadband internet under
the Stream brand, are emphasized. Analysts highlight that
competition for the internet in the regions has reached its
peak, so Comstar with its strategies is trying to catch up
with the passing train.
http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/03/0
3/290413
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Sexual harassment is rife online. No wonder women swap
gender
Female gamers are used to putting up with sexist claptrap -
both from the companies that design games and other players.
So a study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University
showing that 70% of them chose to construct male characters
when given the option by online games, should come as no
surprise.
htt
p://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2262449,
00.html
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Cebit goes green to smaller crowds
The biggest European information technology fair went green
this year. The problem was that there were not many people
around to notice.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/03/06/business/cebit.php
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SPAM
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Google says spam is huge corporate headache
Google released a white paper on Thursday about trends in
electronic communications systems at corporations and found,
to no surprise, that spam is a huge problem and getting
worse.
http:
//www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9888233-7.html
Google Report Highlights Spam As Top Security Issue
Having recently acquired messaging security company Postini,
Google now finds itself in the threat-prediction business.
And as is the case with just about every other computer
security company, Google has research to show everyone how
dangerous the online world has become. Thus we come to the
2008 Annual Google Communications Intelligence Report.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/sho
wArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902563
Clinton, Obama campaigns used in spam blasts
Democratic presidential contenders, Sens. Barack Obama and
Hillary Rodham Clinton are being used in spamming campaigns
to dupe people into giving up their personal information and
buy into pharmaceutical and pump-and-dump stock schemes.
h
ttp://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,28914
2,sid14_gci1303907,00.html
Adult Website Operation Settles FTC Charges Unwitting
Consumers Exposed to X-Rated Spam [news release]
An X-rated Web operation that paid affiliates who used
illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites will pay
a $413,000 civil penalty under a settlement reached with the
FTC and the Department of Justice. The settlement also bars
the illegal marketing practices in the future and requires
the operator to monitor its affiliates to ensure that they
are complying with the law.
http://ftc.gov/opa/
2008/03/x.shtm
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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Internet wiretapping: Bugging the cloud
Law enforcement: Governments want to extend wiretapping
rules from phones to the internet, but doing so is hard:
Among the many benefits of the internet's rise over the past
decade has been the advent of free phone calls between its
users—and much cheaper calls even for people who are not
online, since ordinary calls can be partly routed over the
internet. For people who work in foreign countries, have
friends and relatives spread around the world, or simply
have to make a lot of calls, this is great news. But for
law-enforcement organisations who are used to being able to
tap conventional telephone networks, it is causing
increasingly painful headaches. Around the world, the
emergence of voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) telephony
is forcing authorities and communications firms into both
conflict and co-operation.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/di
splaystory.cfm?story_id=10789393
au: Aussie mums fleeced in online scam
Police are hunting a 27-year-old woman who has been ripping
thousands of dollars off mothers and concert lovers for at
least three years in an online scam. They confirmed that the
woman traded under several aliases and used multiple
internet provider addresses in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide
and Brisbane to evade detection.
http://ww
w.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23348425-15306,
00.html
nz: ‘Akill’ could face extradition, says criminal law
expert
Owen Walker, the 18-year-old alleged ring-leader of an
international botnet coding group, could face extradition to
the US if he is accused or convicted of committing an
offence against US law, says barrister Jonathan Krebs, who
is the convener of the NZ Law Society’s Criminal Law
Committee.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scr
t/3EDB2EB22058A3FFCC25740400783B04
us: Busted: online escort ring was a real gem
US authorities have smashed an online escort service that
gave its prostitutes a one to seven diamond-ranking, with a
"seven diamond" woman costing $US5500 ($5921) an
hour. Four organisers and managers of the international ring
were arrested by US authorities and charged with conspiracy
to violate federal prostitution laws, Newsday.com reported.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780030
605.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204
780030605.html
British widow, 65, humiliated by Bebo web page that painted
her as a scarlet woman
A woman aged 65 who became the victim of an online smear
campaign that she says made her “look like a sexual
predator” called yesterday for stricter controls on social
networking websites. ... The case raises fresh issues about
regulation of the internet and the lack of overarching
legislation to deal specifically with online defamation.
