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Headlines from the 6 August edition of the news are:

Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard at ICANN | New Monthly
Magazine Provides the Inside Scoop on ICANN | ARIN Confirms IP Address
Distribution Practices; Policies Do Not Encourage Profit-driven
Speculation [news release] | ARIN Statement on the Future of Addressing
Policy by Patrik F?ltstr?m | ca: CIRA Launches Search for New CEO





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How do you build a new internet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internet

us: VeriSign Spent $570K Lobbying in 2007 [AP]
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3971856.html

ICANN seeks to better protect domain name registrants
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028399

nz: Macaulay elected new InternetNZ president
http://m-net.net.nz/1799/latest-news/latest-news/macaulay-elected-new-internetnz-president.php

Go Daddy & Afilias Announce Joint Venture Creating Alliance Registry in Support of usTLD Bid [news release]
http://dnalliance.us/archives/000032.html

Neustar Losing .us Could Be Good for .com Registrants
http://www.circleid.com/posts/neustar_losing_us_domain_name/

Rate of Link Decay by Bret Fausett   
http://www.namebrief.com/content/view/21/1/


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How do you build a new internet?
How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a ?200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world.
Researchers in the US want at least $350m (?175m) to build the Global Environment for Network Innovations (Geni), touted by some as the possible replacement for today's internet. In Europe, similar projects are under way as part of the EU's Future and Internet Research (Fire) programme, which is expected to cost at least ?27m.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internet

Why we must close the net by Sir Elton John
Pop legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN. Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing. He claims it is destroying good music, saying: ?The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. ?Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn?t bode well for long-term artistic vision. ?It?s just a means to an end.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html
http://ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?id=1892

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us: VeriSign Spent $570K Lobbying in 2007 [AP]
VeriSign spent US$570,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government on Internet related issues, according to a disclosure form. VeriSign lobbied on issues related to privacy, taxation, e-mails and Web addresses, which are also known as domain names, according to the form posted online Monday by the Senate's public records office.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3971856.html
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-18556726.htm
http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=47985522184996
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/07/31/godaddy-verisign-lobby-capitol-hill/

After the dot: the latest net revolution
Ask someone to name a website and it's a virtual certainly they will say something ending with "dot com": Amazon.com, eBay.com, Facebook.com, it doesn't matter what, it's the same suffix. Dotcom is the internet for most people. But that may all change next year when the top level of the net ? the part after the dot ? is liberalised. From 2008, anyone wanting their own piece of the internet is welcome to apply for it. It won't be cheap (there will an application fee of around $100,000) and it won't be simple (you have to prove you are capable of running a complex piece of the net's infrastructure) ? but it could mean a change in the way the online world works.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/31/comment.internet

Can You Spot the Real Utube?
Ralph Girkins, CEO of Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment, has been doing business online since the mid-1990s and has fielded angry e-mails before. But nothing prepared him for the rant that landed in his in box last October: "Where the f--- are all the videos??? 1.5 billion for this piece of s--- website? Google got taken!"
http://inc.com/magazine/20070801/can-you-spot-the-real-utube.html

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ICANN seeks to better protect domain name registrants
ICANN is asking for the public's input as it revises its accreditation process for registrars, the companies that register and sell domain names.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028399
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135263-pg,1/article.html
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1588008493

ICANN opens registrar reform up to public comment
The time for reform at ICANN has come. Long overdue changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement are now open for public comment on the ICANN website, as the aftershocks of the RegisterFly failure continue to ripple through the organization entrusted with the technical stability of the internet we all know and love.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/30/icann_registrar_reform/

ICANN wants your feedback on registrar reform
ICANN is making progress on revamping its contract to better protect customers from registrar meltdown and is now asking the public for feedback. The organization launched its public consultation on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement late last week, which solicits feedback via e-mail on a number of possible amendments to the RAA.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070730-icann-wants-your-feedback-on-registrar-reform.html
http://telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=178082

