including 6 Fortune 500 companies such as Vale, Walt Disney and Kraft Foods
http://english.cntv.cn/program/bizasia/20100715/101006.shtml
See also:
Foreign execs grow impatient with China
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gjrrRGZaqbePid_ozPaUeM4NtOzA
A maturing of ISP services is needed and much more than one with a higher set of numbers attached to meaningless marketing metrics. Broadband needs to be become more dependable with service level agreements (SLAs) placed on even consumer services. Why should consumers, who pay money, not be guaranteed service? After all, when you buy something at the shop you don’t expect to hear that it might not work all the time, so why should this be the case with the provision of consumer broadband services?
ISPs for too long have managed to fleece consumers due to their ignorance. However it seems that as consumers start to realise that there is more to broadband than bandwidth, the ISPs will have to deliver much more than fancy ad campaigns.
While intuition says that competition should lead to better services, consumers are the ones that must drive ISPs towards providing truly useful broadband that has the ability to do so much more than just download small amounts of data very quickly.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1723447/the-bandwidth-race
I had never been called a Communist until I testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
The hearing in late June was on “China’s Information Control Practices and its implications for the U.S.” U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commissioner Carolyn Bartholomew was introducing me as an expert on China’s leading search engine company, Baidu.com, and the Internet. What she meant to say was that I am a “columnist” for Forbes–a slip of tongue she immediately corrected.
http://silicondragon.blogspot.com/2010/07/making-sense-of-china-google-and.html
The final product will be a documentary called “Life in a Day“. It’s going to be a user generated documentary, filmed through the eyes of real people, about a single day — July 24th, 2010
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/youtubes-movie-experiment-starts-today/2314
Online porn, the gray line which turns black. There are approximately 370 million porn sites, approximately $3,000 is spent on internet porn each second, “sex” is the top search word worldwide (25% of searches).
Cable and Pay Per View porn is valued at $2.5 billion, the Internet at $2.5 billion, and child pornography at $3 billion yearly.
Approximately 100 thousand websites offer illegal child pornography, sexual solicitations in chat rooms to youth are at 89%.
The online porn problem permeates our culture from young to old, and priest to con. Primarily a male agenda/problem, women also frequent porn sites, though at a lesser number. As expected, one of the largest users of porn sites are older male teens. And sometimes, your kid is online with these people, unknowingly. Perhaps, he even gives out his phone number. (I know kids who have foolishly posted their addresses and phone numbers online.)
This is a call for the eradication of online porn, beginning in the home. The governments around the world will only do so much. Pornography is a multimillion dollar industry. Money talks, eyes are blinded, heads are turned.
Online child pornography/child sexual exploitation investigations, which are worked under the FBI’s Innocent Images National Initiative, accounted for 39 percent of all investigations worked under the FBI’s Cyber Division in fiscal year 2007.
http://www.basilandspice.com/journal/72010-kids-sex-porn-and-the-internet-by-liz-colado.html
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Man had 184 child porn vids on computer
Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who handled the case, stated that between April 18, 2006 and June 8, 2009, Brown received images and videos of child pornography using internet file sharing programs, including LimeWire. On June 13, 2008, a search warrant was conducted at Brown’s Buffalo home and his computer was seized. A forensic analysis revealed a total of 2400 images and 184 videos of child pornography stored on the computer. http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/buffalo/Man-had-184-child-porn-vids-on-computer
70-Year-Old Former Cop Arrested on Child Porn Charges
According to authorities, Haley — a retired police officer who worked on the force for 30 years — admitted to downloading, viewing and sharing child pornography through Limewire file-sharing network, reports the Daily News.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/70-Year-Old-Former-Cop-Arrested-on-Child-Porn-Charges-98929334.html
Washington Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge
Over 2,000 images of child pornography were seized in computers and electronic storage devices. In addition to downloading child pornography from the Internet, the investigation showed that Keith Ivers had been sharing his files over the Internet using a file sharing program. http://7thspace.com/headlines/351752/washington_man_sentenced_on_child_pornography_charge.html
Newington man sentenced to federal prison for possessing child pornography
On July 16, 2008, the FBI conducted a court-authorized search of the Horizon Hill residence and seized a desktop computer. Agents also interviewed Besaw, who acknowledged that he used a peer-to-peer program to download images of child pornography. http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/07/22/news/doc4c48b0a76159f165713725.txt
Sex pest jailed for thousands of child porn photographs
Jeremy Jenkins, prosecuting, said Beard had only been caught following an investigation conducted in Scotland under the name Operation Defender involving serious sexual crimes against a 13-year-old girl groomed through a social networking site.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/south-wales-news/pontypridd-llantrisant/2010/07/01/sex-pest-jailed-for-thousands-of-child-porn-photographs-91466-26751858/
Man, 68, pleads guilty to child porn possesion
Using information from the ISP, Sudbury police were able to track the computer to Brignolio’s home and conducted a search there about 9:30 on Oct. 26, 2007. A computer was found running in Brignolio’s bedroom. The wallpaper image on the screen was of “a young naked girl with her legs wide open,” said Superior Court Court Justice Patricia Hennessy. Police seized the computer and found it contained 147 pictures of child pornography and 1,444 videos. Roy said Brignolio used his Limewire account to download the videos and images to his own computer, storing them in various folders he personally created.
