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general internet news - 20 September
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INHOPE publish landmark Global Internet Trend Report - 9,600 reports of child pornography processed per month [news release]
https://www.inhope.org/en/node/296
EU police mull anti-porn net filter [AFP]
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=5020819
nz: Text bullies may have phones shut down
http://stuff.co.nz/4207451a10.html
http://tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/35088/Default.aspx
Microsoft rejected in antitrust appeal
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/business/msft.php
Kroes lashes out at U.S. official over Microsoft
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/19/business/msft.php
Microsoft case could make EU 'litigation capital of the world'
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/antitrust.php
European appeal court opens Windows to the world and shakes the superdominant
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2171345,00.html
Microsoft Loses E.U. Anti-Trust Case
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1662431,00.html
Anti-piracy honeypot site exposed [AP]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/18/1189881481729.html
Symantec Reports Cyber Criminals Are Becoming Increasingly Professional [news release]
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070917_01
China leads region in malicious online activity
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62032407,00.htm
au: 2Clix lawsuit over Whirlpool forum comments withdrawn
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881557140.html
Symantec CEO says Internet tracking programs are digital peeping Toms [AP]
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/20/1189881622975.html
US intelligence chief says China is spying on cold war scale
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2172240,00.html
Asian broadband take-up slow
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22430846-16123,00.html
Chinese Internet Users Are Unhealthy
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/09/18/5895-white-book-chinese-internet-users-are-unhealthy/
Will computers reach top speed by 2020?
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2489053.ece
No mobile means poverty, say British children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/19/mobilephones
I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft?s Line
http://nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html
Google goes to war with Microsoft
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22432454-39525,00.html
IHT and New York Times to stop charging for parts of their Web sites
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/business/18times.php
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CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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INHOPE reports big jump in porn, racist Web sites [AFP]
Substantial increases in racist and pornographic Web sites were reported on Wednesday by INHOPE in its first detailed analysis of illegal activity on the Internet. INHOPE said monthly trends of processed reports over a 28-month period to December 2006 showed racism and xenophobia grew by 33 percent, adult pornography by 24 percent and child pornography by 15 percent.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=93218
http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2885&iArticleId=5020821
INHOPE publish landmark Global Internet Trend Report - 9,600 reports of child pornography processed per month [news release]
INHOPE network reports global increase in child pornography on the Internet. A staggering 9,600 confirmed reports of child pornography processed per month. INHOPE's statistical analysis of the reports received by the INHOPE network over a 28 month period has resulted in the first detailed analysis of illegal activity on the Internet. The INHOPE hotline network has processed, and continues to process, a huge volume of reports about illegal, harmful and not-illegal content on the Internet and has, as a result, created a dynamic (time-sensitive) chart of the downside sectors of the Internet. This report is the first step towards a global action plan to eradicate illegal activity from the Internet. It is a landmark publication for policy makers, governments and Industry.
https://www.inhope.org/en/node/296
EU police mull anti-porn net filter [AFP]
Police from 11 European states met Wednesday in Madrid to mull the creation of an internet filter system designed to prevent paedophiles from downloading child pornography, Spanish media reported. The police federations from countries including Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom are seeking to win agreement from web content providers to filter content and make access to porn sites, as the prelude to eventual downloading, much more difficult.
http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=5020819
nz: Text bullies may have phones shut down
Text bullies have been warned their cellphones could be shut down as complaints to police increase.