SSAC Response to ICANN's Proposed Next Steps for IDN Deployment in the Root Zone
SSAC Response to IDN Program Director regarding ICANN's proposal for IDN deployment at the root level of the DNS The Security and Stability Advisory Committee has been invited to comment on ICANN's proposal for IDN deployment at the root level of the DNS.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-31jul07.htm

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InternetNZ to host IPv6 workshop [news release]
InternetNZ will host a technical workshop next week on IPv6. The five day workshop runs from 6 ? 10 August 2007. The technical workshop is being delivered by two offshore experts on IPv6 - Faraz Shamim from Cisco Systems and Gaurab Upadaya from Packet Clearing House. A range of technical issues will be covered including IPv6 design and addressing, IPv6 neighbour discovery, IPv6 stateless auto-configuration and mobile IPv6. Much of the workshop will involve hands-on work with network equipment from Cisco Systems.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/media-ipv6workshop

Transition to IPv6 Address by Geoff Huston
Last month's column looked at the exhaustion of the IPv4 unallocated address pool and the state of preparedness in the Internet to grapple with this issue... There has been a considerable volume of discussion in various IPv6 and address policy forums across the world about how we should respond to this situation in terms of development of address distribution policies. Is it possible to devise address management policies that might both lessen some of the more harmful potential impacts of this forthcoming hiatus in IPv4 address supply, and also provide some impetus to industry to move in the originally intended direction to transition into an IPv6 network?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/transition_to_ipv6_address/

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Neustar Losing .us Could Be Good for .com Registrants
Neustar is facing a potential loss of the Dot-US franchise as competitors bid against them. Why might this be of interest to .com registrants? ... The issue of antitrust with regards to the .com agreement has never really been properly settled, as a well-funded complainant hasn?t brought forward a case to full fruition in the courts. ICANN sold out the public by agreeing to a settlement that would see its own coffers swell, at the expense of registrants, so they do not count.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/neustar_losing_us_domain_name/

Go Daddy allies to take over America
Afilias and Go Daddy want to together usurp NeuStar as the US government contractor responsible for the what they claim is the 'neglected' .us top-level internet domain. The two companies have formed a joint venture, The Domain Name Alliance Registry, and have applied to the US Department of Commerce to replace NeuStar as the custodian of .us.
http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D6593B1B-19D4-4E3C-B5CA-E827E9465D77
http://news.techwhack.com/6233/godaddy.us-domains/
http://domainnamenews.com/editorial/godaddy-and-afilias-created-joint-venture-in-order-to-bid-for-us-tld/786

Companies seek control of '.us' domain [AP]
In Britain, ".uk" is the suffix of choice for Internet addresses. In Germany, it's ".de." In the United States, however, ".us" is the forgotten stepchild. Web sites tend to prefer ".com," which was designed as a global moniker for commercial sites but is heavily populated by Americans. Two companies prominent in the domain name industry want to challenge that notion.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/02/1185648006141.html
http://businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8QODT6G1.htm
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/national/story/107085.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070801.wgtdomain0801/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070801.wgtdomain0801
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_AMERICAN_DOMAIN?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-01-15-25-53

Are GoDaddy and Afilias The Right Combination to Run .us?
GoDaddy and Afilias have made a bid to run .us. Are they the right parties to run this important domain?
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/01/are-godaddy-and-afilias-the-right-combination-to-run-us/

Go Daddy & Afilias Announce Joint Venture Creating Alliance Registry in Support of usTLD Bid [news release]
GoDaddy.com, Inc. and Afilias USA, Inc., have teamed up to create The Domain Name Alliance Registry, LLC (?Alliance Registry?), a joint venture seeking to assume stewardship of the usTLD, America?s sovereign space on the Internet. Yesterday, Alliance Registry submitted a proposal in response to the request for quotations issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration for a registry operator for the usTLD.
http://afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2007-07-31-01
http://godaddy.com/gdshop/pressreleases/Alliance_Press_Release_7_31_07.pdf
http://dnalliance.us/archives/000032.html
http://www.circleid.com/posts/alliance_registry_go_daddy_afilias_us_domain/

