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internet news - 15 May
Iran steps up net censorship
Iran has tightened controls on the internet, ordering
thousands of political and pornographic websites to be
blocked.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3019695.stm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2718485
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134527,00.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/05/12/iran.crackdown.reut/index.html
Ban on North's Websites Questioned
A bipartisan group of 114 lawmakers submitted a bill Sunday
that would make it legal for South Koreans to visit North
Korean Internet sites. Now South Koreans must get
permission from the Unification Ministry before accessing
the North's sites.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200305/200305110013.html
New virus sweeping 'Net
A new computer virus known as the Fizzer worm is reported
to be spreading rapidly across the Internet, infecting
computer users in Asia, Europe and the United States.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s853030.htm
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup13.2may13,1,518385.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2724645
http://afr.com/it/2003/05/13/FFX6Q63SMFD.html
New Children and Teenagers Hotline in Italy
A contract for the setting up of a new telephone hot line
entitled "114" has been signed between the association "SoS
Il Telefono Azzurro" and the Italian Ministries of
Communications, Equal Opportunities, Employment and Social
Policy.
http://www.safer-internet.net/newsitem.asp?artid=57
Kid-Friendly Web Zone Will Be Online in September
Telecommunications company NeuStar Inc. said on Tuesday it
plans in September to launch a "child-friendly" Internet
zone free of violence, pornography and other adult
material.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2732713
Oz budget - Net, phone censors get $2m
THE federal Government has allocated a total of $2 million
over the next four years to regulate internet content and
190x phone services in this year's Budget.
The government agency charged with monitoring internet
censorship laws, NetAlert, had its future secured with the
new federal Budget.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6430861%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
AU Opposition slams NetAlert funding reduction
The federal Opposition has blasted as inadequate the
reduced funding allocated by the Government to Internet
watchdog NetAlert.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000048620,20274479,00.htm
Looking Out for Children's Privacy
After three years' experience with a federal law meant to
protect children's privacy online, privacy-rights groups
are trying to expand the number and kinds of commercial Web
sites that must comply.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/technology/12NECO.html
Blind Group Urges Online Improvements
The National Federation of the Blind on Monday introduced
an online seal of approval, hoping to prod more Web sites
to extend a helping hand to visitors who can't see what's
on the computer screen.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5845011.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/886118p-6174154c.html
'Big music' set to declare war on its audience
Many online music fans reflect on July 26, 2000, as the day
the music almost died. On that day a U.S. court ruled that
Napster, the file-sharing phenomenon that took the world by
storm, was engaged in copyright infringement and should be
shut down. While the service survived for nearly 18 months
longer, that initial decision clearly marked the beginning
of the end for Napster.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251547924&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
Anti-Semitism at Post-WWII High
Anti-Semitism is rising at a rate unseen since the end of
World War II, fueled in part by an explosion of hate sites
on the Internet, Jewish leaders told an international
conference.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-briefs13.6may13,1,3503259.story
Microsoft says 'iLoo' project a hoax
Microsoft Corp. said a company news release that it was
developing a portable toilet with Internet access, called
an "iLoo," was a hoax perpetrated by its British division.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/886440p-6175569c.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134603,00.html
Microsoft: Even its April Fool was released behind schedule
http://www.silicon.com/news/500015-500001/1/4133.html
Broadband Internet Changes Lifestyle
Over the past five years, South Korea has grown to be one
of the world's most enthusiastic adopters of broadband _
the high-speed Internet connection technology that makes
the Internet as ubiquitous as electricity, just as promised
by technology gurus.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200305/kt2003051417122411790.htm
China censors text messages about Sars
In order to stop rumours about Sars and 'protect the
government', China is using a tracking technology to block
certain text messages from mobile phones.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134617,00.html
The Economist - SURVEY: THE IT INDUSTRY - Paradise lost
So far, information technology has thrived on exponentials.
Now it has to get back to earth, says Ludwig Siegele
CLOSE your eyes and think of information technology. You
might picture your PC crashing yet again, and recall that
your teenager was supposed to fix it. That leads you to the
12-year-old hacker who broke into a bank's computer system
the other day, which brings to mind the whizz-kids in a
garage inventing the next big thing that will turn them
into the youngest billionaires ever.
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1747329
Also in this survey:
Paradise lost
Modifying Moore's law
Moving up the stack
Techniques, not technology
At your service
The fortune of the commons
Cold killer application
Regulating rebels
Déjà vu all over again
South Koreans tune into Internet
With more houses wired with fast broadband Internet
connections than anywhere else in the world, millions of
South Koreans are clicking onto the Internet for their
daily fix of news, political scandals and gossip.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/885571p-6170461c.html
ABA News release - Drop in concern about violence on
television
A national survey has found that the level of concern about
the portrayal of violence on free-to-air television has
decreased over the past decade, but that violence remains
the main concern of viewers. In 2002, 14 per cent of adults
spontaneously mentioned violence as a concern compared to
25 per cent in 1989 when a similar survey was conducted.
http://www.aba.gov.au/abanews/news_releases/2003/27nr03.htm
Parents Support Kids Playing Video Games - Study
Fighting to head off tighter regulation of violent video
games, the trade group that represents game publishers on
Tuesday said new research showed most parents view their
children's game playing as positive and nearly all monitor
what they buy.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2736006
Draft of Bill On Mass E-Mail Is Called Weak
Lobbyists for the marketing, retailing and Internet service
industries have been working closely with two powerful
House committee chairmen to craft federal legislation to
curb junk e-mail, creating a bill that state law enforcers
and several consumer groups say would do more to protect
mass e-mail advertising than to combat spam.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47350-2003May12.html
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