http://stuff.co.nz/4207451a10.html
http://tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/35088/Default.aspx
us: Movie shot around Bay Area addresses teen cyber-bullying
"Adina's Deck," a new film about teenage cyber-bullying, got its start with a tip from Sarah Moody, a Canyon Middle School counselor.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6917139
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ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL
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uk: Terrorism's reach via internet
The trial of a young Clackmannanshire man at the High Court in Glasgow has focused attention on how no part of the world is free from terrorism. Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, was accused of four offences under the UK's Terrorism Acts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/6999176.stm
Microsoft rejected in antitrust appeal
The second-highest court in Europe on Monday rejected Microsoft's attempt to overturn a landmark European Commission antitrust ruling and record fine, bolstering smaller software makers and putting market leaders on notice that they cannot leverage dominance in one technology niche to squelch broader innovation, industry and legal experts said.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/business/msft.php
http://nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18soft.html
http://www.news.com/2100-1014_3-6208500.html
Kroes lashes out at U.S. official over Microsoft
The European Union competition commissioner lashed out Wednesday at a top U.S. Justice Department official who criticized an antitrust ruling against Microsoft.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/19/business/msft.php
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/19/EC-slams-DOJ-reaction-to-Microsoft-ruling_1.html
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807680
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8954aff4-66cf-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac.html
Microsoft case could make EU 'litigation capital of the world'
The crushing legal victory over Microsoft on Monday may embolden the top European regulator, but critics warned that the ruling from the European Court of First Instance would spur a glut of additional cases, transforming Europe into a legal battleground for the global technology sector.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/antitrust.php
European appeal court opens Windows to the world and shakes the superdominant
The European commission got the green light from Europe's second-highest court yesterday to pursue even more high-profile antitrust actions against dominant global companies.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2171345,00.html
Microsoft loses appeal against £342m EU fine over software sharing
Microsoft was left reeling yesterday after a bruising defeat at the hands of European judges who upheld a record fine on the software giant for abusing its dominant market position to crush competition.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2472555.ece
Court backs commission's ?497m landmark fine against Microsoft
Regulators across Europe are set to take a tougher line when applying competition law to large companies after the European Commission's decision to fine Microsoft nearly ?500m (£348m) for abusing its dominant position in the desktop software market was upheld by Europe's second-highest court.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2973639.ece
Microsoft Loses E.U. Anti-Trust Case
... The Commission, naturally, welcomed the ruling and said it meant a super-dominant company could not unfairly influence rivals that attempted to offer more innovative and price-competitive products. Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the ruling "confirms the objectivity and the credibility" of the Commission's competition policy. "This policy protects the European consumer interest and ensures fair competition between businesses," he said. E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the Court had set "an important precedent," that dominant companies have to allow competition.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1662431,00.html
Other U.S. firms may feel Microsoft's pain
Microsoft Corp.'s defeat in a European courtroom Monday hurt the giant software maker -- and other U.S. companies that dominate their markets could feel the sting too.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-micro18sep18,1,2205250.story
Microsoft defeat opens door for more software rulings, says competition lawyer
Today's decision by an EU court to uphold a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft is likely to influence other cases in the software industry. A competition lawyer said he expects the principles of the case to be "rolled-out more actively" across the EU.
http://out-law.com/page-8474
Microsoft Loses Appeal of EU Antitrust Ruling
The European Union's second highest court has dismissed Microsoft's case and and ordered it to pay most legal fees.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137243-c,microsoftantitrustcase/article.html
E.U. Court Rejects Microsoft's Appeal
Judges Uphold $690 Million Fine, Requirement to Share Software Information
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/17/AR2007091700235.html
EU Victory Leaves Questions for Vista [AP]
European antitrust regulators' victory over Microsoft was a resounding smack at the software maker's old business practices, but it left analysts divided as to how the company's new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be affected.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22438976-15306,00.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MICROSOFT_VISTA
Anti-piracy honeypot site exposed [AP]
Hackers who intercepted email from MediaDefender, a firm that tries to stymie unauthorised downloading of songs and movies on behalf of record companies and Hollywood film studios, have released hundreds of megabytes of data on the internet.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/18/1189881481729.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/18/1189881481729.html
Symantec Reports Cyber Criminals Are Becoming Increasingly Professional [news release]
The latest Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume XII released by Symantec concludes that cyber criminals are increasingly becoming more professional ? even commercial ? in the development, distribution and use of malicious code and services. While cybercrime continues to be driven by financial gain, cyber criminals are now utilizing more professional attack methods, tools and strategies to conduct malicious activity.
