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Call for Papers/Chapters for Book Series
FORMATEX, a Spanish technological organization, in collaboration with
the
Computer Science and Physics Department of the University of
Extremadura
(Spain), is now editing a series of book on Legal/technological
aspects of
Information Society. We are now calling for papers/chapters for the
first
volume. The call for papers' website is available at
www.formatex.org/isbook/callforpaper.htm with details on deadlines,
manuscripts format, etc.
Deadline for articles submission is November 25th for this volume.
If you and/or your team is interested in contributing to this volume,
please contact us at formatex@formatex.org or directly to the
editor-in-chief A.Mendez-Vilas, which can be reached at:
Departamento de Fisica
Universidad de Extremadura
Avda. de Elvas s/n
06071 Badajoz
Spain
amvilas@unex.es
and provide us an abstract and a tentative title as soon as possible,
along with the list of authors and afilliations.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any inquiry or suggestion.
Best wishes from Spain.
J.A.Mesa Gonzalez
FORMATEX Secretariat
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auDA withdraws sport.com.au domain from auction winner
auDA last week said it would withdraw the name sport.com.au from the
person who won it in the authority's online auction.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/16/1029114001256.html
Registrars rally behind ICANN
Forty-four accredited registrars signed a letter Friday supporting
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), amid
mounting criticism over the Internet naming body's operations and
tactics.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954167.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23281-2002Aug15.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg02947.html
The Fate of ICANN
VeriSign believes that ICANN's powers should be curtailed but other
registrars want to give the organization a chance to change before
being condemned.
http://www.isp-planet.com/news/2002/vrsn_020814.html
ICANN of Worms
Even if you're a casual New Architect reader, you've likely noticed
that a new mug is staring out at you from above these words. I'm
pleased to inherit the leadership of the magazine from my esteemed
colleague Amit Asaravala. And while I'm not big on introductions, a
few words of prologue seem in order, if for no other reason than to
convince you that this magazine is in good hands.
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2443/na0902f/index.html
More '.cn' to be seen in domain name
The number of Chinese-based domain names with the ".cn" suffix is
expected to climb enormously in the near future after the Ministry of
Information Technology eases its rules at the end of next month.
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-08-17/82510.html
Fourth Status Report Under ICANN/US Government Memorandum of
Understanding
http://www.icann.org/general/status-report-15aug02.htm
From BNA Internet Law News:
ICANN RANTS RAISE EYEBROWS
Two rants from ICANN insiders raised heated debate and
surprise over the weekend. ICANN board member Jonathan
Cohen labelled an ICANN editorial a "sensationalist piece of
crap" leading to an exchange between ICANN counsel Joe Sims
and ICANN expert Professor Michael Froomkin. The Sims
posting resulted in a warning from the list manager about
the need for a minimum of decorum. Postings at
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2A416D81> [IP list]
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc10/msg03455.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc10/msg03478.html
Coverage at
http://icann.blog.us/stories/2002/08/17/whoStoleIcannsStrawberries.html
Ad watchdog critical of Domain Registry of Europe
The Advertising watchdog has slammed Domain Registry of Europe (DRoE)
for misleading consumers over its mailshots that "look like bills".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26705.html
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=902&mode=thread&order=0
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=8584986
FTSE "falls" in domain dispute
The Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange were given a slap
on the wrist after a WIPO panellist ruled that they had not provided
"one iota of evidence" that the registrant of ftse.biz had taken the
domain name in bad faith.
http://www.demys.net/news/02_aug_19_ftse.htm
No reply and no one at home at domain names group's HQ
Companies and web masters that assigned long-term management rights
of Internet domain names to Internet Name Group (ING) will be reading
the fine print on their contracts this week.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/17/1029114033248.html
Domain seller sinks out of sight
ONE of Australia's most controversial domain name sellers has shut
down its website and disconnected its phones.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4928786%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Williams wins cybersquatting case
British pop star Robbie Williams has won his case to evict a
“cybersquatter” from a contested Web site, international arbitrators
said in a ruling published on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=entertainmentnews&StoryID=1344475
http://www.msnbc.com/news/796210.asp?cp1=1
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120988,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_653278.html?menu=news.technology
Affiliate Domain Name Anxiety Syndrome
Are you an affiliate marketer with several Web sites? Do you break
out in a cold sweat when you decide to build a new affiliate site and
every solid domain name combination is taken? Are you constantly
trying to get the edge over competitors on the search engines? If you
answered "yes" to these questions, you're suffering from Domain Name
Anxiety Syndrome.
