internet news - 22/3

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

Domain Name News
ICANN President Says Board Member Can View Records (Newsbytes)
The President of the body that manages the Internet's addressing
system today said that the organization's financial records are open
to all of its elected directors.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175312.html

From BNA Internet Law News
Australia Says It Will Stop Funding GAC
The Australia Financial Review is reporting that Australia plans to
stop funding ICANN's Government Advisory Committee as Paul Twomey, an
Australian, steps down as chair. The report suggests that the
Australian government has provided up to A$3 million in funding for
the GAC since it was created in 1999.
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=628

ICANN's problems more than bickering (Silicon Valley)
Once again, the people who decide how the Internet is supposed to
function aren't getting along. The Net is alight with e-flames, and
people from all over the world went to Accra, Ghana, last week to
argue with the passion of parents at a Little League game.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/2901423.htm

Scots warned over .sc domains (ZDNet)
An Internet domain name registrar has come under fire for promoting
the .sc domain to Scottish businesses when it really belongs to the
Seychelles.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107158,00.html

Internet News
New porn filtering software released (Guardian)
A group of powerful internet companies today released filtering
software that allows parents worldwide to screen out pornographic,
violent or simply unwanted sites.
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,671707,00.html
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/22/1016744651465.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20264192,00.htm
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107113,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885837.stm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020321/wr_nm/tech_internet_ratings_dc_1&cid=582
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51252,00.html

Anti-hate group updates Web filter (CNET)
The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday that it has updated its Web
filter with free software in an effort to combat sites that the group
claims promote hate.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-866153.html

National effort to log off child porn (Australian IT)
A radical proposal to establish a database to monitor child
pornography on the internet is getting a mixed reaction from
authorities.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3998803%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Internet Filtering Trial Starts Monday (Newsbytes)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday will ask a
federal court to strike down a law that requires libraries to install
and use Internet filtering software on their computers in order to
qualify for government funding.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175388.html

Experts Doubt Pennsylvania Kiddie Porn Law Will Work (Newsbytes)
The Pennsylvania state legislature's attempt to reduce online child
pornography by requiring Internet service providers (ISPs) to block
access to objectionable Web sites has gotten low marks from legal and
online experts.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175358.html
 http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2001/0/HB1333P3184.HTM

Larry Magid: Net users can help fight child porn (Mercury News)
The FBI announced Monday that it had charged dozens of people for
using computers and the Internet to distribute child pornography.
Those caught in the sweep, called ``Operation Candyman,'' allegedly
used e-mail and the Web to distribute the clandestine material. The
group had 7,000 members, the Department of Justice said.
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2901404.htm

ISPs forced to spy on email (Australian IT)
New Zealand's Government plans to force telcos and ISPs to install
equipment allowing police to eavesdrop on phone calls and emails. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3999829%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175371.html

Police Flat-Footed in Cyber Crimes (ABC News)
Global law enforcement cannot cope with savvy cyber criminals, who
are quick to exploit technology to create havoc, top officials at the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said today.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/cybercrime020320_wire.html

La Policía detiene en Madrid y Foz (Lugo) a dos miembros de una red
internacional de pornografía infantil en Internet
(delitosinformaticos.com)
Dos personas han sido detenidas por agentes de la Brigada de Delitos
Tecnológicos de la Dirección General de la Policía en Madrid y Foz
(Lugo) como presuntas integrantes de una red mundial de distribución
de contenidos de pornografía infantil a través de Internet.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101675264793654.shtml

El 'cibercrimen' aumentó un diez por ciento en Europa durante el
último semestre de 2001, según un estudio de EDS e IDC
(delitosinformaticos.com)
El aumento en el número de delitos informáticos durante el segundo
semestre del pasado año aumentó un diez por ciento en las empresas
europeas. Este dato fue dado a conocer en un estudio realizado por la
consultora IDC por encargo de EDS.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/10167521876697.shtml

La policía no puede hacer frente a los criminales en Internet
(delitosinformaticos.com)
Los responsables de aplicar la ley a nivel mundial no pueden hacer
frente a los espabilados criminales cibernéticos, que son muy rápidos
en utilizar la tecnología para sembrar el caos, dijeron el miércoles
funcionarios de la Oficina Federal de Investigación (FBI).
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101666260082070.shtml

Detenciones en importante operación internacional antipedófila en
Internet (delitosinformaticos.com)
Una importante operación contra las redes pedófilas, coordinada por
Interpol y efectuada este miércoles en diez países de Europa y del
Norte de América, así como en Japón, provocó la detención de doce
personas, señaló Interpol en un comunicado publicado este miércoles
en su sede de Lyon (Francia).
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101666253716021.shtml

Investigation into Internet child porn ring widens (Nando Times)
Officials in 11 countries began seizing computers and videos and
making arrests Wednesday in raids aimed at breaking up an Internet
child-pornography ring.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/316501p-2706900c.html

Cyber Cops to Ensure Safe Surfing (allAfrica.com)
The main focus of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill
that was tabled in Parliament last week is "to enable and facilitate
electronic transactions by creating legal certainty around
transactions and communications conducted electronically". The idea
is that once such legal certainty exists there will be greater use of
this type of transaction.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200203210667.html

'Bring on cheaper broadband' (Australian)
The head of a pan-Asian ISP says broadband prices still need to
become cheaper before take-up rates will grow. 

