internet news - 27/3

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

Domain Name News
Canadian Singer Reclaims Domain Lost In Registrar Snafu (Newsbytes)
Canadian pop star Lara Fabian has reclaimed an Internet address her
lawyers say was lost when domain-name registrar Network Solutions
bungled its transfer.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175496.html

From BNA Internet Law News
Towards Building A New ICANN
Several alternatives to the Lynn proposal on ICANN reform have
cropped up that are worthy of discussion. This week the "Heathrow
Declaration" drafted by Elliot Noss, Tim Denton, and Ross Rader, was
posted online. The Declaration sets out a new approach to ICANN and
creates a moderated discussion list to continue the dialogue. Other
recent contributions include the Accra Manifesto by John Perry Barlow
and the PFIR Overcoming ICANN document. Documents at
 http://www.byte.org/heathrow/

Internet News
World Telecommunication Development Report: Reinventing Telecoms
(ITU)
The sixth edition of the ITU’s World Telecommunication Development
Report, specially prepared for the World Telecommunication
Development Conference taking place in Istanbul, Turkey in March
2002, examines how the challenges to extend the benefits of
telecommunications technologies to all the world’s inhabitants have
changed, in line with changes in the market environment. Available in
English, French and Spanish. Cost - 100 Swiss Francs. Executive
Summary & tables etc free online.
 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/wtdr_02/index.html

Lighting a Fire Under WLAN Hot Spots (Wireless Week)
Wi-Fi aggregators hope to exploit wireless local area networks'
potential by helping customers get access to the rapidly expanding
number of 802.11b networks in the United States and abroad. 

http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=story&articleId=CA201268&stt=001

What Ails Wireless? (Business Week)
Too many players. Cutthroat prices. A shakeout looms.
 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_13/b3776013.htm

Why the wireless Web is more trouble than it's worth (Silicon Valley)
Muttering to myself in Starbucks. Again. It's not the guy who came in
to make himself a venti sugarmilk from the condiments bar that's got
me crazy; I am here trying to test public wireless Internet access.
This is the fourth Starbucks I've been to, though, and I've yet to
see a Web page. People are looking at me funny too -- I swear it
wasn't me at the condiments bar! -- when I ask about service or walk
around waving my laptop in the air searching for a signal. No wonder
I'm talking to myself.
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2937862.htm

From BNA Internet Law News
UK Court Rules That Patent Infringement Doesn't Depend On Server
Location
The UK High Court has issued an interesting decision that looks at
the issue of patent infringement and Internet jurisdiction. The court
was asked to address whether placing an allegedly infringing computer
program on a foreign-based server would allow the infringer to claim
that UK patent law would not apply. The court ruled no - placing the
material offshore was of no help against a claim of patent
infringement. Case name is Menashe Business Mercantile v. William
Hill. Decision at

http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bailii/disp.pl/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2002/397.html

The internet. Volume One (BBC) 
Millions of web pages disappear every year, as sites are updated or
go out of business. Now there is a project to save a slice of
Britain's internet heritage.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1896000/1896620.stm

Government to regulate online gambling (Guardian)
Internet bookmakers may be awarded quality guarantee Kitemarks under
government proposals to stimulate and liberalise gambling, it was
announced today.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,674471,00.html

Spammers lose in small-claims court (CNET)
Free-speech group Peacefire.org has won a legal round in its fight
against unsolicited e-mail, invoking Washington state's anti-spam
law.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-868332.html

Bahrain blocks opposition websites (BBC)
Authorities in Bahrain have blocked access to some opposition and
other internet sites which they say have been inciting sectarianism
and carrying offensive content.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1895000/1895005.stm

European Safer Net Program Extended (Newsbytes)
A Europe-wide program to combat illegal and offensive content on the
Internet will run for another three years and expand to take into
account the growing use of Web chat, online games and the wireless
Internet.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175459.html
 http://europa.eu.int/information_society/programmes/iap/index_en.htm

Net filters fail the children (BBC)
A report casting doubt on the effectiveness of filtering software has
been released on the first day of a US court case challenging a
federal law requiring libraries to restrict access to some net
content.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1894000/1894561.stm
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175487.html

Librarians: Internet filters would 'presume the values of parents'
(Nando Times)
Testimony resumed Tuesday in the trial on the constitutionality of a
federal law requiring libraries to filter out Internet pornography
and other questionable adult material, which librarians complain
forces them to be "thought police."
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/325283p-2750266c.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51339,00.html

http://breakingnews.scmp.com/NLet/NLet.asp?Sec=technology&SubS=techinternet&Id=ZZZ3CZ3Z6ZC

ITV Digital to go into administration (ZDNet)	
The collapse of the terrestrial digital broadcaster could scupper the
(UK) government's plans for universal Internet access.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107448,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1896000/1896732.stm

How to survive the internet (BBC)
A counselling centre in the US is pioneering the treatment of people
who just cannot stop browsing the internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1887000/1887467.stm

McNealy: Don't let Microsoft steal the Net (CNET)
Programmers are on the front lines in the battle to keep Microsoft
from taking over the standards that underlie the Internet, Sun Chief
Executive Scott McNealy told loyalists of Sun's Java software
Tuesday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868943.html

Microsoft reveals Novell e-mail (Nando Times)
As efforts to settle the Microsoft antitrust case dragged on in 2000,
a Utah state lawyer asked software maker Novell for help in drafting
a new definition that would benefit Novell, according to an e-mail
released by Microsoft lawyers.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/327424p-2760508c.html

IE still rules the browser market--for now (ZDNet)
The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has
grabbed nearly one-third of the worldwide browser market, according
to a new study.  
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-869460.html

Argentine Economy a Net Loss (Wired)
Internet use in Argentina jumped by 100 percent in 2000, and another
52 percent in 2001, to the point where 3.6 million Argentinians were
online by the end of last year. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51294,00.html

Condenado a 18 meses de prisión un internauta Francés que difundió
textos antisemitas en la Red (delitosinformaticos.com)
El Tribunal correccional de París condenó a un internauta parisino,
de nombre Redoune Taleb y de 36 años de edad, a 18 meses de prisión
con remisión condicional por haber publicado en Internet una serie de
textos antisionistas y antisemitas entre septiembre y noviembre de
2000. 
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101717769733065.shtml

Spanish priest jams cell phones during Mass (Nando Times)
A priest fed up with mobile phones ringing during Mass has installed
an electronic jammer to keep his flock more in tune with God.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/325768p-2752362c.html

Nigeria launches Web site to target e-mail scams (ComputerWorld)
Have you received an e-mail claiming to be from Nigerian government
officials or petroleum executives trying to smuggle money out of
their country? Are you getting tired of spiking all that Nigerian
spam?
 http://idg.net/ic_836025_1794_9-10000.html

FAQs on the EC's adequacy finding on the Canadian Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/dataprot/adequacy/canada-faq_en.htm

Microsoft makes a college try (CNET)
Spooked by the growing popularity of Linux and Java software,
Microsoft is opening up its source code to up-and-coming programmers
on college campuses.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-869465.html

Napster allowed access to record labels' documents (Nando Times)
Napster will get a closer look at documents from major record labels
that reveal the underpinnings of their business agreements in forming
two online music ventures, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/327242p-2759743c.html

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