internet news

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

The Economist's Technology Quarterly
the latest edition of The Economist which goes off sale today, or
maybe yesterday, has its latest Technology Quarterly. There are
stories about Flash memeory, instant messaging, predictive texting,
ARM chips, buggy software, lithium batteries and new wireless
technologies to beat 3G, among other things.
 http://www.economist.com/science/tq/index.cfm

Disgraced WorldCom faces fraud charge
Financial regulators take action against US telecoms giant WorldCom,
after its $3.8bn fraud shakes world markets.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2068000/2068865.stm

WORLDCOM FORMALLY CHARGED WITH FRAUD
WorldCom today moved closer to bankruptcy as US regulators formally
charged the telecoms giant with fraud by inflating its profits
through improper accounting.
One day after WorldCom rocked the markets with America's latest
financial mega scandal, the securities and exchange commission (SEC),
filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in New York accusing WorldCom
of manipulating its earnings to keep them in line with Wall Street's
expectations.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldcom/story/0,12167,744980,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/business/27TELE.html

New Net laws reach beyond borders
By MICHAEL GEIST
The challenge of borders lies at the very heart of cyberlaw. Most
observers have long argued that the Internet presents lawmakers with
a jurisdictional dilemma: The Internet is viewed as "borderless," but
law is best characterized as "bordered" because national laws
typically stop at the border.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20020627/TWGEIS

VoIP nearing widespread use
CISCO has produced figures from analysts IDC showing that IP
telephony is now being considered by the majority of medium to large
businesses.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4590185%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Email snooping bill knocked down
THE (Australian) Senate has rejected a Howard Government plan to
allow government agencies to snoop on email, SMS and voice mail
messages. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4596652%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 
ICANN Mulls Squatter Rules 
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is
considering proposals that would protect domain owners from cyber
squatters.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53518,00.html

Cybersquatters put on the hot seat
The organization that oversees Internet domain names floated two
proposals on Thursday to help businesses and individuals fight
extortion by speculators, known as cybersquatters.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-939819.html

Senators Weigh ICANN's Future 
A senate subcommittee considers whether the Internet's chief
regulatory body has bitten off more power than it can properly chew.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53159,00.html
 http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/hearings0202.htm
 http://www.fednet.net/ram/2002/sco061202.ram
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40540-2002Jun12.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-icann.html

Public's role in Net governance threatened
As the Internet blossomed from a small community of users to a global
phenomenon in the mid-1990s, the governance of the domain name system
underwent a similarly dramatic change.
Once administered by Jon Postel, a computer scientist at the
University of California at Los Angeles, the U.S. government handed
over the reins to Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), a California non-profit company, in 1998.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20020613/TWGEIS

Deep Linking's Legal Link on Hold 
A Danish court could decide the fate of "deep linking" in Europe, but
not for another week or so. A ruling on the legality of the practice
has been put off until July 5.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53501,00.html

Web spreads the word for Catholics
A SMALL Tasmanian internet company has become the first in the world
to secure the rights to publish official Catholic texts on the
internet.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4570252%5E15302%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Spam: An Escalating Attack of the Clones
Even in the face of human intervention, filtering software,
legislation and litigation, there seems to be no stopping spam:
unsolicited commercial e-mail traffic has tripled since last fall.
There are, however, a few options for the beleaguered. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27SPAM.html

Microsoft Agrees to Alter a Special Service for Children
Microsoft will make changes in a children's version of its Passport
authorization software after the service was criticized over issues
of parental control and privacy.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/27SOFT.html

ISPs under fire  
SOME Internet companies were threatening to disconnect customers if
they filed complaints with the nation's telecommunications watchdog.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4593395%255E2,00.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4590098%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Piracy fight gets serious
Record makers could win the right to carry out hack attacks on music
sharing services if a US proposal becomes law.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2069000/2069747.stm

Vietnam Internet cafe freedom curtailed
Vietnam will tighten controls on Internet cafes, which are an
increasing challenge to the state's media monopoly. 
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has ordered a nationwide inspection of
Internet cafes on the grounds that they could be morally harmful, an
official of his office said. 
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s592288.htm

Vietnam to monitor 'reactionary' web use
June 26: The Vietnamese government is to spy on internet cafe
customers to prevent them from accessing documents it considers
politically and morally objectionable.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,744362,00.html