http://www.clickz.com/aff_mkt/aff_mkt/article.php/1447491
Surveillance and privacy - Go on, watch me (reg reqd)
GEORGE ORWELL got it wrong—thank goodness. In the developed world, it
is not the state that has ushered in a “Big Brother” society but
society itself. Every day, people are adopting new technologies that
trade a small amount of their privacy for greater convenience and
security: credit cards, smart cards in electronic tollbooths,
customer loyalty cards, cash-withdrawal machines, and “cookies” on
computers. As for surveillance cameras, they have become so widely
accepted that they have bred a genre of mass entertainment in the
form of so-called reality TV, some even using Orwell's phrase. In all
these respects, it is individuals that are deciding to sacrifice
privacy in exchange for something they want more. But are there
hidden costs, that society as a whole ought to worry about? After
all, if governments were to suggest the use of some of these
technologies, there would be a public outcry.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1280806
Company Fights Spam with Copyright, Trademark Law
A California company said on Monday it plans to fight Internet e-mail
spam using a new system that relies on U.S. copyright and trademark
law.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1348066
Yahoo's China Concession
TWO YEARS ago, when cyberprophets were riding high, a group of
anti-Nazi activists in France had the temerity to sue Yahoo. The suit
complained that French Web surfers could buy Nazi paraphernalia on
Yahoo's Web site and that this violated the anti-Nazi laws that were
supposed to bind French citizens. From its Silicon Valley
headquarters, Yahoo let out a high-tech guffaw. The Internet is
borderless; national regulation can't apply; if it did, Web companies
would suddenly have to respect the law of every country whose
citizens might browse their Web sites. "It is very difficult to do
business if you have to wake up every day and say, okay, whose laws
do I follow?" said Heather Killen, Yahoo's senior vice president of
international operations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34015-2002Aug18.html
Yahoo! yields to Chinese Web laws
Yahoo! has defended its decision to sign-up to a framework of
voluntary content limitations in China, a move that critics say opens
the door to online censorship by the web portal.
http://www.silicon.com/a55113
SA police net internet fraudsters
Fifteen Nigerians, who fooled people into sending them money by
pretending to be from the central bank of South Africa, are arrested.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2198480.stm
Tories add to calls for internet 'grooming' law
The Conservatives today called for an immediate criminal offence to
target paedophiles who "groom" children through internet chatrooms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,775696,00.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134417
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2196734.stm
The chatroom dilemma
The case of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in Soham has once again
piqued the media's interest in the potential evils of the web.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,776927,00.html
Vietnam to crack down on net access
Vietnam's communist government is proposing severe penalties for
internet cafe owners who allow customers to visit anti-government or
pornographic websites, officials and state-controlled media said
today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,775745,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1337789
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/501412p-3996019c.html
Internet essayist to be tried on national security charges
Authorities in Vietnam will soon bring Internet essayist Le Chi
Quang, 32, to trial on national security charges, according to CPJ
sources. Quang has been in prison since February 21, 2002, when he
was arrested for writing articles that criticized Vietnam's border
agreements with China.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/Weekly2002/08.13.2002/Vietnam2.htm
China tightens Web control
China is deploying an Internet monitoring and censorship system that
will shift the focus of the Great Firewall from the nation's virtual
border to personal computers and Internet cafes.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020814/152/d7fyq.html
Chinese teens go crackers over web porn
More than 70 per cent of Chinese teenagers get their information
about sex from internet pornography, according the country's state
media.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134416
PROF PORN STUNNER
A law professor who collected dozens of old photographs for a
celebrated book on copyright law has been accused of keeping another
private stash of pictures no one knew about - a stash of kiddie porn.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162002/news/regionalnews/46597.htm
SA police net internet fraudsters
A group of suspected internet racketeers, who fooled people into
sending them money by pretending to be from the central bank of South
Africa, have been arrested.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2198480.stm
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1339276
Police net Nigerian fraudsters
South African police have arrested 15 Nigerian men suspected of
fooling thousands of people into sending them money by pretending to
be the central bank of South Africa.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134452
Chinese site targeted for illegal music downloads
Seeking to block access to a Chinese Web site it says is trafficking
in pirated music, the U.S. recording industry is suing four companies
that control the domestic Internet's main long-haul pipelines.
