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- US briefs allies about next WikiLeaks release (AP)
- Convictions upheld in Pirate Bay file-sharing case (AP)
- Japan iPhone craze attracts global app developers (AP)
- Apple posts Black Friday deals (Macworld)
- Apple buys HP land to accommodate growth (Reuters)
- Windows Phone 7 Deals Via Carriers, Costco, Amazon (PC Magazine)
- Egypt Facebook pages vanish before vote: members (Reuters)
- Court shortens Pirate Bay executives' prison terms (AFP)
- U.S. Government Seizes and Shutters Torrent-Finder.com (Mashable)
- Free Image Editors for Everyone--Even Experts (PC World)
- US contacts Turkey over WikiLeaks files: diplomat (AFP)
| US briefs allies about next WikiLeaks release (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 08:29 PM PST LONDON – U.S. allies around the world have been briefed by American diplomats about an expected release of classified U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations' relations with the United States. The release of hundreds of thousands of State Department cables is expected this weekend, although WikiLeaks has not been specific about the timing. The cables are thought to include private, candid assessments of foreign leaders and governments and could erode trust in the U.S. as a diplomatic partner. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman, Steve Field, said Friday that the government had been told of "the likely content of these leaks" by U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman. Field declined to say what Britain had been warned to expect. "I don't want to speculate about precisely what is going to be leaked before it is leaked," Field said. In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said U.S. diplomats were continuing the process of warning governments around the world about what might be in the documents. Many fear the cables will embarrass the United States and its allies, and reveal sensitive details of how the U.S. conducts relations with other countries. "We are all bracing for what may be coming and condemn WikiLeaks for the release of classified material," he said. "It will place lives and interests at risk. It is irresponsible." The Obama administration on Friday warned that the WikiLeaks release would endanger "lives and interests." Italy's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said he spoke Friday with the U.S. State Department, which told him that there would be documents regarding Italy in the leak, "but the content can't be anticipated." "We're talking about thousands and thousands of classified documents that the U.S. will not comment on, as is their custom," Frattini said. The governments of Canada and Norway also said they had been briefed by U.S. officials. Israel's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on a report that it, too, had been informed. In Iraq, U.S. Ambassador James F. Jeffrey told reporters that the leaks represent a serious obstacle to international diplomacy. "We are worried about additional documents coming out," he said. "WikiLeaks are an absolutely awful impediment to my business, which is to be able to have discussions in confidence with people. I do not understand the motivation for releasing these documents. They will not help, they will simply hurt our ability to do our work here." In Norway, U.S. officials released a statement from the ambassador to the newspaper Dagbladet with the understanding that it would not be published until after the WikiLeaks material came out, but the newspaper published the material ahead of time. It quoted U.S. Ambassador to Norway Barry White saying that, while he could not vouch for the authenticity of the documents, he expected them to contain U.S. officials' candid assessments of political leaders and political movements in other countries. He said diplomats had to be able to have private, honest discussions to do their jobs. The Obama administration said earlier this week that it had alerted Congress and begun notifying foreign governments that the whistle-blowing website is preparing to release a huge cache of diplomatic cables whose publication could give a behind-the-scenes look at American diplomacy around the world. "These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests," U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world." Diplomatic cables are internal documents that would include a range of secret communications between U.S. diplomatic outposts and State Department headquarters in Washington. WikiLeaks has said the release will be seven times the size of its October leak of 400,000 Iraq war documents, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history. The U.S. says it has known for some time that WikiLeaks held the diplomatic cables. No one has been charged with passing them to the website, but suspicion focuses on U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak. Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, said Friday that he had been "told that the person responsible for this leak has been arrested." The Italian Foreign Ministry later said Frattini was talking about Manning. WikiLeaks, which also has released secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan, was founded by Julian Assange. The Australian former computer hacker is currently wanted by Sweden for questioning in a drawn-out rape probe. Assange, 39, is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He has denied the allegations, which stem from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden. ___ AP writers Rebecca Santana in Baghdad, Matthew Lee in Washington, and Bjoern H. Amland in Oslo contributed to this report. |
