internet news - 30/1

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

EP Committee wants to amend '.EU' Regulation (Euractiv.com)
The European Parliament's Industry Committee adopted a recommendation
for the EP plenary to amend the draft Regulation on the
implementation of the .EU top level domain name.  
 http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?1100=1&204&OIDN=1502879
 http://www.euractiv.com/ndbtext/infosoc/doteu25jan2002.rtf

Neverflysaa.com: Does SAA Have a Case? (allAfrica.com)
South African Internet attorneys report that South African Airways'
threat to take a disgruntled passenger to court could result in a
complex legal wrangle.
The case arises from an annoyed SAA passenger, Vernon E Six of Texas,
who has built a Web site (www.neverflySAA.com) to air his views on
the alleged poor service of the airline.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200201290528.html

VeriSign Revamps Choice Dot-Com Names Sale Plan (Newsbytes)
Internet addressing giant VeriSign Global Registry Services has
unveiled a revamped version of its controversial plan to redistribute
some of the most appealing dot-com domain names as they expire.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174040.html

WIPO arbitration on neo-nazi use of domain names (ICANNWatch)
Der Spiegel reports (in German) that WIPO has handed over the domain
names bundesinnenministerium.com, verfassungschutz.org to the German
government.
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=531

US-Neonazi muss Web-Adressen abtreten (Der Spiegel)
Gerhard Lauck, selbst ernannter Oberführer der "NSDAP/AO", wurde von
der Wipo abgewatscht: Irreführende Adressen wie
"bundesinnenministerium.com" wird es bald nicht mehr geben. Mit
Geschick gelang es Otto Schily, eine US-Adresse stillzulegen.
 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,179467,00.html

Sex.com Loser Claims Poverty (Wired)
The man who took credit for turning the domain name Sex.com into a
multimillion-dollar porn empire now says he is too poor to afford
toilet paper. 
In a motion filed in federal court this week, Stephen Michael Cohen,
the former operator of the website Sex.com, asked a judge to set
aside a ruling requiring him to pay $65 million in damages to the
site's current owner. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50104,00.html

Govt to Install 12,000 Internet Centers under e-Mexico (Business News
Americas)
The Mexican government has set a goal to install 12,443 Internet
centers around the country by 2006 as part of President Vicente Fox's
e-Mexico project, according to a report issued by the Transport &
Commuications Ministry (SCT) titled "Sectoral Program of
Communications and Transports 2001-2006".  
 http://www.bnamericas.com/story.xsql?id_noticia=86429

HP/Compaq deal set for European approval
Hewlett-Packard's $24bn takeover of Compaq is set to be cleared by
European antitrust regulators, provided there are no last-minute
objections from within the European Commission, according to people
familiar with the situation.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3RTJP52XC

Australian Man Banned From Giving Advice On IRC (Newsbytes)
In what is believed to be a world first, Australia's financial
watchdog has taken a Brisbane man to court over his messages posted
in real-time on an Internet relay chat (IRC) channel.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174054.html

E-mail virus crashes the party (BBC)
A new computer virus disguised as a link to a website with pictures
of a party has appeared. 
While the e-mail worm MyParty is not proving nearly as devastating as
it predecessors Nimda and Kournikova, it is interesting because it
uses a new psychological tactic to fool computer users. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1787000/1787265.stm

Internet used by 45% of homes in Britain (Independent)
Almost half of the nation's households are hooked up to the internet,
according to new research, although a significant proportion of homes
with computers are yet to go online.
 http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=117123

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/01/29/ecnjing29.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/01/29/ixconnrite020129.html

Jail mobile phone thieves, says law chief (Independent)
The courts must clamp down on mobile phone muggers by sending them to
prison for up to five years, the Lord Chief Justice said.
 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=117195
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/article/0,2763,641574,00.html

Phone thief gets four years
A man is jailed for four years for a mobile phone robbery just a day
after the UK's most senior judge called for tougher sentences.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1791000/1791257.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/30/uphone.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/01/30/ixport.html

Mobile phone thieves run rings around authorities (Sydney Morning
Herald)
In Holland, users of stolen mobiles are hounded with text messages
every three minutes telling them they have a hot handset and they
should hand it in.
 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/31/national/national10.html

Claimants can sue on the internet (Daily Telegraph)
Online writs have been secretly introduced in England and Wales by
the Court Service, headed by Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/01/29/ecnsue29.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/01/29/ixconnrite020129.html

Symbian secures new £21m funding (Independent)
Symbian, the technology company owned by Psion and the world's major
mobile phone makers, yesterday secured an extra £20.75m in funding
while bringing in Sony Ericsson as a sixth shareholder.
 http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=117144

Cheaper internet access on the way (Independent)
Britons should be able to gain cheaper unmetered access to the
internet from home under proposals put forward today by the telecoms
watchdog Oftel.
The changes would see internet service providers (ISPs) that offered
unmetered access being able to pay British Telecom in arrears for the
network time used by surfing customers, rather than in advance as at
present.
 http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=116759

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