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2682256
Roseburg teacher arrested on child porn charges
At about 1:15 p.m., two officers contacted Derlacki at his apartment on North Skylee Drive. They obtained his consent to look at files on his laptop and allegedly found more than 500 files that contained images or video of youth that “were clearly under the age of 18,” Dunbar said.
Dunbar said police believe Derlacki downloaded the files from an online file-sharing site.
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20100706/NEWS/100709889/1063/NEWS&ParentProfile=1055
Man facing child pornography charges
When police arrived at Terrell Cressman’s home in East Rockhill, they asked him if he knew why they were there, records indicate.
He nodded toward his computer and replied, “Because of the child pornography,” according to a criminal complaint.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer/the_intelligencer_news_details/article/27/2010/july/03/man-facing-child-pornography-charges.html
MP wants ID checks on pre-paid credit cards
Geraint Davies (…)wants people buying the cards to provide proof of ID and address to prevent them being used to purchase child porn on the internet. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2010/07/22/mp-wants-id-checks-on-pre-paid-credit-cards-91466-26904925/
Last weekend’s arrest of former Williamstown headmaster David Harris on charges of possession of child pornography sent shockwaves through the community, leaving many with questions of how a respected individual could have allegedly taken part in such a heinous crime.
“The child pornography cases we investigate don’t involve 18-, 19- or 20-year-olds pretending to be younger,” (…). “Typically the cases involve images or movies of children who are very young — 2, 3 or 4 — being violently raped.”
“People have to understand that it’s not just websites, it’s more peer-to-peer file sharing networks, news-share groups, blogs and bulletin boards,” Kerle said. ”The Internet and its applications are neutrally designed, without good or bad intentions,” he said. “A photo site can be designed for families to easily share pictures across the country. This technology gets co-opted by child pornographers.”
He said things are complicated even more by every advance in technology.
“Digital cameras really eliminated the need to have film developed,” he said. “Social networking sites allow for private groups and there are websites where like-minded people exchange porn with live cameras — one person does the abusing and the rest of the participants watch.” But the fight against child pornography has made strides in recent years, with the forming of state task forces and help from companies within the computer and Internet industries.
“We work very closely with the ICAC and investigate every tip,” Shehan said. “The average citizen should have zero tolerance for this crime. In addition to reporting to us, they can make reports to Internet Service Providers, which are federally mandated to make reports to us.”
Since the inception of its Cyber Tipline (www.cybertipline.com) in 1998, the National Center has received 923,000 tips — all of which have been investigated. Analysts have viewed 36 million images of child pornography, identifying about 3,000 children since 2002.
Full article: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_15595764
Richard Buis (…) was a vice president at Lethbridge College. Police allege that between 2008-2010 the accused downloaded and accessed video files via the Internet of preteen children engaged in sexual acts and that he made those files available to others.
According to information in the search warrant application, members of the college’s IT Services department had orders from Buis not to access any of his computers unless he was present. IT personnel considered his direction odd because no one else on staff, including the college president, imposed such restrictions. They didn’t question it, however, because of Buis’s high-ranking position at the institution at the time. Buis wasn’t having his computer files backed up in the normal manner on the college server either, the application states, but was instead saving backups on local drives, known as time capsules. An investigator noted in (…) that several of the video files contained Internet search terms known by police to be specific to the child porn world. One such term was PTHC which, according to police, stands for Pre Teen Hard Core.
It left Venables free to scour the web for child pornography and swap horrific images with other paedophiles, one of whom was named as Lesley Blanchard. A police officer arrived later and the computer was found to have contained 57 indecent pictures and videos of children, some as young as two. Some of the videos showed a girl being raped. Venables admitted downloading the images, telling police: “I’m not a fool. I know the police can still get things off the hard drive.” However, he denied using chat rooms to contact other paedophiles until he was confronted with evidence of his exchanges with Blanchard, at which point he refused to answer any more questions.
See also:
Bulger killer Venables jailed over child abuse images
