internet news - 7/5

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

Hi all

Another day off from the news tomorrow...

Cheers
David

Domain Name news
False Web Registration Ban Targets Scam Artists (Newsbytes)
Legislation that would criminalize the submission of false
information when registering Web addresses is designed to target
online criminals, not ordinary Internet users who make mistakes on
their registration forms, supporters of the bill said.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176407.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41467-2002May6.html

Bill Would Criminalize False Domain Name Registrations (Newsbytes)
Internet users who knowingly submit incorrect contact information
when registering Web addresses could face up to five years in jail
under legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this
week.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176371.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28812-2002May3.html
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-900448.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900342.html
 http://www.lextext.com/coble.pdf

Dot-Com Still the Main Domain (Wired)
Last autumn, when registrars introduced the first new top-level
domains in 15 years, no one expected suffixes like dot-biz and
dot-info to prove any real match for the all-pervasive dot-com.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52274,00.html

Dot-Com Death March Thinning Out - Report (Newsbytes)
For the fifth month in a row the number of dot-com failures declined
amid signs that the Internet sector shakeout is on the wane, a report
said today.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176390.html

Dispute over 'kr' Internet domains intensifying (Korea Herald)
Korea's major Internet domain operators have been entangled in a
dispute over the much-coveted "kr" domains, marring the country's
image as a frontrunner in broadband and Internet businesses. 

http://www.koreaherald.com/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/05/04/200205040011.asp


Internet Domain Dispute Escalating (Korea Herald)
The general public is unhappy with the flurry of disputes surrounding
the ``.kr'' domain.
 http://www.korealink.co.kr/kt_tech/200205/t2002050317404945110.htm

Australian Domain Name Seller Makes Promises (Newsbytes)
Australia-based domain name seller Internet Name Group today said it
has made commitments regarding its marketing practices after the
nation's consumer watchdog took the company to court alleging "false
or misleading representations."
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176376.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265051,00.htm

Porn sites take over domains (Australian IT)
THE dotcom collapse has generated a new website protection racket,
enabling online pornographers to re-register lapsed internet domains
for publishing sexually explicit content.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4266545%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Court Decision On Domain Name Dispute (from Baker & McKenzie E-Law
Alert)
The Superior Court of the State of São Paulo has issued a decision
favorable to one of the largest Brazilian banks with respect to a
domain name dispute. The case is the first one in Brazil that
analyzes the legal basis applicable to domain name and trademark
disputes. The Court has ruled that a Brazilian company, which had
registered the disputed domain name, infringed the trademark rights
of the plaintiff and must immediately cease any and all use of the
domain name, being subject to a R$ 5,000 penalty per day in case of
non-compliance with the judicial order.

Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We'll See You in Court (New
York Times) 
Louisiana law school is giving one of its students an unusually
comprehensive legal education. In addition to offering him the
standard classes and exams, it is suing him.
The dispute centers on a Web site maintained by Douglas Dorhauer, a
student at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center at Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge. The site is called lsulaw.com, and it
includes a school calendar, law-related links and comments by Mr.
Dorhauer, some of them critical of the law school.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/06/national/06LSU.html
 
Courts to settle Web domain name disputes (Gulf News)
Local courts will have a bigger role in settling Web domain name
disputes following major changes brought to the existing framework,
said a senior Etisalat official. The prime criteria will be that the
domain name must have 'ae' in it.
 http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=49681

Though Network Solutions Apparently Likes DOT-BZ (from BNA Internet
Law News)
Thanks to an ILN reader for pointing out an interesting registration
in the dot-bz domain (the Belize domain). Neulevel.bz, which looks
very similar to the official neulevel.biz, is actually registered to
competitor Network Solutions, which points the domain to Afilias, the
dot-info registrar. Belize has adopted the ICANN UDRP -- no word on
whether NSI will find itself subject to a claim for what looks like a
bad faith registration. Whois record at:

http://www.belizenic.bz/cgi-bin/Registrar?action=whois&action2=whois&domain=neulevel.bz

WWF Admits Defeat In Fight For Logo, Net Domain (Newsbytes)
New monikers may be old hat for the World Wrestling Federation. The
wrestler Tugboat became Typhoon. Stunning Steve Austin became Stone
Cold Steve Austin. The federation itself was officially known as
Titan Sports Inc. at the same time that wrestlers like Hulk Hogan
(Terry Bollea) were beginning to make the initials WWF - with the
first W standing for "Worldwide" then - a household fixture.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176425.html
 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_1038611,00.html
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3209774.htm

www.goinglikehotcakes.us (IT World)
Over 250,000 .us domain names have been snapped up since their launch
last week but registrars have been criticised for their poor control
over allocation.
 http://www.itworld.com/Man/3827/020503domain/