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070917_01
Cybercriminals Lurk In Dark Corners Of Trusted Web Sites
Think you're safe on your favorite Web site? You might want to think again. Symantec reports cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting them to target trusting users.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807108
Malware moves from scattershot to honeypot
Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report shows toolkit development is becoming a real industry with all the money that is being made, and the Web browser remains the biggest security hole for most end users and organisations
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;583206184;fp;2;fpid;1
China leads region in malicious online activity
China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62032407,00.htm
au: 2Clix lawsuit over Whirlpool forum comments withdrawn
An Australian software firm, which was suing a broadband community website over unflattering comments published on its message board, has dropped its case.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881557140.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881557140.html
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;910518503;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14530/1023/
In-house lawyers cannot claim protection, says European court
In-house lawyers cannot now assume that all of their correspondence with their employer is covered by lawyer-client confidentiality rules, following a judgment this week from Europe's second-highest court.
http://out-law.com/page-8480
uk: Made for 25p, sold for £15. The fake Viagra that netted pill gang millions
A man described as the UK linchpin of a global conspiracy to sell fake medicines over the internet was yesterday sentenced to four and a half years in prison following what police described as the biggest counterfeit drugs bust in British history.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2171477,00.html
Why political bloggers can breathe easier by Eric J. Sinrod
The Internet offers a variety of ways for the public to express views and take part in elections. Indeed, in my last column, I wrote about how a federal appellate court has blessed vote-swapping sites. This provides a way for voters in different states to ensure the same number of votes for their respective candidates while in the process helping one of their candidates beat yet a third candidate. For example, in the 2000 presidential election, supporters of Al Gore and Ralph Nader could swap votes to help Gore try to beat George Bush in hotly contested states.
http://www.news.com/2010-1028_3-6208777.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9588_22-6208777.html
AdBlock Plus can quietly kill ads - and perhaps the internet economy
Adblock Plus, a browser plugin that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it were to become widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the internet, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.internet
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PRIVACY
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Cost fears threaten Australian privacy law
New laws requiring notification of data breaches are included in proposals by the Australian Law Reform Commission for sweeping reform of the national privacy regime. The commission, which wants to untangle the present jurisdictional tangle, also recommends bringing small businesses under the federal Privacy Act and tightening both private and public sector handling of personal data.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22435328-5013040,00.html
Symantec CEO says Internet tracking programs are digital peeping Toms [AP]
Cookies to collect Internet user data are a serious invasion of privacy, Symantec chief executive John Thompson said Wednesday, likening them to "a peeping Tom."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/20/1189881622975.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/20/1189881622975.html
Google Trying to Appease Regulators and Fight Privacy Groups, Says Ads are Info
In advance of a government Town Hall in November focusing on the privacy threats online behavioral advertising, online data collection and what standards should govern them, Google, one of the net's largest data collectors, suggests that the forum also talk about how online advertising funds free, high-quality content and how online advertising contributes to the nation's small businesses.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/google-trying-t.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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US intelligence chief says China is spying on cold war scale
China and Russia are spying on the US on a scale not seen since the end of the cold war, the head of US national intelligence, Mike McConnell, said yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2172240,00.html
us: Warrantless Wiretaps Not Used, Official Says
The National Security Agency has not conducted wiretapping without warrants on the telephones of any Americans since at least February, the nation?s top intelligence officer told Congress on Tuesday.
http://nytimes.com/2007/09/19/washington/19nsa.html
uk: Minister calls for road map for super fast broadband
The Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP will today make his first major speech as Minister of State for Competitiveness on the subject of broadband. He will say that the UK needs a road map for the move to super fast broadband and that the clock is ticking as other countries move forward. He will also announce a high-level summit on the potential need for public sector intervention in broadband deployment.