| Convictions upheld in Pirate Bay file-sharing case (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 06:54 AM PST STOCKHOLM – A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts by authorities to shut it down. The Svea Appeals Court agreed with a lower court ruling that found Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping users of the site to break Sweden's copyright law. However, the appeals court reduced their prison sentences from one year each to between four and 10 months and raised the amount they have to pay in damages to the entertainment industry to 46 million kronor ($6.5 million). The lower court had set damages at 32 million kronor ($4.5 million). A fourth man convicted by the lower court, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, didn't appear in the appeals court hearings, citing illness. The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the entertainment industry for years by helping millions of people illegally download music, movies and computer games. The defendants have denied any wrongdoing, saying the site doesn't actually host any copyright-protected material itself. Instead, it provides a forum for its users to download content through so-called torrent files. The technology allows users to transfer parts of a large file from several different users, increasing download speeds. Neij's defense lawyer, Jonas Nilsson, said he wasn't surprised but disappointed by the appeals court ruling and said they would probably appeal to the Supreme Court. It was not clear whether Sunde and Lundstrom would appeal. Their lawyers did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Swedish authorities have been unable to shut down The Pirate Bay despite the guilty verdicts. But Monique Wadsted, a lawyer representing entertainment companies including Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, said she believes the site's days are numbered. "My assessment is that in two years this type of piracy activity will be completely dead," she said. Others were not so sure. "People won't stop file-sharing because of this," said Andre Rickardsson, an expert on file-sharing and information technology security at Sweden's Bitsec Consulting. "All that is going to happen is that this type of operations will just be moved to other countries," he said. "There are no frontiers for the Internet." |
| Japan iPhone craze attracts global app developers (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:27 AM PST TOKYO – The iPhone's popularity in Japan is cracking open an industry long thought inaccessible to outsiders. For years, the typical Japanese cell phone — built to operate on a network hardly used anywhere else in the world — has been stuffed with quirky games and other applications that cater to finicky local tastes. That helps explain why Japan's mobile phone industry earned the nickname "Galapagos" — drawing parallels to the exotic animals that evolved on the isolated islands off South America — and why cell phones are called "galakei," which combines "keitai," the Japanese word for cell phone, with Galapagos. Foreign developers of applications for phones didn't give the Japanese market a second thought because of its insularity. But that is changing as the iPhone, for which tens of thousands of applications have been created, dominates Japanese smartphone sales. Everywhere one turns, on commuter trains and urban cafes, people are tapping away at their iPhone screens in a relatively rare Japanese embrace of technology that isn't homegrown. Azusa Furushima, a 22-year-old college student, who has an iPhone in a glittery Hello Kitty case, says she already has about 35 apps, including those for dieting and practicing typing. American and other foreign developers for the iPhone now have eyes on this potentially lucrative market. And Japanese users, thanks to galakei culture that has long had services that charged small fees, such as "i-mode," are used to paying for their applications. "Japanese are well-educated. They will pay for applications," said Brian Lee, a manager at Taiwan-based Penpower Inc., which sells an app for digitally organizing business cards. "A lot of developers are coming into this market." Japanese developers, previously trapped into targeting galakei, in turn have a chance for a piece of the global iPhone pie, which topped 3 billion application downloads globally in less than 18 months, according to Apple. Apple takes 30 percent of the application sales, but the rest goes to developers. Apple doesn't give iPhone sales breakdowns by country. But Japan makes up a significant chunk of the 70 million iPhones sold worldwide so far, including a record 14.1 million last quarter. Smartphones, mostly iPhone models which top sales rankings, make up 16 percent of Japanese cell phone sales of 35 million a year, according to Gfk Marketing Services Japan, which track such data. Finnish developer Rovio Mobile, behind the "Angry Birds" game, which has racked up 27 million global downloads in a year, introduced a Japanese-language version a month ago. The game, which features bubbly headed peevish birds that fight pig-like creatures, has been No. 1 in iPhone games in the U.S. and 70 other nations. Hopes are high to move up from No. 6 to No. 1 someday in Japan as well. Erin Gleason, spokeswoman for Foursquare, a popular U.S. location-based mobile application, says the service, which has more than 4 million users worldwide, is arriving in Japan soon, although she said details won't be disclosed until early 2011. "We will be focusing on internationalization in the next couple of quarters, and we