internet news - 13/5

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

Domain Name news
If they build domain, will kids come? (CNN/AP)
To keep youngsters away from porn and other online dangers, some
child-safety advocates want to create a children's zone populated
only by Web sites deemed safe.

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/12/childrens.internet.ap/index.html

With Dot-Pro Comes A Certifiable Snub (Newsbytes/Washington Post)
Doctors, lawyers and certified public accountants are welcome to
apply. Hairdressers, plumbers and real estate agents are maybes.
Don't even bother if you're an athlete, photographer or musician.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176524.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3429-2002May10.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000033795may13.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology

Net Governance Body Eases Off Government Involvement
(Newsbytes/Washtech)
The body that manages the Internet's addressing system appears to be
backing away - for now at least - from a proposal that would give
world governments greater direct control over the global Domain Name
System (DNS).
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176520.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2490-2002May10.html

RealNames Going Under, Keywords And All (Newsbytes/Washtech)
RealNames Corp., one of the firms that pioneered the keyword approach
to Internet addressing, will go out of business Monday, and as a
result thousands of Internet keywords will go dark before the end of
June, according to a source familiar with the situation.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176525.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4680-2002May11.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-911942.html

Commerce Commission tackles domain name registrar (IDGNet)
The Internet Naming Group has landed itself in hot water with the
Commerce Commission. 

http://www.idgnet.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/CA2397D922D9BA20CC256BB20017689D!opendocument

Internet News
Top Court: Internet Porn Law Not Too Broad (Reuters)
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law that makes it a
crime to put on the Internet sexually explicit material that can be
viewed by minors was not unconstitutional just because it relied on
community standards. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=951796

Global Services Jobs Migrate to India Via Internet (Reuters)
For once, tech gurus may be guilty of underplaying how much the
Internet will change your life. Especially if you live in a moderate-
to high-income country, are of modest to moderate intelligence, and
work at a service industry job that can be done more cheaply -- and
possibly better -- by some bright eager beaver in Bangalore.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=948104
 
Cooking up a cookieless Web monitor (CNET)
Researchers in Scotland are developing a new kind of Web monitoring
software that they claim can collect enormous amounts of data on Web
surfers while remaining nearly undetectable.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-909397.html
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110028,00.html

Teaching goes virtual in Pakistan (BBC) 
Thousands of Pakistanis are being offered the chance to learn the
skills they need to thrive in the computer age thanks to a new
virtual university.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1979000/1979750.stm

Kansas Teen Sentenced After Hackings (Newsbytes)
A Kansas teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking the official Web site
of Stockton, Calif. and telling city officials he would secure it if
they gave him a laptop computer.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176526.html

Computer voting could cut fraud: criminology report (Sydney Morning
Herald)
Electronic voting systems could reduce risks of voter fraud,
according to a report released today.
The Australian Institute of Criminology report said electronic voting
offered increased access without the need for postal and absentee
voting, was more efficient, and made vote counting more accurate.
 http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/05/13/FFXV1L5G3SC.html

Jakarta e-mail hit by group's go-slow action (Straits Times)
Internet service providers press call for a better deal from the
government by slowing the capital's e-traffic for hours 
For a few hours yesterday, e-mails to and from thousands of
Indonesian users travelled at a snail's pace, after the country's
Internet service providers followed through with their threat of
blocking Internet access.
 http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news009_20020509.html
 http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020508/1/2p5iv.html

E-Defining Education (The Washington Post)
Cyber Schools, Online Teaching and Testing, and Other E-Learning
Initiatives are Changing How Schools Operate.
To appreciate how e-learning is changing the landscape of education,
you need only look at the numbers. Already, 12 states have
established online high school programs and five others are
developing them, 25 states allow for the creation of so-called cyber
charter schools, and 32 states have e-learning initiatives under way,
according to a new Education Week survey of state technology
coordinators ("E-Defining Education: A Survey of State Technology
Coordinators"). Meanwhile, the survey shows, 10 states are piloting
or planning to administer online testing. Oregon and South Dakota are
already using Web-based assessments.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61269-2002May9.html

