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general internet news - 3 Feb
The Lord of the Webs
Tim Berners-Lee could well be the J.R.R. Tolkien of the
computer world. Tolkien, a philologist and author of “The
Lord of the Rings,” created a fantasy world in which
characters used languages he invented. Berners-Lee is the
inventor who gave us the World Wide Web, a system built on
“languages” largely created by Berners-Lee. He’s now
working on a sequel, called the Semantic Web.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/866481.asp
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4117&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
Signature of Council of Europe Protocol against racism in
cyberspace
Eleven member States of the Council of Europe (*) today
signed the Additional Protocol to the Convention on
Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a
racist and xenophobic nature, committed through the use of
computer systems. More states are expected to sign the
Protocol in the weeks to come.
http://press.coe.int/cp/2003/048a(2003).htm
Feds Building Internet Monitoring Center
The Bush administration is quietly assembling an
Internet-wide monitoring center to detect and respond to
attacks on vital information systems and key e-commerce
sites.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3409-2003Jan30.html
Campaign against internet censorship in Germany
The district government of Dusseldorf county in Germany has
passed regulations requiring more than 80 ISPs to filter
web content and block access to certain foreign web sites,
according to a German campaign group.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=campaignagainstint1044023227
http://www.fitug.de/news/pes/21012003_en.html
American Porn - Corporate America Is Profiting From Porn —
Quietly
Pornography has grown into a $10 billion business — bigger
than the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball combined —
and some of the nation's best-known corporations are
quietly sharing the profits.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/porn_business_030128.html
Technology, democracy a potent mix in South Korea
The marriage of a fledgling democracy and broadband
technology has spawned a precocious new media child in
South Korea that would have been unimaginable 15 years ago.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/745845p-5412228c.html
Beware 'e-thrombosis': it could be terminal
Researchers in New Zealand have warned that long hours
sitting in front of a computer screen could cause deep vein
thrombosis (DVT), a condition that has been linked with
long-haul flights.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,884805,00.html
Music chiefs win net cafe ruling
The music industry has claimed a big victory in its fight
against illegal downloading over the internet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,884428,00.html
Ex-cybersecurity chief raises alarms
Richard Clarke, the blunt and sometimes abrasive White
House adviser who raised the alarm about unconventional
national security threats from failed states to biological
and computer terrorism for more than a decade, quietly
resigned as President Bush's cybersecurity czar on Friday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0302020420feb02,1,183627.story?coll=chi%2Dtechtopheds%2Dhed
http://www.iht.com/articles/85423.html
Vietnam wrestles with dilemma in Internet growth
Squeezed shoulder to shoulder in a tiny cafe behind Hanoi
Polytechnic University, students sit transfixed in front of
computer monitors. On weekdays, the line runs out the door
as they jockey for screen time.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5093094.htm
Net radio targets broadband homes
Philips launches an internet radio which aims to free the
internet audio fan from the home computer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2702653.stm
Portals to Regulate Music Services
The Korea Record Industry Association (KRIA) announced
Thursday that it had reached an agreement on 'Guidelines on
the Role of Online Service Providers for Copyright
Protection'.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200301/200301300011.html
Survey: Internet More Important Than Ever
Americans who use the Internet consider it at least as
important as newspapers and books, even as they've become
more skeptical of what they find online, a UCLA survey
finds.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4123&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2145318
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982882.html
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