2009 October: The Internet

2009 October: The Internet

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Topics: Advertising blogging browsers children collaboration companies copyright cyber crime email file sharing graphics hacking history international misuse mobile multimedia payment politics search social spam surfing technology texting viruses web sites women

Blogging

(see also Social and Web Sites)

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George Ballantine, Cuba bloggers test government limits, BBC, 2009 Oct. 8 (Cuba's dynamic emerging blogging community has recently been testing the limits of free expression with posts ranging from vivid accounts of everyday life to sometimes risky calls for political change in the Communist-run state)
Maggie Shiels, Blogger marks 10 year milestone, BBC, 2009 Oct. 7 (in an age when online dialogue lasts no more than 140 characters, some have pondered just how relevant the business of blogging remains)

Browsers

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EU approves new Microsoft pledges, BBC, 2009 Oct. 7 (the European Union voices its approval for Microsoft's latest pledges to curb its anti-competitive practices)

Companies

(see also in Computing)

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Google sees record $1.6bn profit, BBC, 2009 Oct. 16 (Google has reported its highest quarterly profit, suggesting that the internet advertising market is bouncing back from the recession)
Leon Gettler, Is Google getting too big to 'do no evil'?, The Age, 2009 Oct. 14 (phenomenal as its growth has been so far, Google's march is just beginning)
Google hits back at book critics, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company's plans to create what could be the world's largest virtual library)

Electronic Mail and Text Messages

(see also Spam and in Technology)

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File Sharing and Collaboration

(see also in Business and Technology)

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AP, Boston Globe, Treasure trove of books to go online, The Age, 2009 Oct. 12 (one of the biggest collections of rare Chinese books outside China is to become freely available as Harvard University has agreed to digitise the titles)
Miriam Steffens, iiNet says piracy claim exaggerated, The Age, 2009 Oct. 8 (in the movie industry's landmark case over illegal film downloads, internet service provider iiNet has launched its counter-attack calling the movie studios' claims of tens of thousands of copyright infringements over its network “highly exaggerated” and “out of kilter”)
Miriam Steffens, First shots fired in the internet movie download wars, The Age, 2009 Oct. 7 (the opening salvo of the landmark case by Australian and US film studios against internet service provider iiNet over illegal movie downloads featured gunshots in the Federal Court yesterday as lawyers showed a bank robbery from Batman's Dark Knight to illustrate the copyright piracy the company is alleged to allow its customers)

Hacking and Viruses

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International

(see also in Technology)

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Misuse and Cyber Crime

(see also in Business and Social)

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Farrah Tomazin, Stemming the tide of cyber bullying, The Age, 2009 Oct. 13 (the latest research from Edith Cowan University suggests that on any given day, about 100,000 Australian children will be bullied at school; and between 10-15 per cent are cyber bullied through social networking websites, instant online messaging, mobile phones or other forms of digital technology)
Bill Thompson, How to stop becoming phish food, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (Safeguards to stop people falling for phishing scams are not working; we need a different approach)
Q&A: Phishing for your precious data, BBC, 2009 Oct. 7 ("phishing"—an increasingly diverse and sophisticated suite of methods to trick people into parting with their precious personal data—is at a two-year high; here the BBC takes a look at the phenomenon and how to protect yourself)
'Phishing' raids in US and Egypt, BBC, 2009 Oct. 7 (police in the US and in Egypt arrest dozens of people accused of links to an alleged identity theft ring targeting US banks)
John Silvester, Caught in the web, The Age, 2009 Oct. 1 (Victorian police are using cutting-edge technology and internet stings to swoop on hundreds of suspected child sex offenders)

Mobile Internet

(see also in Technology)

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Multimedia and Graphics

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One billion a day turn to YouTube, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (video website YouTube says it now handles over a billion video requests a day, three years after being bought out by Google)

Payment and Advertising

(see also in Business)

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Politics

(see also in Social)

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Search and Surfing

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Websites 'need to pay for news', BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (Rupert Murdoch says it is time for internet search engines to start to pay for any news reports they currently take for free)

Social

Spam

Technology

Simon Hancock, Iceland looks to serve the world, BBC, 2009 Oct. 9 (if a large internet media company operating thousands and thousands of servers relocated its servers to Iceland, that company would save greater than half a million metric tons of carbon annually)

Web sites

(see also Blogging and Social)

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Paul McIntyre, Fairfaxes back generation next's ticket venture, The Age, 2009 Oct. 16 (Marinya Media has emerged as a key investor with Jack Singleton and the former ninemsn chief executive Tony Faure in an online venture aimed at shifting an estimated $1.7 billion in unsold entertainment and sporting tickets each year in Australia)
Simon Webster, Roar deal on the net, The Age, 2009 Oct. 4 (the BBC has opened the world's biggest online zoo, with hundreds of animals on display on the corporation's website)

Women and Children

(see also in Health and Social)

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