internet news - 23/4

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

Domain Name News
More complaints to ASIC about auDA auction (ZDNet)
A West Australian businessman has complained to the Australian
Securities and Investment Commission over auDA’s handling of the
auction of .au generic domain names.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20264791,00.htm

Over 4,500 Domains Point Users To Webcam Porn Site (Newsbytes)
Ben Edelman just wanted to find a good bicycle repair shop nearby.
Instead, he stumbled onto one of the biggest schemes on the Internet
for generating traffic to pornography sites.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176060.html

ICANN Issues Preliminary Report On Board Teleconference (from BNA
Internet Law News)
ICANN has issued a preliminary report on its board teleconference
held yesterday. The board set a schedule for the identification of
the registry operator of the dot-org domain with a tentative
examination fee of $35,000 attached to the process. It also passed a
resolution confirming that it will accept donations targeted toward
the development of At Large mechanisms for "meaningful,
self-organizing informed participation in ICANN." Report at:
 http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-22apr02.htm

Internet News
Etch-A-Sketch Maker Draws FTC's Ire (internet.com)
Demonstrating that it means business when it comes to online privacy
for kids, the FTC marked the second anniversary of the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by cracking down on the
Etch-A-Sketch Web site and sending warning letters to 50 other sites.
 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_1013711,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=857945
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176053.html

Privacy policies 'copied' (Australian IT)
COMPANIES are trawling the internet for privacy policies that they
cut and paste to comply with new laws, Melbourne privacy lawyer Peter
Moon says. But they risked being caught out if the Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission took a "truth-in-advertising"
approach to enforcing private sector privacy laws, Mr Moon said.  

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4179778%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Spying deal between police, ISPs (Australian IT)
LAW enforcement agencies are developing interception agreements with
large ISPs, as the Federal Government prepares to introduce new laws
on data spying.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4180888%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Your worst security threat: Employees? (ZDNet)
A government-backed report has found that employees are almost as big
a security threat as external causes - and companies are finding and
the cost per incident is rising.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108940,00.html

On Witness Stand, Gates Condemns Microsoft Penalties (NY Times)
Bill Gates, the chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, took the
witness stand today for the first time in the antitrust case against
the company, declaring that the penalties sought by a coalition of
state prosecutors would cripple Microsoft, harm consumers and drag
the entire computer industry into stagnation.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/technology/23SOFT.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=859944
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108904,00.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31247-2002Apr22.html
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3118220.htm
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176063.html

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3EVBKKC0D
 http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52027,00.html

See
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/billgates/billgates.asp
for Bill's testimony.

Bill Gates defiende a Microsoft en el juicio contra monopolio
(5Dias.com)
Bill Gates ha defendido a su compañía hoy lunes como testigo en el
proceso abierto contra Microsoft Corp por prácticas de monopolio.
Nueve estados piden sanciones contra la compañía que preside Gates,
quien espera que su primera presencia en un proceso que ya dura
cuatro años sirva a los jueces “para resolver los temas en su
contra”, ya que una sentencia desfavorable causaría grandes
perjuicios al gigante de la informática, según el propio presidente.

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020422cdscdsemp_49&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020422cdscdsemp_51&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101955003511377.shtml

Law Report - Indecent net pictures (Times)
Opening attachments to e-mails and downloading images from the
Internet to a computer screen were acts of making an indecent
photograph, provided that the requisite intention was present. 
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-276151,00.html

Forget Laptops, the Folding Screen Lands in Korea (Reuters)
A new paperback-sized computer screen that folds like a book will be
ideal for Internet users reading online novels, its South Korean
inventor said on Tuesday. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=862276

Symbian opens source code (ZDNet)
Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a
move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more
applications.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108959,00.html

Yahoo! to Offer Free Internet Access in Brazil (Reuters)
The Brazilian unit of Web giant Yahoo! Inc. plans to launch a free
Internet access service this week through a joint venture with local
telecommunications company Brasil Telecom TCSP4.SA . 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=857826
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-888306.html

Yahoo! Yodeler Settles with Portal Over Famous Cry (Reuters)
Web giant Yahoo! Inc YHOO.O said on Monday it has settled a
$5-million lawsuit with a yodeler who claimed the company used his
trademark cry in television and radio ads without his consent. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=860082
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108919,00.html