DotAsia Announces Key Agreements with Deloitte Belgium, AGIP and Pool.com
DotAsia announced agreements with several global organizations that will play key roles in helping ensure the stable and orderly introduction of the .Asia extension into the social and technical fabric of the Internet. ... The companies will work together to oversee the process of screening all applications for domain names during the Sunrise period for trademark owners and businesses. Various Deloitte member firms and AGIP in the MENA region will be responsible for verifying that accepted applicants meet the requirements of the .Asia Sunrise policies.
http://www.asia/pressreleases/DotAsia-PR-2007-07-25-ENG.pdf

DotAsia Auctions Aim to Address Problems of the Past
The announcement this week that DotAsia will work with Pool.com on an auction system to introduce its new domain names is a good reaction to problems of the past.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/dotasia_organisation_domain_auction/

InternetNZ Announces Election Results
InternetNZ announces official results in this year?s InternetNZ Council elections. Peter Macaulay has been elected InternetNZ?s new President, for a two-year term. Macaulay is a former InternetNZ Councillor and has served in the past as Executive Director.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/electionresults

nz: Macaulay elected new InternetNZ president
Peter Macaulay, the chief executive and co-founder of The Number One IT Group, has been named the new president of InternetNZ following elections held on Friday. A former InternetNZ councillor, Macaulay has also served as the society's executive director. He was elected to a two-year term.
http://m-net.net.nz/1799/latest-news/latest-news/macaulay-elected-new-internetnz-president.php

uk: Video: Nominet chief talks domains
Recently voted the 'First Woman in Technology', Lesley Cowley, CEO of .uk registrar Nominet, discusses domains and the UK's role in shaping the global web
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39288350,00.htm

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au: Babcock & Brown website ire
Babcock & Brown has moved to shut down a financial services website that has been set up by another company. Blogger Pty Ltd, the operator of babcockandbrown.com.au is owned by a Sydney businessman. ASX-listed Babcock & Brown's legal department yesterday asked a leading law firm to investigate what action could be taken to remove the site from the web.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22161664-664,00.html

us: Boca Raton synagogue creates own Web site after dispute with founder
Zev Freidus is angry at Boca Raton Synagogue and he is holding a hostage: its old Web site. ... He served as volunteer webmaster for six years, but in 2005, the synagogue asked him to turn over brsweb.org because he was using the Web site to advertise his real estate business. Freidus refused.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsynagogue0801psaug01,0,1781325.story

Cruise operator wins rights to qe2.com [Reuters]
Carnival, the world's largest cruise operator, on Tuesday won exclusive rights to "qe2.com" after the firm that registered the Internet site was found to have no link to its most famous ocean liner.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647945522.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647945522.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/tech/20070731-0623-internet-cybersquatting-qe2.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/31/internet.qe2.reut/

What's in a name? Just ask Abt
Abt Electronics Inc. has been using the www.abtelectronics.com Web site address, but it wasn't happy about it. They wanted abt.com. ... Abt filed a complaint with the forum in 2004 against Gregory Ricks, who owned the abt.com name. But the company lost. Then Abt discovered more evidence and re-filed the complaint earlier this year. The forum ruled in March in Abt's favor, which then led to an appeal.
http://dailyherald.com/business/story.asp?id=336141

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How telcos are managing to deliver 'clean' traffic
From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person. The amount of Internet traffic represented in the room is staggering. On the average business day, almost 10 petabytes of data pass through AT&T's networks--more information than the entire Web contained in 2000.
http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php/id;934985980;fp;16;fpid;0