La OMPI da la razón a France Telecom en la disputa del dominio
'www.francetelecom.com' (delitosinformaticos.com)
El Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de Dominios de la Organización
Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) ha dado la razón a la empresa
France Telecom en la demanda interpuesta contra un grupo de usuarios
denominado "Grupo de Usuarios de France Telecom" possedor del dominio
'www.francetelecom.com'.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102053458185383.shtml

An Assessment of ICANN's Mandatory Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
in Resolving Disputes Over Domain Names (Journal of Information, Law
and Technology)
The UDRP constitutes a major step forward in Internet governance.
Although not without its shortcomings, analyzed within the ambit of
its objectives, the Policy has succeeded in most respects. It has
allowed trademark holders to recover domain names held by
cybersquatters in a cost and time effective manner. At the same time,
the UDRP has provided a relatively level playing field for
combatants, as many disputes involve contests between 'Davids' and
'Goliaths', but without the certainty that Goliath will prevail.
Suspect UDRP decisions are primarily anomalies, although forum
shopping remains a legitimate concern. With time and a little
fine-tuning, the UDRP will undoubtedly serve as a model for future
initiatives to regulate conduct on the Internet. (This may have been
in the news a few months ago).
 http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-3/hancock.html

For ICANN@Large members...
The newly elected panel for icannatlarge.com has set up a mailing
list for general discussion about the At Large issues, open not just
to its members but to anyone interested. That mailing list aims to be
a prompt replacement of the current ALSC Forum list, which will close
in a few weeks from now, and to host the same kind of fruitful
discussion that has been characterizing it in the last two years.
We encourage you to subscribe now to the new list by sending an empty
message to atlarge-discuss-subscribe@lists.fitug.de. Archives may be
found at:
 http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss.
At the same time, the panel has set up two other lists:
- an announcement list for internal communication to all icannatlarge
com members who opted in at registration;
- a panel list for internal discussion and voting among panel
members.

Both lists are publicly archived on the web at:
 http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-announce/
 http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-panel/

Internet news
Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over  
If the media giants have their way, the Net freedom fighter says,
content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled.
Who should control the Internet? If Stanford University law professor
Lawrence Lessig is right, the Internet will soon belong to Hollywood
studios, record labels, and cable operators -- corporate giants that
he says are trying to cordon off chunks of the once-open data
network. Lessig's mission is to stop them. At age 40, he's already
the Net's most famous freedom fighter. Since 1995, he has been a
seminal thinker on many of the Digital Age's most important battles
-- the AOL-Time Warner merger, Napster, and the Microsoft antitrust
case.
 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm

Big Brother is looking to read your e-mail (Sydney Morning Herald)
Police are increasingly turning to Internet Service Providers in a
bid to fight crime - both online and off - but is this growing
relationship doomed to endanger the privacy of Australian Internet
users?
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/04/1019441450994.html

They Know What You're Watching (Wired)
One day after a federal magistrate judge ordered Sonicblue to monitor
the TV-watching habits of people who use its ReplayTV 4000 personal
video recorder, the company is hard at work on two separate tracks:
While its legal team works on a way to stay or perhaps reverse the
ruling, its engineers are trying to come up with software to track
thousands of ReplayTV customers in the event that the ruling is not
changed.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52302,00.html

Report Refutes Anti-Trade Debate (Wired)
The music industry has been whining for years that online
file-sharing services have sucked hundreds of millions of dollars'
worth of revenue from legitimate music retailers.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52305,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=917447

Safer Internet
Latest Safer Internet newsletter - Newsletter for Awareness Raisers
in the EU Safer Internet programme. Also available in French and
German.
 http://www.saferinternet.org/news/archive.asp

La Guardia Civil clausura dos sitios con pornografía infantil
(delitosinformaticos.com)
La Guardia Civil ha conseguido localizar y clausurar dos páginas
'webs' españolas, que contenían pornografía infantil.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102077682027655.shtml

Parents urged to supervise children's access to net (ABC)
Doctors are concerned about the growing number of youngsters
downloading information on drug use from the Internet.
Dr Kevin Humphrey a specialist emergency physician at Brisbane's
Mater Hospitals says while several different drugs are involved,
there has been a significant increase in amphetamine use that poses
some very risky side effects.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/05/item20020507150058_1.htm

Europeans and culture: main findings of a Eurobarometer survey
Reading, music, television, Internet use or artistic activities. The
European Commission and Eurostat wanted a snapshot of the diversity
of the cultural habits of Europeans. The poll that is being published
today confirms the mass phenomena common to all Europeans (importance
of television and cinema), but also reveals major differences in
cultural habits (reading of newspapers, use of the new information
and communication technologies). 