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3498888.ece
High Court decision on keyword advertising and trade mark
infringement [Law-Now - reg req'd]
On 20 February 2008, the High Court handed down its decision
in an important trade mark infringement case brought by Mr
Wilson against Yahoo! UK Ltd and its sister company,
Overture Services Ltd (“Yahoo!”). The case, which
concerned an application for summary judgment and/or strike
out, considered whether the use of keywords in sponsored
advertising amounted to trade mark infringement by Yahoo!.
http://www.law-now.com/law-now/2008/adverttrademarkm
ar08.htm
Authorities seize gadgets during patent raid at CeBIT [AP]
Police and customs officials investigating suspected patent
violations seized mobile phones, navigation devices and
other gadgets in raids at a technology fair in Germany, with
many Chinese exhibitors among those searched, authorities
said Thursday.
http:/
/news.smh.com.au/authorities-seize-gadgets-during-patent-rai
d-at-german-tech-fair/20080307-1xo2.html
htt
p://news.theage.com.au/authorities-seize-gadgets-during-pate
nt-raid-at-german-tech-fair/20080307-1xo2.html
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/G/GERMANY_TE
CH_FAIR_RAID
US Web publisher fights to save comment forums from trade
mark suit
A US online publisher is fighting to keep its product review
forums alive in the face of a trade mark lawsuit that seeks
to ban the use of one company's product name. Realself.com
is a site where people who have undergone plastic surgery
review various products and procedures. It has been sued by
Lifestyle Lift, a facelift company which wants to stop the
site using its name in reviews.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/
plastic_surgery_review_comments/
http://out-law.com/page-
8917
uk: Tories call for big changes to cybercrime offences
Civil servants who lose public data could be prosecuted
under proposals announced by the Conservative Party. It's
one of a number of measures touted, as the Tories call for
major changes in how the UK deals with cybercrime and data
protection. The Tories' report - Tackling Cybercrime - calls
for new offences for civil servants or government
contractors who lose confidential data, a new police squad
to go after cybercrims and a minister for cybercrime.
http://out-law.com/page-
8919
How boom in rogue ticket websites fleeces Britons
First it was football supporters desperate for cup final
tickets, then music fans hoping for concert seats. Now touts
are targeting the Beijing Olympics. Jamie Doward reports on
the explosion in online ticket scams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/09
/olympicgames2008.internet
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PRIVACY
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Ad system 'will protect privacy'
Two respected privacy campaigners have praised the user
protection measures of a controversial online advertising
system about to be deployed in the UK. The tools, developed
by US firm Phorm, track users' online surfing habits.
htt
p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7280791.stm
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FILE SHARING
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Israeli internet providers ordered to block file sharing
website
The Haifa District Court two weeks ago ordered the three
largest internet service providers in Israel to block access
to the Israeli file-sharing site httpshare, this following a
petition levied by the 12 largest record companies in
Israel.
http://www.ynetnew
s.com/articles/0,7340,L-3515275,00.html
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CENSORSHIP
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Pentagon bans Google from mapping military bases
The Pentagon has banned Google's mapping teams from making
detailed street-level video maps of US military bases after
images of one camp's internal layout ended up on the
internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/0
7/google.internet1
Pentagon bans Google map-makers
The US defence department has banned the giant internet
search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed
studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery
of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to
security, it said.
http:
//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7282635.stm
Pentagon bans Google from US bases
The Pentagon has banned Google from taking photographs and
video footage of US military bases after images showing
important security features of a base in Texas appeared on
the company's website.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/
tol/news/tech_and_web/article3503624.ece
Pentagon blocks Google from mapping bases [AFP]
The US Defence Department said today it is forbidding Google
from filming and depicting in detail its military bases,
after officials found precise imagery of a Texas base on the
Google Maps website. "We received a report that Google
Maps was collecting imagery and 360 degree views, including
detailed imagery, of a base in Texas," Gary Ross,
spokesman for the US Northern Command, told AFP in
explaining the Pentagon's move.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204
780025570.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/07/1204780025
570.html
Council of Europe Works to Criminalize Political Expression
by Milton Mueller
The Council of Europe is pushing to extend the Cybercrime
Convention to impose criminal sanctions on what it considers
to be unacceptable forms of political or religious
expression. The Cybercrime Convention was originally
negotiated to respond to transnational problems such as
theft of data, breaking into computers, computer-based
financial fraud and the like. But now the Council is engaged
in bulk unsolicited emails to promote the idea that web site
content that is insulting or xenophobic is a cybercrime of
the same order.
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_
archives/2008/3/6/3563421.html
Google pulls map images at Pentagon's request [Reuters]
Google Inc has complied with a request by the Pentagon to
remove some online images from its street-level map service
because they pose a security threat to US military
instillations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183097.h
tm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/i
dUKN0625659220080306
Singapore's Bloggers Scold Government [Reuters]
Singapore's state-controlled media and government have come
under fire from critics and Internet bloggers for failing to
give the public important answers on the escape of a
suspected Islamic militant.
http://www.pcworld.
