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

Ford Appeals Court Ruling On Domain Name Spoof (Newsbytes)
Ford Motor Company intends to appeal a federal judge's ruling that an
ongoing Internet prank involving Ford's main Web site does not
violate trademark law.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174127.html

Register.com to buy Virtual Internet for £12m (The Register)
Register.com - the domain name registration and Internet services
outfit - is set to buy the UK domain registrar, Virtual Internet plc,
in a cash deal worth £12 million.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/23911.html

Establishing a proposed ICANN "At-Large Supporting Organization"
If you are interested in exploring a role for your organization in
establishing a proposed ICANN "At-Large Supporting Organization" to
provide an individual user view on technical coordination of the
Internet's domain name system, please send an email to
comments@atlargestudy.org by February 15, 2002. Read on for more
details!
 http://www.atlargestudy.org/solicitation.shtml

Pretoria Features High On World Economic Forum Digital Divide Agenda
(allAfrica.com)
On the eve of today's opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
summit in New York, SA features prominently in a report released by
the Global Digital Divide Initiative (GDDI) task force detailing its
achievements over the past year.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200201310585.html

Playstation vibration danger (Australian IT)
British doctors have warned the Sony PlayStation games console is a
potential health risk, after a teenager who used one excessively
suffered hand pains classified as an industrial disease.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3695468%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

IBM faces new Nazi lawsuit (Australian IT)
An association representing gypsies who were persecuted during the
Nazi era said it had launched a lawsuit in Switzerland against US
computer giant IBM today, claiming compensation for moral damages. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3694918%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Ufinet to Invest US$3mn in Network Expansion (Business News Americas)
Ufinet, the wholly owned communications division of Spanish power
holding Union Fenosa, plans to invest 600mn pesetas (US$3.1mn) to
expand its Colombian fiber network by 200km, Ufinet Latin America
director Francisco Iglesias told BNamericas.  

http://www.bnamericas.com/story.xsql?id_noticia=86687&Tx_idioma=I&id_sector=2

Privacy group to put seal on spam (CNET)
Privacy seal group Truste on Thursday announced the launch of a new
service to help police unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-826747.html

European Commission approves HP/Compaq deal (Financial Times)
The European Commission has cleared Hewlett-Packard's $23.8bn
takeover of Compaq after concluding that the deal between the two US
computer groups would not harm competition in Europe's information
technology sector.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3XB49W4XC

Pupils and Porn and Games, Oh My (Wired)
It wasn't surprising that some kids started downloading pornography
shortly after Virginia's Henrico County Public Schools distributed
over 11,000 Apple iBooks to its high school students. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,50001,00.html
 
Linux making up ground (South China Morning Post)
The LinuxWorld conference, which ends today in New York, has been
dominated by business computing announcements from MandrakeSoft, Red
Hat, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, but a few bones will also be thrown to
consumers.  
 http://technology.scmp.com/techmain/ZZZGY30VYWC.html


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