general internet news - 9 June

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

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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: BT puts block on child porn sites
British Telecom has taken the unprecedented step of
blocking all illegal child pornography websites in a
crackdown on abuse online.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1232422,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1232506,00.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39156894,00.htm

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5362444

uk: BT acts against child porn sites
BT customers will soon be prevented from accessing websites
containing images of child sexual abuse.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3786527.stm
 http://itvibe.com/default.aspx?NewsID=2594

http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39121151,00.htm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/bt_cleanfeed_analysis/

uk: Turning a corner in online abuse?
As BT takes the unprecedented step of blocking all illegal
child pornography websites, John Carr hopes other internet
service providers across the world will follow suit.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/comment/0,1074,1233340,00.html

uk: Ofcom plans porn warning
Ofcom is inviting firms and internet users to comment on
its plan to promote use of new media and to label content
so that inappropriate material can be easily identified and
filtered.
 http://www.vnunet.com/news/1155661

uk: Content labelling scheme: Ofcom consults
Ofcom, the regulator for the communications and media
industries, is driving for a common content labelling
scheme to cover all types of electronic audiovisual media.
The scheme aims to allow consumers to make informed
choices.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=contentlabellingsc1086168752

uk: Parental Internet fears put kids at risk
Parental fears about the Internet mean that children are
not being given the information they need to behave safely
and sensibly online.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/kids_online_training/

uk: Withdraw credit cards from net paedophiles, MP demands
People who finance the sexual exploitation of children via
the internet should have their credit cards withdrawn,
according to a backbench Labour MP.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1231598,00.html

zw: Govt Cyber Snoop Impossible
IT is practically impossible for government to snoop on
e-mail content of Zimbabwe Internet users who do not use
local domains, the Zimbabwe Independent established this
week.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406040789.html

Internet Firms Ordered to Spy On Customers
RSF has denounced the government's demand that Internet
service providers (ISPs) monitor the content of their
customers' e-mail messages as a threat to freedom of
expression in the country's current political climate.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406071242.html

zw: Internet firms asked to spy on customers
Reporters Without Borders today denounced as a threat to
freedom of expression in the current Zimbabwean political
climate a government demand that Internet service providers
(ISPs) monitor the content of their customers' e-mail
messages.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10551
Los proveedores de acceso obligados a vigilar el Net
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10553
Les fournisseurs d'accès contraints de surveiller le Net
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10552

kr: Clean Internet Campaign Begins
A nationwide campaign will start this week to promote a
healthier Internet environment as part of a government
drive against Internet addiction, cyber-pornography and
unsolicited e-mail messages.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200406/kt2004060418232711890.htm

N. Korea bans mobile phones
The North Korean government has banned the use of mobile
phones by local residents, just weeks after allowing
foreign visitors to use their mobile handsets in the
country. Mobile phones were only recently introduced in the
country, with the first services going live in 2002.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/nkorea_cell_ban

http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=97643

uk: Content labelling scheme: Ofcom consults
Ofcom, the regulator for the communications and media
industries, is driving for a common content labelling
scheme to cover all types of electronic audiovisual media.
The scheme aims to allow consumers to make informed choices
and protect vulnerable groups.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=contentlabellingsc1086168752

uk: Ban paedophiles from the internet, says BT
More paedophiles who use the internet to sexually exploit
children should be banned from using it, according to one
of the UK's Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1230736,00.html

au: Porn more popular than search
Online porn sites garnered more than three times the
visitors of the major search engines combined during the
last week in May, according to a research firm.

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12&Art_ID=19945

ir: New Wave of Crack-Down on ISPs
A dozen of small and medium-sized Iranian ISPs have been
shut down over the last couple of weeks for providing VoIP
Termination services, or failing to filter blacklisted
websites, etc.
 http://stop.censoring.us/archives/010957..php

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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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Internet Crimes Against Children Exploding
Crime against children on the internet is growing fast; and
yet, the problem is going largely unnoticed and
underreported. Current statistics show that one in five
children who use the Internet receive unwanted sexual
solicitations. This might not seem like much stated that
way, but, its more than five million children. While it is
easy to dismiss this as a simple reality of the Internet it
fails to knock home the more important reality that if a
child is exposed to behavior they are not ready to handle
it could have an overall negative impact on their entire
life. This is the real issue.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.06.2004/319

Terrorists relocate to the Internet
While American troops report about a seizure of a regular
"Al Qaeda" camp in Afghanistan, experts raise an alarm:
terrorists start to relocate to the Internet.
 http://crime-research.org/news/05.06.2004/318