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/667|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/667|0|RAPID&lg=DE&display=
(German)

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/02/667|0|RAPID&lg=FR&display=
(French)
 http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/archives/eb/ebs_158_en.pdf
(report)

General report of the hearing on “Education and Awareness in order to
Increase Internet Literacy” (Council of Europe)
The principle objective of the hearing organised by the Council of
Europe on 25th March 2002 was to define strategies for increasing
Internet literacy and to raise public awareness to the dangers that
potentially harmful and prejudicial content represent. It further
aimed at defining educational approaches to develop deeper public
understanding of the impact of this new communication medium on
society and awaken a sense of public responsibility as to the steps
that should be taken to avoid the inherent risks. Ten speakers
presented projects underway in their respective countries, each
offering an overview of the goals, target public, means implemented
and key actors involved in these initiatives. Furthermore, the panel
sought to clarify the role of international cooperation in the quest
to ensure that citizens in every sector of society are given the
opportunity to develop Internet literacy.

http://www.coe.int/t/e/cyberforum/Internet_literacy/HGeneral_Report(E).asp

Web hath no fury like a woman scorned (Observer)
It is one of Britain's most popular websites. Friends Reunited has
brought together old schoolfriends and childhood sweethearts in
thousands of emotional reunions. Such is the reach of the internet
that millions of people across the world log on every day in fresh
bids to track down long-lost friends - and, in some cases, to pillory
former teachers.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,710197,00.html

Lawmaker Would Bar Violent Game Sales to Kids (Reuters)
A California congressman wants to make it a federal crime to rent or
sell video games showing violence, prostitution and drug use to
anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=924568

Belgium's silent heart of darkness (Observer)
Something is rotten in the state of Belgium. Six years after the
arrest of Marc Dutroux, the country's notorious paedophile, no date
has been set for his trial and the case remains painfully unresolved.
 http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,710090,00.html

MS, Rival Fight Over 'Real' Truth (Wired)
Two Microsoft executives on Monday brushed aside allegations from
rival RealNetworks that Microsoft uses its Windows operating system
to gain an unfair advantage in music player programs.
 http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52336,00.html

EU Taxes U.S. E-Commerce (Wired)
In a move likely to earn the ire of the United States, EU finance
ministers will rubber stamp new rules for taxing products bought on
the Internet such as games and software, EU officials said.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52325,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/business/worldbusiness/04EURO.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=923223

La UE aprobará hoy el nuevo reglamento del impuesto al comercio
electrónico (5Dias.com)
Los ministros de finanzas de la Unión Europea firmarán hoy los nuevos
reglamentos para la imposición de gravámenes.

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020507cdscdsemp_13&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec

Online activities exempted from E.U. law (IT World)
ITworld.com The lobbying worked. The European Commission has granted
an exemption to all online activities from the most contentious
element of a controversial law on cross-border disputes in the
European Union Friday.
 http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/020506euonlinelaw/

Congressman Set to Introduce Web Privacy Bill (Reuters)
A U.S. lawmaker said on Monday that he would introduce this week a
long-awaited consumer privacy bill covering Internet commerce. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=924290

EPIC takes aim at legislation affecting privacy (Computer World)
A privacy watchdog group is raising objections to a law that governs
how financial institutions can use personal information, and to a
bill in the U.S. House that calls for a national driver's license
using biometric markers such as iris scans.

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,70771,00.html

ACLU Backs Yahoo, 'Cybergriper' In Free-Speech Cases (Newsbytes)
The American Civil Liberties Union is speaking out on behalf of giant
Web directory Yahoo [NASDAQ:YHOO] and a small-business operator in
Texas - both involved in high-profile lawsuits the ACLU says threaten
U.S. rights to free speech on the Internet.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176412.html

Unsolicited e-Mail Senders Fined (Korea Herald)
Five spammers have been slapped with fine of 20 million won for
sending unsolicited advertising e-mails or ``spam,'' government
officials said yesterday.
 http://www.korealink.co.kr/kt_tech/200204/t2002042917210545110.htm

ISP Can Finally Disconnect Spammer, Court Rules (Newsbytes)
After more than a year of battling with bulk e-mailer MonsterHut, a
Rochester-based Internet service provider (ISP) has been given
permission by a New York State appeals court to disconnect the
company it says is a notorious spammer.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176381.html

