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internet news - 22/5
Domain Name news
MelbIT future 'challenging' (Australian IT)
MELBOURNE IT has tipped 10 per cent growth in earnings for the first
half of 2002, but acknowledges that the future is "challenging" as it
is about to lose its monopoly on the .com.au wholesale business.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4367872%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882066569.html
House draws lines for kids online (CNET)
Hoping to create a safe playground for children on the Web, the House
of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would gather sites
designed for youth under a new Internet domain.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-919416.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51134-2002May21.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52694,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=990585
http://www.msnbc.com/news/755410.asp
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036075may22.story
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176705.html
Dot-Kids Heads a Mess of Regs (Wired)
The U.S. Congress, racing to leave town before the Memorial Day
recess, is focusing on Internet regulation like never before.
Politicians are scrambling to debate a raft of technology
regulations, ranging from domain names and privacy to broadband,
spam, and funding for security research.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52709,00.html
ICANN Director Seeks Court Order to Review Records (EFF news release)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a motion with
the Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of ICANN Director Karl
Auerbach requesting the court grant him immediate access to corporate
records that ICANN management has denied him for one-and-a-half
years.
http://www.eff.org/Cases/Auerbach_v_ICANN/20020521_eff_icann_pr.html
http://www.icann.org/legal/litigation.htm
Canada's '.Ca' Authority Holds Second Board Election (Newsbytes)
While the powerful Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) rethinks the concept of democratic control over
top-level domains like dot-com and dot-net, the Canadian agency in
charge of that country's domain-name space is launching its second
public election of board members.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176710.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52149-2002May21.html
La OMPI resuelve a favor de Telecinco por el dominio 'www.tele5.com'
(delitosinformaticos.com)
El Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de Dominios de la Organización
Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) ha fallado a favor de
Telecinco por la utilización del dominio 'www.tele5.com'.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102201497616874.shtml
Kevin Spacey Loses Round Two Of Domain Name Case (from BNA Internet
Law News)
Actor Kevin Spacey has lost another attempt to obtain the
kevinspacey.com domain. A California court has ruled that it cannot
assert jurisdiction over the dispute since the domain name registrant
is located in Canada and did nothing to direct his activities to the
state of California.
6th Circuit Upholds Domain Decision; Reverses On Jurisdiction (from
BNA Internet Law News)
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeal yesterday issued an interesting
decision involving a suit against domain name registrar Dotster and
domain auction service Afternic. The court reversed a lower court
decision in finding that the Ohio court could assert jurisdiction
over Dotster since the company accepted business from thousands of
state residents on its site. The court then proceeded to uphold the
dismissal of trademark infringement, unfair competition, ACPA, and
copyright infringement claims arising from the listing of a purchased
domain on the Afternic site.
http://laws.findlaw.com/6th/02a0177p.html
Internet news
First Look at Netscape 7.0: A Good Start (PCWorld)
Opening this week is "Browser Wars: Episode 7." Like a sequel
lumbering into the cineplex, Netscape's latest preview of its
Netscape 7.0 browser will battle with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100564,00.asp
Waging war on computer viruses (BBC)
New net technologies present opportunities for more than just
entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Virus writers like them, too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1999000/1999854.stm
Worm Targets Microsoft SQL Servers Lacking Password (Reuters)
Owners of older versions of Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O SQL Server
computers were warned on Tuesday to make sure they change the default
password settings or risk being infected by what is believed to be an
Internet worm.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=991675
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882065706.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-919461.html
Turkish fines for online slander (Australian IT)
TURKEY'S President has approved a controversial media law which
includes penalties for dissemination of false information on the
internet.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4366954%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
meanwhile, nearby...
Iran enforces Barbie ban (Sydney Morning Herald)
Agents have been confiscating Barbie from toy stores since a vague
proclamation earlier this month denouncing the un-Islamic
sensibilities of the idol of girls worldwide, shopkeepers said today.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882068091.html
House Passes Child-Sex Crime Wiretap Bill (Washtech.com)
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation that
would give law enforcement new powers to eavesdrop on the telephone
conversations of suspected child-sex predators.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51215-2002May21.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176706.html
You've Got Warrants! (law.com/The Recorder)
In pursuing sex predators, law enforcement routinely relies on search
warrants to harvest e-mail evidence from Yahoo and Hotmail Web
servers. Not surprisingly, a Minnesota federal judge's ruling that an
officer violated the Fourth Amendment by simply faxing a search
warrant to Yahoo and not personally overseeing the search has angered
prosecutors and the firms that execute the warrants.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZJQER9I1D&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate (Wired)
Call it the best of hate. The Simon Wiesenthal Center released a
CD-ROM in Toronto today titled Digital Hate 2002. The disc collects
more than 200 websites containing animated hate games, online
enrollment for suicide bombers, and "other examples of transnational
hate and promotion of terror after the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52697,00.html
Politics plus e-mail equals spam? (IT World)
If a campaigner sends out a bulk e-mail with the subject line "Vote
John Doe for Congress!," is that message considered spam? If spam is
defined as any unsolicited communication, then perhaps. But if
there's no potential commercial gain to the sender, then is it really
the same as the multitude of get-rich-quick and sexual enhancement
offers that the average Internet user receives every day?
