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internet news - 21/5
Domain Name news
East Timor seeks its own domain (Australian IT)
HAVING secured political independence, East Timor will take a step
towards technological independence by petitioning the internet's
governing body for its own domain name.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4353787%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Internet's Ruling Body Plans Vote On Address Resale Plan
(Washtech.com)
Internet addressing authorities will vote next month on a proposal to
organize the feeding frenzy surrounding expiring "dot-com" names.
The proposal, offered earlier this year by Internet addressing giant
VeriSign Inc., would create an Internet address "Wait Listing
Service" (WLS) that electronic speculators would use to re-register
attractive dot-com addresses as they expire.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46504-2002May20.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176693.html
http://www.icann.org/bucharest/wls-topic.htm
Domain Name Shift Raises Debate (allAfrica.com/Business Day)
Controversy over the regulation of the SA domain name erupted last
week during hearings of Parliament's communications committee on the
Electronic Communication and Transactions Bill.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210059.html
WIPO Releases 2001 Domain Name Annual Report (From BNA Internet Law
News)
WIPO has released its 2001 annual report on its domain name dispute
resolution activity. The report contains some interesting data on the
global scope of the WIPO caseload.
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/background/brochure2001.pdf
Internet news
Washington Post Co. to Shutter Newsbytes (Internet News)
The Washington Post Co. will shut down its Newsbytes online IT news
service on May 31, a source close to the company told
InternetNews.com Thursday.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_1136291,00.html
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds (ZDNet)
South African police have made a breakthrough against organised
criminals who spam Internet users in an attempt to defraud them of
thousands of pounds.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110589,00.html
Conference - 4th International Conference on Law via the Internet -
Montreal - Call for Papers
The 4th International Conference on Law via the Internet aims to
bring together the diverse contributors and partakers in the process
of publishing and consulting legal information on the Web.
Communications must be related to the general subject of Internet
based legal resources. Papers related to new practices and standards
for law on the Internet will be particularly welcomed. The major
topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New Information Technologies and the Law
- The Legal Information Life-Cycle and Publication Issues
- Public Legal Information
- Judiciary, On-Line Judgments and Court Records
http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/conf2002/en/cfp.html
Beware The 'Internet Death Penalty' - Study (Newsbytes)
Many businesses are losing customers because of inadequate Web sites
- and most don't even realize potential customers are gone before it
is too late. Once these customers are gone, says a new study, they
don't come back.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176688.html
High Court Takes Megan's Law Case (Los Angeles Times)
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether states may post
on their Web sites the names and photos of convicted sex offenders
regardless of whether they continue to pose a danger to the
community.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000035864may21.story
Patient, Heal Thyself (law.com/Corporate Counsel)
Advocacy groups for the sick are increasingly bypassing big
pharmaceutical companies and teaming up directly with biotech
companies to find cures for fatal diseases. While these alliances are
proliferating, they aren't without risk. Because there's little
precedent for these unique partnerships, it falls on the biotech GCs
to hammer out the deals. Confidentiality and IP issues are the
biggest concerns.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZG08AMG1D&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
The Push to Expose Quacks Online (Wired)
You can get more information about a car mechanic online than a
doctor with malpractice history, says a patient who backs a bill to
force physicians to make full disclosures.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,52605,00.html
En Europa se hace imposible controlar la venta de fármacos por
Internet a pesar de su prohibición (delitosinformaticos.com)
La facilidad de acceso de los consumidores a la compra de
medicamentos a través de internet ha sido puesta a prueba por la
Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU) y el estudio ha sido
remitido al Ministerior de Sanidad.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102188425954559.shtml
Lessig leads copyright crusade (InfoWorld)
Copyright as we know it is dead and patents hinder innovation, right?
It's the truth if you are Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor and
chairman of non-profit organization Creative Commons, which was
officially launched last week at the O'Reilly conference on Emerging
Technologies here.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/20/020520hnlessig.xml
HP faces antitrust probe of European market
Hewlett-Packard, the US technology group that has just emerged from a
bruising proxy battle over its controversial acquisition of Compaq
Computer, received a further blow when European competition
authorities signalled a probe into allegations of anti-competitive
behaviour in the ink cartridges market.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3YZKXU91D
E-Commerce Technologies That Came and Went (E-Commerce Times)
Shopping bots' heydey came during the 2000 holiday season, when they
were blamed for helping to slow or crash dozens of Web sites as they
scoured the Web for rare products.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17824.html
Ten Worst Dot-Coms Show How Bad Ideas Fed the Web Bust (E-Commerce
Times)
An executive with Kozmo.com talked for an hour and fifteen minutes on
an airplane phone about whether the company should keep one word in
its business plan.