Chief-to-Be Says AOL Has One Problem Area (New York Times)
Richard D. Parsons, who will become AOL Time Warner's chief executive
later this month, said today that the company still faced significant
problems and still had to answer questions about its strategic
direction. But he vigorously defended the overall vision for AOL Time
Warner, the world's biggest media company, and said there were no
plans to split the company.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/technology/07AOL.html

Canada, broadband king (Australian IT)
Canadians, 75 per cent of whom have some type of internet access, are
adopting high-speed internet connections faster than people in other
countries, according to a new poll.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4254063%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Court Is Told Microsoft Kept Strategy Even After Ruling (New York
Times)
The Microsoft Corporation bundled more multimedia features into
Windows XP even after a judge ruled the company had illegally
integrated extra functions into the operating system to protect its
monopoly, a company executive testified today.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/technology/07SOFT.html

Australian workplace monitoring up for review (ZDNet)
Monitoring employees is under the spotlight, with a law reform agency
report finding covert surveillance to be a growing and controversial
industrial issue.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/hr/story/0,2000024989,20265029,00.htm

Telstra in a whirl over chatroom claim (The Age)
Telstra has hit out at the broadband user-group Internet site
Whirlpool, saying the forum contains incorrect information on pricing
and other consumer policies.
 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/06/1019441475994.html

Palestinian websites knocked offline (BBC)
Israel's military action in the Palestinian territories has disrupted
the region's computer networks.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1966000/1966335.stm

Shanghai cybercafes shut down (BBC)
Nearly 200 internet cafes have been closed down by the authorities in
China's second largest city, Shanghai.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1971000/1971153.stm
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/392495p-3118009c.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52330,00.html

Net ban sparks protests in Bahrain (BBC)
Demonstrators in Bahrain demand an end to government's blocks of
internet websites blamed for promoting sectarianism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1968000/1968446.stm
 http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020504/1/2oys1.html

Spam Bill Expected to Reach Senate (Los Angeles Times)
A measure that would crack down on the unwanted junk e-mail known as
spam soon will head to the Senate floor, said Sen. Conrad R. Burns
(R-Mont.), one of the bill's sponsors.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000032088may06.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology

THE END USER Outsmart spam (International Herald Tribune)
Spam is threatening to overwhelm e-mail, seriously limiting -and
ultimately, perhaps, crippling - this global and ubiquitous
communications medium that most people discovered only within the
last 10 years. The problem is quickly getting worse.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/56737.html

Man Gets 10 Months For Ebay Exposives Auction (Newsbytes)
A California man who used Ebay to auction off explosives online has
been sentenced to 10 months in prison.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176409.html

Softbank, McDonald's Japan to Offer Burger Browsing (Reuters)
Diners at McDonald's in Japan will soon be able to browse the Web
with a burger in hand following an agreement with Internet investor
Softbank Corp to install a high-speed Web service in thousands of its
fast-food restaurants.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=925798
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1972000/1972136.stm

Region's worst piracy policing (Canberra Times)
Although Australia has one of the lowest rates of software piracy in
the Asia-Pacific region, it lags behind the region in efforts to
police such piracy, according to the Business Software Alliance's
specialist in such matters.

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=features&subclass=techno&category=industry%20news&story_id=146423&y=2002&m=5

Net video's obstacle to a steady stream (CNET)
Streaming media companies aim to make Web video as seamless as
television, but recent advances in technology may fall short of
solving deeper problems with data delivery over the Internet.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900617.html

Who'll win the Net challenge? (Sydney Morning Herald)
Ultranet, ambient intelligence, i-grid. It's the latest lingo in the
IT research world to sum up ubiquitous, pervasive and continuous
computing.
The Federal Government has promised to hand out more than $100
million to a group that can help stir research activity in
Australia's information and communications technology industry.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/04/1019441451018.html

Australia Mulls Wireless Potential For Broadband (Newsbytes)
A government committee has tabled a high-level inquiry into the
future use of wireless broadband technologies in Australia and may
recommend regulatory support for the development of services.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176305.html

Chernobyl virus hitches a ride (ZDNet)
The Klez worm just keeps on giving. The persistent pest, which made a
strong comeback last month in the form of the Klez.h variant, is now
helping revive the Chernobyl virus, according to a new report from
antivirus company Symantec.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-900157.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-900050.html

Red alert: Does anti-virus work? (Independent)
A recent report found that 95 per cent of companies currently use
antivirus software. But can they keep up with the writers of bugs
such as the Klez-H worm?