Detenido por publicar en la Red datos sexuales de sus ex
jefes y ex compañeros
Antonio C.M., que cuenta con 38 años de edad, en un plan de
venganza y probable resentimiento, decidió crear páginas en
Internet en las que publicar datos de contenido sexual en
los que incluía información a cerca de sus jefes y
compañeros de la empresa de la que fue despedido.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108625501076780.shtml

uk: Police to become masters of cybercrime
The police are to get new training, including a Masters
degree, to help them tackle crimes involving computers.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39156636,00.htm

us: No Verdict in Student's Internet Terrorism Case
Jurors in Boise completed their first day of deliberations
without reaching a verdict in the case of a University of
Idaho graduate student accused of fostering terrorism on
the Internet.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-briefs3.3jun03,1,5730417.story

Japan Eyes Internet as Culprit for School Killing
Japanese media have turned to the Internet as a culprit in
the shocking killing of a 12-year-old girl by her classmate
this week, as trouble over messages posted on a Web site
emerged as a possible motive.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5331258

Nigeria may use software to nab 419 scammers
Nigeria plans to launch software that would help catch
fraudsters who send scam letters via email, known as the
419 advance fee fraud, a meeting on the sidelines of
Africa's World Economic Forum has heard.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/04/1086203598788.html

Worm eyes up credit card details
People are being warned about a Windows virus that is
stealing credit card and online banking data.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3776247.stm

The spyware menace
As spam is to e-mail, spyware is to the web. Can it be
stopped?

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2737004

sg: Censors relax video ban on adult scenes
After 39 years of independence, Singaporean society has at
last reached adulthood.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1232413,00.html

419ers open Chinese franchise
It's been a bit quiet recently on the 419 front. Well, not
quiet exactly, because our inboxes are as plump as ever
with mournful pleadings for assistance from Liberia, Sierra
Leone, Zimbabwe, etc, etc, etc. Been there, done that, got
the t-shirt. We haven't, however, yet seen proof that the
Lads from Lagos have opened a Chinese franchise - until
now.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/08/chinese_419

us: Think before you text
Texters beware. Like e-mail and Internet instant messages,
text messages tend to be saved on servers. Now they're
turning up in court in high-profile criminal cases.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/07/text.messaging.records.ap/index.html

us: Text messages may turn up in Bryant case
U.S. judge to rule whether text messages sent a few hours
after NBA star Kobe Bryant had sex with a Vail-area hotel
worker last summer should be shown as evidence.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040607.gttextjun7/BNStory/Technology/

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CHILD PROTECTION
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uk: Forces stage child porn raids
More than 100 people have been questioned after a series of
raids across Scotland as part of an operation against child
pornography.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3774773.stm

http://icnorthlondononline.icnetwork.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14301797&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=scores-questioned-over-child-porn-name_page.html
 http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/17486.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/operation_falcon/

ca: Child porn charges laid against T.O. man
A Toronto man has been charged with possessing child
pornography after a witness confronted a man watching a
10-year-old girl through her bedroom window.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1086602643470&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968705899037

jp: Pen pusher pinched for using schoolgirl sex seller
A middle-aged government official who paid a 15-year-old
junior high schoolgirl for a steamy sex session in a Kobe
love hotel has been arrested, police said.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040606p2a00m0dm009000c.html

us: Man gets 30 days for child pornography
A former student at the Wolf Creek Job Corps Center pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography and was sentenced to
30 days in jail.
 http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=81556

us: Former youth hockey coach pleads guilty to child
pornography charges
A former Grand Rapids youth hockey coach has pled guilty to
possession of child pornography.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1918457&nav=0RceNf8X

us: Officials study fall of a Net predator
By the time investigators searched Terry and Jane Adkins’
Nicholasville home last summer, the team had grown to
detectives from five jurisdictions, a state police
forensics sketch artist, an FBI agent and the assistant
U.S. attorney.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/legislature/8828646.htm

us: Library to filter kids' computers, maybe adults' too
The Salt Lake City Library will add filters to computers
used by children. And, if there is enough money, librarians
will allow adults to decide whether they want their
Internet filtered.
 http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jun/06032004/utah/172296.asp

us: Cops: Girl lured online
A 21-year-old construction worker from Inwood was held on
$30,000 bond after he was arrested last week and charged
with raping a 15-year-old girl he met in a chat room on the
Internet. Police said the man drove the girl around
Lynbrook before taking her to the Merrick train station
parking lot, where he forced her to have sex with him in
his car.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1601&dept_id=478673&newsid=11846936&PAG=461&rfi=9

us: Former Christian radio producer gets 15 years in child
porn case
A former Christian radio producer who pleaded guilty in
February to child pornography charges must serve 15 years
in prison.
 http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/8827968.htm

us: Aberdeen man sentenced to prison for e-mailing child
porn
An Aberdeen man has been sentenced to two years in prison
for e-mailing child pornography.