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=315384
us: Spy czar urges extension of warrantless wiretap law
Under grilling from congressional Democrats on Tuesday, the nation's intelligence chief said he doesn't know how many Americans' phone and e-mail conversations have been inadvertently overheard in the process of foreign-oriented snooping.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6208762.html
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INTERNET USE
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'Surprise' over British gambling figures
The internet and other new forms of gambling have not led to an increase in people having a flutter since 1999, a Gambling Commission study has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7001329.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/gambling_survey_2007/
Asian broadband take-up slow
Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts said.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22430846-16123,00.html
Mobile Phone Web Users Nearly Equal PC Based Internet Users in Japan [news release]
comScore released a new study on mobile phone usage in Japan. The study estimated that 53.6 million people are using a mobile device to access the Internet, a figure nearly equaling the 53.7 million who accessed the Internet from either a home or a work computer in June 2007. The study was conducted among 3100 people age 15 and over.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1742
Internet traffic swells on Web 2.0
The amount of data transferred on the Internet has rapidly increased due to the spread of Web publishing, a private think-tank said Sunday. The Samsung Economic Research Institute said that the so-called Web 2.0 movement is the main reason behind the surge of online traffic.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2007/09/129_10235.html
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=78039
Africa: Mobiles for the 'World's Poorest'
Nearly half a million people, described by the UN as "the poorest of the poor", will soon be able to make mobile calls. As part of a UN programme to tackle poverty in rural Africa, 79 villages across 10 African countries will be hooked up to cellular networks.
http://arushatimes.co.tz/society_3.htm
http://allafrica.com/stories/200709170360.html
Chinese Internet Users Are Unhealthy
According to the newly released "White Book on Chinese Netizens' Health Status", more than 40% of Chinese Internet users spend most of their weekends surfing online and over 70% of the netizens have a certain degree of associated mental problems.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/09/18/5895-white-book-chinese-internet-users-are-unhealthy/
Chinese man dies after three-day internet session
A Chinese man dropped dead after playing internet games for three consecutive days, state media said, as China seeks to wean internet addicts offline.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/17/2035663.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/sep/17/china.censorship
http://www.news.com/2100-1043_3-6208313.html
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22431951-16123,00.html
Belgium fetches $17m bid on eBay [AFP]
Belgium has been put up for auction and attracted a top bid of $17 million before eBay stopped the spoof sale.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/18/2036949.htm
us: NBC to Offer Downloads of Its Shows
NBC Universal announced plans today for a service that will make popular NBC programs available to download free to personal computers and other devices.
http://nytimes.com/2007/09/20/business/media/20nbc.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/nbc-brings-the-most-popular-word-to-tv-downloads-free/
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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German Social Networking Community Reaches 14.8 Million [news release]
comScore released its report into a selection of Germany?s largest social networking sites. Social networking sites attracted 14.8 million unique visitors from within Germany in July ? reaching 45.0 percent of the country?s online population. Reiterating its International appeal as the worlds? largest social networking site, MySpace.com proved to be the most popular social networking property in Germany, attracting 3.7 million unique visitors.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1737
Skyrock Network the Dominant French Social Networking Site [news release]
comScore's report on France?s largest social networking sites found social networking sites attracted 13.2 million unique visitors from within France in July, reaching 50 percent of the country?s entire online population. French site Skyrock Network dominated the French social networking scene with 9.1 million unique visitors. In second place in July was the worlds? largest social networking site, MySpace.com, attracting 2.3 million unique visitors. Interestingly, Facebook, which has enjoyed a 422 percent growth across the continent since the start of the year, has struggled to make an impact on the French market.
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1735
Is Facebook good for the workplace?
Walk into almost any open-plan office in Australia today and you?re bound to see staff logged onto Facebook. The social networking site has become so popular - at last count there were 479,500 members signed up to its Australia network and more than 41 million Facebook users worldwide - employers fear it is having a detrimental impact on staff productivity and creating a potential risk to their company?s confidential information.
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22437742-5012424,00.html
MySpace using profile and blog entries to sell targeted ads
News Corp's MySpace social networking site is using personal details contained on users' profile pages and blogs to sell highly targeted advertising, the company said today.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881556957.html
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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Will computers reach top speed by 2020?
