Cantell TV :YouTube fights piracy...by Ana Maria Ciobanu

Remember the big bad greedy copyrighters that won't allow you to watch their content on YouTube even though they get a lot out of the exposure on the net? Hundreds of people have tried to copy the YouTube concept but they've failed into anonymity. Now would be a good time for them to try again because YouTube lovers will probably look for another video playing Web site because Google's YouTube will have video fingerprinting software tested and enabled starting this fall. This news appeared during the initial hearing of the Viacom trial against YouTube owner Google. It's a shame the daddy of such funny shows and stations like South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Reno 911, MTV, MTV2, Nickelodeon, CMTV and other, has to be so grumpy and refuse us the pleasure of watching the Daily Show or watching South Park while eating our lunch at work. Maybe Viacom is upset because Google's YouTube is making more money than they are... What's next? They'll sue me when I'll upload some South Park videos on YouTube and ask me money for all the clicks? Don't they realize they're ridiculous? If YouTube hadn't existed where from would they have obtained $1billion with just a snap? What there will be left to watch on YouTube?Teenagers with video blogs, parents posting videos with their children and bad rock bands? I'm sure someone will have the courage to make a copy of the YouTube site, perhaps even a mad YouTube user.

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.

Are you sick of the real world?by Claudia Sonea

No problem, you can now create a new identity in the Second Life, a virtual world where the currency has a variable exchange with the U.S. dollar and you have a range of virtual products and services. Linden Labs, the company that runs this world, said that 1.5 millions transactions take place everyday. As we know there is no tax for the online transactions and this is the reason why U.K.-based Fraud Advisory Panel is concerned that criminals might use Second Life to wash dirty money. Also as a result of the FBI tour all form of gambling has been banned and there have been created units that make sure this rule is obeyed. Even the blog says that anyone that will break it will be kicked off the without a refund and also any important detail will be reported to the authorities. Due to the increasing issues that this virtual world implies police in Germany started to investigate it with the allegiances of "child abuse" and Vancouver Police Department will recruit officers that will investigate the technology crimes. Also there will be legal disputes like copyright infringement. In that world, similar to the PC game called Sims 2, you can lead a normal life, buying and selling and it is something promising in my opinion. Those that said that banning gambling will lead to the shutdown of the site are definitely wrong. Still a virtual police under the close supervision of the real police must be introduced, in order to prevent crimes and other abuses, for users security. It is a good way for companies to promote themselves (Dell, Nike, Calvin Klein already are doing it). The future of the Second Life is yet to be clarified and until further notice why don't you click it and check it out, I know I will. Surf on and giga speed.

related story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291425,00.html

by Claudia Sonea for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

SigEx Telecom : All kids come to MySpaceby Corina Ciubotaru

MySpace.com is the unrivaled king of social networking. Founded by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson under the umbrella of their company Intermix Media, the website has been a hit from day one. It’s growing ever more popular in the Web 2.0 world, where everyone wants to see and be seen and user-generated content is the word on all Web-developing companies’ lips. If we can post our thougths, feelings, business ideas or articles on blogs, films on sites like YouTube and Pyro.TV or important information that all should know on wikis, why shouldn’t we be able to release this massive flow of information on a single site? MySpace does just that for 300 million people and even small companies. It’s a little universe in itself. MySpace has been acquired by News Corp. in 2005 when it was already hot and growing fast. Even afterwards, it kept on growing. In the beginning of last year, it had 43 million members, but by August, it claimed to hold 100 million accounts. 90% of users come from the US and according to a recent study they tend to have lower education, be younger than the ones using rival Facebook.com, and also tend to represent minorities. Not long ago it was also the favorite site for users uploading content from their mobile phones, and there have been rumors that it ranked Number 1 in the total of US website visits. And lately it encountered a PR problem, as it is also home to thousands of sex offenders according to a list the site was forced to provide a few days ago.