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=292322

US Certifies Boeing's In-Flight Internet Service (Reuters)
U.S. aviation regulators have certified Boeing Co.'s BA.N plan to
link commercial airline passengers with the Internet during flight,
the company said on Tuesday. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=928479

Florida Killer Posts Personal Ad for Cyber-Friend (Reuters)
The online personal ad reads nicely, describing a world-traveler and
scholar who loves cooking, water sports, yoga and hiking. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=928037

Why Net marketers love mom (CNET)
Julia Hellerman is too busy tending to her software start-up and
17-month-old son to go to the mall. 
But the 30-year-old Boulder, Colo., resident managed to purchase
airplane tickets, a baby thermometer and payroll software during a
recent shopping blitz. She also researched which local car dealership
could provide the best deal on the family's Volkswagen Passat Wagon
and which type of cloth diapers got the highest rankings from other
moms.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1017-900615.html

The Canberra Connection
April/May Newsletter of the Australian Internet Industry Association 
 http://www.iia.net.au/news/020410.html

Apple Instant Messenger to Work with AOL (Reuters)
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday previewed a new bundle of free programs
focused on connecting users, including an instant messaging
application called iChat that will work with America Online's
Internet communication program -- the world's biggest. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=924506
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109722,00.html

Microsoft: Few Changes to OS (Wired)
A Microsoft executive conceded on Monday that the company had taken
few steps to alter certain software packages in response to its
antitrust suit.
 http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52341,00.html

Microsoft expands in Europe with Navision deal (Financial Times)
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed it was buying Navision, Europe's
fifth-largest software company, in a deal worth about DKr11bn
($1.3bn). The acquisition is the latest stage in the rationalisation
of the highly fragmented European software industry, which has been
suffering from lacklustre demand.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3LWUWIX0D

Information Technology Work Force Set to Grow (Reuters)
The outlook for hiring in information technology jobs -- one of the
hardest hit sectors in last year's downturn -- was starting to
improve even as the national unemployment rate touched its highest
level in more than 7-1/2 years, a report released on Monday said.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=922488

Interactive TV: The big kludge (ZDNet)
Jakob Nielsen, who probably knows more about Web design than anybody
else on planet Earth, came by not too long ago to catch us up on the
state of the art. The good news: Yes, some good work is going on. The
bad news: Most of what is being touted as user-friendly design these
days comes straight out of the pages of Torquemada.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-899499.html

Sky+ vs TiVo: Is this the future of television? (Independent)
Personal video recorders could signal the end of the line for your
humble VCR. But which to pick?
Replacing one box underneath your TV with another might sound like a
task for people with too much time on their hands. But when the box
that's arriving is one of either the TiVo or Sky+ personal video
recorders (PVRs), and the one heading out is your VCR, then I think
it's a sign of someone who knows that time is precious in this modern
world.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=292323

Study By UCLA Internet Project Shows E-Mail Transformed Personal
Communication After September 11 Attacks (UCLA Center for
Communication Policy)
Survey finds more than 100 million Americans sent or received "I Care
Mail" for emotional support, messages of concern, and information
about victims 
 http://ccp.ucla.edu/pages/newsTopics.asp?Id=32

An Empirical Study in the Use of IT by Small and Large Legal Firms in
the UK (Journal of Information, Law and Technology)
Recent studies suggest that investment in IT is now causing a divide
between small and large firms. This paper reports on the findings of
an empirical survey of legal firms in the UK. The findings from this
study suggest that the divide between the large and small legal firms
is wide.
 http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-1/singh.html

Internet Law and Regulation (book review - Journal of Information,
Law and Technology)
There are many books on Internet law on the market - but few, if any,
could compete with Graham Smith's 'Internet Law and Regulation'
which, in terms of comprehensiveness of subject-matter covered and
detail, is a hard act to follow. Indeed, it justifies taking the risk
of praising too much and raising too high expectations, by saying
that this book reads and feels like the Bible on Internet law and is
very well worth the high price tag of £145. This, of course, holds
true only for someone who wants or needs a bible on Internet law, and
there may be room for speculating that, with the Internet and
Internet law growing out of its infancy, the possibility of any
lawyer being (or aspiring to become) an expert in Internet law as a
whole, rather than an expert, let's say, on issues of domain names or
digital cash, is becoming increasingly slim.
 http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-1/kohl.html

InfoLaw
UK legal gateway site
 http://www.infolaw.co.uk/

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