general internet news - 24 October

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

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uk: CONFERENCE: Teen Works 2005: Young People and the
Internet - Nov 2005
WISE KIDS and IT Wales are co-organising a one day
conference entitled, ?Teen Works 2005: Young People
and the Internet?, on the 15th of November 2005. The
conference will be held at the Dylan Thomas Centre in
Swansea, and is one of the events held as part of ict
forum wales 2005.
 http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conferenceregistration.htm

jp: NPA plans hotline for 'harmful' Internet content
The National Police Agency plans to set up an online
hotline for the public to report illegal or harmful
content they spot on the Internet, such as that
related to drug trafficking, child pornography or the
production of explosives, NPA officials said.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20051022a6.htm

ug: Fresh Debate Over Porn Laws
THE SPREAD OF THE INTERnet has opened Uganda to a vast
array of trends and influences that would have had
little effect in previous years. However, many
Ugandans who have peered into this brave new world are
not sure they like what they see - especially the two
pornography sites featuring Ugandans that took the
country by surprise recently.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200510190188.html

us: The addiction of child pornography Guest opinion
by Dennis Davis, M.D.
Dr. Dennis Davis is a former Sun Valley resident who
now resides in Boise. He was sentenced last month to
five years in prison for buying child pornography from
undercover agents. Within days I leave for a federal
prison to serve a five-year sentence for possession of
child pornography. While I question the
appropriateness and severity of the sentence, my
purpose today is to share my story, to provide much
needed public education. I hope my story will help
others before they "hit bottom", as I did, and have to
pay the price I have paid.

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?issue_date=10-21-2005&ID=2005105909

us: Don't simply delete child porn e-mails; report
them
The e-mail appeared with the countless other
unsolicited messages that daily clog home computers
like hairballs in a drain.

http://democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051021/NEWS0203/510210413/

us: Parents go to school to learn about online safety
When kids enter online chat rooms, they sometimes
catch the attention of predators.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-06175sy0oct22,0,4034012.story

sg: The new [out]rage: Racy [not racist] blogs
Erotic blogs are becoming popular but are they
crossing the line? Serene Luo examines the issue

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/digital_life/story/0,5597,347385,00.html

North Korea struggles with Net
CHUN In-Hyo was just eight years old when North
Korea's peerless leader Kim Jong-Il declared the 21st
century the era of the information technology
revolution.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16989556%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

cn: Online encyclopedia Wikipedia censored
Reporters Without Borders today called on the Chinese
authorities to stop blocking accessing to the website
of the independent online encyclopedia Wikipedia,
whose popularity has been growing steadily in China.
The site has been unavailable in several provinces
including Shanghai since 18 October.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15374

Iran seeking new ways to censor the Internet and track
dissidents
Reporters Without Borders today accused the Iranian
government of seeking to increase its control of the
Internet in recent measures that have included
contracting an Iranian company, Delta Global, to set
up a new online censorship system.
 http://www.payvand.com/news/05/oct/1173.html

ca: Law and policy surrounding online child
exploitation should be strengthened, report claims
(news release)
Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and Microsoft
Canada call on public and private sector for support
in eliminating online child exploitation

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2005/19/c2840.html

Kazakh websites under pressure ahead of poll
A leading pro-opposition news website in Kazakhstan
has been closed by court order and others have
experienced technical problems in the run-up to a
presidential election in the Central Asian state.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9959727

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au: Child porn used as bait
QUEENSLAND police have assembled a child pornography
picture library of victims to help track down child
molesters.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16985003-1248,00.html

nz: BNZ reacts to phishing attack
Hit by a phishing scam that used email to direct
customers to a fake web interface, Bank of New Zealand
briefly took down its internet site yesterday but said
it has restored full functionality this afternoon.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=13255&cid=4&cname=Business+Today

NZ internet scam warning
The Securities Commission is warning would-be Internet
investors that it's starting to see New Zealand-based
investment scams on the Internet.
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/621667

uk: MP calls for international body to tackle
cybercrime
An agency with international juristiction is needed to
combat global cybercriminals

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39232723,00.htm

us: Caught in the Net
Parents should never assume their kids are safe on the
'Net. When it comes to child safety, the Internet's
greatest boon is also its greatest fault.

http://www.richmond.com/sci-tech/output.aspx?Article_ID=3946383

Spyware 'rampant' in UK computers
The UK has one of the highest rates of computers
infected with secret programs that can track what
people do with their machines, research shows.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4361594.stm
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6253

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ng: Email spammers face jail under new Nigerian law
Nigeria, home to some of the world's most notorious
cyber crimes, has proposed a law making spamming a
criminal offence for which senders of unsolicited
emails could be jailed for at least three years.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9975535