feel that Japan is an important market for us," she said. The growing sales of smartphones running the Android operating system from Google Inc. are expected to expand the application business even further, from not just Softbank Corp., the only carrier to offer the iPhone, to giant rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI Corp. Japanese electronic maker Sharp Corp. is even bringing out Android mobile devices called Galapagos — in a tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation that underlines the Japanese electronics maker's ambitions for global appeal. Cashing in on the iPhone fad comes in all sizes. Hawken King, a 32-year-old Briton, who founded a tiny venture in Tokyo called Dadako, which means "brat" in Japanese, is doing all right, selling his product to just 20,000 iPhone users around the world. About half of them are American, but a third are Japanese. His 350 yen "Facemakr" allows people to easily and smoothly create avatars, or facial likenesses, on iPhone's touch panel, choosing images of noses, eyes and hairstyles. It costs $2.99 in the U.S. Developers like King say the success of the iPhone has evened out the playing field, allowing for a diverse range of products, rather than a winner-take-all or carrier-controlled market, which in the past favored established companies over newcomers. "We'll soon see a wave of outside prospectors flooding in for the gold in the hills of Omotesando and Harajuku," predicts Mark Hiratsuka, director of Snapp Media, an independent mobile application promoter, referring to the Tokyo areas equivalent of Silicon Valley. "Right now, only the very smartest developers are aware of the potential here. We're about to see that bust wide open," he said. ___ Online: "Angry Birds": http://www.rovio.com/ "Facemakr": http://www.facemakr.com/ Penpower Inc.: http://www.penpowerinc.com/ |
| Apple posts Black Friday deals (Macworld) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 07:47 AM PST Apple has kicked off its Black Friday sale—known to the rest of the world as the day after those silly Americans celebrate Thanksgiving—with discounted prices on Macs, iPads, iPods, software, headphones, speakers, accessories, and more. Discounts range from a few dollars on some Apple keyboards, mice, and docks, to $101 on some Mac systems. Some examples: Apple is selling iPads for $41 off, and Bowers & Wilkins' P5 Mobile Headphones for $72 off. The sale is good Friday, November 26 only, both online and in Apple retail stores. It's worth noting that only some items are on sale. If you've been waiting for a discount on a Mac Pro, you'll have to keep waiting. |
| Apple buys HP land to accommodate growth (Reuters) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:37 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc is expanding the size of its Cupertino, California, home base, acquiring nearby facilities from computer pioneer and competitor Hewlett Packard Co. The offices will give the maker of the iPhone more room for its employees as the company continues to grow, said Apple spokesman Steve Dowling. "We now occupy 57 buildings in Cupertino and our campus is bursting at the seams," he said. Apple's real estate transaction was first reported by The San Jose Mercury News earlier this week, which said the deal would give Apple an additional 98 acres of land, roughly doubling the size of the company's home base in Cupertino. Apple, which had 46,600 full-time employees worldwide at the end of September, did not disclose the price it paid for the HP real estate. (Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic, editing by Matthew Lewis) |
| Windows Phone 7 Deals Via Carriers, Costco, Amazon (PC Magazine) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:08 AM PST If you're looking to add a Windows Phone 7 to someone's stocking this year, AT&T, T-Mobile, Costco, and Amazon are offering the Microsoft devices starting at $49.99. Shoppers who buy one Windows Phone 7 from AT&T or T-Mobile get the second one free, Microsoft tweeted earlier today. Users will need to sign up for a two-year service contract with a data plan and pay $199.99 for the first device. The deal applies to AT&T's LG Quantum, HTC Surround, and Samsung Focus, as well as the HTC HD7 from T-Mobile. Amazon Wireless, meanwhile, is offering Windows Phone 7 devices for as low as $49.99. New T-Mobile customers can purchase an HTC HD7 for $49.99 with a two-year contract, while existing customers can upgrade for $99.99. AT&T's Samsung Focus is also available for $49.99 to new customers, and is selling for $149.99 for existing customers. The LG Quantum and HTC Surround, meanwhile, are $49.99 for new and existing customers. At Costco, members can order the HTC HD7 and Samsung Focus online for $99.99 or LG Quantum for $29.99 with a two-year contract. Existing T-Mobile customers can upgrade to the HTC HD7 for $129.99, while AT&T customers can upgrade to the Samsung Focus for $99.99 and the LG Quantum for $49.99. For more Windows Phone 7 deals, follow the Microsoft WP7 Twitter feed. |
