internet news - 26/4

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

Domain Name News
Domain seller settles FTC charges (CNET)
A Canadian company has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle charges that
it duped Internet domain-name holders into needlessly buying
similar-sounding names, federal regulators said Thursday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-892385.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=882453

.US Domain Registration Goes Live (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW)
Registration for.US domain names will go live at 10:00 a.m. EDT
today.
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/us042402.cfm

Verisign, Register.com Bear Brunt Of Domain Drain - Report
(Newsbytes)
More than 372,000 dot-com, dot-net and dot-org (CNO) domain names
disappeared from the Internet in March, continuing a slide in the
number of addresses often used to locate Web sites and electronic
mailboxes.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176143.html

New Dot-Au Addresses May Be On The Way (Newsbytes)
Australians might one day find themselves able to reserve local
versions of dot-biz or dot-name domain names, depending on whether
the Net community supports their introduction.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176154.html

Poor results and job cuts hit VeriSign shares (Financial Times)
Shares of VeriSign fell as much as 31 per cent on Friday after the
manager of internet addresses cut second-quarter earnings forecasts
and said it would lay off about 10 per cent of its workforce. 

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VKK22I0D
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51062-2002Apr25.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176150.html

Internet News
The Stockholm Challenge - A Global Arena for Pioneering IT Projects
The Stockholm Challenge is a unique awards programme for pioneering
IT projects world wide. It is a way of building networks between
entrepreneurs who will benefit from contacts across borders, cultures
and economies. 
 http://www.challenge.stockholm.se

UK e-science centre pushes grid computing (ZDNet)
A £5.5m facility based at the University of Edinburgh will act as a
focal point for research into distributed supercomputing projects 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109180,00.html

UK - Government on the Web II (UK National Audit Office/Quicklinks) 
Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The report examines
progress in implementing electronic public services delivery via the
Internet within UK central government over the last two years. A
significant amount of taxpayers’ money is being spent in central and
local government in introducing Internet-based services. It finds
considerable progress since the previous report in 1999 but
weaknesses in information across government on the usage of its web
sites, performance indicators to measure progress and methodologies
to assess the value added by e-government provision.
 http://www.nao.gov.uk/pn/01-02/0102764.htm

Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight (ZDNet)
A reluctance by UK industry to report cybercrime incidents to police
is resulting in a lack of statistics and intelligence which is in
turn hampering the fight against cybercrime. It's a vicious catch-22.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109168,00.html
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2109136,00.html

HP judge promises swift decision (ZDNet)
The three-day courtroom challenge to the Hewlett-Packard vote comes
to an abrupt end as both sides decline to make closing arguments. The
judge says he'll issue a decision quickly.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109191,00.html

Bill Gates, software saviour (The Economist)
MONOPOLIES are good for you-or so monopolists would have you believe.
Asked about Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller once said: “The
Standard was an angel of mercy, reaching down from the sky, and
saying ‘Get into the ark...We'll take all the risks.'”
 http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1100650

Did Gates tip the scales? (ZDNet)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates clearly dominated the courtroom during
his three days on the witness stand, legal experts said. But states'
attorney Steven Kuney still managed to give the judge in the case
some clues as to how an acceptable antitrust remedy could be crafted.
 
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-892471.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52117,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=883509

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT32S3FYG0D
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/technology/26SOFT.html

Microsoft, Symbian Sharpen Blades in Cellphone War (Reuters)
The mobile Internet has been slow to get off the ground, according to
new research, but software makers are becoming ever more fanatic
behind the scenes to gain support in an industry they view ready to
take off. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=887770

Microsoft Plugs Scripting Hole In Word/Outlook Combo (Newsbytes)
Microsoft Corp. says customers who use its Word software as the
text-editing engine behind recent releases of its Outlook e-mail
application should patch a security hole that leaves the combination
open to malicious hackers.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176165.html

BT's broadband domination plan (BBC)
BT has set itself ambitious targets for broadband in the UK which
include selling consumers a whole internet package - with the PC
thrown in as well.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1950000/1950986.stm
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,690231,00.html

Media Supervision on the Threshold of the 21st Century (European
Audiovisual Observatory/Quicklinks) 
What are the Requirements of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and
Concentration Regulation?
 http://www.obs.coe.int/oea_publ/iris/iris_plus/iplus2_2002.pdf

Review: Mozilla loaded up for browser wars (ZDNet)
We've waited more than four years for Mozilla, the Netscape-backed
open-source browser--and we're still waiting for the completed
version. But Mozilla has finally posted its official Release
Candidate 1 (RC 1) and plans to release the final soon.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-892855.html

Hotmail at Risk to Cookie Thieves (Wired)
MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for
accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in
the wild and apparently being exploited. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52115,00.html

