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internet news - 14/3
Domain Name News
ICANN chief draws fire (Australian IT)
The chief executive of the oversight body for internet domain names
unfairly blind-sided the online community with a proposal to scrap
direct elections of board members, critics complain.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3949478%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
ICANN To Move Forward With Restructuring, Not Elections (Newsbytes)
The body that manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system
today voted to begin the process of restructuring itself, apparently
abandoning plans to establish a global mechanism that would allow
ordinary Internet users to directly elect some of the group's
leaders.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175218.html
From BNA Internet Law News
ICANN Resolution Kills At-Large Voting
With the ICANN meeting set to wrap up today, the board has adopted a
newly released resolution that effectively kills future at-large
online voting. The resolution notes the board's reservations with the
validity and practicality of global online elections as well as its
belief that elections are not the best means of achieving meaningful
public representation. Instead, the resolution calls for continuing
work with ICANN president M. Stuart Lynn on ICANN reform. Resolution
and preliminary report at
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm
Additional earlier coverage of the ICANN meeting at
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020313/n13321283_1.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology13mar13.story
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24424.html
Should Geeks, Or Governments, Run the Net? (Washington Post)
Once again, the people who decide how the Internet is supposed to
function are not getting along. The Net is alight with e-flames, and
people from all over the world are in Accra, Ghana, this week,
arguing with the passion of parents at a Little League game.
http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/15656-1.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24234-2002Mar13.html
Preliminary Report - ICANN Meeting in Accra
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm
New Zealanders Vote For Addition Of New Net Domain (Newsbytes)
New Zealand Internet users have given the thumbs up to the addition a
new Net neighborhood - dot-maori-dot-nz - within the dot-nz domain
name space.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175206.html
Glitch isolates .com.au (Australian IT)
A problem with a .com.au name server isolated some Australian
internet users today, preventing them from sending mail to other
parts of the net.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3950290%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Mandalay goes after "Cybersquatters" (Online Casino News)
These days, the must-have for an internet casino is a name with Las
Vegas associations - if they can get away with it, as permission is
rarely forthcoming. This week, Las Vegas-based casino group the
Mandalay Resort Group won court orders to prevent six Internet site
operators from misappropriating its trademarks, and filed another
four lawsuits alleging similar infringements of its brand names.
http://www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocn/article/article.asp?id=1021
Internet News
Cyberia Takes Foothold in Africa (Wired)
It may take all day to phone Ghana from the country next door, but if
you want the latest news from a shadowy group of rebels fighting in
remote West African jungles, you can always go to their website.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51019,00.html
Africa Struggles to Get Online (Yahoo)
It may take all day to phone Ghana from the country next door, but if
you want the latest news from a shadowy group of rebels fighting in
remote West African jungles, you can always go to their Web site.
Small ads, chat rooms, government propaganda, dissident tracts,
soccer scores, news, horoscopes, lonely hearts, pornography and
racist rants -- Africa's Web sites have it all.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020313/wr_nm/tech_africa_dc_1016021928&cid=582
AOL Testing New Netscape as Alternative to Explorer (Yahoo)
AOL Time Warner Inc.'s flagship AOL Internet unit is expected to
start testing soon a Web browser using the guts of its Netscape
technology, a source close to AOL said on Wednesday, opening up the
possibility that the media giant plans to drop rival Microsoft
Corp.'s Internet Explorer.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020313/wr_nm/tech_aol_browser_dc_1016051124&cid=582
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020313/tc_nm/tech_aol_browser_dc_1016051125&cid=581
Buggy virus bounds round the Net (ZDNet)
A new virus, called FBound-C, is being emailed round the Internet by
gullible users who click on its attachment. But the virus has a
serious flaw.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106573,00.html
Hackers Breeding Deadlier Viruses (allAfrica.com)
Virus writers are about to get a lot more malicious, unleashing a
breed of bug more destructive and virulent than ever before.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200203140057.html
Web of revelations brings judgment day for vicar (Guardian)
"Thou shalt not plagiarise sermons" may have to be added to the ten
commandments in the wake of the suspension of a Michigan clergyman
for lifting his remarks from the internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,666811,00.html
IT chief unimpressed by progress made in Europe (Financial Times)
After more than 30 years in the IT industry, Geoff Unwin, who has
just stepped down as chief executive of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, has
developed a reputation as a blunt, and often outspoken commentator on
Europe's IT sector.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3BUGS5QYC
Europe lags in internet race (BBC)
Wiring Europe will be high on the agenda as heads of state gather in
Barcelona at the end of the week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1866000/1866980.stm
eEurope: Taking stock of results and setting priorities for the
Barcelona European Council
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/225|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/225|0|RAPID&lg=ES&display=
(Espanol)
Email beats snail mail for residential use (Guardian)
Email has outpaced the traditional letter for residential use,
perhaps a timely development as mail carrier Consignia considers
dropping the second post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,666678,00.html
ZDNet's CeBIT coverage
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t299,00.html
MS Windows in every room (BBC)
Microsoft wants to put its Windows operating system in every room in
the home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1872000/1872253.stm
From BNA Internet Law News
BT Hyperlink Case Dealt Blow With Claim Construction Decision
British Telecom's claim of a patent for the hyperlink was dealt a
substantial blow yesterday as the presiding judge issued her decision
on the proper construction of the claims. Judge Collen McMahon ruled
that the BT patent is limited to a central computer as a "main store"
of information storage. Since the Internet does not consist of a
single central computer but networks of millions of computers, some
analysts expect that the case is ripe for a quick dismissal. Decision
at
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/02-02452.PDF
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPVAGZRYC
Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech (New York Times)
Leaders of two of the nation's most prominent industries,
entertainment and technology, have begun publicly sniping at each
other over how to stop consumers from illegally copying digital
movies, music and television programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/14PROT.html
French president shows his Net savvy (CNET)
French President Jacques Chirac tried to woo voters ahead of spring
elections with an Internet chat session Wednesday, seeking to project
a funky, with-it image and shrug off charges he is too old for
office.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-859487.html
Cable ISPs Not Required To Share Network - FCC (Newsbytes)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today ruled that cable
companies providing high-speed Internet access do not have to open
their networks to competing Internet service providers, despite the
fact that such activity already is beginning to take place in the
market.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175217.html
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/303434p-2643660c.html
Interactive TV To Reach 22Mil Homes This Year - Study (Newsbytes)
After years of hype, interactive television, also known as iTV,
reportedly is poised to make a big move with American consumers in
2002.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175200.html
See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the
news, along with an archive.
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