http://www.insidebaltimore.com/news/local/04-06-04-child-porn.shtml

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.briefs04jun04,0,3384905.story

us: Man Receives Two-Year Sentence For Sending Child Porn
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Aberdeen man
Thursday to two years in prison.
 http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3379238/detail.html

us: Man charged with sex offenses
Cumberland County sheriff's investigators on Wednesday
charged a soldier with 22 counts of child sex offense.

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=local&Story=6385382

us: Man Charged With Possessing Child Porn
Several local law enforcement agencies and the FBI worked
together to arrest a 48-year-old Wesley Chapel man
Wednesday on a federal charge of possessing child
pornography, FBI officials said.
 http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBED9WS1VD.html

us: Sex offender accused of pornography possession
A convicted child sex offender was arrested late Wednesday
for allegedly having hundreds of images of child
pornography stored on his computer.

http://nwitimes.com/articles/2004/06/04/news/local_illinois/8529b47edbdf560286256ea9000605e4.txt

us: Bethel Park man faces child sex charges
A Bethel Park man was charged yesterday with arranging to
have sex with the 2-year-old daughter of a Eastern
Pennsylvania woman who offered the girl to men for sex and
sold child pornography featuring her.
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04157/327385.stm

us: Leasor to plead today: Arrest warrant alleges
possession of hundreds of child pornography images
An Elizabethtown Police Department officer who was fired
after allegations he viewed child pornography on his home
computer and exposed himself to a busload of school
children will be arraigned today.

http://www.newsenterpriseonline.com/articles/2004/06/04/news/news1.txt

us: Child pornography suspect pleads guilty
A former Wolf Creek Job Corps Center student was sentenced
Thursday to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to
possession of child pornography.

http://www.oregonnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040604/NEWS/106040028&rs=1

us: Former firefighter sentenced for possessing child
pornography
A former Wayland firefighter will spend 120 days in jail
for possessing child pornography.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1919397&nav=0RceNfoR

us: Child tutor charged with creating porn
It began Saturday, when a man picking up his 12-year-old
daughter from a Beverly tutoring center noticed a peculiar
flashing red light inside the center's only bathroom.
 http://crime-research.org/news/02.06.2004/317

us: Net-ing predators
Kenny Tipton pecks at his computer. "OK, here we go," he
says, entering an America Online chat room and scrolling
through messages. "Look at that. It's full of porn, every
line." Kenny and Sharon Tipton, a mild-mannered Maitland
couple, spend their free time policing the Internet for
pornography and child predators.
 http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/152838-3624-047.html

us:  Online sex stings snare claims of entrapment
With a guilty verdict against a Lower Providence man last
week, a Montgomery County jury for the first time signaled
support for sting operations that target those who troll
Internet chat rooms to solicit sex from children.

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11879881&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

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SPAM
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80% of Spam Originating from Home PCs
The majority of spam –- as much as 80 per cent of all
unsolicited marketing messages sent -- now emanates from
residential ISP networks and home user PCs. This is due to
the proliferation of spam trojans, bits of surreptitious
malware code embedded in residential subscriber PCs by
worms and spyware programs. Worm attacks are growing in
frequency because they provide a fast means of infecting a
vast number of computers with spam trojans in a very short
period of time. It's no surprise that many service
providers report an upsurge in spam traffic immediately
following a worm attack.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/602_0_1_0_C

us: Net Rivals Embrace to Fight Spam 
Few things can bring rivals together like a shared hatred
of spam. Longtime foes Microsoft and Yahoo welcomed each
others' proposals for fighting spam at the Inbox e-mail
technology conference this week, saying that their
seemingly competing tactics were in fact complementary and
could be offered together in antispam tools as early as
next year.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63708,00.html