com/article/id,143175-c,currentevents/article.html
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Face haunts pedophile-busters
It's a face that haunts police around the world. A young
girl, probably now nine, who has grown up from infancy on
film - thousands of pictures and movies shot of her being
molested by an abuser who then shared the images with a
network of like-minded internet pedophiles. As a two-year
Queensland-led investigation culminated last weekend with
the arrest of 22 people in eight countries, the relief and
celebration at busting one of the world's longest-running
and most sophisticated internet pedophile rings was muted by
the knowledge that the girl was still out of reach of
protection.
http://w
ww.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23338907-2702,00.h
tml
http://www.news.com.au
/story/0,23599,23339978-421,00.html
au: Cyber pedophile ring cracked
Hunched over their computers in homes around the world, the
network of pedophiles devoured the horrific images of
children that flashed up on their monitors from their vast
library. Using highly sophisticated double encryption codes
and stringent vetting procedures, the predators remained
confident their evil activities in the cyber world were
completely secure.
http://www
.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23341259-5007191,
00.html
Behind the sting - Stephen Tidwell and John Rouse explain
the operation
Detective Inspector John Rouse FBI executive assistant
director Stephen Tidwell speak about the Operation Achilles
police investigation.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2181361.htm
AFP to get new paedophile tracking technology
The Australian Federal Police are expected to announce the
Child Exploitation Tracking System is finally going to be
available in Australia, after concerns the sophisticated
software was taking too long to be introduced.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2182898.htm
Australian study targets 'toxic' cyber-bullying
The West Australian Government will spend $400,000 on a
world-first five-year study into cyber-bullying, amid
growing concern about the damaging effect on children being
targeted by abusive text messages, emails and degrading
digital photos. Education Minister Mark McGowan said
yesterday that up to 15 per cent of WA students were victims
of "vicious" cyber-bullying, which was generally
anonymous and had potentially dire consequences.
http://w
ww.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23347281-5013
404,00.html
http://ww
w.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23348279-15306,
00.html
http://www.ne
ws.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23348168-2761,00.html
Microsoft helps AFP curb online nasties
Microsoft's Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) will
allow law enforcement agencies in Australia to share and
track information relating to online child exploitation and
abuse with their counterparts all over the world.
http://ww
w.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23334295-15306,
00.html
au: Govt sticks to guns on internet porn filters
Porn on the net is a massive industry, with a very high
request rate across all search engines.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181828.h
tm
au: AFP launches online child porn tracker
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is launching an online
tracking system to help it catch child predators and
paedophiles. The Child Exploitation Tracking System will
allow federal police to share information with law
enforcement agencies throughout the country and the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2183002.h
tm
NZ Internal Affairs crack child porn ring [AAP]
New Zealand authorities have claimed credit for sparking an
international child porn investigation that led to arrests
worldwide. The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said it
triggered the investigation that ultimately led to more than
100 arrests.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/st
ory.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10496524
http://stuff.co.nz
/4428364a10.html
NZ gardening group hid porn ring
Something was peculiar about the gardening news group.
Internet users discussing the seemingly innocuous topics of
plants and motoring were encrypting files so others couldn't
see it. The sheer volume of material on the site was odd.
Their suspicions raised, Internal Affairs inspectors in
Wellington infiltrated the site. Over three months they
uncovered a vast secretive child pornography ring in
Australia, United States, Canada and Europe.
http://stuff.co.nz/news.
html
NZ Children's Commissioner warns paedophiles
The Children's Commissioner says paedophiles feeding their
addiction through the internet will be caught. Internal
Affairs has alerted international authorities to a web-based
pornography ring, resulting in 40 children being rescued and
22 people arrested in Australia, Britain, Germany and
America.
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ttp://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=82562
Using open source to fight porn
... A new Red Hat employee queried an internal e-mail list
as to methods of protecting their children from accessing
pornography, and through the responses I learned a few
things I thought I'd share... Perhaps the first question to
answer is "what is to be protected?" We live in a
media-saturated culture where some of the raciest material
is to be found in all its pixelated glory of some of the
most conservative TV programs (see Fox News Porn). Between
the catalogs, newpaper ads, billboards, etc., there's plenty
of disturbing material to go around. Indeed, when traveling
through the airport with my daughter last year, she had
quite a laugh when she came face-to-face with the image of a
woman barely dressed on the cover of Cosmopolitan. (She
called her "naked-bottom girl" for the rest of the
day.) Deciding where to begin has become difficult indeed.
http:
//www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9888001-7.html
uk: Five-year-olds should be taught about online safety, say
Tories
Children as young as five would be taught about the dangers
of putting their personal details on the internet under
plans drawn up by the Conservatives to tackle cyber-crime.
