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internet news - 9/5
Domain Name news
Professionals To Get Elite Internet Status (Newsbytes)
Lawyers, physicians and accountants soon will be able to register Web
addresses in a worldwide Internet domain reserved exclusively for
certified professionals, but they will have to pay nearly 10 times
the cost of ordinary domain names.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176454.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49573-2002May7.html
Register.com to Offer '.Pro' Web Addresses (Reuters)
Doctors, lawyers and accountants will be able to get specialized
".pro" Web addresses later this year or early next year, RegistryPro,
a unit of Web address provider Register.com RCOM.O , said on
Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=935494
http://www.iht.com/articles/57201.html
VeriSign to Auction '.bz' Names on eBay (Reuters)
Security and Web address provider VeriSign Inc., which has seen
layoffs and missed its sales target partly as a result of
lower-than-expected Web address sales, on Wednesday announced it will
auction domain names on eBay Inc.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=932754
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50147-2002May8.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/2002/05/08/verisign-auction.htm
Verisign To ID New Ebay Sellers, Auction Domain Names (Newsbytes)
Individuals signing up to sell merchandise on Ebay will soon have to
prove to e-commerce security company Verisign [NASDAQ:VRSN] that they
really are who they say they are.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176465.html
Gorilla lovers beat chests in domain clash (CNET)
Supporters of Steuart Dewar have a message for those who've crossed
his path: Don't mess with the gorilla man.
The millionaire and retired software executive has been donating the
proceeds from his DateBk scheduling application to build a private
gorilla sanctuary near his home in the North Georgia mountains.
DateBk is one of the most popular handheld applications, partly
because Dewar licensed it to Handspring for use in its Visor devices.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-903161.html
Internet News
Battle of the search engines (Guardian)
As the BBC launches an internet search engine, does it offer anything
new or if it was just too good an opportunity to miss.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,711370,00.html
Stopping the cyber-criminals (BBC)
Police have adapted their methods to fight the new breed of
cyber-criminal, with computer forensics experts often replacing the
men in white coats at the scene of a crime.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1964000/1964765.stm
French Court Picks 2003 Date For Yahoo's 'Nazi' Trial (Newsbytes)
A Paris criminal court has set a date in 2003 for a trial in which
French authorities - encouraged by anti-hate groups - will try to
make Web directory Yahoo Inc. pay for Nazi memorabilia that was once
posted on its pages.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176439.html
Yahoo Nazi case tests bounds of online free speech (Info World)
CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS continued to battle this week against a case
that they say could potentially curtail free speech on the Net by
imposing regional restrictions on global Internet content.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/07/020507hnfreespeech.xml
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98804,00.asp
U.S. House Panel OKs Stiffer Cybercrime Penalties (Reuters)
Computer criminals would face increased penalties, and Internet users
would face greater surveillance by access providers, under a bill
approved on Wednesday by a House of Representatives panel.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=934935
More Asians Surfing for Internet Porn (Reuters)
Asian Internet users flocked to pornographic Web sites in March, with
Singaporean executives and South Korean students topping the list, a
four-country report by NetValue shows.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=937461
When Kid Porn Isn't Kid Porn (Wired)
The photograph captures two boys, about 6 or 7 years old, cavorting
naked on a beach. One of the boys looks coyly over his shoulder. The
other has an erection. Child pornography or art?
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52345,00.html
Lawmakers Take Aim at Child Modeling Sites (Reuters)
Two congressmen launched an effort on Tuesday to outlaw "child
modeling" Internet sites that depict children as young as five years
old wearing bikinis and other suggestive outfits, saying they
encourage child sex abuse.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=930573
Ohio's New Internet Child Porn Law Challenged (Newsbytes)
The expansion of Ohio's child-pornography statute to include the
Internet was met with a legal challenge even as the governor signed a
bill extending current law to the Net.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176438.html
Computer Sting Targets Child Porn Suspects (Reuters)
Federal and state officials said on Wednesday they were targeting up
to 200 suspects in what they called the first undercover computer
sting operation to combat child pornography.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=936631
Behind the Kid 'Erotica' Scenes (Wired)
The webmaster of a site dedicated to "child erotica" agrees to a
brief question-and-answer interview, via e-mail
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52371,00.html
La Policía alemana investiga a 85 sospechosos de pornografía infantil
en Internet (Libertad Digital)
La Policía alemana lanzó este martes una operación contra una red de
pornografía infantil que operaba en internet en la que estarían
implicadas al menos 85 personas, según la información recaba por los
agentes en varios domicilios.
