internet news - 26/2

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

World Congress on IT & Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks
A reminder for those who are interested, the World Congress on IT
starts tomorrow (27 February) in Adelaide and finishes on 1 March.
Following this is the Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks to
be held in Adelaide, Australia, on 4 and 5 March 2002. It will aim to
bring together leaders, specialists and policy makers from Australia
and around the world to share experiences and explore future
directions in the development and management of online learning,
education and training networks. See http://www.wcit2002.org and
http://www.educationau.edu.au/globalsummit for further information.
There is also an online summit which people can participate in. To
register, go to
http://www.educationau.edu.au/globalsummit/online.htm.

Domain Name News
ICANN Head's Plan Pooh-Poohed (Wired)
Public interest groups and other Internet watchdogs denounced a
proposal Monday that would give the world's governments a greater say
in how the Internet is run. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50666,00.html
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/269532p-2477413c.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174752.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1841000/1841216.stm

Name game is their domain (Australian IT)
Halfway between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu has a population of
11,000, a small copra export business and an unusual sideline in
internet domain names. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3842934%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html


Internet News
Superviruses threaten email (Australian IT)
A new breed of superviruses hidden in the content of email messages
will stretch IT security to the limit, experts warn.
With the incidence of virus-infected emails surging fivefold in a
year, filtering the content of every email was looming as a vast
security task for companies and would inevitably slow down email
delivery.  

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3842182%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

W3C retreats from royalty policy (CNET)
An Internet standards body has retreated from a proposal that would
have allowed companies to claim patent rights and demand royalties
for technologies used in its standards.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-845023.html

Cafe Owners or Porn Police? (Wired)
Those wishing to ban Internet pornography are waging an improbable
battle, but it's not for lack of effort. 
If a special committee set up by the Mumbai High Court gets its way,
proprietors of cybercafes will be forced to police their premises in
the name of protecting minors from "unsuitable Internet material" and
cyberstalkers. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50615,00.html

Mexico Wants an E-Revolution (Wired)
The goals of Mexico's e-gov revolution are lofty, promising
everything from free e-mail accounts for every Mexican to the
restoration of faith in government. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50622,00.html

Online Group to Give Advice Regarding Copyrights (New York Times)
The rise of the World Wide Web has been closely tracked by that of
the cease-and-desist order, a letter typically accusing a Web
publisher of copyright or trademark violations and warning that "your
conduct may result in legal action against you." Unless, of course,
one ceases and desists.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25CHIL.html

Cost of Information Technology Beyond Most Africans (allAfrica.com)
While the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is
becoming the vogue in most countries of the world, an expert in the
industry has observed that the cost of acquiring it is beyond the
reach of most African countries.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200202250115.html

Can the World Be Copyrighted? (Wired)
The World Intellectual Property Organization, an international body
of government representatives that globalizes laws, announced new
guidelines to crack down on digital piracy. The WIPO Copyright Treaty
and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, which go into effect
over the next three months, extend copyright protection to computer
programs, movies and music. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50658,00.html

Asian women love e-mail (BBC)
More and more Asian women are discovering the joys of getting in
touch over the internet. 
The number of them who used e-mail and internet chat leapt towards
the end of last year, according to recent figures by the net
measurement company NetValue. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1840000/1840279.stm

Supreme Court refuses to consider appeal in Voyeur Dorm case (Nando
Times)
The 30 Internet cameras trained on five young women in a Tampa, Fla.,
house can keep rolling.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/268901p-2473951c.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174754.html

Online Porn Purveyors Get Under E-Mail Users' Skin (E-Commerce News)
While many affiliate programs have policies against sending spam,
some affiliates break the rules, trying to make more money through
referrals. 
 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/16495.html

El correo electrónico es el servicio más usado por los internautas
europeos (ZDNet)
Según un estudio sobre el uso del correo electrónico realizado por
NetValue en distintos países europeos durante el mes de noviembre de
2001, este servicio fue el más utilizado por los internautas. 
 http://www.zdnet-es.com/canales/zdnn/mostrarnoticias_i.html?id=3772

Mobile users must practise safe text (Times)
Parents worried about their children being mugged for their mobile
phones now have a new concern linked to the world’s most pervasive
consumer item — text message injury (TMI).  
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-219374,00.html



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