ITU meet to curb spam
SPAM is among the most dreaded words on the Internet. And
now it has started bothering the big daddies of telecom as
well. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the
global standards setting organisation in telecom, has
called a meeting next month to discuss anti-spam measures.
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/714791.cms
La Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones convoca una
reunión para combatir el spam

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/108634084159873.shtml

ITU to Hold Meeting on Countering Spam (news release)
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is
organizing a meeting on countering SPAM from 7-9 July 2004,
in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting will be held at the
International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG) in the
framework of the preparatory process for Phase 2 of the
World Summit on the Information Society.

http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2004/Advisory-08.html

Network Associates awarded antispam patent
Security software company Network Associates said this week
that it has been granted a patent for methods of filtering
spam, or unsolicited e-mail. The United States Patent and
Trademark Office approved the patent, a sweeping grant for
Network Associates' methods and systems used within its
McAfee antispam products.
 http://news.com.com/2110-1032_3-5224919.html

ca: Will is the way to unplug spammers
The key to getting rid of spam isn't new rules, but the
will to enforce them says one member of Canada's new
anti-spamming taskforce. "A lot of what we would put into
an anti-spam bill already exists in Canadian law,"
University of Ottawa law prof Michael Geist told an Ottawa
Centre for Research and Innovation-sponsored forum held at
the Sheraton Hotel yesterday.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/Business/2004/06/02/482343.html

eu: United front against spam urged
The European Commission has called on the computer industry
to sort out its anti-spam strategy.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3786511.stm

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INTERNET USE
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Germans Struggle With Online Addiction
About 30 million Germans use the Internet. Experts believe
up to one million people are addicted to surfing online.
Reasons vary, but addicts have one thing in common: They're
virtually trying to escape the real world.

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1446_A_1223571_1_A,00.html

More and more Germans are logging on  2004-06-03 19:01:11
Internet traffic in Germany has breached a new record,
hitting 20 gigabytes per second as broadband becomes more
widespread.

http://itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1086281280718I536&set_id=1

Web Porn Entices Far More Surfers Than Search-Study
Online porn sites get about three times more visits than
the top Web search engines, including market leader Google
Inc., a research firm said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PM11VLAJJWZGICRBAE0CFEY?type=internetNews&storyID=5340076

http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/04/technology/porn_search.reut/index.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-06-03-popular-porn_x.htm

us: Net brings activists out in force
Web-led activism is transforming the face of US political
campaigns in a crucial election year.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3759989.stm

Australia 'broadband backwater'
THIRTEEN per cent of Australia's population, or 2.8 million
people, will have broadband by 2008 - a result which will
leave the country languishing in a "broadband backwater", a
new study has found.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9743416%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39149595,00.htm
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/04/1086203614511.html

UK has almost 4 million broadband users
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1951
 http://www.vnunet.com/news/1155576

The Changing Face of E-Mail
Think spam is bad? How about being buried in e-mails you
actually want? Software developers and Internet architects
meet this week to discuss how to make e-mail friendlier.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63692,00.html

Facing the world online: Why go seeking abuse?
Angela MacRae posted provocative pictures of herself at
various Web sites that invite the world to rate one's
physical appearance.
 http://iht.com/articles/523398.html

Tracking the e-mail you sent
A new service promises to pull back the curtain on anyone
hiding behind the common white lie "I never got your
e-mail."
 http://iht.com/articles/523394.html

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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Music industry readies wave of Net lawsuits
A new wave of lawsuits is being prepared against the most
prolific Internet song-swappers as part of an expanding
global crackdown on Internet piracy, music industry
officials say.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5371243

McDonald's: Would you like a song with that?
McDonald's and Sony are teaming up to offer free music
downloads, in a step that analysts said raises questions
about fast food chain's long-standing relationship with
Walt Disney.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5225854.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3775657.stm

eu: Song-swappers settle out of court
Eighteen file-sharers in Europe have so far settled out of
court as part of the music industry's legal action against
200 illegal song-swappers.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3786547.stm

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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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The Wiretap Act and Web Monitoring: A Breakthrough for
Privacy Rights? by Yonatan Lupu
As Web sites have sought to distinguish themselves from
their competitors in recent years, many Web site operators
have turned to Web monitoring devices, such as cookies, as
a means of customizing the sites to the individual user.
 http://www.vjolt.net/vol9/issue1/v9i1_a03-Lupu.pdf