http://www.libertaddigital.com/php3/noticia.php3?fecha_edi_on=2002-05-08&num_edi_on=803&cpn=69389&seccion=SOC_D
La ONG 'Todos son inocentes' se querella contra Terra por publicar
pornografía infantil en Internet (delitosinformaticos.com)
Según ha anunciado Europa Press, Miguel Serrano, presidente de la ONG
"Todos son inocentes", ha presentado en fecha 7 de Mayo de 2002
denuncia contra el presidente del Consejo de Administración de Terra
por un presunto delito de corrupción de menores y pornografía
infantil por difusión de imágenes pedófilas en dicho portal.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102080758420525.shtml
Germany Wants Age Limits on Violent Computer Games (Reuters)
The German government said on Wednesday it wanted to set up a
blacklist of violent computer games, giving it the power to ban them
from distribution in the wake of the country's worst postwar
massacre.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=934400
Kids Not Masters Of The Net - Study (Newsbytes)
Maybe children should be more involved in the design of Web sites
targeted at them because, according to a new study, the little things
that don't bother adults so much online result in markedly different
behavior from kids.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176447.html
Study: children drive Web ad traffic (ZDNet)
A recent study on Web usability indicates that children may account
for a significant proportion of Web advertising click-through
traffic.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265105,00.htm
Long-Awaited House Privacy Bill Unveiled (Reuters)
Several U.S. lawmakers introduced a long-awaited privacy bill
Wednesday that would allow U.S. businesses to share information about
customers who have not explicitly forbidden them to do so.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=936126
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98944,00.asp
Europeans Prefer TV, Newspapers To The Net - Survey (Newsbytes)
While almost all Europeans watch television, more than half don't own
a computer and only about a third of them regularly access the
Internet, according to results of a European Commission poll.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176451.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=929024
Battle for women's eyeballs (BBC)
Women's websites argue they have come of age and now pose a real
challenge to traditional glossy magazines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1966000/1966608.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,712101,00.html
U.S. Not Happy About EU Tax (Wired)
A European plan to tax foreign sales of downloadable products is
drawing howls on the other side of the Atlantic.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52378,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1973000/1973390.stm
Top Argentine Court Wants Law Against Hackers (Reuters)
Argentina's Supreme Court wants legislation to outlaw computer
hacking after rights activists allegedly vandalized its own Web site
but escaped punishment because no law covers digital attacks.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=930771
La Justicia argentina pide que el "crackeo" de páginas sea delito
(Libertad Digital)
La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Argentina ha pedido que se modifique
el Código Penal del país para que el ataque a páginas web sea delito.
Hace menos de un mes, un juez absolvió a un grupo de crackers que
modificó el site de dicho tribunal, del que forma parte el togado que
dictó el fallo.
http://www.libertaddigital.com/php3/noticia.php3?fecha_edi_on=2002-05-08&num_edi_on=803&cpn=69509&seccion=AME_D
U.S. House Panel OKs Stiffer Cybercrime Penalties (Reuters)
Computer criminals would face increased penalties, and Internet users
would face greater surveillance by access providers, under a bill
approved on Wednesday by a House of Representatives panel.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=934923
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52388,00.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-903235.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-902992.html
Who goes there? eBay wants to know (CNET)
eBay will use VeriSign to authenticate its auction sellers under a
deal the companies plan to announce Wednesday.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-902040.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/57196.html
Study: Cell Phone Waste Harmful (Wired)
A new kind of cell phone pollution and this one is silent. Within
three years, Americans will discard about 130 million cellular
telephones a year, and that means 65,000 tons of trash, including
toxic metals and other health hazards, a study says. "Because these
devices are so small, their environmental impacts might appear to be
minimal," says Bette Fishbein, a researcher at Inform, an
environmental research organization, who wrote the report.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52375,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=936788
Net Traffic Doubles, But Growth's Pace Is Slowing (Newsbytes)
U.S. Internet traffic grew at an annualized rate of 100 percent last
year, but a new report says the nation's telecommunications carriers
continued to make less money for each megabyte of data they shuttle.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176455.html
Virus Hoax Making The Rounds - 'JDBGMGR.EXE' (Newsbytes)
A virus warning is making the rounds urging people to search for a
purported virus on their hard drives - a file named JDBGMGR.EXE.
Chances are, they will find it, because the "warning" is a hoax.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176442.html
Siete de cada diez empresas no reciben beneficios de su presencia en
Internet (5Dias.com)
La mayoría de las empresas españolas confiesa que no recibe ni un
solo céntimo fruto de su presencia en Internet. Ésta es una de las
grandes conclusiones del último estudio de la Comisión del Mercado de
las Telecomunicaciones (CMT) sobre la actividad de las entidades
españolas en la Red. Según el informe, la mayor parte de las
compañías que tienen una página web dedica sólo entre 1.200 y 9.000
euros anuales a mantener su actividad en Internet.
http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020508cdscdiges_3&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec
Alligator race has charity snapping (Guardian)
The organisers of a novelty online alligator race found they had
bitten off more than they could chew yesterday when an animal charity
refused to accept a donation from the proceeds.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,711536,00.html
PCs vs. TVs (McKinsey Quarterly)
Companies are making major bets on building broadband applications.
And rightly so: with broadband's residential penetration now reaching
the tens of millions of households in the US and Europe, the industry
could reach profitable scale as early as mid-2002. To be successful
in this market, however, companies need a realistic view of the
economics that underlie broadband applications, of the ways those
applications will affect the industry's development, and of the size
of the opportunities likely to emerge during the next few years.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_abstract.asp?ar=1093&L2=38&L3=99
Media shake-up heralds global auction (Times)
AN INTERNATIONAL bidding war for Britain’s commercial television and
radio companies was heralded yesterday by a surprisingly radical
overhaul of media ownership rules.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-290243,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-290152,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-290153,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-290156,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-289910,00.html
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3NRV93Y0D&live=true
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3GD9P4Y0D
http://media.guardian.co.uk/whitepaper/0,7519,410295,00.html
Government clears way for Murdoch to buy Channel 5 (Independent)
The Government has cleared the way for Rupert Murdoch to buy Channel
5 and fulfil his long-held ambition to own a terrestrial television
channel in Britain.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=292941
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=292925
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