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3985620%5E15306%5E%5Enbv,00.html

Spam flood forces companies to take desperate measures (CNET)
Chris Lewis walks a tightrope every day as leader of a
spam-eradication team at a major telecommunications company. He is
the guardian of roughly 45,000 employees' e-mail in-boxes, protecting
against unsolicited commercial messages that are nearly doubling in
number every five months--and costing an estimated $1 per piece in
lost productivity. But perhaps just as important is Lewis' ability to
field the bad mail without discarding the good, such as potential
business leads.
 http://news.com.com/2009-1023-864815.html

Brazil on Piracy: Just Say No (Wired)
Frustrated by a government that either can't or won't address
epidemic levels of commercial piracy, a broad coalition of Brazilian
industry created an advertising campaign it hopes will appeal to
Brazilians' sense of fair play and economic self-interest. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51135,00.html

Compaq Shareholders Approve Sale to Hewlett-Packard (NY Times)
Compaq Computer said yesterday that its shareholders had
overwhelmingly approved its $24 billion purchase by Hewlett-Packard,
a day after Hewlett's managers declared a narrow victory in the hotly
contested proxy battle.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/21HEWL.html

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3UTX8U1ZC
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51141,00.html
 http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1045662

Losing the HP Way (Salon)
Carly Fiorina may have triumphed over Walter Hewlett, but the effort
to save her company's share price came at a cost: Silicon Valley's
soul.
 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/22/hp/index.html

Ex-Chief of Netscape Criticizes Microsoft's Penalty Proposal (NY
Times)
The penalties the Microsoft Corporation has proposed in the final
phase of a landmark antitrust case would allow the company to engage
in the same kind of illegal conduct that helped it quash the Internet
browser of the Netscape Communications in the 1990's, James L.
Barksdale, Netscape's former chief executive, told a federal judge
today.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/technology/20SOFT.html

In Microsoft Case, RealNetworks Says Competition Is Unfair (NY Times)
A RealNetworks executive accused Microsoft today of withholding
information that would have allowed RealNetworks' video and audio
software to work as well with Microsoft's operating system as rival
software made by Microsoft does. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/21SOFT.html

Hollings Proposes Copyright Defense (Washington Post)
A key senator introduced legislation yesterday that would turn
electronics manufacturers and software developers into copyright
police. 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A92-2002Mar21.html

Will the Net save China? (Salon)
A breathless new book predicts that Chinese digerati will revive
their nation's glory -- but massive poverty and autocratic rulers
won't vanish at the click of a mouse.
 http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/03/21/china_dawn/index.html

Web users suffer from the fall (Guardian)
The web is bad now, and it is getting worse. Every day, the gap
between what people want and what the web offers gets wider.
Usability experts call it "the customer experience gap". Azeem Azhar,
from Go Albert UK, who worked on Online in its early days, explains
it this way: "Ten years ago, every web user was a physicist at Cern,
and every web site was plain text. Today, sites are much more
complicated, and users are much less sophisticated."
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,670979,00.html

White House Orders Agencies To Purge Data From Web Sites (Newsbytes)
The Bush administration has ordered federal agencies to reexamine the
availability of information on their Web sites that could be used by
terrorists, sparking concerns from some civil liberties advocates who
say the move could portend an erosion of government openness online.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175385.html
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,672097,00.html

E-Mail-Deleting Governor Sued (Wired)
Four news organizations have sued Gov. Mike Leavitt, contending he is
illegally destroying his e-mail. Leavitt's deletion of electronic
documents amounts to destroying public records, the lawsuit filed
Tuesday contends. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51195,00.html

Google restores links to Scientology criticism (ZDNet)
Google says it 'inadvertently' removed a link to the home page of
Xenu.net, a site charged with copyright infringement under the
controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The links are now
back, but the incident raises worrying questions.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107166,00.html
Google Yanks Anti-Church Sites (Wired)
The Church of Scientology has managed to yank references to
anti-Scientology websites from the Google search engine. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51233,00.html
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2910195.htm
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-865936.html

El 70% de las empresas españolas tiene acceso a Internet (ZDNet)
Según el estudio Las Tecnologías de la Sociedad de la Información en
la Empresa Española, 2001 realizado por DMR Consulting y SEDISI, el
70% de las empresas españolas tiene acceso a Internet, cifra que
aumentará hasta el 80% en 2003. 
 http://www.zdnet-es.com/canales/zdnn/mostrarnoticias_t.html?id=3798

Can Africa Bridge the Digital Divide? (allAfrica.com)
"Africa is [the] least served [continent] by Telecommunications and
Information Technology services," says the draft report of the New
Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) summit held last week in
Kampala. The summit was held to decide what Africa wants the G8
summit to do for her.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200203210228.html

Where Do We Draw the Privacy Line? (allAfrica.com)
The police's new toy, a mobile fingerprint-scanning device called the
MorphoTouch, could be a very scary piece of technology if combined
with the Hanis and identity smart card projects.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200203210720.html

Women beat men in web browsing (BBC)
Women know what they want from the internet and spend less time than
men getting it, according to analyst firm Jupiter MMXI.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885348.stm

UK slow to close digital divide (BBC)
As the UK Government launches a series of projects designed to bring
broadband to the countryside, it emerges that both town and country
surfers could be losing out.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1883000/1883795.stm

Microsoft sweeps out Hotmail accounts (ZDNet)
People using the free email service are seeing their folders and
in-boxes cleaned out as their junk-mail folders fill with pitches for
a paid version of Hotmail.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107182,00.html

Addiction or Compulsion? Experts Debate Why People Spend Too Much
Time Online (ABC News)
For 17-year-old Jessica Nichols of Renton, Wash., the time she spent
online became an unmanageable situation.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_netaddiction020322.html

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