Jakarta - Menkominfo Tifatul Sembiring memberikan tenggat waktu dua minggu kepada Research in Motion (RIM) untuk menutup akses pornografi. Jika tidak, sebelum akhir Januari 2011 seluruh layanan BlackBerry di enam operator akan ditutup.

"Kami sudah cukup memberikan toleransi. Sekarang jika RIM tidak juga menutup akses pornografi dua minggu dari sekarang, pasti kami tutup," kata menteri usai melantik pejabat eselon I di gedung Kementerian Kominfo, Jakarta, Jumat (7/1/2011).

Menurut Tifatul, masih banyak situs porno yang bisa diakses melalui BlackBerry. "Di operator jalur itu sudah diblokir, cuma tinggal di koneksi internasionalnya RIM saja yang belum juga ditutup sampai saat ini," katanya.

Operator yang menjadi mitra RIM dalam menyelenggarakan BlackBerry adalah Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata, Natrindo Telepon Seluler, Hutchison CP Telecom, dan Smart Telecom. Saat ini, pengguna BlackBerry Tanah Air diperkirakan mencapai dua juta pelanggan.

Dalam kesempatan itu, menteri juga tak mampu menyembunyikan kekesalannya terhadap vendor asal Kanada tersebut. Sebab, perintah dan imbauan yang disampaikan Kominfo tak jua digubris meski RIM telah berkantor di Indonesia.

"Buat apa ada kantor RIM di Jakarta jika setiap kami panggil rapat selalu alasan sedang ada di Kanada," ketus Tifatul.
( rou / ash )(detik.com)

Melalui Goldman Sachs dan Investor Rusia, Facebook berhasil memperoleh dana investasi tambahan sebesar US$500 juta, sehingga menaikkan nilai Perusahaan itu menjadi lebih dari US$50 Milyar, lebih besar dari pada Nilai Perusahaan-perusahaan besar seperti eBay, Yahoo dan lainnya.

Namun demikian, Facebook masih merencanakan untuk menawarkan Saham ke Public (International Public Offering - IPO) pada tahun 2010, walaupun sudah banyak yang berminat untuk membeli saham Facebook.

Berita lengkapnya ada dibawah ini:

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and EVELYN M. RUSLI

Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.

The deal makes Facebook now worth more than companies like eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.

The stake by Goldman Sachs, considered one of Wall Street’s savviest investors, signals the increasing might of Facebook, which has already been bearing down on giants like Google.

The new money will give Facebook more firepower to steal away valuable employees, develop new products and possibly pursue acquisitions — all without being a publicly traded company. The investment may also allow earlier shareholders, including Facebook employees, to cash out at least some of their stakes.

The new investment comes as the Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an inquiry into the increasingly hot private market for shares in Internet companies, including Facebook, Twitter, the gaming site Zynga and LinkedIn, an online professional networking site. Some experts suggest the inquiry is focused on whether certain companies are improperly using the private market to get around public disclosure requirements.

The deal could add pressure on Facebook to go public even as its executives have resisted. The popularity of shares of Microsoft and Google in the private market ultimately pressured them to pursue initial public offerings.

So far, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has brushed aside the possibility of an initial public offering or a sale of the company. At an industry conference in November, he said on the topic, “Don’t hold your breath.” However, people involved in the fund-raising effort suggest that Facebook’s board has indicated an intention to consider a public offering in 2012.

There has been an explosion in user interest in social media sites. The social buying site Groupon, which recently rejected a $6 billion takeover bid from Google, is in the process of raising as much as $950 million from major institutional investors, at a valuation near $5 billion, according to people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.

“When you think back to the early days of Google, they were kind of ignored by Wall Street investors, until it was time to go public,” said Chris Sacca, an angel investor in Silicon Valley who is a former Google employee and an investor in Twitter. “This time, the Street is smartening up. They realize there are true growth businesses out here. Facebook has become a real business, and investors are coming out here and saying, ‘We want a piece of it.’ ”

The Facebook investment deal is likely to stir up a debate about what the company would be worth in the public market. Though it does not disclose its financial performance, analysts estimate the company is profitable and could bring in as much as $2 billion in revenue annually.

Under the terms of the deal, Goldman has invested $450 million, and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that has already sunk about half a billion dollars into Facebook, invested $50 million, people involved in the talks said.

Goldman has the right to sell part of its stake, up to $75 million, to the Russian firm, these people said. For Digital Sky Technologies, the deal means its original investment in Facebook, at a valuation of $10 billion, has gone up fivefold.

