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internet news - 22/4
Domain Name News
Domain reseller suspended (Australian IT)
THE Australian domain name authority has suspended its provisional
accreditation of a domain reseller accused of deceptive conduct.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4179253%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000025001,20264761,00.htm
Senator Revives Dot-Sex Idea (Wired)
Or "dot-prn" or "dot-xxx." Her bill introduced this week doesn't say
which new top-level domain should be the future repository for all
naughty material.
...
Closed books: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
has replied to a suit brought last month by one of its directors.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51975,00.html
CFP: Debate over ICANN reform rages on (Australian Industry Standard)
Nearly two months after the president of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) called for fundamental reform of
the beleaguered organization, ICANN watchers at the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in San Francisco Thursday
continued their high-volume debate over exactly what those reforms
should be.
http://www.thestandard.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/07348BE32BF2DC47CA256BA0000A8C02!OpenDocument&n=Section&c=Marketing+and+Media
4525 different domains that lead to a single porn site (ICANNwatch)
In casual web surfing, many Internet users have stumbled into a
seemingly-innocuous domain name that oddly presented a screen full of
sexually-explicit images. Usually, this causes a momentary puzzle
that's forgotten in an instant, but when it happened to me at
bicyclebills.com (warning: sexually-explicit images), I decided to
investigate the Tina's Free Live Webcam operation to which
bicyclebills.com had redirected me.
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=677
International Trade Mark Holders To Retrieve .ru Domains (from Baker
and McKenzie Global E-Law Alert)
New regulations have been introduced compelling RosNIIROS, the body
that registers the .ru domain name, to annul registrations by those
infringing the trade mark rights of an international owner, and then
re-register the name in the favour of the claimant.
Es rechazada la demanda de la revista Hola por la recuperación del
dominio 'www.hello.com' (delitosinformaticos.com)
El centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de Dominios de la OMPI
(Organización Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual) ha rechazado la
demanda interpuesta por el grupo al que pertenece la revista Hola
contra Idealab, que es dueña del dominio 'www.hello.com'.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101925369998608.shtml
Internet News
Computer Activists Debate Privacy's Future (Reuters)
Alarmists, nay-sayers and Cassandras from around the cyber world have
assembled here this week for the "Computers, Freedom & Privacy"
conference to debate how to preserve privacy in a security-conscious
age.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=850162
U.S. Exporting Personal Internet Privacy Technologies (Reuters)
While technologies to protect personal online privacy have stalled in
the world's richest nations, they're still in grave demand from human
rights workers in other countries, experts said at the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy conference that ended here on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=849674
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-887462.html
Privacy concerns continue to grow (ZDNet)
New laws have given governments unprecented rights to keep a digital
eye on their citizens, but many people are concerned.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20264750,00.htm
A Bad Year for Privacy (Wired)
Long before planes slammed into the World Trade Center and anthraxed
mail snarled Capitol Hill, privacy mavens had worried that a
terrorist attack would spur Congress to approve invasive new laws.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51987,00.html
Internet unites Kosovo foes (BBC)
Albanians and Serbians are putting ethnic enmities behind them and
coming together in cyberspace to protect the environment in Kosovo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1939000/1939121.stm
Klez virus passes confidential info (CNET)
The latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride
on sensitive documents, resulting in victims' confidential
information spreading with the malicious program, Russian antivirus
firm Kaspersky Labs said Friday.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-887330.html
Peru Discovers Machu Penguin (Wired)
With a bill on the table that would mandate the use of free software
in government computers, Peru has become the latest Latin American
country to seek alternatives to what some call another form of Yankee
imperialism: proprietary software.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51902,00.html
Australians resist Internet addiction (Sydney Morning Herald)
Australians lap-up new technology but have a long way to go before
reaching the internet addiction of other high-tech nations, a report
issued today has found.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/22/1019441220130.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20264752,00.htm
http://www.noie.gov.au/Projects/information_economy/research&analysis/ie_stats/CSOP_April2002/index.htm
Web of deceit (Guardian)
Jenny Madden fell in love with a man she met on an internet dating
site. It was only much later - after a romantic week together in
Spain - that she realised the only reason they seemed to have so much
in common was that he had been hacking into her email...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,688449,00.html
Center Opened to Help Internt Addiction
The Information Culture Center of Korea held the opening ceremony for
a new clinic dedicated to dealing with a growing Internet addiction
among users on April 11.