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OECD Broadband Statistics, June 2005
The number of broadband subscriptions throughout the
OECD continued to increase in the first half of 2005
from 119 million to 137 million. Broadband penetration
in the OECD grew by 15% in the first half of the year
to 11.8 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. As
penetration grows, broadband providers in the OECD
increasingly are offering voice and video services
over this platform.

http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2649_34225_35526608_1_1_1_1,00.htm

OECD data shames NZ on broadband
New OECD data out on broadband uptake in the
organisation's 30 countries show New Zealand is making
no headway up the rankings ladder because the rest of
the OECD is adding broadband users at a faster pace.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_home.asp?cid=3&cname=Technology

us: Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With
Growing Up (reg req'd; free for few days)
As kids log 6½ hours a day of screen time, parents
worry their social skills are withering. The kids say,
LOL!

http://nytimes.com/2005/10/23/fashion/sundaystyles/23TECH.html

China auction Web site offers babies for sale
Advertisements offering babies for sale appeared this
week on a Chinese Web site owned by Internet auction
power eBay, a company official said on Thursday.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9987814

uk: Internet deals a body blow to television
advertising
Technology is swiftly making traditional television
advertising campaigns redundant

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1835566,00.html

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us: Net pirates will face stiffer punishment
Internet pirates with prerelease movies in their
shared folders will face stiffer federal penalties
starting Monday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5905183.html

us: Feds Crack Down on Deceptive Web Site Cited in CDT
Complaint
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to permanently
prevent the Web site 'MP3DownloadCity.com' from making
the claim that the services it offers are "100 percent
legal." The FTC announced today that it had filed a
complaint and obtained an injunction against the Web
site, which sells a tutorial that teaches consumers
how to download free song-swapping software offered
through third parties like Kazaa, and was cited in a
complaint CDT filed with the FTC in March. CDT pointed
out that the claims of legality could dupe consumers
into falsely believing that they were paying for the
right to download as much copyrighted material as they
wanted from services like Kazaa. The FTC acknowledged
CDT's assistance in the case.
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/10/mp3.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/cv057013/051019compcv057013.pdf
 http://www.cdt.org/copyright/20050308complaint.pdf

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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In praise of ... the internet business - Guardian
Leader
The internet has come of age. In the past 48 hours
three giant web-only corporations barely 10 years old
- Google, eBay and Yahoo! - have posted booming
profits at a time when high street shops are feeling
the pinch. All have one thing in common. They do not
produce any goods: they trade in the ones and zeros of
computer code whether dressed up as emails, chat
rooms, digital music or, in Google's case, pure
knowledge.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1598203,00.html

au: New Media Publishing (audio - ABC Radio National)
Ramona Koval hosts a forum on the way the internet is
changing writing and publishing. Is publishing on the
net, through e-zines and blogs, a great way to get to
read the thoughts and experiences of people all over
the world? Or is it just too much self-published,
unedited, unsubstantiated opinion?
 http://abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1485827.htm

Google's Book Battle: Publishers sue over its plan put
entire libraries online.
On Nov. 1, if all goes according to plan, workers at
the University of Michigan, Harvard and Stanford will
begin piling all of their books, old and new, onto
carts and delivering them into the maw of scanners
furnished and financed by Silicon Valley's wunderkind,
Google. Employees of the search giant will scan the
books and make digital copies, which will then be made
accessible and searchable to the 80 million Internet
users who visit Google.com every month. To James
Hilton, an associate provost at Michigan, the ability
to browse books online is nothing short of world
changing. "I have a hard time even imagining how
important it's going to be to search the printed word
as we now search the Web," he says.
 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9785346/site/newsweek/

The battle of the portals
Why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! are fighting over AOL

http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5065558

de: Book Publishers Still Unsure in Internet Age
The impact of the web on the world of the novel
remains clouded in uncertainty, industry players at
the Frankfurt book fair said Wednesday as they began
discussing ways to weather the change. »Mehr zu:
title"

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1746148,00.html

Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0
A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed
'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web
technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and
bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Advanced_browser_gives_taste_of_Web_2_0/0,2000061733,39218173,00.htm

Firefox achieves 100 million downloads

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39232435,00.htm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/20/firefox_100m_downloads/

Google profits show sixfold rise
Google tightened its grip on the internet search
market, beating even the most optimistic forecasts

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1836793,00.html

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au: Guilty on child porn - Rehabilitation mooted for
man, 20
A CALIFORNIA Gully man was yesterday found guilty of
storing images and movies of child pornography on his
personal computer.

http://bendigo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=433256&m=3&y=2005

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