Representatives for Facebook, Goldman and Digital Sky Technologies all declined to comment.

Goldman’s involvement means it may be in a strong position to take Facebook public when it decides to do so in what is likely to be a lucrative and prominent deal.

As part of the deal, Goldman is expected to raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook at the $50 billion valuation, people involved in the discussions said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the transaction was not supposed to be made public until the fund-raising had been completed.

In a rare move, Goldman is planning to create a “special purpose vehicle” to allow its high-net-worth clients to invest in Facebook, these people said. While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman’s proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients.

It is unclear whether the S.E.C. will look favorably upon the arrangement.

Already, a thriving secondary market exists for shares of Facebook and other private Internet companies. In November, $40 million worth of Facebook shares changed hands in an auction on a private exchange called SecondMarket. According to SharesPost, Facebook’s value has roughly tripled over the last year, to $42.4 billion. Some investors appear to have bought Facebook shares at a price that implies a valuation of $56 billion. But the credibility of one of Wall Street’s largest names, Goldman, may help justify the company’s worth.

Facebook also surpassed Google as the most visited Web site in 2010, according to the Internet tracking firm Experian Hitwise.

Facebook received 8.9 percent of all Web visits in the United States between January and November 2010. Google’s main site was second with 7.2 percent, followed by Yahoo Mail service, Yahoo’s Web portal and YouTube, part of Google.

For Mr. Zuckerberg, the deal may double his personal fortune, which Forbes estimated at $6.9 billion when Facebook was valued at $23 billion. That would put him in a league with the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are reportedly worth $15 billion apiece.

Even as Goldman takes a stake in Facebook, its employees may struggle to view what they invested in. Like those at most major Wall Street firms, Goldman’s computers automatically block access to social networking sites, including Facebook.

VIVAnews - "Hey, Google. Silahkan datang ke Indonesia. Kami siap bersaing dengan Anda!". Pernyataan ini terlontar dari Andy Sjarif, CEO Group Sitti (sistem iklan teknologi teks Indonesia). Pernyataan di atas terdengar nekat mengingat Sitti bukan siapa-siapa dibandingkan Google yang merajai internet secara global dalam satu dekade terakhir.

Tapi, Sitti tidak main-main. Andy dan kawan-kawan memupuk optimisme sebagai perusahaan start up yang mampu menandingi Google. Siapa Sitti? Apa yang membuatnya berani menantang Google di Tanah Air?

Jika Anda tahu Google AdSense dan bagaimana cara kerjanya, cukup sederhana untuk menjelaskan siapa Sitti. Jika Google AdSense skalanya global, Sitti khusus di wilayah Indonesia. Singkatnya, baik Google AdSense maupun Sitti, keduanya sama-sama bergerak di bidang periklanan berbasis kontekstual.

"Kami akui, kami meniru model bisnis Google AdSense, yakni semacam layanan contextual advertising (periklanan berbasis kontekstual) milik Google beruba banner di dalam halaman website atau blog. Dan, layanan inilah salah satu penyumbang laba terbesar Google," kata Andy di sela acara Sitti Buka Pintu, Jakarta, Rabu 24 November 2010.

Kalau di bidang mesin pencarian, Sitti mengaku kalah telak. Tetapi, untuk urusan contextual advertising, Andy mengaku optimis dapat membuat Google tunduk. Menurutnya, Google AdSense hanya mengandalkan Google Translator untuk menerjemahkan isi dan konten di dalam blog atau website. Lantas mesin mereka mencocokkan konten tersebut dengan iklan yang memiliki relevansi paling kuat.

"Tapi, bagaimana mau relevan. Walau katanya sudah menguasai 139 bahasa, terjemahan Google Translator masih sering ngaco. Bisa diterapkan untuk mesin pencarinya, tapi sulit diterapkan pada Google AdSense," kata Andy.

"Nah, sementara Sitti sebagai start up lokal sudah sepatutnya bisa mengatasi Google di ranah ini. Selain mengenal bahasa Indonesia dengan baik, kami juga bisa menemukenali bahasa daerah, prokem, sampai bahasa alay kalau perlu, untuk kemudian dicocokkan dengan iklan yang relevan," imbuhnya.


