BBC – US tech coalition calls for new online privacy law

US technology firms and privacy groups have called for an overhaul of privacy laws, saying the government has too much access to private online data.

The Register – Google mocks Steve Jobs with Chrome-Flash merger

When Steve Jobs met Google boss Eric Schmidt for coffee late last week, they may or may not have reached some common ground on certain hot-button subjects. But odds are, they didn’t see eye-on-eye on Adobe Flash.

The Register – Your internet policy sucks, US tells Aussies

Critics of the Australia’s proposed internet filtering scheme just keep on coming. This week, it’s the turn of one of Australia’s biggest and most formidable allies, the United States, to put the boot into a scheme that would turn Australia into the free world’s strictest regulator of internet content.

Total Telecom – Spain shifts from analog to digital TV
Spain’s government switched off analog TV signals in key regions Tuesday as the country shifts to digital terrestrial television in a move that will expand Spain’s TV market.

ZDNet – Apple shows off iPad productivity apps

Apple posted demonstration videos on Monday that showed various applications running on the iPad, due for US release on Saturday and UK release in late April. Included were four videos showing the iPad’s email app and three office productivity apps: Keynote for presentations, Pages for document creation and Numbers for spreadsheets.

The Daily Telegraph – UK must do more for child safety online

Prof Tanya Byron, the Government’s online child safety tsar, has said that the politicians and the technology industry need to work even more closely with parents. Launching a progress report on her initial policy document, “Safer Children in a Digital World”, she said that although the UK is a world leader in keeping young people safe online, more work still needs to be done.