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Domain names return hefty profits
The Web addresses that businesses and people online call home have generated the equivalent of a real estate boom in the real world with speculators, appraisers, developers, investors, and brokers turning the names typed on navigation bars into hefty profits.
http://boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/07/30/online_domain_name_game_yields_real_profits_for_virtual_brokers/
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/01/business/ptend02.php

Rate of Link Decay by Bret Fausett
Pardon me while I drill down a minute. The value of a domain name is primarily driven by two factors: its resale value and the value of its traffic. Those aren't necessarily separate. For most domain names, resale value is a function of a name's traffic. So at point of sale, a buyer is very interested in current and historic traffic.
http://www.namebrief.com/content/view/21/1/

Domainer Inc announces partners [news release]
Domainer Inc. announced that it has concluded a private placement of CDN$ 2.0 million with a group of investors including a Toronto-based venture capital firm. Flagship Bancorp Inc. acted as exclusive agent on the offering.
http://www.domainer.com/about-domainer/news-and-press-releases/

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Moniker.com Brings Adult Domain Name Auction to Internext Expo in Florida [news release]
Moniker will host another exciting domain name auction of premium adult domain names at Internext Expo, the world's largest business-to-business online and digital media adult conference, on August 3-5.
http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-30-2007/0004635315

Sedo's Seven-Figure Sale of Chinese.com Leads the Charge in Another Banner Week for Domain Names 
Sedo.com issued a brief press release on 23 July announcing they had brokered the sale of Chinese.com for $1 million.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales07-31-07.htm
http://www.sedo.de/presse/presse_230707.php4?tracked=&partnerid=&language=d [news release in German]

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Yahoo Testimony About Imprisoned Reporter Contradicted
A new document calls into question the extent of Yahoo's cooperation with Chinese authorities in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist Shi Tao, sentenced in April, 2005, to 10 years in prison for revealing state secrets. An English translation of the Beijing State Security Bureau's Notice of Evidence Collection, issued to the Beijing Representative Office of Yahoo (HK) Holdings, says, "According to investigation, your office is in possession of the following items relating to a case of suspecting illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities that is currently under investigation by our bureau. ..."
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201201833

'Incendiary' comments removed from Malaysia PM's website: opposition
Racially sensitive comments have been removed from the Malaysian prime minister's official website, an opposition leader said Wednesday, amid a row over government attempts to silence bloggers.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/02/1185647996155.html

China's Golden Cyber-Shield
The Chinese government is an infamous enforcer of digital apartheid; when its citizens try to access prominent international Web sites like Wikipedia and Flickr, they hit a filter that blocks politically sensitive material. In the West, that information blockade is often described as the "Great Firewall of China." But in Mandarin, it is called jindun gongcheng, the Golden Shield. As that name implies, China's controls on the Internet are capable of blocking inbound as well as outbound traffic. And according to some security professionals, that means the Golden Shield is more than just a barrier to free expression; it may also be China's advantage in a future cyber-war.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/07/30/china-cybercrime-war-tech-cx_ag_0730internet.html

uk: Food manufacturers target children on internet after regulator's TV advertising clampdown
Some of the world's leading food manufacturers have begun marketing to children on social networking websites and internet chat programs. Brands such as McDonald's, Starburst, Haribo and Skittles are using the internet to target children now that new rules from the media regulator Ofcom have made it difficult to advertise during children's television. At the beginning of July, the sweet brand Skittles paid a six-figure sum to set up a profile on the social networking site Bebo which has already been viewed more than 50,000 times and attracted more than 3,500 "friends". In an interview with the Guardian, a Bebo spokesman described these "friends" as "brand ambassadors". Bebo users have to declare they are at least 13, but it is known that much younger children do use the site.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2138178,00.html

