Online ad industry news briefs, June 18 2010

June 18, 2010 -- News briefs from across the industry:

The Washington Post takes a look at a new and irritating variety of phishing scam.

Mobile marketing provider iLoop Mobile says its marketing platform has been selected by Mobile Fusion.

IAB lobbyists have been harrying Congress about the importance of Internet advertising.

Marco Lopes has been appointed Managing Director for Latin America by the Mobile Marketing Association.

PayPal is offering a bunch of cash prizes through its PayPal X Developer Challenge.

Opera is out with a new beta version, 10.60 beta, that is claimed to be a good deal faster with certain JavaScript operations.

IBM is releasing beta business collaboration software designed to work with Google Android.

ICANN held a cryptography ceremony, of all things, to celebrate DNS root zone security. Arcane, as they themselves describe it.

Oracle has a new analytics solution, Primavera P6 Analytics. They've also released NetBeans IDE 6.9 with expanded JavaFX 1.3 and OSGi support.

Too many pre-orders for the Apple iPhone 4 seem to have wreaked havoc with Apple's fragile ordering systems. Oh, dear.

IDC sees increasingly rapid growth in the US mobile broadband market as well as solid mainstream notebook sales.

Cisco is working to improve connectivity in Vietnam and the Philippines and has launched a Smart+Connected Communities institute. They've also signed a MoU with Tencent, the top Internet services provider in China.

Forrester Research expects tablets to beat notebook sales by 2012 – that's pretty soon.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is rather concerned about the FCC's plans for Internet regulation. So is something called the Alliance for Digital Equality.

Pew will shortly release a report detailing state-by-state usage of stimulus funds to improve broadband.

An Ernst & Young survey finds a lot of optimism within media and entertainment companies for the revenue potential of the Internet and mobile devices.