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• Google to build mega-fast broadband networks
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 February
  WASHINGTON - Google plans to build a handful of experimental, ultra-fast internet networks around the US to ensure that tomorrow's systems can keep up with online video and other advanced applications that the search company will want to deliver.
• Kiwi entrepreneur sets up Facebook 'for kids'
  www.3news.co.nz video, 24 February
  Today's children are growing up in an era of email and online games, but Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are no places for little kids. So Melissa Clark-Reynolds, mother and entrepreneur, decided she'd create something to fill that void. The result is MiniMonos, a virtual world where children create a monkey avatar then hang out and have fun.
  Discussion starters:
  • Values education – sustainability; ethical living.
• Our online relationships
  Tearaway Digital magazine, February
  Social networking seems to be here to stay whether we like it or not, but what are the larger effects on the way we interact, and why are opinions on this so divided? This issue was the basis of a survey, produced by Wellington East Girls College students, which found that college students are spending up to nine percent of their waking hours on social networking sites.
• Google opens app store for businesses
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 March
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the internet.
• New Zealand's internet filter goes live
  computerworld.co.nz, 11 March
  The Department of Internal Affairs' (DIA) internet filter is now operational and is being used by ISPs Maxnet and Watchdog.
  Thomas Beagle, spokesperson for online freedom lobby Tech Liberty says he's "very disappointed that the filter is now running, it's a sad day for the New Zealand internet”.
• Botnets – going the the way of smallpox?
  www.newscientist.com, 11 March
  Compulsory vaccination programmes have rid the world of scourges like smallpox and controlled the spread of diseases such as polio. So could similar strategies be applied to the internet to help stop the spread of cybercrime?
  Discussion starters:
  • Socio-cultural influences - Regulatory control
• Facebook under pressure to add 'panic button'
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 12 March
  LONDON - British officials say they're pressuring Facebook to make a "panic button" available on its web pages following the death of a teenager at the hands of a man she met on the popular social networking site.
• USB stick blamed for DHB's virus shut-down
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 12 March
  A USB stick inserted in a carpark booth computer at Waikato Hospital has been blamed for bringing down the district health board's computer network in December last year.
• Huge botnet amputated, but cybercrooks reconnect
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 12 March
  SAN JOSE, California - The sudden takedown of an internet provider thought to be helping spread one of the most promiscuous pieces of malicious software out there appeared to have cut off criminals from potentially millions of personal computers under their control.
• Internet providers hit out at website blocker
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 14 March
  A controversial internet filter which blocks access to hundreds of websites on a secret Internal Affairs blacklist has gone live.
  The "child exploitation" system was introduced last month in a bid to stop online paedophile activity.
  But it has come under fire from internet service providers for being ineffectual and giving hackers an easy target.
• The hidden cost of dodgy downloads
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 18 March
  Europeans downloaded NZ$19.2bn worth of pirated music, film, television shows and software from the web in 2008, according to an entertainment industry study.
  Discussion starters:
  • Intellectual property issues
• Fast broadband becoming essential for farmers
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 18 March
  So why exactly do farmers need fast broadband?
  It's pretty simple, says Hamilton dairy farmer John Bluett - time and money.
  Bluett has two farms milking about 920 cows, with one using broadband and the other on dial up.
  Discussion starters:
  • Equitable access to available technology
• Behind the scenes at YouTube
  www.3news.co.nz video, 4 April
  3 News' David Farrier visited YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley, California, to get a closer look at the Google-owned company.
  Discussion starters:
  • Media technology
• Writers fear e–books will put them out of business
  www.3news.co.nz video, 12 April
  New Zealanders love reading - we have more bookshops per capita than any other country. But bookshops face a new challenge from electronic readers, and a visiting best-selling author is worried that writers will suffer as well.
  Discussion starters:
  • Nature of technology – Sociocultural aspects and influences
  • Intellectual property - Copyright issues
• Kin aims at social networking market
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 14 April
  Microsoft has unveiled its latest attempt to carve a bigger piece of the cut-throat market for smartphones: a new device called the Kin, which it promised would "help people publish the magazine of their life".
  The phone, which has both a touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard, plunges into the US market next month.