| Egypt Facebook pages vanish before vote: members (Reuters) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:29 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Egyptian opposition pages on the social network site Facebook were deleted from the Internet ahead of Egypt's parliamentary election on Sunday then restored after discussions with the site's administrators, web activists who run the pages said on Friday. The activists said they suspected the Egyptian government had played a role in the disappearance of the pages, possibly by covertly bombarding Facebook with complaints about the pages that resulted in their removal, but offered no evidence to support the allegation. Egyptian interior and information ministry officials were unavailable for comment on Friday, a holiday in Egypt. Facebook said in an email message that its security systems, designed to protect users on the site, had led it to remove the pages. "We have been working with political and human rights groups both inside and outside of Egypt since this was brought to our attention to explain the measures they need to take to keep their accounts and associated activity within the site rules," said Stefano Hesse, Facebook head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa Stefano Hesse said. "This has led to the two large pages that were of most concern being reinstated," he added. The web is one of the few public platforms for dissident voices in a country where an emergency law in place since 1981 makes political activism a challenge by hampering efforts to establish a popular, united opposition movement. "It is strange that the two biggest Facebook pages in Egypt and the Arab world are all of a sudden deleted," one activist, who ran one of the pages but did not want to be named, told Reuters. One page, called "We are all Khaled Said" and with 330,000 registered users, reappeared 15 hours later after Egyptians living abroad pressed Facebook's administrators to reinstate it, the page's creators said. The second, called "Mohamed ElBaradei" after the former U.N. nuclear watchdog chief, an Egyptian native who led a now-fizzled constitutional reform campaign, resurfaced later on Friday. That page boasted 298,000 users. Khaled Said was a web activist who human rights groups say was killed as a result of police brutality but state authorities say died by choking on drugs. It is Egypt's largest such page. Facebook campaigns played a key role in galvanizing protests in 2008 against rising prices and low wages that led to clashes with police in the city of Mahalla el-Kubra. Sunday's parliamentary vote is widely expected to produce a routine victory of President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party, following a state-run crackdown on media in recent weeks. The government has shut 12 television stations and forced a number of government critics off the air, saying the channels aired content that violated their permits. Its founders told Reuters the Khaled Said page had called for a day of anger on Friday to commemorate the death of another Egyptian, Ahmed Shabaan, 19, whose body was found in a canal in Alexandria last week. "Facebook decided to close the page after the arrival of a large number of complaints from sources who want to silence our voice," one of its founders said. (Editing by Noah Barkin) |
| Court shortens Pirate Bay executives' prison terms (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 08:15 AM PST STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased the damages to be paid to movie and music firms. "The Appeals Court, like the district court, finds that The Pirate Bay service makes possibly illegal filesharing in a way that entails a punishable offence for those who run the service," the court said in its ruling. Three founders of the site, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, both 32, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 26, were in April 2009 found guilty of promoting copyright infringement with the website. The verdict, considered an important symbolic victory for the movie and recording industry, handed the three founders along with an important financier of the site, 50-year-old Carl Lundstroem, sentences of one year in prison. On Friday, the Svea Appeals Court shortened Neij's sentence to 10 months, Sunde's to eight months and Lundstroem's to four months. Warg, the third co-founder, did not take part in the appeals trial due to illness. He will face a separate trial probably next year. "Unlike the lower court, the appeals court does not believe one can make such a collective decision entailing that everyone carries the same responsibility for what is done within the framework of The Pirate Bay," the court explained. "Each one will be puinished only for the acts he has committed himself," judge Ulrika Ihrfelt told reporters in Stockholm. Lundstroem's sentence, for instance, was considerably reduced because the court had not found enough evidence to prove the allegations against him, she explained. However, the court ruled that instead of paying around 32 million kronor (3.4 million euros, 4.5 million dollars) in damages to the movie and recording industries, the amount should be hiked to 46 million kronor. "This is because the Appeals Court to a larger extent than the district court has accepted the plaintiffs' presented evidence of their losses," the court said. Ihrfelt however added that the hike in compensation would be "marginal" and still lead to most of the plaintiffs being compensated at less than half their claims. The Nordic film companies however would be compensated to the full level of their claims, Ihrfelt said. Signe Rocklin, a 23-year-old member of the pro-filesharing Pirate Party at the court Friday, said the ruling was disappointing, "but not completely unexpected either." The recording industry, on the other hand, praised the court's decision. "Today's judgement confirms the illegality of The Pirate Bay and the seriousness of the crimes of those involved," International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) chief executive Frances Moore said in a statement. "We now look to governments and ISPs (Internet service providers) to take note of this judgement, do the responsible thing and take the necessary steps to get The Pirate Bay shut down," she said. Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay, which claims to have more than 23 million users, makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site. During last year's trial, the defendants maintained that filesharing services can be used both legally and illegally, insisting their activities were within the law. They vowed to wage a lengthy legal battle and to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary. |