Anti-'Sim' Kid Porn Forces Rally (Wired)
Anti-porn advocates are quietly rallying to outlaw "morphed" child
erotica. 
This week, the National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC)
sent a detailed memo to Congress suggesting how best to ban
computer-generated images that seem like nude minors.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52453,00.html

EU threat to mobile profits (Times)
BRITAIN’S big four mobile phone operators, ambushed by hedge funds
and shunned by investors, now face a threat from the European
Commission that analysts fear could wipe out up to a quarter of their
profits next year. 
Analysts and legal experts expect the Commission, which is seeking to
introduce more uniform telecoms regulation across the European Union,
to publish a draft “recommendation of relevant products and markets”
in coming weeks. 
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-294838,00.html

Parents to get school letters via e-mail (BBC)
The days of letters from school arriving home crumpled or lying
forgotten for weeks at the bottom of a bag could soon be over as the
government has announced plans to send them via e-mail.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1982000/1982718.stm

Pope Gives Internet His Blessing (Reuters)
Pope John Paul is putting his faith in the Internet. In his weekly
address at St. Peter's Square Sunday, the 81-year-old Pontiff said:
"I've decided, therefore, to propose a big new theme for this year:
'The Internet -- a new forum for proclaiming the Gospel."' 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=947953

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4307932%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Getting tough on spam (BBC)
UK customers of internet service provider Telewest could find
themselves cut off from the internet's biggest information board. 
Last weekend more than 1m spam messages were sent to distribution
network Usenet, a level of abuse never seen before, according to
UseNet member David Ritz.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1979000/1979761.stm

Microsoft fears EU wants to unbundle strategy
A large chunk of Microsoft's future is in the hands of European
antitrust regulators. A decision by Mario Monti, European competition
commissioner, could force the US software giant to change key
elements of the 'bundling' strategy that has been behind its
astronomical growth over the past decade. 

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3RQB5H21D

Microsoft .Net goes back to the drawing board (ZDNet/CNET)
Microsoft's .Net My Services plan is in 'disarray' - so says top
executive Jim Allchin, who revealed in antitrust testimony that the
company is headed back to the drawing board on the Web strategy.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110021,00.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-909216.html

A powerful force sizes up the broadband frontier (Sydney Morning
Herald)
As Telstra's market dominance continues to be scrutinised by the
government, regulators and competitors, momentum is building in an
ambitious project to construct a viable alternate national broadband
infrastructure.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/10/1021002394645.html

Star Wars 'cloned on the net' (BBC)
Bootleg copies of the latest Star Wars movie have appeared on the
internet six days ahead of its world-wide release, say reports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1979000/1979844.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=technologynews&StoryID=947154

The Yahoo Privacy Storm That Wasn't (New York Times)
Internet privacy is like the weather. Everyone complains about it,
and no one does anything about it. The latest example involves users
of Yahoo, the vast Internet portal that set off howls of protest when
it abruptly changed its marketing policy in March. Suddenly, Yahoo
granted itself the right to send advertising messages to tens of
millions of its users who had previously asked to receive none. The
blanket permission went beyond e-mail to include postal mailings and
telemarketing phone calls.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/technology/ebusiness/13YAHO.html

Public domain info under threat, say groups (Nando Times/United Press
International)
The Internet-powered explosion of easily available data has spawned a
backlash of copyright and patent activity that threatens information
in the public domain, speakers at a conference said Friday.
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/399236p-3178262c.html

Freeserve to Deliver UK Broadband Internet Via NTL (Reuters)
British Internet service provider Freeserve is to provide broadband
access to customers of Britain's leading but financially troubled
cable TV group, NTL Inc, under a deal announced on Monday. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=950108
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110040,00.html

Premier in bid to get banned film shown again (Sydney Morning
Herald/AAP)
The NSW government has sought urgent legal advice to determine
whether banned French film Baise Moi can be returned to cinemas.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/13/1021002425567.html



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