Beijing blaze highlights deeper problem
A fatal fire in an internet cafe has brought into focus the deprived
backgrounds of the young arsonists.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,743634,00.html

Egyptians Flock to New Net Plan 
Egyptians are spending more time on the Internet since the Internet
became free -- free of subscription fees that is, because users are
still paying the nominal cost of 20 cents per hour for their Internet
calls.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52993,00.html

Privacy debacle set to be repeated 
How did Blunkett get the privacy laws so wrong? The most entertaining
aspect of the government's U-turn last week on its data-snooping
proposals was the home secretary's "we got it wrong" interview on the
BBC. But it was not the most surprising element in the saga. The most
remarkable aspect was that the proposals got as far as they did.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,744401,00.html

Blunkett shelves access to data plans 
Ministers were yesterday forced into a humiliating climbdown over
plans to hand a host of public bodies the right to demand access to
the communications records of telephone and internet users.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,739959,00.html

Tech industry questions snooping figures
Claims that hundreds of organisations are carrying out widespread
snooping on British citizens have been contested by technology
experts and industry groups.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2065000/2065671.stm

Wooden solution to mobile chatter
Japanese-designed wood panelling blocks mobile phone signals in a
solution aimed at cinemas, theatres.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2067000/2067672.stm

Consumers at risk from internet fraud
New study says consumers risk internet fraud by not changing their
passwords regularly.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,743598,00.html

Spies at liberty in your PC
A host of potentially malicious programs is waiting to play havoc
with your computer.
Have things moved even slower than usual when you've been online
recently? Has your computer crashed more often? Have those pop-up ads
seemed even more intrusive? Just the way the web is, you may think.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,744203,00.html

Gulf joins telecommunications revolution
A telecommunications revolution is about to get underway at stations
and in towns in the Gulf country of north-west Queensland.
Vastly improved Internet service will be provided as Telstra
continues the roll out of satellite broadband Internet systems with
letters of offer posted to Gulf stations this week.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s592537.htm

Pirate Cops Raid MS Gaming Foe 
A Swedish gaming company, posing a valid threat to Microsoft
multi-player game, claims the software giant is behind a piracy raid.
Guess what? It was, and the raid found lots and lots of unlicensed
software.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53534,00.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,53454,00.html

ICANN Squeezes Out Regular Folk 
Out: online voting to elect ICANN's board members. In: a system to
fill the spots with suits. Irritated: many users who feel they'll no
longer have a voice.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53546,00.html

Internet Governance Group Approves Massive Reform Plan
The body that manages the Internet's addressing system will scrap its
existing governance structure and replace it with an entirely new
regime.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60596-2002Jun28.html

Some Critics Pass On Landmark ICANN Hearing 
ICANN, the body that oversees the Internet's worldwide addressing
system, is pondering one of the most important decisions it has ever
faced at a public meeting this week, but some critics are taking a
pass on the gathering, frustrated by the organization's approach to
public participation.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57146-2002Jun27.html

Europeans rebel at ICANN

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4595481%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

ICANN Mulls Squatter Rules 
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is
considering proposals that would protect domain owners from cyber
squatters.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53518,00.html

Ruling in library Internet filter case was correct
The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which requires public
libraries to use Internet filtering software as a condition to
receiving certain federal funding, was recently struck down as
violating the First Amendment by a three-judge U.S. District Court
panel in Philadelphia in the case American Library Association v.
United States. Although Congress had a positive motivation in
enacting CIPA, unfortunately, the law does not pass constitutional
muster, as correctly held by the panel.
 http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ccarch/2002/06/27/sinrod.htm

Gadget Designers Try to Pry PC Users Away From Desks 
The slogan that greeted visitors at the entrance to the PC Expo trade
show was "What's next is here." But an alternate slogan could well be
"It is now safe to turn off your computer."
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58539-2002Jun27.html

Shift to more workplace privacy protection
The ubiquity of workplace computing and on-line communications has
created key new legal issues for employers and employees.
Employers, concerned about employee productivity, network performance
and their own potential liability for misuse of computing equipment,
have begun to install computer-surveillance technologies that target
employee use of information resources.

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