Sama halnya dengan Google AdSense, Sitti juga memajang iklan yang sesuai dengan konten sebuah website atau blog. Misalnya, sebagai contoh, Anda menemukan sebuah blog berisi tentang resep membuat roti buaya. Maka, apa yang Sitti lakukan adalah menaruh banner iklan roti Kartika Sari asal Bandung pada sisi halaman blog tersebut.

"Intinya, relevansi iklan yang dipajang Sitti relatif lebih relevan dengan konten yang ada di dalam website ketimbang iklan yang dipajang Google AdSense. Kalau Anda sadar, seringkali iklan yang disuguhkan Google tak sesuai dengan isi konten di sebuah blog," tukas Andy.

Hal ini dibuktikan Sitti dari data yang dikemas sejak 1 Oktober sampai 5 November. Data ini sekaligus mengundang decak kagum dan rasa optimis tingkat tinggi bagi para awak Sitti sendiri:

	SITTI	Google AdSense
Impresi	88,5%	11,5%
Klik	51%	49%
CTR*	64,06%	20,87%

*CTR atau clickthrough rate merupakan istilah cara yang dipakai untuk mengukur keberhasilan suatu kampanye atau iklan online.

Secara holistis, diakui Andy, Google memang juaranya. Terlebih lagi di mesin pencari. Google dianggapnya superior. Kalau Sitti punya enam server, Google sekitar satu juta server.

"Google AdSense adalah raja konteks sedunia dengan menguasai 129 bahasa. Dia akan datang ke untuk mendominasi pasar di Indonesia. Sitti siap menghadang mereka secara komersial. Hey, Google. Silahkan datang ke Indonesia!" tegas Andy.

Bagi Anda, terutama pengusaha UKM, yang tertarik untuk mengiklankan produk Anda dengan Sitti, Anda bisa mengunjungi link berikut ini. Hingga penghujung tahun, Sitti tidak mengenakan biaya bagi para pengiklan. Andy menuturkan, Sitti akan beranjak komersial saat menginjak tahun 2011. Sayangnya, dia enggan menuturkan berapa biaya yang dikenakan pada para pengiklan. (sj)

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Pemerintah berencana untuk menaikkan Biaya Hak Penggunaan (BHP) Frewnsi Penyiaran agar tidak terjadi pemborosan penggunaan spektrum frekwensi dan agar ada keseimbanagn antara BHP Frekwensi untuk Telekomunikasi dan Frekwensi untuk Penyiaran. Berikut ini adalah berita lengkapnya: (Click gambar untuk memperbesar)

Dengan makin meluasnya implementasi Jaringan Broadband, baik itu Fixed-line (Serat Optik, DSL, FWA) maupun Mobile Wireless Broadband, maka FCC merasa perlu membuat aturan agar dimasa depan prinsip netralitas pemanfaatan jaringan Broadband itu lebih dapat dijamin.

Aturan ini akan melarang Penyelenggara Jaringan Fixed-line Broadband seperti Comcast dan Qwest untuk memblokir akses ke Situs-situs Web dan Aplikasi tertentu (yang dianggap operator jaringan itu sebagai pesaing layanannya), dan sekaligus juga membolehkan pembatasan yang wajar oleh Penyelenggara Jaringan Broadband Wireless atas akses ke Jasa dan Aplikasi tertentu (disebabkan oleh keterbatasan kapasitas jaringan Broadband Wireless).

Diharapkan dengan dibuatkannya aturan ini, maka Netralitas Jaringan Internet sebagai sumber Kreativitas dan Inovasi dapat lebih terjamin.

Dalam kaitannya dengan penysunan UU Konvergensi Indonesia, pada kesempatan ini kami ingin mengusulkan agar UU itu disusun dengan basis 3-Unsur Utama, yaitu Konten, Infrastruktur dan Sumber Daya. Ini merupakan kesimpulan dari hasil diskusi MASTEL dengan Konsultan Australia pada minggu lalu. UU Konvergensi mengatur ke-tiga unsur ini, sehingga berbagai kasus konvergensi dapat lebih mudah dan lebih sederhana untuk ditangani.

Gambar diatas ini menunjukkan Model Regulasi 3-Layer, yaitu:

1. Content dan Service Layer
2. Infrastructure dan Access Layer
3. Resource Management Layer

dan ini berlaku buat Broadcasting maupun Telekomunikasi, sehingga dapat memcahkan kerancuan Regulasi di Era Konvergensi. Domain regulasi untuk ketiga Layer itu pada Gambar diatas ditandai dengan warna hijau. Sehingga esensinya, Regulasi Broadcasting diatur pada Service Content Layer, sedangkan Regulasi Telecommuncations diatur pada Infrastructure/Access Layer dan Resource Management Layer, dimana Content Broadcasting disalurkan melalui sarana dan resource ini.