New Scrutiny for Facebook Over Predators
Facebook, the online social network, has stolen some of MySpace?s momentum with users and the news media. Now, it is being subjected to the same accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site. Connecticut?s attorney general, said that investigators in his state were looking into ?three or more? cases of convicted sex offenders who had registered on Facebook and had ?also found inappropriate images and content? on the service. The inquiry continues, he said, and state officials have contacted Facebook and asked it to remove the profiles.
http://nytimes.com/2007/07/30/business/media/30facebook.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/alarm-over-facebook-predators/2007/07/31/1185647889575.html

Facebook under fire over sex offenders [Reuters]
Facebook came under fire on Monday from a state attorney general who accused the fast-growing social networking site of falling short in protecting young users from sexual predators on its site.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/31/1185647889575.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN3037267720070731

uk: Teachers in websites closure call
Teachers have called for websites such as YouTube to be shut down as part of efforts to prevent pupils and staff being bullied.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6925444.stm
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2137270,00.html

au: Snaring cyber child corrupters
Virtual worlds such as Second Life may be the new crime frontier, but Australian Federal Police are prepared to act against online offenders. AFP commissioner Mick Keelty said global authorities had seen "a convergence of pedophile activity on the internet and in the real world".
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22161699-15319,00.html

au: Predator protection 'in weeks'
Australians will have access to a national online child protection hotline and free internet filtering software "within weeks", when the long-delayed $116 million scheme to protect families from predators and porn finally gets off the ground. A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan confirmed that the Government was working to a tight deadline to launch the scheme in time for national child protection week, which begins September 7.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22161700-16123,00.html

au: Students viewing porn on council computers: MP
School students are accessing Internet pornography on Bega Valley Shire Council library computers on the New South Wales far south coast, according to new claims.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/01/1993556.htm

uk: Internet leads to rise in fraud
Fraud levels in the UK are at record high, with the internet involved in almost all instances of fraud, according to the latest KPMG Fraud Barometer report. In the first half of 2007, the government and businesses lost ?594m to fraud, almost three times the figure recorded for the previous six months. So-called carousel fraud has been the biggest contributor over the last six months, with four cases alone totalling ?440m.
http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2195251/internet-leads-rise-fraud
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E0A67D275C36EAD4CC257329000A7A1F

Banks battle against money laundering as market complexity increases [news release]
The cost of fighting money laundering has risen dramatically for banks across the world as they have become increasingly engaged in the struggle against criminality. However, the task is becoming more difficult due to the increasing complexity of the financial markets in which they operate, including greater exposure to sometimes unfamiliar emerging markets and the dramatic growth of alternative assets, according to a global study by KPMG Forensic.
http://kpmg.com/Press/07.09.2007.htm

European Project Looks to Manage Online Threats
Researchers are looking for formal European Union sponsorship of a new project that would keep an eye on malicious software and computer attacks around the world. Project WOMBAT (Worldwide Observatory for Malicious Behavior and Attack Tools) is a threat management system being backed by European technology companies and research institutions, including France Telecom SA, the Institut Eurecom, and Hispasec Sistemas, said Stefan Zanero, a researcher with the Institut Politecnico di Milano, who is involved with the project.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135371-c,onlinesecurity/article.html

Black Hat conference goers deal with insecurities
Security experts gather in Las Vegas at the annual security conference, which has been "supersized" to handle more people, more topics--and more controversy. For CNet's coverage see:
http://news.com.com/2009-1029_3-6199958.html

Richard Clarke: Computers Are Best Friend Of Progress, And Security Its Worst Enemy
The former federal counterterrorism adviser tells security pros at the Black Hat USA conference that continuing to build more of the global economy on cyberspace as it exists today is dangerous business.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202380

