Experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will address security, openness, privacy, and other issues at the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set for September 14-17 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/09/07
Overall schedule of all IGF 2010 events:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2010/schedule/WorkshopSchedule_Vilnius201009.htm
5th Internet Governance Forum – Joint Statement by Bernard Kouchner and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (September 14-17, 2010)
Joint Statement by Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy.
The hackers targeted a vulnerability in the site’s software to offload the malicious files, causing sections of The Pirate Bay to be blocked by Google, Firefox and several virus scanners.
http://torrentfreak.com/hackers-target-and-exploit-pirate-bay-ad-server-100913
http://www.groundreport.com/US/Public-voice-against-the-regulatory-action-to-bloc/2928670
From U2 to the Indian Premier League to the White House to E3, we’ve worked closely with our partners to give you a front row seat to a wide array of live events. Today and tomorrow, tune in as we open a new chapter of YouTube live streaming. Starting at 8:00 a.m. PT, we will begin a limited trial of a new live streaming platform in conjunction with four of our partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood.
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/09/testing-testingyoutube-begins-trial-of.html
“Automation is vital to implementing security and simplicity across the new network and, with Junos as the single operating system running across the data center infrastructure, China Mobile Shaanxi can streamline operations, eliminate downtime and enable the network to be used at its maximum potential,” Marcellin added.
China WiMAX Communications, Inc., a multinational telecommunications and Internet service company, has signed a letter of intent “LOI” so as to acquire majority interest in a regional Chinese basic telecom partner. China WiMAX believes that the Chinese telecom operator with revenue of $ 3M has significant growth potential within and throughout China and hence the step is crucial for China Wi-Max’s expansion.
French Web Hosting Leader Deploys Pan-European Network
OVH, France’s largest web hosting company, has selected Infinera’s unique digital architecture for its pan-European network. OVH has deployed an Infinera Digital Optical Network to offer high-speed connections with reliability, flexibility, and intelligent management throughout its network.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ovh-selects-infinera-for-international-expansion-2010-09-13
“Were people always this aware of such diverse forms of music?” My curiosity ran rampant, and I was moved to do some light research on the topic. My research confirmed my suspicion. I couldn’t find another time in the modern era when the lines separating genres of music had been so nonexistent, not just in the diversity of the music we listen to but also in the actual music being created.
http://www.diamondbackonline.com/opinion/file-sharing-diversifying-our-lives-1.1594197
These two columns by respected writers point to an unfortunate tendency among reporters who peer down from Olympian heights onto the world of mortals to bless a compromise as a way to settle a dispute, regardless whether the compromise is productive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/purists-and-zealots-for-i_b_711961.html
For a long while, we have benefitted from a past over-investment in network infrastructure. Back during the dot-com boom, many companies, falsely predicting that internet traffic was going to double every three months, laid a lot of pipe in the ground. They went bankrupt, but their investments were auctioned off and form a large portion of the network we use today.
Unfortunately, the one-time gift from the bankrupted bandwidth backers is not enough to fuel the internet forever. Internet traffic may not be doubling every three months, but it is still doubling every nine months, and this growth may accelerate as we see wider adoption of online video and peer-to-peer applications. The future will not be, as some net neutrality advocates believe, one of limitless bandwidth forever.
A federal judge allowed the holder of the copyright for a movie to subpoena the names of individuals accused of illegally downloading the film, according to the AP.
If ivi, Inc. is to be believed, the cable business is about to have another challenger — and customers will get a new reason to cut the cord.
The Seattle based start-up is launching an app on Monday that it says will give viewers live access to more than 20 channels including networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The CW, and PBS — all for just $4.99.
Moreover, unlike video on demand services such as Hulu or Netflix — which have also been seen as a threat to the cable industry – ivi will offer its customers real-time news and sports.
One thing that seems suspect, however, is that ivi says that no contracts are in place with any of the networks. Indeed, networks contacted by TheWrap did not seem to be aware of the start-up’s existence, let alone its plans to retransmit their content.
More: http://www.thewrap.com/television/article/thanks-copyright-gray-area-ivi-offers-live-tv-online-20777
So that’s all well and good until you, like Queerty, do some more legitimate and less specific searches that just so happen to sometimes overlap with porn, and you find out that Google Instant also censors the results for “lesbian,” “bisexual,” and “orgasm.”
http://www.geekosystem.com/google-instant-inconsistent-censorship/
consortium led by NTT Docomo to be the developer of infrastructure for a new system to broadcast music, sports, news and movies to mobile devices to be launched in April 2012.
MTV Networks Digital, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks (MTVN) and AT&T, teamed up to offer the music enthusiasts a first-of-its-kind online phone unit.
The malware contained keystroke logging software and a backdoor component. The worm, whose propagation recalled mass mailers of the past such as the Anna Kournikova worm, spread most widely in the US, where it infected systems such as Disney, Wells Fargo and NASA, among others.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/hacker_claims_credit_for_here_you_have_worm/
The prevalence of pirated Microsoft software in Russia is allegedly giving the Russian authorities a pretext to raid the offices of political opponents and news organizations, with the help of Microsoft lawyers.
