internet news - 15/5

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

Domain Name news
Judge Curbs Renewal Mailings (Wired)
A judge tells VeriSign to stop sending undated renewal notices to
domain name owners who registered with a competitor. The temporary
order follows a hearing in a suit filed by rival BulkRegister.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52539,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=960447
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-913730.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16067-2002May14.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176584.html

International Domain Names Pose A New Security Risk (Scientific
American)
Is this the Web address of tomorrow: (see online article for this!)?
At the moment, non-Latin alphabets and scripts are not compatible
with ASCII, the lingua franca of the Internet also known as plain
text. But as of March only 40 percent of the 561-million-strong
global online population were native English speakers, according to
online marketing firm Global Reach. Work has been proceeding for some
time, therefore, to internationalize the system that assigns domain
names (sciam.com, for example) to the dotted clumps of numbers that
computers use (such as 192.1.1.0).
 http://www.sciam.com/2002/0602issue/0602scicit5.html

INTA Releases Responses To Studies Critical Of ICANN's UDRP (INTA
news release)
The International Trademark Association (INTA) today released
responses, prepared by its Internet Committee, to two studies that
are critical of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): “Rough
Justice” by Milton Mueller, an assistant professor at Syracuse
University’s School of Information Studies, and “Fair.com?: An
Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN
UDRP” by Michael Geist, a professor at the University of Ottawa
School of Law.
 http://www.inta.org/press/pr2002_09.shtml
See also Geist response:
 http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/geistintaresp.pdf
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=742
Mueller response:
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=730

Second "land rush" for local dot-info domains (ZDNet)
The dot-info LandRush2 will soon be underway amid revelations almost
a third of the registrations during the Sunrise Period were
registered inappropriately.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265214,00.htm

IE Domain Registry Limited Announces First Annual Results (IEDR news
release)
IE Domain Registry Limited reported growth of 74% in new
registrations in the 18 months to December 2001, the company's first
trading period as an independent limited company since its transfer
from University College Dublin.
 http://www.domainregistry.ie/pressrelease1.doc

Times Technobabble (Times)
For one small company, it just didn't pay to mess with Microsoft.
REALNAMES was one of those not-quite-needed ideas that nonetheless
received $100 million of funding in the dot-com dream days.  
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-296264,00.html

Limiting Speech: The Consequences of Quashing Cybersquatting
(GigaLaw)
How are rights to domain names like property rights? Is trademark law
adequately dealing with domain name disputes? Is the
Anticybersquatting Act really such a good thing after all? This
article explores those questions. [This is from 2000, so not that
recent-DG]
 http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/ghosh-2000-02-all.html

Internet news
States Say Microsoft Urged Linux Retaliation (New York Times/Reuters)
A Microsoft Corp. executive urged the company to quietly retaliate
against supporters of the rival Linux operating system in an August
2000 memo that nine states still suing the software giant want
admitted as evidence.
 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-microsoft.html

Turmoil at Napster Moves the Service Closer to Bankruptcy (New York
Times)
The chief executive of Napster, its founder and several of its top
executives resigned today, a move that may foreshadow the imminent
bankruptcy of a service that became synonymous with the free exchange
of music online.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/15/technology/15MUSI.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1988000/1988705.stm
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,715858,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=960563
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/402057p-3200948c.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-051502napster.story
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52532,00.html

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT39TMK981D

Copyright License Fee Would Ease File-Swap Problems - Verizon
(Newsbytes)
If Internet users paid a "reasonable" flat fee to their Internet
service provider in exchange for access to entertainment content that
could be downloaded or streamed, many of the divisive legal issues
related to online file-swapping could be resolved, a spokeswoman for
Verizon today told Newsbytes.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176579.html

Telstra wins copyright challenge (Australian IT)
A SMALL Melbourne software company which challenged Telstra's
copyright over White Pages and Yellow Pages directory listings has
lost an appeal in the full Federal Court.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4324051%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

US warns EU against Microsoft anti-trust moves (Financial Times)
Charles James, head of the US Justice Department anti-trust division,
has warned that some of the legal arguments the European anti-trust
authorities want to use against Microsoft have already been rejected
by courts in the US. 