related story: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0726offender0726.html?&wired

by Corina Ciubotaru for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

SigEx Telecom : Hello?Anybody there?NSA...by Ana Maria Ciobanu

IIt's so easy to communicate through a cellphone and cellphone usage is variably higher than home phone usage. We should expect the next few weeks to see in the spotlight the largest phone carriers and it's very easy to understand why. The NSA with the help of the largest phone providers has been analyzing the phone records of nearly every American since the terrible event from 9/11, hoping to detect calling patterns indicative of terrorists. AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon agreed to offer NSA all their phone records helping this way to create the largest database in the world. NSA's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made"- said an anonymous source of USA Today's. I think it's really very scary to know that everything you say, every friend you have, every address or phone number you know, every "I love you" you say are somewhere in a database. I understand why the NSA is doing this but I can't help to be creped out. They already have a window in every American's communication habits. Perhaps Qwest wasn't wrong to refuse NSA's offer. If you read the "Questions and answers about the NSA phone record collection program" in the USA Today I think you'll ask yourself some questions to. Let's suppose you agree with being listened and then you're curious to find out what They have been listening to. You can't find out because :"No. The NSA's work is secret, and the agency won't publicly discuss its operations." Something even stranger is that They can't even say if what they're doing is legal. They call it "a matter of debate". To enclose, even if you're calling your fellow terrorist friend to go out for a cup of coffee, or you're calling your grandmother to see how she's doing, there's someone listening to you very careful...

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

SigEx Ventures : China joins FBI in piracy operationby Delia Cruceru

Chinese Police and US FBI captured the world’s largest piracy syndicate. There were arrested 25 people from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and the police seized properties worth about $8 million and pirated software of $500 million, according to a FBI statement. The Chinese group was pirating software from Microsoft and Symantec and after that they sold it around the world, including US. David Finn, a Microsoft associate general counsel for anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting initiatives says: “This is the biggest software counterfeiting organization we've ever seen, and we've been tracking and pursuing software counterfeiters around the world for 15 years," They were captured with the help of a Microsoft tool named Windows Genuine Advantage Notification program launched two years ago, which was prompting to consumers that they weren’t using a legitimate OS. More than 1000 people from 12 countries after receiving this notification found out that their operation system is not valid, and they submitted the installation disc to Microsoft, where forensic investigators traced the southern Chinese syndicate responsible for this counterfeit software. China is the biggest “producer” for pirated software, with 82% of counterfeit software used for personal computers. Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney on Microsoft's worldwide anti-piracy team, said in an interview: “"We believe that these arrests and the seizures associated with them will have significant impact on the distribution of high-quality counterfeit software,"

related story: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c1407788-3a0e-11dc-9d73-0000779fd2ac.html

by Delia Cruceru for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

Online dangersby Claudia Sonea

The world is a dangerous environment, parents gladly allow children to stay home and surf the Internet than send them to play outside. Who would have knew, that the Internet will pose even more serious issues. No wonder that "Get Safe Online" was created. It is still a taboo topic for most of us, because we don't know how to prevent the online harm, we or our closest ones may suffer. The most dangerous thing is identity theft, that have invaded sites like Facebook or MySpace and are becoming a serious threat to users privacy. Because of the site type that requires to fill personal dates, we are easily exposed to the danger of being deprived of own identity. The personal information posted is enough to serve in obtaining a loan, credit or even to create a bank account. Also, a danger represents the fact that we offer information regarding our present location and this way expose to muggers and all other sorts of criminals. It is dangerous to give your phone number or to meet up with the people you've only chatted online. Children especially are exposed to this type of danger. That is why Tony Neate, Managing Director for Get Safe Online, advises parents to sit down and have a talk with the children about the internet surfing and making some rule in order to prevent other tragedies from happening. Enjoy your online time and watch out for those identity thieves, you never know when they may hit.

related story: http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/id-theft-plagues-facebook-myspace?articleid=1024074323

by Claudia Sonea for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.

SigEx Telecom : Google: User Cookies to Expire After Two Yearsby Delia Cruceru

Google cookies will now last 2 years instead of year 2038, the current date of deletion, said Peter Fleischer, Google's privacy counsel: "After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we've concluded that it would be a good thing for privacy to significantly shorten the lifetime of our cookies â€" as long as we could find a way to do so without artificially forcing users to re-enter their basic preferences at arbitrary points in time. And this is why we’re announcing a new cookie policy." The cookies are set to expire after two years if the user doesn’t return to the search site, but for regular users the cookies will automatically renew and stay active. That unless the users don’t set their Web browsers' privacy options to reject those cookies automatically. This decision of Google comes after numerous reports from Privacy International and also from the European Union. Cookies are files with information sent by a website, in this case Google, to the visitor’s computer, in order to remember information about the user like password, preferences and behaviors. Jen Albornoz Mulligan, a Forrester Research analyst, in an interview for TechNewsWorld said:” It is a step in the right direction, but two years is still a relatively long-lasting cookie. The new policy does a better job of conforming to the privacy principles of collection limitation and use limitation -- meaning data should only be collected if it is really useful -- and should only be used for the purposes previously stated."

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070717/cm_thenation/15214948

by Delia Cruceru for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.