internet news - 12/4

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

Domain Name News
ICANN Warns of Domain Name Scam (IDG)
Fraudulent company is asking Web site operators to pay up to resolve
phony domain disputes.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_846043_1773_1-3921.html

Local input for ICANN review
The Australian Government has called for input to formulate its
response to a review of the internet's technical regulatory body. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4120297%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Internet News
Europe elbows Internet content 'blocking' (Register)
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of
"blocking" as a way of regulating content on the Internet.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24808.html
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_846680_1794_9-10000.html
 http://www.euroispa.org/docs/childprot_final_110402.pdf (EuroISPA
news release)

Nigeria E-Mail Suckers Exist (Wired)
Among 10,000 Americans who reported being suckered by online hoaxes
last year, 16 fell victim to an elaborate plot that pinged millions
of e-mail inboxes: Nigerian letter fraud.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51725,00.html
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/355858p-2897258c.html
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93843,00.asp

Connectivity Kings: Oh, Canada (Wired)
A new study says Canadians are more wired than Americans, but online
shopping is better in the south.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51678,00.html

JEITA: Deleting data from hard disks won't erase it (IDG)
A organization backed by Japan's largest electronics companies has
issued a warning to PC users that data stored on the hard disk of a
computer that is being scrapped or thrown away can be read by a
malicious third party, even if the disk has been reformatted, and has
called on PC makers to offer software and services to protect users.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_846687_1794_9-10000.html

IDC: WLANs Are "Disruptive Technology" (802.11 Planet)
Wireless local area networks (WLANs), particularly those used in the
home and in small offices, are a so-called disruptive technology that
will have the same impact on the networking industry that wireless
phones did to the telecommunications industry, a study released
Wednesday by market research firm IDC claims. A disruptive technology
is one that significantly changes the way people and systems operate.
 http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article/0,4000,1481_1007911,00.html

The Net is set to get its wings (Sydney Morning Herald)
The pool of firms vying to provide airline passengers with high-speed
Internet service just got another player. Inmarsat Ltd, the British
satellite communications firm, announced it would begin selling
satellite bandwidth to fliers who wish to surf the Web, send e-mail
and eventually, watch television.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/11/1018333386980.html

Yahoo follows rivals in sharing users' data (International Herald
Tribune)
Pressed for profits, Internet companies are increasingly selling
access to their users' postal mail addresses and telephone numbers,
in addition to flooding their e-mail boxes with junk mail.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/54407.html

Australian company touts Web payment system (ZDNet)
Pico-Pay aims to provide users with access to subscription content
through building up credits by viewing advertisements.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108267,00.html

Amanda search moves to the net (BBC)
The internet is being used to appeal for information on the
whereabouts of missing Surrey schoolgirl Amanda Dowler.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1923000/1923720.stm

New snooper's charter sparks privacy outcry (Times)
Private files containing people’s detailed personal information would
be passed between government agencies without the knowledge or
consent of those concerned under proposals announced yesterday.  
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-264629,00.html

E-Gov Official Touts Power of the Internet (PC World)
Bush administration is looking to the Internet to radically change
how it does business, one insider says.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,94043,00.asp

Economist No Help on Key Microsoft Sanction (Reuters)
An economist testifying for nine states seeking tough antitrust
sanctions against Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O balked on Thursday at
supporting the states' key demand for a stripped-down version of the
Windows operating system. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=NSKP0XVTLRYVYCRBAE0CFFAKEEATGIWD?type=technologynews&StoryID=802934
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175844.html

Expert Lists Goals of a Microsoft Penalty (NY Times)
Antitrust sanctions against the Microsoft Corporation should seek to
repair the damage the company's illegal conduct did to competition
and consumers in addition to preventing a repetition of its misdeeds,
an economics expert told a federal judge yesterday.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/technology/12SOFT.html

Big Blue's clues (Economist)
Bad news from IBM suggests that the technology recovery is still far
off.
 http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1079807

Face the Music: Suits Pending Over Copy Controls (PC World)
Class action suits may spring from consumer complaints of
surreptitious CD copy protection.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93904,00.asp
Copy Control Law Draws Online Outcry
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93544,00.asp
IBM Updates Copy-Protection Software
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93364,00.asp

Listing again (Economist)
A way to turn telephone numbers into web addresses is proving
controversial
 http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1080495

Seeking Profits, Internet Companies Alter Privacy Policy (NY Times)
Dressed for profits, Internet companies are increasingly selling
access to their users' postal mail addresses and telephone numbers,
in addition to flooding their e-mail boxes with junk mail.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/ebusiness/11PRIV.html

Singapore ISP To Block Sites On Broadband Service (Newsbytes)
SingNet, the ISP arm of Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), today
said it would prevent broadband Internet users from accessing over a
half million Web sites using a list updated by a U.S.-based Web
filtering company. SingNet BroadBand said it would offer the filtered
service as an option to its subscribers and for a fee, according to a
SingTel news release today.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175796.html

Hotspots for internet travellers (Guardian)
Travellers waiting for a flight, salesmen stopping off for a sandwich
by the motorway and customers in coffee shops will all be able to use
the internet at normal desktop speeds using just a mobile phone and a
laptop, under a service to be launched by BT this year.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,682231,00.html

KaZaA, Altnet, Andreessen and The Peer-to-Peer Nightmare (IT
Analysis)
Currently, film studios, recording studios and various other
interested parties are urging the US Congress to extend copy
protection, so that it applies to every home entertainment device --
which I guess must include home computers too. The Napster phenomenon
persists, by virtue primarily of KaZaA, a program that enables peer
to peer file swapping over the Internet and is used mostly for
copyright theft.
 http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?id=2120

Love, Porn and an Inadequate Understanding of Risk (IT Analysis)
Technology improves as time passes and it improves quickly. It may
not be true in all areas of IT, but it is generally the case and it
is particularly worrying in respect of hacking and computer viruses.
Both the hackers and the viruses are getting more sophisticated and
potentially more damaging as time goes by.
 http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?id=2122

IBM leads charge on holistic computing (CNET)
For years, IBM has asked its engineers to follow its one-word motto:
Think. Now the company is asking them to think holistically. The
technology giant is launching a major push within the industry and
academia toward autonomic computing, the science of creating
computing systems that can configure, tune and even repair
themselves. 
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-881279.html

When games stop being fun (CNET)
Dennis Bennett was failing his college classes, his marriage was in
trouble, and he wasn't being much of a father to his 1-year-old son.
But he had progressed to Level 58 as Madrid, the Great Shaman of the
North, his character in the online role-playing game "EverQuest," and
that was all that mattered at the time.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-881673.html

ANALYSIS: Judge presiding quietly over Microsoft case (Nando Times)
Compared to the first judge who handled the Microsoft Corp. antitrust
case, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly might as well be
mute.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/357511p-2906272c.html


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