Berikut ini adalah berita lengkapnya:

F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Access

By BRIAN STELTER

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net.

The proposed rules of the online road would prevent fixed-line broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking access to sites and applications. The rules, however, would allow wireless companies more latitude in putting limits on access to services and applications.

Before a vote set for Tuesday, two Democratic commissioners said Monday that they would back the rules proposed by the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski, which try to satisfy both sides in the protracted debate over so-called network neutrality. But analysts said the debate would soon resume in the courts, as challenges to the rules are expected in the months to come.

Net neutrality, broadly speaking, is an effort to ensure equal access to Web sites and cutting-edge online services. Mr. Genachowski said these proposed rules aimed to both encourage Internet innovation and protect consumers from abuses.

“These rules fulfill a promise to the future — to companies that don’t yet exist, and the entrepreneurs that haven’t yet started work in their dorm rooms or garages,” Mr. Genachowski said in remarks prepared for the commission’s meeting on Tuesday in Washington. At present, there are no enforceable rules “to protect basic Internet values,” he added.

Many Internet providers, developers and venture capitalists have indicated that they would accept the proposal by Mr. Genachowski, which Rebecca Arbogast, a regulatory analyst for Stifel Nicolaus, a financial services firm, said “is by definition a compromise.”

The companies have said the rules would provide some regulatory certainty. In private, they have acknowledged the proposal could have been much worse. If approved, they “will give some assurances to the companies that are building Web applications — companies like Netflix, Skype and Google — that they will get even treatment on broadband networks,” Ms. Arbogast said.

But a wide swath of public interest groups have lambasted the proposal as “fake net neutrality” and said it was rife with loopholes. One group, Public Knowledge, said that instead of providing clear protections, the F.C.C. “created a vague and shifting landscape open to interpretation. Consumers deserved better.”

Notably, the rules are watered down for wireless Net providers like AT&T and Verizon, which would be prohibited from blocking Web sites, but not from blocking applications or services unless those applications directly compete with providers’ voice and video products, like Skype.

F.C.C. officials said there were technological reasons for the wireless distinctions, and that they would continue to closely monitor the medium.

Citing the wireless proposal, Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, said over the weekend that the F.C.C. was effectively allowing discrimination on the mobile Net, a fast-growing sector.

“Maybe you like Google Maps. Well, tough,” Mr. Franken said on Saturday on the Senate floor. “If the F.C.C. passes this weak rule, Verizon will be able to cut off access to the Google Maps app on your phone and force you to use their own mapping program, Verizon Navigator, even if it is not as good. And even if they charge money, when Google Maps is free.”

He added, “If corporations are allowed to prioritize content on the Internet, or they are allowed to block applications you access on your iPhone, there is nothing to prevent those same corporations from censoring political speech.”

Mr. Franken and other critics say the rules come with major caveats; for instance, they would allow for “reasonable network management” by broadband providers. And they would discourage but not expressly forbid something called “paid prioritization,” which would allow a media or technology company to pay the provider for faster transmission of data, potentially creating an uneven playing field.

The F.C.C. officials also said that the order would require transparency about those network management practices. “That sunshine will help deter bad behavior,” one of the officials said. They spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the F.C.C. order has not been made public.

President Obama has repeatedly indicated his support for net neutrality principles, and his chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, said on Dec. 1 that the F.C.C. proposal was an “important step in preventing abuses and continuing to advance the Internet as an engine of productivity growth and innovation.”

The two Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn, acknowledged on Monday that the order was not as strong as they would have liked. But they said it had been improved this month in discussions with Mr. Genachowski, and they said they would not oppose it.

Their votes along with Mr. Genachowski’s would be enough to approve the order at the F.C.C. meeting on Tuesday.

Two Republican commissioners, Meredith Baker and Robert McDowell, are expected to oppose it. Republicans have suggested that the net neutrality rules are an example of government overreach; in an opinion piece on Monday in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. McDowell asserted that “nothing is broken that needs fixing.”

In a statement Monday afternoon, Mr. Copps strongly disagreed. He said he wanted to ensure that the Internet “doesn’t travel down the same road of special interest consolidation and gate-keeper control that other media and telecommunications industries — radio, television, film and cable — have traveled.”