Mastering the Dark Arts of Cyberspace: A Quest for Sound
Internet Safety Policies  by Harry A. Valetk, Trial
Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice
The Internet's awesome power of interconnectivity has made
it by far the fastest growing medium in human history. But,
with this new medium of interconnectivity also comes a new
vehicle for misconduct. And, unfortunately, the type of
misconduct carried out online often goes far beyond mere
quantifiable figures. Indeed, policymakers in the
twenty-first century are finding online criminal activity
to be something that transcends cultural norms, national
boundaries, and traditional territorial law enforcement
mechanisms. Every day, cyber-predators successfully exploit
gaps in the law, test its limits, or hide beneath
conflicting definitions of criminal activity. Identity
predators abuse lax information-sharing policies to commit
identity fraud. Cyberstalkers track their victims online,
sending offensive e-mails or menacing messages using
Instant Messaging technology. Spammers not only bombard
users with unsolicited junk e-mail, but also spread
destructive computer viruses within messages that have
misleading subject lines. Operating at a tortured pace, the
legal systems of the world have only now begun to recognize
the realities of the Internet's ubiquitous, unregulated,
and borderless realm. Yet, so far, only a patchwork quilt
of laws exists to protect users against emerging criminal
schemes online. These gaping holes in the law, coupled with
the Internet's global setting, have created a new set of
vulnerabilities for the Internet community at large. This
article tackles the dark arts of cyberspace by examining
several key Internet safety policy concerns that remain
largely overlooked in the virtual realm, while pressing the
need for sound Internet policies that foster economic
prosperity and secure a reasonable sense of personal
safety.
 http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Articles/04_STLR_2/index.htm

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WSIS
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Preparing Ecowas for Second Phase of WSIS
Efforts to synergise among the Economic Community for West
African States (ECOWAS) in the preparation of the second
phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was
the focus of the e-Nigeria 2004 conference which ended at
the weekend in Abuja.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406030771.html

First Preparatory Meeting for Second Phase of WSIS
The first preparatory meeting for the Tunis phase of WSIS
will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, 24-26 June 2004.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/06/07.html#a668

Resolution on WSIS II (Tunisia)
Meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 17 May 2004 in
Warsaw, Poland, the IPI members unanimously called for
plans to hold the second World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) in Tunisia in November 2005 to be abandoned
unless that country demonstrates its respect for human
rights, notably freedom of expression and press freedom.
 http://www.freemedia.at/resolutions2004.htm#wsis

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MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Worm of doom?
As the new Harry Potter flick hits the screens this week, a
virus is riding on its coattails to stage a comeback.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/0,39001150,39181869,00.htm

Hotmail incinerates customer files
The incident underscores the dangers of online file storage
as companies begin to promote free 1GB e-mail services.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39181867,00.htm

In Europe, Microsoft Girds for Round 2
By next week, the software giant is expected to challenge
the EU's sweeping antitrust ruling. Here's a look at its
strategy.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2004/tc2004064_2214_tc024.htm

Microsoft Likely to Win Stay of European Ruling
Microsoft is expected to win an immediate temporary stay of
European regulators' order that the company sell a version
of its Windows operating system without Media Player
software included.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/business/worldbusiness/08euro.html
 http://afr.com/articles/2004/06/07/1086460229006.html

Wikis' Winning Ways
Web sites that allow members to share info and collaborate
are catching on fast. Here's a tour of key examples

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2004/tc20040528_8743.htm

Wikipedia fürs Regal
Teile der freien Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia stehen nun
nicht mehr nur im Internet, sondern auch als gedrucktes
Buch zur Verfügung. Einige Themen haben die
Wikipedia-Macher zwar bereits in Form von PDF-Dateien
zusammengefasst, der Angriff auf das Bücheregal und damit
die Lexika in althergebrachter Form ist jedoch neu.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47966

Review: Google's e-mail service flexible
Google Inc.'s free e-mail service has been derided as an
obnoxious privacy invasion that will suck up vast amounts
of user data and deposit information into a massive
database that never disappears. And that's before it's even
officially available.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/06/04/review_googles_e_mail_service_flexible

In Brazil, Microsoft decries Linux use
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5226503.html

Web services are the wave of the future: Gartner
Web services will become a major trend in business IT
management, according to Gartner, as analyst Dion Wiggins
warns enterprises that disregard the "evolutionary advance
in technology" do so at their own peril.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39149602,00.htm

Microsoft discussed merger with SAP
Microsoft and SAP held secret merger talks earlier this
year but the discussions were called off by Microsoft after
several months.
 http://afr.com/articles/2004/06/08/1086460273368.html
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