Politics and profit set stage for Internet security disaster [AFP]
The Internet is ripe for hacking chaos and rampant crime due to serious computer defense flaws, specialists told cyber security experts from around the world at a major conference here. The experts who met at the Black Hat digital self-defense conference in Las Vegas also heard from US counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who blasted what he described as President George W. Bush's lack of interest in enhancing the nation's cyber security.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/02/1185648039281.html

us: Lawsuit filed in Chicago over iPhone battery
Apple, which may have sold as many as 450,000 iPhones in its first two days of sales, is being sued by a consumer who says it did not immediately disclose the limited life of its batteries or their $86 replacement cost.
The suit, filed last week in Illinois state court, accuses Apple of consumer fraud and seeks class-action status. The plaintiff, Jose Trujillo of Chicago, also wants money damages.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/01/business/iphone.php

Apple's Battery Replacement Tap Dance Provokes Lawsuit
An Illinois resident has filed a lawsuit against Apple and AT&T alleging the companies were deceptive about the iPhone's battery replacement process. The suit, brought by Jose Trujillo, claims customers were not clearly informed that the iPhone was sealed, and that the device would have to be sent away for battery replacement at an additional cost. "Unknown to the plaintiff and undisclosed to the public prior to purchase, the iPhone is a sealed unit with its battery soldered on the inside of the device so that it cannot be changed by the owner," reads the complaint.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/58612.html

au: Minister?s chatroom evidence incomplete: Dr Haneef
Mohammed Haneef, an Indian doctor held on terror charges in Australia, has said that the Internet chatroom evidence presented by Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews did not reveal the full story.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Minister-s-chatroom-evidence-incomplete-Dr-Haneef/0,130061744,339280819,00.htm

au: Concern over how AFP got comments
Federal police are refusing to say how they got snippets of online conversations between Mohamed Haneef and his brother. The Herald asked the Australian Federal Police yesterday how they got the transcript of the internet conversation last month.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647979267.html

au: E-greeting scams snare unwary users
A new form of online scam has hit inboxes across Australia, as Victoria's consumer watchdog advises anyone receiving an unfamiliar e-greeting card notification in their e-mail to delete it immediately.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/E-greeting-scams-snare-unwary-users/0,130061791,339280834,00.htm

Use of web archive did not constitute hacking, says US court
The use of web archive The Wayback Machine did not constitute hacking in the case of a law firm which used the web archive to see pages which owners did not want it to see, a US court has ruled.
http://out-law.com/page-8337

nz: Law catches up with technology
The law may be about to catch up with technology as NZ's copyright laws are updated to take into account people transferring music to iPods and other MP3 players.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/1260588

Half of European calls to be mobile by 2008
Mobile calls are replacing fixed-line usage across Europe, according to a new report from Analysys, but people aren't talking more, they're just using fixed-lines less. The change has been most stark in Finland, where 2006 saw another 10 per cent of calls migrate onto mobile networks; bringing the total to 74.6 per cent at the end of the year.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/31/calls_move_to_mobile/

Second Life Goes Legit
Players in Second Life break plenty of physical laws, flying and teleporting around their virtual world and crafting made-to-order bodies and buildings. Federal laws, however, aren't so flexible. Following an FBI investigation, Linden Labs has banned all forms of gambling from Second Life, according to a posting on the company's blog. Linden Labs had announced in April that it was cooperating with FBI scrutiny of the virtual world, including law enforcement officials' visits to the game's casinos.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/07/26/second-life-gambling-tech-security-cx_ag_0726secondlife.html

Second Life Loses Gamblers But Finds God
An Italian Catholic priest is urging the faithful to participate in Second Life as a way to keep people from losing touch with the real world, though Linden Lab's decision to ban gambling may reconnect more people with reality than spiritual intervention. In the recent issue of La Civilta Cattolica, a Vatican-approved religious journal, the Rev. Antonio Spadaro explores the popularity of Second Life and advises his readers to visit the virtual world. He recommends experiencing the world from the inside to understand its potential and risk.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201201920

comScore reveals UK's changing surfing habits
comScore has unveiled the June results of its World Metrix audience measurement service, and although the top visited sites remain largely unchanged, emerging sites are starting to nip at the heels of the established stalwarts. The company registered a record 31.7 million unique UK visitors to the internet in June, representing 63 per cent of the total UK population age 15 and older. The average internet user in the UK spent almost 35 hours online during the month.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195359/comscore-reveals-uk-changing-surfing-habits