“What an historic tragedy it would be,” he said, “to let that fate befall the dynamism of the Internet.”

Rilis paling jelas dari Departemen Luar Negeri pekan ini bukan kabel bocor namun "Hari Kebebasan Pers Dunia" pengumuman.

Just as the rest of the US government was hounding companies not to do business with WikiLeaks, the department hailed the ability of new media to empower citizens in “environments sometimes hostile” to freedom of expression . Sama seperti sisa pemerintah AS menggangguku perusahaan untuk tidak melakukan bisnis dengan WikiLeaks, departemen memuji kemampuan media baru untuk memberdayakan warga negara dalam "lingkungan kadang-kadang bermusuhan" untuk kebebasan berekspresi .

“At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information,” it went on to say. "Pada saat yang sama, kita prihatin tentang penentuan beberapa pemerintah untuk menyensor dan individu diam, dan untuk membatasi aliran informasi yang bebas," lanjut itu dengan mengatakan.

You gotta love that. Kau harus cinta itu.

But as well as the unembarrassed hypocrisy, it reminds us that internet freedom is severely vulnerable to attacks by governments, and not just the usual culprits such as China and Iran. Tetapi serta kemunafikan unembarrassed, mengingatkan kita bahwa kebebasan internet adalah sangat rentan terhadap serangan oleh pemerintah, dan bukan hanya pelaku biasa seperti China dan Iran.

A month ago the flap about China “hijacking” web traffic pointed to the fragility of the BGP routing infrastructure which underpins IP traffic management. Sebulan yang lalu, flap tentang Cina "pembajakan" lalu lintas web menunjuk ke kerapuhan infrastruktur routing BGP yang menyokong manajemen trafik IP.

The WikiLeaks saga shows how the DNS system is a chokepoint and thus also vulnerable. Hikayat WikiLeaks menunjukkan bagaimana sistem DNS adalah chokepoint dan dengan demikian juga rentan.

The DDoS attacks on WikiLeaks forced its registrar, EveryDNS, to cancel its domain registration in order to protect its other 500,000 customers. The serangan DDoS pada WikiLeaks dipaksa registrar nya, EveryDNS, untuk membatalkan pendaftaran domain dalam rangka melindungi lainnya 500.000 pelanggan.

Then the retaliatory attacks this week by hacktivists on Visa and Mastercard further demonstrated the power of DDoS to take websites off the air. Kemudian balasan serangan pekan ini oleh hacktivists pada Visa dan Mastercard lebih lanjut menunjukkan kekuatan DDoS untuk mengambil situs dari udara.

WikiLeaks is online thanks to hundreds of mirror sites, but that's not an option for other websites that come under attack. WikiLeaks adalah berkat online ke ratusan situs cermin, tapi itu bukan pilihan bagi website lain yang diserang.

The lesson from WikiLeaks is that cyberspace is a lawless zone where the weak are prey to the strong. Pelajaran dari WikiLeaks adalah bahwa dunia maya adalah zona tanpa hukum mana yang lemah mangsa yang kuat.

What we need is a cyberspace police force to protect the rights of legitimate sites, and an effective judicial forum to settle disputes. Apa yang kita butuhkan adalah kekuatan polisi dunia maya untuk melindungi hak-hak situs yang sah, dan forum peradilan yang efektif untuk menyelesaikan sengketa.

Obviously that would require the cooperation of the world's powers, and for the US to cede its dominance. Jelas bahwa akan memerlukan kerja sama dari kekuatan dunia, dan bagi AS untuk menyerahkan dominasinya. Obviously it ain't going to happen soon. Jelas itu tidak akan terjadi segera. Or ever. Atau pernah.

But the US assault on WikiLeaks has exposed giant cracks in web governance. Namun serangan AS WikiLeaks telah terkena retakan raksasa di pemerintahan web. They will only get bigger. Mereka hanya akan mendapatkan lebih besar.

Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Mantan Kepala Lab Media Institut Teknologi Massachusetts (MIT) yang sangat kreatif dan innovatif dalam merancang sebuah laptop kecil atau netbook dengan harga US$100 sehingga makin banyak masyarakat yang dapat menikmati internet sebagai sumber informasi dan pengetahuan, agar mereka dapai mengikuti kemajuanteknologi, menjadi lebih cerdas untuk dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan mereka.