Like the classic fairy tale about the emperor who doesn't wear any
clothes, the Internet boom was built on imagination and hype.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17829.html
Company Seeks Patent for Pop-Up Ad Technology (E-Commerce Times)
"Pop-under" advertising has proliferated on the Web. Some dot-com
giants, such as Yahoo, try to make money from the marketing tactic,
which experts say is more effective than traditional banner ads but
also more annoying.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17828.html
Dancing with the future (Sydney Morning Herald)
A"fluoro fluffy chair" and a grid of laser beams may turn out to be
the seeds of the computer interface of the future. Olaf Meyer's
exhibition for the Next Wave youth festival, titled Kick the Fractal,
combines curiosity about new ways of working with computers and a
talent for creating compelling images and sound.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/17/1021544074401.html
Canberra loses IT vision (Australian IT)
THE Federal Government's vision for Australia's IT industry does not
extend beyond the end of the year, the Budget has revealed.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4354864%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
IT workers poorly skilled: report (Australian IT)
IT job candidates are so poorly skilled that only two in every 100
can pass a basic test of programming capabilities, a Melbourne
software company says.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4354175%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Turning pictures into passwords (BBC)
As we become ever more reliant on computers, remembering your
passwords or coming up with one obscure enough to be secure can be a
huge headache.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1986000/1986713.stm
The e-learning curve (Sydney Morning Herald)
Australian boards are looking for ways to get the returns they were
promised for their companies' "immense" investments in new
technology, Qantas chairman Margaret Jackson said last week.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/17/1021544074348.html
Xbox unveils online vision (BBC)
Microsoft has raised the stakes in the battle for video games
supremacy by announcing ambitious plans to launch a global
interactive gaming network.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1999000/1999673.stm
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=985886
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100143,00.asp
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/407906p-3251331c.html
Technology Executives Take Risk with Online Gaming (E-Commerce News)
Ladies and gentlemen, PlayStation2 users, Xbox owners and GameCube
geeks, start your modems. Don't own one for your gaming console yet?
You will, after the fallout of this year's Electronic Entertainment
Expo (E3), unzipping in Los Angeles this week.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17851.html
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/407906p-3251331c.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3303779.htm
W3C tours Europe preaching interoperability (IDG.net)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is touring Europe to spread its
gospel of interoperability and to promote itself to Europeans, the
W3C said Tuesday.
http://virus.idg.net/ic_864348_1794_9-10000.html
El número de usuarios de ADSL llegó a 375.816 en 2001 (5Dias.com)
El número de clientes que accedieron a Internet en banda ancha ADSL a
finales de 2001 llegó a 375.816, frente a los 47.950 en la misma
fecha de 2000, según DBK, la empresa española de análisis e
información sectorial.
http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020521cdscdsemp_4&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec
Library of Congress puts American history on the Web (Nando
Times/Associated Press)
The library announced Monday it has put on line the 111th and 112th
collections of materials on its "American Memory" Web site. The site
now includes more than 7.5 million items, which the library says is
the world's largest collection of online educational material.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/407929p-3251476c.html
'Copy-Proof' CDs Cracked with 99-Cent Marker Pen (Reuters)
Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's
elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech
method: scribbling around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=984471
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-918273.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000035788may21.story
Four years on, Microsoft case far from over (CNET)
Saturday marked the four-year anniversary of Microsoft's antitrust
case, which, legal experts say, could still go on for quite some time
to come.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-917863.html
Police Pounce on Internet Child Porn Users (Reuters)
Police raided homes across Britain on Monday, making dozens of
arrests and seizing computers in an operation targeting suspected
users of child pornography.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=984068
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,719342,00.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110524,00.html
Teacher's blunder puts porn on school screen (Guardian)
A maths teacher at Marlborough College public school, in Wiltshire,
is on sick leave after accidentally screening 13 minutes of internet
pornography on to a giant monitor during an exam.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,719385,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-302586,00.html
Catholic dean is jailed over child porn collection (Times)
A SENIOR Roman Catholic priest was jailed for nine months yesterday
after he was caught with 18,000 pornographic photographs and computer
images of children being sexually assaulted by adults.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-302585,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1998000/1998459.stm
Teacher wins Friends Reunited libel case (Independent)
A retired teacher has won damages after being libelled by a former
pupil on the Friends Reunited website.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=297269
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-302900,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/21/nteach21.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/05/21/ixhome.html
Much-Anticipated Webcast Royalty Decision Due Today (Newsbytes)
The Librarian of Congress is due to decide today what price
Webcasters will pay to compensate recording artists, a decision that
many Webcasters contend could either make or break their businesses.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176699.html
Net Firms Looking to Score World Cup Bonanza (Reuters)
As sports events go, the soccer World Cup has no equal: it's a
month-long tournament that draws the attention of hordes of fans from
all over the world.
