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

Domain Name News

ICANN Stepping Up Hunt For New 'Dot-Org' Operator (Newsbytes)
Internet addressing authorities next month will kick off the search
to find a new home for the dot-org Internet domain.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174870.html

Drain Of Domain-Name Pool Slows In January - Report (Newsbytes)
Rapid evaporation of the pool of Internet domain names at the end of
2001 appears to have abated in January, according to a report this
week from the domain-registration watchers at SnapNames.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174866.html

New.net Spreads Wings; Acquires Basic Fusion (atnewyork.com)
Looking to spread its wings in the competitive domain name market,
Idealab-owned registry New.net on Thursday announced the acquisition
of software firm Basic Fusion from KwikWeb.com, Inc. Financial terms
of the deal were not disclosed. 
 http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_982931,00.html

EU backs new .eu Internet tag (ZDNet)
The European Parliament has endorsed legislation to allow the
creation of an .eu domain 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105288,00.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174871.html

Germany wins back its Internet name (Yahoo)
After a two-year fight with a German Internet consulting company, the
German government announced on Friday it had won the right to the web
address www.deutschland.de.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020301/wr_nm/germany_internet_dc_1&cid=582

From BNA Internet Law News
ICANN Completes Deal With Dot-JP
ICANN has announced that it has completed an agreement with the Japan
Registry Service Corporation over the dot-jp domain. The agreement is
the second ICANN ccTLD agreement, following a deal last year with the
dot-au domain.
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb02.htm


Internet News
New Law Could Kill Internet Radio (TechTV)
An upcoming decision by the Library of Congress may disconnect you
from your favorite Internet radio station. 
The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, a special arbitration team
appointed by the US Copyright Office, has recommended that online
radio stations pay .14 of a penny for every song streamed online. 
 http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3374000,00.html

Music Fans Hear Grammys Night Anti-Piracy Screed Newsbytes)
With his Grammys awards speech Wednesday night, National Academy of
Recording Arts & Sciences CEO Michael Greene put out what may be the
music industry's loudest and most public cease-and-desist order to
digital music pirates. But not everyone is buying his message.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174868.html

Online Gambling Sparks Controversy (TechTV)
The urges to spend big and win big can be irresistible, and cities
like Las Vegas count on these desires to bring in a steady flow of
cash. Now, a new breed of Internet casinos is bringing gambling into
the home. 
 http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3374279,00.html

Vatican advocates Internet use (Nando Times)
In two documents released Thursday, the Vatican urged Roman Catholics
to use the Internet to spread the faith while warning them about
pitfalls such as online pornography.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/276223p-2508274c.html

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020228/wr_nm/pope_cyberfaith_dc_1&cid=582

Hearings on Digital Movies and Piracy (New York Times)
Michael D. Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company, told a
sympathetic Senate Commerce Committee today that only the threat of
government intervention would spur the technology industry to take
the necessary steps to prevent illicit copying of digital movies.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01DIGI.html

U.S. Endorses Microsoft Plea Modifications (New York Times)
In expectation of a new round of court hearings, Microsoft and the
Bush administration announced some modest changes today in the
proposed settlement of the government's antitrust case.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01SOFT.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1847000/1847348.stm

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3TX28U8YC
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105315,00.html
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/277388p-2514797c.html

Microsoft on a mission (Christian Science Monitor)
The cool features of the new Windows XP system come at a price: your
freedom online. So this is the day that Bill Gates, along with many
Microsoft fans (and stockholders), has been eagerly awaiting. Today,
Oct. 25, Microsoft officially offers copies of its new operating
system, Windows XP, Home and Professional Editions, at stores around
the US.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1025/p11s1-stct.html

U.S. tech trash poisons Chinese villages (Nando Times)
Chen Wu was happy when his village became a dumping ground for
discarded computer hardware from the United States.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/276197p-2508163c.html

IT branded 'a costly failure' (Australian IT)
Commonwealth Bank managing director David Murray has blamed the US
computer industry for "single-handedly wrecking" the global economy,
and claimed email could ruin companies. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3866038%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Intellectual property under fire at the WCIT 2002 (ZDNet)
The legitimacy of copyright laws comes into question at the World
Congress on IT in Australia 
A series of apparently unrelated comments at the World Congress on IT
(WCIT) 2002 signal an increased questioning about the legitimacy of
current intellectual and copyright laws in the digital age. 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105320,00.html
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-848606.html