Surfers Flock to Parenting and Family Web Sites (Reuters)
Traffic to parenting and family Web sites jumped during the month of
March, as Internet surfers logged on to access articles about baby
names, child development, toys and baby-care products, according to
Internet audience measurement service Nielsen//NetRatings. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=857638

Desarticulada en Italia una red de pederastas por Internet
(delitosinformaticos.com)
Los Carabinieri italianos han desarticulado una red que intercambiaba
imágenes de pornografía infantil a través de Internet, en una
operación en la que ha procedido a registros en más de sesenta
inmuebles en diversas ciudad de la región de Piamonte.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101954924455717.shtml

InfoSecurity: New government and industry initiative needed to tackle
e-crime (CW360)
The IT industry and law enforcement agencies need a new, united
approach to tackle e-crime, according to the parliamentary lobby
group Eurim. 

http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1019560747&REQSESS=oEPP8N12&REQHOST=site1&2131REQEVENT=&CARTI=111840&CCAT=2&CCHAN=22&CFLAV=1

Aparece un nuevo gusano "Operación Triunfo" (delitosinformaticos.com)
El nuevo virus ha sido diseñado para propagarse rápidamente mediante
correo electrónico haciendo uso de las llamadas "técnicas de
ingeniería social". En este caso, el e-mail en el que el gusano llega
al sistema intenta hacer creer al usuario que ha recibido algún
material relacionado con el mencionado programa televisivo.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101950781366210.shtml

PC Users Don't Like to Leave Home Without It (Silicon Valley)
Have you ever used it in front of the TV? How about in bed? How about
wearing nothing but your underwear. Well, Intel conducted a survey of
about 2,400 computer users and found out some pretty interesting
things. For example, some people have used their porta-PCs at
weddings and funerals, in coalmines and on top of grain towers, from
a Grand Canyon hiking trail, while riding a horse, milking a cow and
building a chicken coop. 

http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_1013721,00.html

Free Love and Selling Macs (Wired)
During the late 1980s, the biggest dealer of Apple computers in
Northern California wasn't a computer megastore. It was a free-love
commune in San Francisco's hippie Haight-Ashbury district.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51866,00.html

Counting the clicks and misses (BBC)
Websites are looking at ways of getting a more accurate picture of
how many people click on an internet link.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1943000/1943947.stm

Telstra trials Internet phone calls (Sydney Morning Herald)
Free phone calls over the Internet were tipped as the death of the
telco industry - but not any more, it seems. Telstra and Microsoft
are offering 3000 customers the chance to make phone calls over the
Internet directly to a phone - at a cost.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/20/1019233287432.html

Demand for Broadband Growing Slowly, Survey Shows (Reuters)
Internet users are showing more willingness to pay for a high-speed
broadband Internet connection, although large numbers remain happy
with dial-up, a survey being released on Tuesday said. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=860204

W3C Launches Korean Office (internet.com)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization devoted to
promoting interoperability in all facets of the Internet, Friday
bumped up its international expansion when it launched an office in
Korea.
 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_1012621,00.html

Wireless takes a back seat (Sydney Morning Herald)
Despite the advantages of wireless networks, many potential users are
committed to other technologies, at least for now
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/23/1019441218005.html

Big Brother in cyberspace (Sydney Morning Herald)
Web Spy has been hailed by bosses and derided by privacy advocates
after it emerged from a project for the WA Government
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/23/1019441218138.html

Pilot scheme for recycling PCs (Sydney Morning Herald)
The growing stockpile of discarded computers lurking in home garages
and corporate storerooms throughout the country poses a significant
environmental threat, according to a report commissioned by the
national agency, Environment Australia.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/23/1019441217657.html

Handhelds showing signs of life (ZDNet)
Although the handheld market is showing some signs of life, it saw a
12.1 percent year-over-year decline in units shipped during the first
quarter of this year, according to preliminary numbers released
Monday by market researcher IDC.  
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-888749.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-888571.html

Other news (OK, it's not IT, but possibly of interest to some people,
& registration maybe required)
The challenge of world poverty (The Economist)
The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank which have just finished in Washington came at a time when
foreign aid is back at the top of the international political agenda.
But for more aid to be effective, tough decisions will have to be
made, not only in poor countries, but in rich nations as well.
 http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1097508

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news, along with an archive.


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