http://www.nando.net/technology/story/504040p-4016997c.html
Something to watch over you
HILLARY CLINTON is supposed to have said of her husband that he was a
“hard dog to keep on the porch”. She is not alone. All over the
world, dogs, husbands, children and even inanimate objects are liable
to stray from the home—whether willingly or otherwise. Now, though,
the technology exists to keep track of them.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1280634
U.S. Aiding Asia-Pacific Anti-Cybercrime Efforts
U.S. law enforcement officials will meet with representatives from a
host of Asia-Pacific countries this weekend as part of an
international training program to help developing nations combat
computer crime and cyberterrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17801-2002Aug14.html
FBI warns about wireless craze
Well-meaning wireless activists have caught the attention of the US
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2197252.stm
Wireless hackers take to the air
Australian hackers have taken the craze of looking for open wireless
networks to new heights.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2202653.stm
Expect WLAN Based on 802.11 To Proliferate
It is not a question of whether or not we will move from a wired to a
wireless environment. Rather, it is a question of "when and how",
says Dr. Daniel Tan Tiong Hok, director, Center for Educational
Development and Associate Professor, School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering (EEE) at the Singapore's Nanyang Technological
University (NTU).
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/1448581
Record labels sue Web heavyweights
The world's largest record companies sued a number of major Internet
service and network providers on Friday, alleging their routing
systems allow users to access a China-based Web site and unlawfully
copy musical recordings.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954176.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/business/media/17MUSI.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1340805
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2201686.stm
MPs slow to embrace email
August 16: MPs are still relying on the post to communicate with
constituents, according to a survey released yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,775584,00.html
Schools not making the grade in Web use
Computers may now be nearly as common as blackboards and lockers in
U.S. schools, but they are not meeting the needs of Internet-savvy
students, according to a study released Wednesday.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-949829.html
PC comes of age
The personal computer has become an adult, with the IBM PC
celebrating its 21st birthday this week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2195983.stm
From Mondaq... detailed registration required
United States: Counterfeits in the Internet Age
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17398&p=5&c=1373&e=on
United States: Internet Auction Sites: Is Immunity from Infringement
Claims Going..Going..Gone?
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17396&p=5&c=1373&e=on
United Kingdom: Electronic Privacy Directive Now in Force
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17471&p=5&c=28&e=on
Mobile gaming taking off
Some 10 million games have been played on WAP phones in the past 18
months - and other gaming news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2198385.stm
NSW trials powerline broadband
THE NSW Government has advanced with plans to make use of state-owned
electricity infrastructure for broadband connectivity, with the New
England area to be the first testing ground.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4929190%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
Linux Desktop Due
Linux vendors are showing a renewed interest in developing a desktop
version of the operating system to challenge Microsoft Corp. But many
corporate users are simply not ready for—or not interested in—such a
product.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,474103,00.asp
International House of Penguins
Linux is the only operating system born outside the United States and
while most of the attendees are American, this edition of LinuxWorld
has a distinctly international flavor.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54572,00.html
Open Sourcers Say Grid Is Good
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and IBM honchos don't always see eye to eye,
but at LinuxWorld they agree that grid computing needs to be part of
their future.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54554,00.html
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