The trick, as always for Internet firms, is to find a way to cash in
on the frenzy.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=982367
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-918156.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-917798.html
Working wirelessly: Welcome to Wi-fi (Independent)
High-speed internet access at the pub? At the coffee shop? At the
airport? 'Wi-Fi' can provide all these, and, Swindon is showing the
way.
The residents of the small Wiltshire village of Purton, a mile west
of Swindon, may not realise it, but they're at the forefront of an
attempt to provide people with high- speed internet access, anywhere,
at any time using cheap, off-the-shelf technology. If that sounds
like the "3G" third-generation mobile phone revolution – it isn't. It
might instead be one of its biggest competitors. The system being set
up in a quiet residential road could instead be the start of
something that will cut the returns on billions of pounds invested by
mobile phone networks in 3G licences and technology.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=296943
Wi-Fi in the Steel City (CNET)
A growing number of cities are setting up Wi-Fi access in public
outdoor areas like parks for business districts.
The latest is Pittsburgh, where an outdoor public Wi-Fi network was
launched Monday. It is run by 3 Rivers Connect, a nonprofit whose
major source of funding is the state of Pennsylvania. Private
wireless company Grok Technology is managing the network.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-918439.html
Wireless LANs 'critical' for GM (Computer World)
General Motors plans to install wireless LANs at all 25 of its North
American assembly plants, viewing them as "mission critical"
infrastructure with a quick payback.
http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,71302,00.html
Sweden's post office pushes online mail (International Herald
Tribune/Associated Press)
Posten, Sweden's national post office, is encouraging Swedes to avoid
piles of paper invoices, junk circulars and credit-card statements by
signing up for a new Internet mail-delivery service.
http://www.iht.com/articles/58378.html
Credit-card theft on-line hit (Globe and Mail)
Canadian credit-card holders have almost certainly been victimized by
cybertheft rings that steal credit-card numbers and sell them in
Internet "cyberbazaars," experts say.
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D,B/20020521/wxcard?tf=tgam%252Frealtime%252Ffullstory_Tech.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=wxcard&date=20020521
Tablet PC gets a boost from Dell veterans (ZDNet)
A group of former Dell Computer executives is putting in motion a new
company to tackle the tablet PC market.
Motion Computing, launched Monday, will manufacture tablet PC devices
starting later this year.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-917737.html
Ice man's e-mail enables his rescuers to get pole position (Times)
A SCOTTISH adventurer attempting a solo trek to the North Pole was
airlifted off a crumbling ice floe yesterday after e-mailing pictures
of his location to rescuers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-302607,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/21/nmill21.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/05/21/ixhome.html
China exceeds 166m mobile users (ZDNet)
China has passed the US to become the largest mobile phone market in
the world.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110579,00.html
Bombs Yes, But No Crash in Israel (Wired)
Israel may be one of the scariest places in the world to be right
now, but technology venture capitalists aren't exactly shying away.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52595,00.html
Hole Finder Wins 'Bug Bounty' (Wired)
Renowned Internet maven Bennett Haselton discovers flaws in an
anonymous Web-surfing system and is rewarded with free service by the
company.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52681,00.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/3306644.htm
Cyberspace-scouring cops accused of suppressing online expression
(Silicon Valley/AP)
A Web site devoted to homosexual issues in Egypt includes this
warning: ``Guess who's watching? Egyptian State Security!''
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3298224.htm
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