Ericsson puts Turner channels on cellphones

Ericsson and Turner Broadcasting will create a series of "off the deck" portals to carry the media giant's content worldwide, reports The Register.

The first service will be CNN Mobile, due to be unveiled at 3GSM next week. In addition to breaking news, CNN Mobile will include a 14-day archive of stories.

The concept will then be extended to Turner's other channels, including Cartoon Network. Users will be able to access the services either through operator-branded portals or directly.

A recent survey found that almost half of children aged 10 to 17 saw pornography online without intending to, says Bloomberg.com.

About 80% of those exposed said pornography was displayed during unrelated searches, sometimes as the result of a misspelled word, or during downloads, the study said.

One in five purposefully entered an X-rated site without realising they would be disturbed by its content, the researchers said.

Google is in talks with the Indian government over high-resolution images of the country shown on its Google Earth service, reports CBC News.

Indian defence officials raised security concerns last year with the Internet search engine about the satellite imaging program's level of detail at sensitive locations.

A Times of India report says Google has agreed to blur or distort the installations instead of blacking them out so as not to draw attention to their locations.

The annual RSA conference, held this week in San Francisco, is expected to show evidence of a maturing security industry with an increasing role for big-name companies, reports CNET News.

The event has long moved beyond its origins as a get-together for cryptogeeks, to become an annual gathering for corporate IT pros and a showcase for hundreds of companies that hawk security products and services to businesses. This year is the event's 16th anniversary. Again change is in the air.

"We're going to see a flight to quality, consolidation and quite a bit of merger and acquisition activity [in 2007]," said Andrew Jaquith, of the Yankee Group.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has substantially limited the size of royalties that memory chipmaker Rambus can charge for its DRAM technology, reports CNET News.

The commission's order sets a maximum royalty rate of 0.25% for SDRAM products; 0.5% for DDR (double data rate) SDRAM products, as well as SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components; and 1% for DDR SDRAM memory controllers, or other non-memory chip components.

Rambus, which plans to appeal the order, charges a 3.5% royalty on the manufacture of its DDR SDRAM, a figure that other memory chipmakers have issued complaints about paying, given the slim profit margins in the industry and the typical 1% royalty range charged.