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3X7ZYY81D

Council of Europe Country information on regulation of illegal and
harmful cyber content
We have collected information on initiatives undertaken in nineteen
of the fourty-four member States of the Council of Europe, as well as
Canada, in the field of regulation of illegal and harmful cyber
content. The list will be completed as and when we receive
information we will receive from our partners and interested
organisations.
 http://www.coe.int/t/e/cyberforum/Country%5Finformation

The Supreme Court And the Wild, Wild Web (Newsbytes)
COMMENTARY. Cyber-rights activists who cheered when the U.S. Supreme
Court issued its first opinion concerning the Internet five years ago
should be cringing now that the same court has ruled on Congress'
second attempt to regulate cyberspace. Although the court on Monday
refused to lift a ban on enforcement of the Child Online Protection
Act (COPA) - at least for now - a majority of the justices for the
first time indicated that even the First Amendment has its limits
online, an unexpected ruling that could be the beginning of the end
of the untamed Web.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176583.html

Do Americans have a constitutional right to look at pornography in a
public library? (BBC Radio 4 today program)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin//radio4/today/listen/audiosearch.pl?ProgID=1021455601
(RealAudio file)

Webcasters Take Royalty Fight To Congress (Newsbytes)
The fight over online radio royalties will spill into the halls of
Congress today. The Senate Judiciary Committee meets this morning to
examine the fairness of proceedings that led to a controversial
royalty rate proposal, which many Webcasters insist will kill off
their businesses.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176590.html

Americans make life decisions on the net
Whether it is changing job or home or looking for information about
schooling, Americans are increasingly turning to the internet for
advice.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1987000/1987672.stm

Brazil: Let's Go Postal (Wired)
Brazil has tried and failed before to close its yawning digital
chasm. Now the post office has a plan to take the masses online, and
officials say this time it can't fail.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52414,00.html

Kiwi Census Info Gets Webbed (Wired)
New Zealand is about to put its most recent census statistics online,
thanks to generous government funding.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52487,00.html

Canadian Pharmacists Take Action On U.S. Internet Sales (Newsbytes)
U.S. authorities trying to stop the flow of prescription drugs
purchased from foreign companies on the Internet have received some
enforcement help north of the border.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176589.html

MEPs adopt rules for selling financial services through phone and
Internet (EurActiv)
On 14 May 2002, the European Parliament adopted, in second reading,
on the Council common position on the Directive concerning distance
selling of financial services.  
 http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?targ=1&204&OIDN=1503416

Let me pay £7.5m tax, begs chief (Guardian)
A British businessman is lobbying the US government to tax and
regulate online gambling in an attempt to prevent the business being
banned.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,715222,00.html

The fake persuaders (Guardian)
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the
internet
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,715159,00.html

Breaking the search barrier (Australian IT)
AN Australian student is developing a way of identifying internet
pages usually hidden from generalised search engines such as Google
and Yahoo.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4252510%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Los sistemas de control de la 'casa del futuro' cuestan 6.000 euros
(5Dias.com)
Cablear e instalar los sistemas de seguridad y de control de última
tecnología que se engloban en la llamada "casa del futuro" cuesta
alrededor de seis mil euros, dijo Alejandro Ibáñez, socio de
Millenium Technologics, primera tienda que reúne los últimos
adelantos para el hogar.

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020515cdscdsemp_2&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec

Sólo el 5,6% de los contenidos de Internet están en español, según
Telefónica (5Dias.com)
Los contenidos de la Red en castellano están muy por detrás del
inglés (44,7%), chino (11,9), japonés (9,5) y alemán (6,1), a pesar
de que el español es la tercera lengua más hablada del mundo
-segunda, si se excluye a China-, según datos facilitados por
Telefónica.

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020515cdscdsemp_9&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec

Digital lifeline (Sydney Morning Herald)
Absolute connection is the Holy Grail of the computer age, but will
we ever be inseparable from our computers?
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/10/1020914047224.html

Environmental news
Hot on the Contrails of Weather (Wired)
Scientists have long suspected that airplane condensation trails --
the wispy, white tails found in the wake of high-flying jets -- form
larger cloud banks that substantially alter the atmosphere's heat
balance. 
These jet-generated clouds, called contrails, may in turn play an
important role in shaping our weather. 
 ...
And now it has emerged that the American climate was indeed
noticeably different during those three days without air travel. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52512,00.html


See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the
news, along with the last week's archive archive.


=====
David Goldstein
post: 82 Kingston Road, Coventry CV5 6LR, UK
email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au
phone: +44 24 7667 7226 (home) +44 7786 704 887 (mobile)

http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase
- Save your important files online for easy access!
* APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net *