For decades it has been the benchmark by which advancements in computing are measured. Now Moore's Law - the maxim which states that computers double in speed roughly every two years - has come under threat, from none other than the man who coined it. ... In an interview yesterday, however, Mr Moore said by about 2020, his law would come up against a rather intractable stumbling block: the laws of physics.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2489053.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7002267.stm
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4207574a28.html
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9037480
No mobile means poverty, say British children
Almost half of children in some parts of Britain think that not having a mobile phone means a child is poor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/19/mobilephones
Virtual worlds open up to blind
Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993739.stm
Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird
Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail software.
http://www.news.com/2100-1012_3-6208483.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6208483.html
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Africa telecoms summit to promote Internet access [Reuters]
A U.N.-backed Africa communications summit, "Connect Africa", in Rwanda in late October, will seek to boost high-speed Internet access to match the continent's explosive growth in mobile phones, officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19292140.htm
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN19292140.html
Internet cafes and the digital divide in Papua New Guinea
... High Internet costs contribute towards making the much talked about Digital Divide in Papua New Guinea an enormous barrier to the ability of the people to participate in and benefit from the digital economy.
http://www.thenational.com.pg/091807/w6.htm
in: Ericsson launches rural broadband project
Aiming to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban India and to bring in the benefits of the internet services to rural people, telecom equipment vendor Ericsson today launched "Gramjyoti rural broadband project."
http://indiadaily.com/breaking_news/93209.asp
OLPC machine may cause an education revolution
If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionise teaching in developing nations. Computerworld Denmark asked Jan Soelberg, an expert from the school of education at the University of Aarhus, to try the computer.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;42601440;fp;2;fpid;1
The next Internet revolution is coming
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come," said Howard Charney, Cisco's senior vice president, borrowing from Victor Hugo to summarise the power of the Internet.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/The-next-Internet-revolution-is-coming/0,130061702,339282193,00.htm
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft?s Line
I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft?s dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
http://nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html
Google goes to war with Microsoft
Google, no longer just a souped-up search engine, is really beginning to get under the skin of Microsoft, it seems.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22432454-39525,00.html
Australia spends nearly a billion dollars each year powering computers
Australian enterprises are the largest consumers of electricity used for computing but still lag behind when it comes to environmental leadership, according to new research released today by Springboard Research. Despite its large carbon footprint, Australia's ICT sector has a tendency to interpret Green IT initiatives as just another cost and process to endure.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1770966267;fp;2;fpid;1
German web host to go carbon neutral
Web hosting firm Strato has pulled on its hemp-woven strides and made an ambitious proclamation that it will be completely carbon-free by January 2008.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/strato_web_hosting_green_co2/
IHT and Times to stop charging for parts of their Web sites
The move comes two years to the day after the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/business/18times.php
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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au: Ruddock to make the call on CDMA shut-off
The highly-charged debate surrounding the shutdown of Telstra's CDMA network has forced the federal government to bring in "the law" with Attorney General Philip Ruddock taking on the role of adjudicator.
http://arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1188869915;fp;4194304;fpid;1
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1188869915;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Coonan-washes-hands-of-Telstra-CDMA-decision/0,130061791,339282125,00.htm
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VoIP
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us: Lawmakers Float VoIP-Based 911 Bill
Lawmakers today introduced a bill to try and bring VoIP services into an emergency calling regime that has largely ignored the IP-based infrastructure.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3700541
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Child porn guilty plea
A NURIOOTPA man pleaded guilty today to accessing child pornography.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22431946-2682,00.html
us: Sydneysider jailed for child porn [AAP]
An Australian man has been sentenced to more than seven years in a US jail for transporting and possessing pornography involving children as young as three.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/20/1189881644162.html
us: Australian Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Child Porn
A 31-year-old Australian was sentenced Wednesday to 7 1/2 years in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography that was seized in his luggage at Los Angeles International Airport, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_262204612.html
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