Britain 'failing' net speed tests
There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, research has shown. A survey by consumer group Which? found that broadband packages promising speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second) actually achieved far less.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6924866.stm

New Zealand broadband speeds up [news release]
More broadband subscribers were using faster download speeds at 31 March 2007, Statistics New Zealand said today. Results from the Internet Service Provider Survey for March 2007 show that an increased download speed of 2Mbps to less than 10Mbps had become the predominant download speed for broadband subscribers. The leading upload speed for broadband subscribers continued to be 128kbps to 256kbps.
http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-and-services/media-releases/internet-service-provider-survey/internet-service-provider-survey-mar07-mr.htm

nz: More internet subscribers going faster
The number of broadband internet subscribers is growing and they are using faster download speeds, new information from Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) shows.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4150508a28.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10455434

Facebook continues its rise, but not in Asia
Facebook has continued its inexorable rise as the social networking site of the moment, but questions remain about its ability to tap the Asian market, where other sites are significantly more popular. Facebook's audience grew by more than 270 per cent to 52.2 million users in the 12 months to June ? far outpacing the increase at Bebo (a rise of 172 per cent to 18.2 million) and MySpace, which grew by 72 per cent to 114.1 million.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2180632.ece
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028640

au: Search site cashes in on eco-guilt
The Sydney-based makers of a so-called eco-friendly version of Google claim they're helping to rescue the planet, but all that's really been saved is the piles of money they're banking in the process. Hundreds of thousands of searches a day are conducted by Blackle.com users, who use the search engine instead of Google because they believe they're doing their bit for the environment.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647951527.html

Mediterranean Mystery Solved: Modern technology cracks the code of "the world's first computer"
Just over a century ago, sponge divers working the waters near Antikythera, a Greek island between the mainland and Crete, discovered the wreck of an ancient ship. Now, anyone who has ever gone snorkeling in Greece knows it's not unusual to swim over bits and pieces of the past, usually broken wine and grain pots that once lay in the holds of sunken sailing ships devoured by worms long ago.
http://www.edutopia.org/antikythera-mechanism-ancient-greek-computer

au: The young 'learn from' reality TV
Moral crusaders who want to ban shows such as Big Brother may have overestimated the negative impact reality TV has on young people. A previously unreleased Australian Communications and Media Authority report reveals reality TV may make better citizens of the 15- to 24-year-olds who constitute the principal audience.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,10221,22168360-10229,00.html
http://tvgrapevine.com/index.php?topic=12473.msg43016;topicseen

Flash memory obsolete in 3 years?
A potential replacement for Flash memory could be on sale within three years, with small start-up company Nanochip announcing a new device that will hold eight times as much data as flash memory, while having a cost per gigabyte of up to four times less.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Flash-memory-obsolete-in-3-years-/0,130061702,339280813,00.htm

The Simpsons Movie sparks spam blast
Spammers are jumping on the success of The Simpsons Movie to trick e-mail users into validating their addresses, so they can then send them more spam. Since the launch of the movie on July 27, spammers have been sending messages with an embedded picture of Homer Simpson in his underwear. The text asks if the recipient plans to see the new movie and to fill out a related survey by following an embedded link. If the recipient clicks on the link, the Web site records the e-mail address -- now knowing that there is a valid user -- and sends the address more spam.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028521
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/31/Simpsons-Movie-sparks-spam-blast_1.html

Spam: You?ve Come a Long Way, Baby
According to the majority of the testimony at this month?s ?Spam Summit,? held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the state of the fight against spam is pretty much the same as it has been for the last several years.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/spam_summit_ftc_isp/

