Algerian web pirates 2,000 miles astray in siege of Belvoir Castle Telegraph
One of Britain’s best-known castles fell victim to a band of hapless Middle-Eastern ‘cyber-pirates’ last week after they mistook it for a Crusader fortress of the same name more than 2,000 miles away. Belvoir Castle, the family seat of the 11th Duke of Rutland, was mistakenly targeted by a subversive group of Algerian hackers who confused its website with that of Belvoir Fortress in Israel. The hackers hijacked the castle’s homepage and replaced images of the stately home nestled in rolling Leicestershire countryside with a black page displaying the Algerian flag and a tirade against the Jewish state in Arabic.

Vivendi, Time Warner Seek Arbitration in `Ellen’ Show Music Copyright Case Bloomberg News
Vivendi SA’s music labels and Time Warner Inc. are seeking arbitration in a copyright case in which the labels charged that ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ played its recordings without a license. Lawyers for the two sides said they’d entered into an arbitration agreement and asked U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson to halt the case and transfer it to binding arbitration, according to a filing in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday. Labels in Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, the largest record company in the world, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in March against the producers of the daily ‘Ellen’ talk show and Time Warner, whose television unit distributes the program to stations. Universal said ‘Ellen’ played without permission ‘hundreds of sound recordings owned or controlled by’ the label group.

Orange rolls out high-definition voice for mobiles BBC
Mobile firm Orange has become the first UK network to use a technology that offers higher quality voice calls. High Definition (HD) voice claims to reduce background noise and the “hisses and crackles” often heard on a normal mobile call. The technology, known as, Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) has been adopted as an international standard for 3G mobile networks. Other networks are expected to follow Orange soon, experts said.

China Requires ID for Mobile Phone Numbers New York Times
China’s government began on Wednesday to require cellphone users to furnish identification when buying SIM cards, a move officials cast as an attempt to rein in burgeoning cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes. The requirement, which has been in the works for years, is not unlike rules in many developed nations that force users to present credit card data or other proof of identification to buy cellphone numbers. The government’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that about 40 percent of China’s 800 million cellphone users currently are unidentified. Those users will be ordered to furnish an ID by 2013 or lose their service, the Communist Party’s English-language newspaper, Global Times, reported.

Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California Deep Links
Scary news from California’s Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding. According to a story from the Associated Press, the students will wear a jersey at school that has the RFID tag attached. The tag will track the children’s movements and collect other data, like if the child has eaten or not. According to a Contra Costa County official, this is a cost-savings move, as teachers used to have to manually keep track of a child’s attendance and meal schedule.

MySpace Throws In The Towel, Connects To Facebook Mediapost
Waving the proverbial white flag, MySpace on Monday said its members can now synchronize posts, and other activity, with their Facebook profiles. To some, the move represents a last-ditch effort by the once-reigning social network to live on by riding the coattails of Facebook’s unprecedented global success.

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