http://www.mic.go.kr/eng/jsp/maj/maj_100_02.jsp?dept=1&m_code=p100_0016_1
MDP begins Internet voting for presidential primary (Korea Herald)
The ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) began yesterday a
10-day-long Internet poll as part of its ongoing presidential primary
race, marking the first time in Korea that an election includes
online votes.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/04/19/200204190053.asp
Europeans Eye E-Vote Eventuality (Wired)
In the first flush of Internet fever, electronic voting was hailed as
the miracle cure-all for democracy's ills. E-vangelists argued it
would engage young people in the political process, invigorate
democracy and bring voting methods up to speed with current
technology.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51838,00.html
The Democratic People's Republic Of Korea Online (Newsbytes)
This is the Web site of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Exaggerated visual imagery is let loose within this official Web
presence. Each virtual investigation leaves you wondering how the
DPRK government views the Internet as a promotional medium.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176010.html
China Has Second Most Home Internet Users in World (Reuters)
China is home to the second largest number of home Internet users in
the world after the United States, outstripping its more developed
neighbor Japan, market researcher AC Nielsen said on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=855325
Africa is Wired, But Access Still Limited (allAfrica.com)
African Internet connectivity is looking healthy with all of the
continent's 54 countries having achieved some form of Internet
access, according to independent Internet and telecoms consultant,
Mike Jensen.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200204220236.html
Britons 'do not want e-government' (BBC)
A former civil servant has added his voice to recent criticisms of
the UK's e-government policy, questioning whether people actually
want online services.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1935000/1935848.stm
Varian Internet Defamation Case On Hold (Newsbytes)
A California appeals court has granted a temporary stay in both the
contempt and appeal proceedings in the case of two people who were
found guilty of Internet defamation in December.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176033.html
If Bertelsmann Wed Napster, It Could Sue Itself, and More (NY Times)
By pursuing a possible deal to buy the music-trading service Napster,
the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann is opening the unusual
possibility that it may be financing an antitrust investigation
against itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22MUSI.html
Redada contra la pornografía infantil en Austria
(delitosinformaticos.com)
En Austria se ha llevado a acabo una de las mayores redadas contra la
pornografía infantil en Internet. En este país es perseguible
judicialmente la posesión de material pornográfico.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101942790266297.shtml
El PP enmienda la ley de Internet para que sólo los jueces puedan
cerrar 'webs' (El Pais)
El Grupo Popular ha recogido alguna de las críticas de la oposición a
la ley de Internet (LSSI) y va a modificarla para dejar a los jueces
la potestad exclusiva para cerrar webs y servidores. La redacción
actual del borrador encomienda esta tarea a las 'autoridades
competentes', una expresión que fue considerada 'ambigua' por los
grupos de la oposición, ya que permitía que una autoridad
administrativa, por ejemplo, clausurara los sistemas de servicios de
la Red.
http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20020420&xref=20020420elpepisoc_1&type=Tes&anchor=elpepisoc
Firms plan to create Japanese Web alliance (Nando Times)
Japanese high-tech leaders NEC Corp. and Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co. Ltd. and telecommunication firms KDDI Corp. and Japan
Telecom Co. Ltd. said Monday they would form the nation's biggest Web
alliance with about 10 million Internet subscribers.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/372669p-2999346c.html
LARRY MAGID: Virtual rights and wrongs (Nando Times)
I feel conflicted by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to
overturn the congressional ban on child pornography.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/372006p-2993920c.html
Nevada looks to legalize regulated Internet gambling (Nando Times)
Nevada's gaming regulators have been warned of the numerous hazards
in trying to monitor Internet gambling activity if becomes legal in
the state.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/372142p-2994624c.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000028613apr22.story
Agreement on Computer Recycling (NY Times)
Responding to a growing problem of waste computer equipment,
manufacturers and local governments have agreed in principle to set
up a nationwide recycling program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/22RECY.html
EU to Clamp Down on Hacking, Internet Attacks (Reuters)
Internet hackers and spreaders of computer viruses could face four
years in jail under a draft "cybercrime" law adopted by the European
Commission on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=847344
Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute (NY Times)
Google, the company behind the popular Web search engine, has been
playing a complicated game recently that involves the Church of
Scientology and a controversial copyright law.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22NECO.html
If you've got the cash, Google's got the answer (ZDNet)
Google launches the beta site Google Answers, where live researchers
answer questions on any topic for a fee. Will the search site succeed
where others have failed?
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108834,00.html
After an Age of Digital Hubris, Wired's Editor Is Still a Believer
(NY Times)
You do not need a magazine like Wired to tell you that the future has
become a more complicated, less optimistic place. The biggest status
symbol in Silicon Valley right now is a job. The digital story is
kaput, at least for the time being, and dozens of mainstream
publications are competing for news that Wired used to have all to
itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/business/media/22WIRE.html
State Spam Laws Rarely Enforced (LA Times)
Anyone cleaning out a bulging e-mail in box probably has wished for a
law regulating spam, the unsolicited electronic messages that promise
instant weight loss, overnight riches and triple-X pictures. Twenty
states, including California, have laws governing the distribution of
commercial e-mail to individuals and companies. Violations can lead
to fines and even jail time.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000023286apr01.story
Our next witness: Bill Gates (ZDNet)
Microsoft's chairman will make his first appearance as a witness in
the antitrust trial this week. It could be a chance for him to 'save
the day'.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108831,00.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176032.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000028602apr22.story
Another Big MS Browser Hole Found (Wired)
Internet Explorer users who click their browser's back button open
the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51899,00.html
Microsoft Piracy Loss as Much as $200 Million (LA Times)
Microsoft Corp. lost as much as $200 million from the sale of pirated
software by counterfeiters arrested last week, FBI Director Robert
Mueller said.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000028611apr22.story
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