| U.S. Government Seizes and Shutters Torrent-Finder.com (Mashable) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 11:54 AM PST Torrent-Finder.com is down today; the site was apparently seized by government agencies for reasons unknown. In all likelihood, the site was taken down due to intellectual property concerns including copyright infringement and trafficking in counterfeit goods. The agencies named in the notice include the Department of Justice, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of Homeland Security Investigations. While torrenting in general is one of the seedier parts of the underbelly of the Internet, Torrent-Finder itself did not host or link to any torrents. Instead, it simply acted as a sort of torrent search engine, returning iframes with other sites that do contain torrent links. If you'd like to see how the site works for yourself, you can check out Torrent-Finder.info, which hasn't apparently popped up on the government's radar yet. This technicality was apparently not enough to keep the hounds at bay, however. Currently, the site's homepage looks like this: Most troubling of all, however, are statements made by the owner of Torrent-Finder.com. He told the bloggers at TorrentFreak that his site was seized "without any previous complaint or notice from any court... While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. Godaddy had no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the situation, and they say it was totally from ICANN." What do you make of this site's seizure by the U.S. government? In the struggle to protect copyrighted works, should the powers that be still have to notify site owners that their websites are in violation? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. |
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| US contacts Turkey over WikiLeaks files: diplomat (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 11:45 AM PST ANKARA (AFP) – The United States has been in contact with Turkey over new files to be released on the Internet by WikiLeaks, Turkish officials said Friday, stressing Ankara's commitment to fighting terrorism. According to media reports, the planned release by the whistle-blowing website includes papers suggesting that Turkey helped Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq, and that the United States helped Iraq-based Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey. The US embassy in Ankara "gave us information on the issue, just as other countries have been informed," a senior diplomat, who declined to be named, told AFP. He would not say what message the US conveyed. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara did not know what kind of papers the files contained. "This is speculation... But as a principle, tolerating or ignoring any terrorist action that originates in Turkey and targets a neighbouring country, particularly Iraq, is out of the question," he said on CNN Turk television. "The Iraqi authorities have conveyed no complaint to us on the issue.... On the contrary, Turkey has taken very serious measures in the struggle against Al-Qaeda and its efforts have always been appreciated. "We have always been in close cooperation with the United States in the struggle against terrorism -- be it Al-Qaeda or the PKK," he said. The minister was referring to the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has rear bases in neighbouring northern Iraq and uses the region as a springboard for attacks on Turkey. Davutoglu added that if the alleged documents "come out, if this really happens, then we will make the necessary evaluation." He spoke shortly ahead of his departure to Washington for previously scheduled talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Turkish diplomat also praised US support against the PKK, listed as a terrorist group by both Ankara and Washington and much of the international community. "We have efficient cooperation against the PKK with our ally and friend, the United States. We are happy with it and we hope it will continue," he said. A US embassy official declined to comment on the planned WikiLeaks release, saying it was "pure speculation." She also reaffirmed US commitment to helping Turkey combat the PKK, whose 26-year armed campaign in southeast Turkey has claimed some 45,000 lives. US policy "has never been nor will ever be in support of the PKK. Anything that implies otherwise is nonsense," she said. "We are committed together with the Turkish government in fighting terrorism, whether from Al-Qaeda or the PKK." WikiLeaks has not said what will be contained in its upcoming release, indicating only it will be "seven times" the size of the Iraq War logs in which it posted 400,000 secret documents. The US State Department said Wednesday that US embassies around the world had "begun the process of informing governments that a release of documents is possible in the near future." "These revelations... are going to create tensions on our relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world," said spokesman Philip Crowley. |
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