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/020521politicsspam
ISP filters its own 'spam' (Australian IT)
AT&T Broadband offered high-speed internet users an email filter to
block spam - unwanted mass email solicitations - then discovered it
also blocked notice of a rate increase.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4366339%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
E-voting fails to electrify battle of the hustings (Daily Telegraph)
THIS year's local elections were notable for much more than the
popularity of a monkey with the voters of Hartlepool, they were also
Britain's first use of electronic polling in a major election.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/05/14/ecfeat14.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/05/15/ixconn.html
Proposed royalty rates for Net music broadcasts rejected (MSNBC/AP)
The Librarian of Congress has rejected proposed royalty rates that
would have charged Internet broadcasters based on each Web user that
listens in. Librarian James H. Billington will issue a final decision
setting the new rates by June 20, the U.S. Copyright Office said
Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/755281.asp
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000036013may22.story
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/408751p-3258836c.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52698,00.html
La Asociación de Internautas denuncia a España ante la CE por
competencia desleal (5Dias.com)
La Asociación de Internautas (AI) presentó ayer una denuncia contra
el Gobierno español ante las autoridades comunitarias por estimar que
la campaña Internet para todos -presentada por el Ministerio de
Ciencia y Tecnología el pasado jueves- vulnera el principio de libre
competencia y favorece la posición de dominio en el mercado de
Microsoft, informa Europa Press.
http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020522cdscdiges_3&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102205671498647.shtml
La Asociación de Internautas denuncia al Gobierno ante la Comisión
Europea (delitosinformaticos.com)
La Asociación de Internautas ha presentado en fecha 21 de Mayo una
queja sobre el trato de favor que el Gobierno de España hace a la
marca Microsoft en la campaña “Internet para todos” ante la Dirección
General de la Competencia de la Comisión Europea, por infracción del
principio de libre competencia.
http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102205648595386.shtml
Does sex offender data belong online? (CNET)
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a state law that requires
the posting of information about sex offenders on the Internet.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-919150.html
Chat room rendezvous not so rare (MSNBC)
It is every parent’s nightmare. Your perfect, grade-A student,
cheerleader child has a double-life in Internet chat rooms. She
consents to meet one of her virtual pals; he ends up being a
25-year-old killer. The death of 13-year-old Christina Long this
week, allegedly at the hands of an Internet lover, was perhaps the
first child murder directly linked to a chat room meeting. But the
conditions for her murder are far more common than most parents
realize, experts say. One recent study says about 1 in 10 teens admit
they’ve followed through on a rendezvous with someone they first met
in a chat room.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/755493.asp
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036074may22.story
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/409459p-3264857c.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/nyregion/22SLAY.html
Teachers claim Web sites offer students easy cheating chance (Nando
Times)
Plagiarism has always existed, some say since the birth of formal
education. But the Internet has made the temptation to steal words
much harder to resist.
http://www.nando.com/technology/story/408408p-3256855c.html
Nonprofit aims to wire rural Asian schools (CNET)
Room to Read, a nonprofit start-up dedicated to improving literacy in
developing nations, will launch a new division Wednesday to wire
impoverished classrooms in Asia.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-920022.html
Next-gen Palms promise double battery life (ZDNet)
Palm OS 5 running on Motorola's Dragonball MX1 processor will be able
to squeeze out twice the battery life found in Pocket PCs, despite
sharing a similar hardware architecture.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110657,00.html
Poll exposes cracks in AOL's armor (ZDNet)
A study shows nearly 40 percent of AOL-dial-up Web surfers were
dissatisfied with the service, the brand and the relatively high
cost.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-919124.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=990876
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52693,00.html
The ABC of sending emails - don't do it (Sydney Morning Herald)
ABC staff have been warned. Their managers are reading their emails
and, furthermore, they have been forbidden from sending general
messages to all employees without getting permission from an
executive director.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1022038439084.html
Love by mail (Sydney Morning Herald)
People who have grown up with computers and the Internet play the
singles game according to completely different rules.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/21/1021882055650.html
>>> AND FINALLY (from The Guardian's The Informer)
A body charged with promoting the Yorkshire and Humber region
accidentally mass-mailed local business leaders with the internet
address of a US porn site that featured bikini-clad University of
Florida students rather than quality assurance guidelines. The
Yorkshire Post reported that Brian Gillies, the northern director of
the Institute of Directors, was outraged when the link popped up
three teenagers "cavorting naked" rather than the sombre tones of the
UK's leading body for the advancement of quality practices.
Yorkshire and Humber Assembly apologised and suggested that the
Institute of Quality Assurance "reconsider their website address if
one letter mistyped has such unfortunate consequences".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/informer
See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the
news, along with the last week's archive archive.
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