Issues such as privacy, information security, and the risks
posed by posting photographs online would all be addressed
as part of the compulsory ICT curriculum, which is
introduced at Key Stage 1, the Conservatives said.
http://technology.timesonlin
e.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3496245.ece
uk: The mobile internet kids by Rory Cellan-Jones
I spent a day this week at a school in Tynemouth, on the
coast outside Newcastle, helping pupils at Marden High
School make a film about mobile phones for the BBC's School
Report project. There’ll be more about this on the website
on School Report day on March 13th, but one thing struck me
immediately. Children are at the cutting edge of the mobile
internet revolution and both teachers and the phone industry
can learn from them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology
/2008/03/the_mobile_internet_kids.html
Ofcom update on TV advertising of HFSS products to children
In February 2007, after conducting a public consultation,
Ofcom launched a package of rules to restrict the television
advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (“HFSS”) food
and drink products to children. These restrictions were due
to be implemented in three phases: Phase 1 (ban on
advertising HFSS products in programmes aimed at 4 – 9
year olds) commenced in April 2007; Phase 2 (extension of
ban to programmes aimed at 9 – 15 year olds, and scaling
back of HFSS advertising to 50% of 2005 levels) commenced in
January 2008; and Phase 3 (complete ban on all HFSS
advertising on children’s channels) is due to commence in
January 2009.
http://www.law-now.com/law-now/2008/ofco
mupdateontvadvertising220208.htm
Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children [reg req'd]
The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy
bear, but manufacturers of the curvy crimson-and-blue
handset for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy
relationship. They boast about socialization, emotional
health and the comforts of “peace of mind.” And yet such
shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and
government unease, particularly at a time when the mobile
telephone industry is reaching deeper into saturated markets
to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both
dolls and phones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/technology/08mobile.
html
http://w
ww.news.com/2100-1039_3-6233637.html
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EU to consider buying open-source software [Bloomberg]
The European Commission will propose in the next few days to
buy more of its computer software from open-source
developers, a commission spokeswoman said Wednesday.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/03/05/business/open.php
Will Europe Let Google Out of the Penalty Box?
Reuters and Bloomberg report that the European Union is
preparing to approve Google’s pending acquisition of
DoubleClick, the advertising technology firm. The deal,
which was announced last April, has been delayed mainly
because of protests by Microsoft that Google would gain
monopoly power in the online advertising business.
http://bits
.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/europe-lets-googles-doubleclic
k-deal-out-of-the-penalty-box/
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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NZ Telecom incentive wrangle 'will be defused'
Telecom is confident it can defuse controversy over the
level of group incentives that can be paid to the head of
Telecom's wholesale business once the company is separated
into three divisions, but won't say whether it is in direct
negotiations with the Government over an acceptable dollar
figure.
http://w
ww.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4433331a28.html
nz: Tindall telco meeting finds no easy way forward
Telecommunications companies, users groups and investors
discussed improving New Zealand's broadband at a meeting
held at the behest of Communications Minister David Cunliffe
and hosted by The Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall without
coming to any conclusion other than to meet again, sources
say.
http://w
ww.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4433286a28.html
nz: Broadband: consensus on problems but not solutions
Discussions of broadband strategy between telcos,
financiers, policymakers and ICT industry luminaries in
Auckland this month reached no startling conclusions or
clear consensus on solutions, say participants.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/new
s/A6256CF962BA0F7BCC257405000419C0
Telecom cleared to buy radio spectrum management rights
The Commerce Commission has cleared Telecom to buy radio
spectrum management rights that can be used for WiMax or
third generation cellular services.
htt
p://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=20670
ComCom to study next generation networks
The Commerce Commission will investigate next generation
telecommunication networks, aiming to achieve the best
outcome for users and providers of the evolving technology.
htt
p://nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=20644
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man charged after child porn raid
A 46-year-old north Queensland man will face court charged
with downloading child exploitation material from the
internet.
http://
au.news.yahoo.com/080308/21/1630t.html
au: Pedophile ring offered live vision of abuse
POLICE have arrested a Townsville man they allege is third
in command of an "insidious" international
pedophile ring which offered live vision of children being
sexually abused.
http://www.news.com.au
/story/0,23599,23327763-1248,00.html
MAJOR CHILD PORN RING BUSTED: And 20 Children Rescued
Worldwide [news release]
“Mala is to die for in those pigtails,” read one
message. “I have a few 5yo [year old] Taras that you do
not have,” read another. “Just dropping in for a hot
minute … to help out the dry spell, and to give everyone
something to do for an afternoon,” said still one more.
They’re hard comments to read—when you know that they
were posted in a massive secret child pornography newsgroup
on the web. That sordid network was exposed this week,
thanks to a global law enforcement operation spanning five
countries, three continents, and 11 U.S. states. As part of
the continuing investigation, a total of 22 men have been
arrested, including 14 in America, four in Germany, and two
each in Australia and the U.K.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march08/innocentimages_03060
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