Industry Near Deal for Anti-Pirate Broadcast Flag (Reuters)
Most of the hurdles to protecting copyrighted digital broadcasts from
being illegally redistributed over the Internet have been overcome
and a report is slated to be issued on May 17, industry players told
lawmakers on Thursday. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=883895

Italian Cops Bust Child Porn Ring (Guardian)
Italian police investigating an Internet child pornography ring have
seized thousands of videotapes and computer disks in raids across the
country, a police spokesman said Wednesday. 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1667814,00.html

Study: Kids’ web sites often confusing for students (eSchool News)
Children don’t have the patience to navigate the complex designs of
many of the web sites targeted to their age group, according to a
study released April 15 that observed how kids surf the internet.
They also can’t distinguish between advertising and actual content,
the study found, even when the ads are clearly marked. 
 http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3664

European Commission to encourage public-private partnerships in
education (RAPID/EC news release)
In promoting the implementation of e-learning in Europe, Viviane
Reding, Member of the Commission with responsibility for Education
and Culture, today welcomed the launch of the eLearning Industry
Group. The Group, which has been established at the initiative of 15
leading companies, will assist the Commission and Member State
Governments in furthering the objectives of the Commission's
eLearning Action Plan. 

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/623|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=

Hill Back to Biz of Biz Privacy (Wired)
Privacy is back. Congress and the White House abruptly shelved the
topic after last September's terrorist attacks -- and quickly enacted
a passel of new laws that granted police unprecedented surveillance
powers. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52128,00.html
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_852586_1794_9-10000.html

Internet companies balk over proposed privacy legislation (Nando
Times)
Online businesses claimed Wednesday that a Senate effort to limit
what they can do with information they collect about customers would
expose them to expensive lawsuits and hamper their success against
bricks-and-mortar competitors.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/380417p-3035895c.html

Crooks Cause Chilean Car Chaos (Wired)
New Yorkers think they have traffic jams, but sorting them out is
child's play compared to what Chilean commuters awoke to on Thursday
-- a morning of mayhem and chaos. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52114,00.html

Internet Usage and Commerce in Western Europe, 2001-2006 (IDC report)
Report Findings
 - European Internet usage climbed to almost 40% of the population in
2001 (i.e. 151 million Western Europeans were online by year-end
2001). 
 - Germany and the UK are still leading in terms of absolute number
of users, whereas the Nordics are still the frontrunners in terms of
penetration rates. 
 - Mobile Internet is in its infancy and still shows limited
adoption. However, mobile users is the fastest growing sub segment
and is forecasted to grow by 64% each year until 2006. 
 - Internet commerce is beginning to 'grow-up' resulting in both an
established commercial vehicle and trusted shopping alternative  
 http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jhtml?containerId=fr2002_04_19_115126

Worries of Cyberattacks on U.S. Are Aired (Washington Post)
U.S. officials warned yesterday that the Chinese military may be
searching for ways to attack defense and civilian computer networks
in the United States and Taiwan. But they said intelligence analysts
have concluded that China so far lacks the ability to cause much
disruption.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50900-2002Apr25.html
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_853067_1794_9-10000.html
 http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-042502china.story

Madrid acogerá el primer punto de acceso de red de Europa (IDG)
El Network Access Point (NAP) de Madrid será uno de los seis nodos de
acceso a Internet centrales que existen en todo el mundo, y su
inversión será de 11 millones de euros.
 http://www.idg.es/iworld/noticia.asp?id=23066

Klez Infection Spreading Across The Net - Anti-Virus Firm (Newsbytes)
The W32.Klez virus and its variants still are loose in the wild, and
Symantec today upgraded it to a "level 4" virus threat. The company
rates viruses on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most dangerous.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176151.html

Snap happy - The multimedia is the message (The Economist)
Can multimedia messaging live up to the mobile industry's hype? THERE
seems to be no let-up for mobile-phone companies. This week,
Vodafone's shares fell to a four-year low, after the British group
admitted that subscriber growth is failing to meet expectations; and
Ericsson, the world's largest supplier of equipment for wireless
networks, saw its shares fall by a quarter after announcing that it
would cut up to 20,000 jobs and ask shareholders to stump up SKr30
billion ($3 billion) through a rights issue.
 http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1101528

The clicks that count? (Times)
Net polls are quick and cheap. But are they representative?
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-278653,00.html

Apple 1, reliquia vendida por 15.566 Euros (IDG)
El pasado 17 de abril, MacCentral informaba sobre la próxima subasta
de una auténtica reliquia de Apple con motivo del Festival del
Ordenador Antiguo. Hoy, News.com anuncia que Apple 1 ha sido
subastado, 26 años después, alcanzando una cifra de más de 15 mil
euros.
 http://www.idg.es/macworld/content.asp?idn=23065

Unsold World Cup tickets to hit Internet (ZDNet)
Thousands of tickets for World Cup matches this summer will be
available to buy online in May.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109213,00.html


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