War-Driving Pornographic Spammer Escapes Jail Time
A California man who pleaded guilty to using unprotected wireless access accounts to send out porn site advertisements was sentenced to probation and home detention.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202305

Eminem sues Apple over downloads
Rap star Eminem is suing computer firm Apple for allegedly selling his music in its iTunes store without permission.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6926278.stm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647943349.html
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028661

au: Music on discs are still in the pink
Music and technology retailer JB Hi-Fi has dismissed a warning that sales of traditional music formats such as CDs will be halved within four years as digital downloads take over. JB Hi-Fi chief executive Richard Uechtritz said local music sales were "as strong as they've ever been" and there was no indication shoppers would stop buying their music in hard copy.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647948427.html

Wikipedia launches DIY search engine
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has said that just as internet users can contribute to articles on an open-source encyclopedia, so too will they be able to play a hand in the way the web is searched. Mr Wales said that his open-source search engine, which will let users influence the ranking of search results, should be released by the end of the year. The engine will also allow users' computers to help crawl the hundreds of millions of pages on the web, indexing the content of each. 
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2167763.ece

Laser printers pose health risks: study
The office laser printer could be posing as much danger to the lungs as a drag on a cigarette, according to air quality tests by Australian scientists. An investigation of dozens of laser printers revealed that almost 30 per cent emit potentially dangerous levels of tiny toner-like material into the air. These ultra-fine particles are capable of infiltrating the lungs and causing lasting damage on the scale of inhaled cigarette smoke, said researcher Professor Lidia Morawska, from the Queensland University of Technology.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/31/1185647880054.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135297/article.html
http://out-law.com/page-8342

nz: Rural web users pay double in draft decision
Rural phone and internet customers will get the same services as urbanites for twice the price, if a Commerce Commission draft is upheld. The Commission's draft decision on local copper loop unbundling was released today, outlining the monthly rental costs that other companies have to pay Telecom, in order to access their customers.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10454893

Access charge to transform NZ telecoms? [AAP]
The Commerce Commission of New Zealand's proposed charges for access to Telecom's local network have raised hopes that greater telecommunications competition is on the way.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Access-charge-to-transform-NZ-telecoms-/0,130061791,339280722,00.htm

nz: Rural fears over digital divide
Farmers fear they are going to be left in the slow lane of the internet super highway. The Commerce Commission has recommended charges for rivals' use of Telecom's unbundled local loop set the rural rate at $32.20 a month - twice the price of urban areas.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411415/1261062
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=75448

Rural areas to pay more for broadband
Telecom's competitors will pay twice as much to access its copper phone network in rural areas than in cities, if a Commerce Commission draft ruling is upheld.
http://stuff.co.nz/4147572a10.html

Commerce Commission sets draft LLU price
The New Zealand Commerce Commission has issued a draft determination for the prices under which Telecom New Zealand must make unbundled copper local loop and co-location regulated services available to other telecommunications providers.
http://telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=178032

nz: Draft determinations for unbundled local loop [news release]
The Commerce Commission has issued its draft determinations on the price and non-price terms on which Telecom must make unbundled copper local loop and co-location regulated services available to other telecommunications providers. These are the services required to unbundle the local loop.
http://www.comcom.govt.nz//MediaCentre/MediaReleases/200708/draftdeterminationsforunbundledloc.aspx

VoIP Vandals
Internet telephone services like Skype and Vonage are starting to look less like digital gimmicks and more like the next generation of voice communication. They're cheaper than traditional phone services and increasingly fast and reliable. But they may also be far more hackable. Security professionals at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas spent Wednesday outlining the exploitable vulnerabilities in voice over Internet protocol technology, or VoIP. In a series of presentations, they demonstrated ways in which cybercriminals can eavesdrop on VoIP calls, steal data from Internet telephony devices, intercept credit card numbers from VoIP connections and shut connections down altogether.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/08/02/voip-security-flaws-tech-internet-cx_ag_0802techvoip.html

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