Broadband backwater (Australian)
Broadband internet access is being hailed as the ticket to a
techno-revolution, with its high-speed online connections bringing
significant advantages for businesses and consumers. 
But Australia is lagging behind in the broadband revolution,
according to experts, who say access costs are too high and accuse
Telstra and the federal Government of shirking responsibility on the
issue.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3848704%255E7582,00.html

CD Technology Stops Copies, but It Starts a Controversy (New York
Times)
The recording industry has begun selling music CD's designed to make
it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade
songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3 players.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01PROT.html

Looping emails: Latest scourge of the Internet? (ZDNet)
A simple system administrator mistake is now capable of practically
disabling email systems worldwide, as recent incidents show 
When Roman Drahtmuller saw the volume of complaints his company was
receiving from disgruntled emailers, some of whom had suddenly
received hundreds of spam emails from the same source, he knew
something was wrong. 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105350,00.html

Research Programme Gets Off the Ground (allAfrica.com)
Public and private forces in the information and communications
technology (ICT) industry have come together to support the first
independent, multiple-funded ICT policy and research programme.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200202280688.html

Bill Gates, el más rico del mundo por cuarto año consecutivo (El
Pais)
Bill Gates, fundador de Microsoft, encabeza por cuarto año
consecutivo la lista de los hombres y mujeres más ricos del planeta
de la revista Forbes. A pesar de que Gates cuenta con una fortuna de
52.800 millones de dólares, ésta es menor a la que se le había
calculado el año anterior, 58.700 millones. 

http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20020301&xref=20020301elpepieco_15&type=Tes&anchor=elpepieco
Sentencia del caso Microsoft (English)
 http://www.elpais.es/temas/textos/microsoft.html

Microsoft cede más terreno para evitar la demanda antimonopolio (El
Pais)
El Departamento de Justicia de EE UU y Microsoft han retocado de
forma significativa la propuesta del acuerdo extrajudicial que
resuelve la demanda por prácticas monopolísticas contra el gigante
informático. El objetivo es acercar posiciones con los nueve estados
de ese país que todavía se oponen al pacto, alcanzado después de que
el Tribunal Supremo invalidara una sentencia del año 2000 que
condenaba a Microsoft por vulnerar las leyes de la competencia.

http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20020301&xref=20020301elpepieco_17&type=Tes&anchor=elpepieco


Beijing reins in media with new rules (Straits Times)
Beijing has issued a new set of guidelines to rein in the country's
media, including ordering a stop to the indiscriminate selection and
sensational presentation of news from the Internet.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,1870,104639-1014674340,00.html

Wanted: IT firms to join 'second wave' of Internet (Straits Times)
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) wants the IT
industry here to make Internet surfing even faster by using light
fibre-optic cables instead of traditional copper ones.

http://www.straitstimes.com.sg/cybernews/story/0,1870,105417,00.html?

Governors back head on porn (Times Educational Supplement)
A head teacher who permanently excluded a pupil for allegedly setting
up a pornographic website has won the backing of governors at his
school. 
The south Wales teenager is believed to have designed the website,
showing explicit sexual images, at home then e-mailed it to computers
at his school. 
 http://www.tes.co.uk/breaking_news/story.asp?id=12059

TV, movies, and kids' behavior (Christian Science Monitor)
While parents and politicians argue over who should play policeman,
television and movies continue to hook kids on alcohol and tobacco.
Two new studies make the situation clearer than ever.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0301/p13s02-almo.html

Once again, e-mail shows how it can change our world (Christian
Science Monitor)
Since the events of September 11th, we've seen that the Internet has
fulfilled many important functions for people. Yet two e-mails,
widely disseminated on the Internet, have shown us the real 'face' of
the 'Net: as a communication device that can spread information that
can be either important or misleading in the wink of an eye to
millions of people.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1004/p14s2-stin.html

MetaFilter.com: a great weblog  (Christian Science Monitor)
While there are dozens of Search Engines out there to help you find
specific information on the Web, many of the surfer's best 'finds'
are either the result of pure chance, or a discovery passed on from a
friend. Of course, if you had a few thousand friends ready to share
their discoveries, your ability to find Web treasures greatly
improves. Welcome to MetaFilter.com - specialists in Assisted
Serendipity.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0206/p25s01-stin.html
 

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