internet news - 19/2

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

Domain Name News
Afilias Unveils Dot-Info Redistribution Plan (Newsbytes)
Afilias - the company that manages the recently christened dot-info
Internet domain - today announced its plans for redistributing
dot-info addresses seized from fraudulent registrants.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174567.html

Domain Police Finger NY Rescue-Worker Collectible Sellers (Newsbytes)
New York City police and firefighters have used an international
dispute resolution system rooted in trademark law to shut down a Web
site that was selling trinkets commemorating rescue workers killed in
the Sept. 11 Word Trade Center disaster.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174588.html

From BNA Internet Law News
WIPO Issues Report On Internationalized Domain Names
WIPO has issued a briefing paper on its views of the IP implications
of internationalized domain names. The report canvasses the impact on
the ICANN UDRP including issues related to confusing similarity and
sucks cases. Report at:
 http://ecommerce.wipo.int/domains/international/index.html

From BNA Internet Law News
ICANN IDN Committee Warns Of The Dangers Of Dots
The ICANN Internationalized Domain Name Committee has warned against
the introduction of keyword services that utilize a dot between
different name segments. It argues that its use would cause
great.consumer.confusion. Warning and briefing paper at:
 http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-keyword-paper.htm
 http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-keyword-statement.htm
Reaction at http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=550

Internet news
Grid Project to Wed Web Services (New York Times)
A worldwide computing project known as grid, whose long-term vision
is to bring the power of supercomputing to individuals, is taking a
step out of the laboratory and into the commercial mainstream. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/19GRID.html

Judge Tells Microsoft to Share Code (New York Times)
A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft must give nine states that
are seeking tougher sanctions against the company access to the
software code for its flagship Windows operating system.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/technology/19SOFT.html

Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad (New York Times)
The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even
false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to
influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and
unfriendly countries, military officials said. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html

Next generation DVD born (BBC)
The "next generation" of DVDs, able to hold almost six times as much
information as current discs, has been unveiled by major technology
companies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1829000/1829241.stm
 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-839972.html

The quest for near-perfect compression (CNET)
In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a handful of clunky
computers are crunching through a software problem that many consider
unsolvable. 
These are the offices of ZeoSync, a start-up that made a name for
itself in January by claiming to have discovered a way to shrink
virtually any digital file to a hundredth of its size--and then
restore the file to its original size without error. 
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-839851.html

Human rights application not finished (CNET)
A software project that aims to allow oppressed people to view
censored Web sites still has significant development ahead before it
can deliver on its promise.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-839764.html

Sex line link to money laundering (Australian IT)
Moves to crack down on international sex chat line operators have
highlighted the vulnerability of the telecoms sector to scams.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3799623%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Keep it simple, keep more customers (Fairfax IT)
Look up "computer rage" on any Internet search engine and you'll find
thousands of sites dedicated to the phenomena of people lashing out
at their computers. Look further and you'll find the infamous mpeg
clip called "badday", in which an
 http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/02/19/FFXXT995TXC.html

Unlickable (Fairfax IT)
In the late 1990s, many IT gurus eagerly consigned Australia Post to
the dustbin. A warhorse of the old economy, the government-owned
monopoly couldn't possibly compete with e-mail, electronic fulfilment
and private high-tech mailing houses. Or so went the gurus' mantra.
 http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/02/19/FFX7VTF5TXC.html

Motorola offers mobile Net content (South China Morning Post)
European consumers may soon be able to order pizzas, download complex
games and send pictures to friends over the Internet from their
cellular phones or handheld computers.  
 http://technology.scmp.com/techinternet/ZZZDSMS3GXC.html

Microsoft, Intel, Texas Instruments go mobile (South China Morning
Post)
US technology companies Microsoft, Intel and Texas Instruments on
Tuesday announced blueprints for new mobile phones and handheld
computer phones. 
Breaking with the tradition of custom-designed technology for each
mobile phone manufacturer, the three companies will work to develop
so-called reference designs, which, if adopted by enough vendors,
could establish these blueprints as standards for much of the
industry. 
 http://technology.scmp.com/techmain/ZZZXYNR3GXC.html

Smart phones ring in a new era (Fairfax IT)
It was inevitable, even from a luddite's perspective. Recent history
has been guiding us with rapid transitions from mainframe to PC,
desktop to notebook, and landline to wireless technology, and we have
been taunted with shorter and shorter product life cycles. Breaking
news today becomes obsolete technology tomorrow.
 http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/02/19/FFXO7BJAQXC.html

LinuxLab Pilots Low-Cost School Computer Lab (allAfrica.com)
LinuxLab, a local open source organisation aimed at promoting mass
deployments of Linux systems, is putting the final touches to a
30-workstation Linux laboratory at the Alexander Stinton High School
in Athlone, Cape Town.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200202180800.html

Is Microsoft getting ahead of itself? (CNET)
As far back as 1999, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer looked ahead
enthusiastically to the rise of Web services as "more significant
than the development of the browser."
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-839853.html

El sector informático español creció un 9% en 2001 (ZDNet)
Según datos de la Asociación Española de Empresas de Tecnologías de
la Información (SEDISI), el sector informático español registró un
crecimiento del 9% a lo largo de 2001. 
 http://www.zdnet-es.com/canales/zdnn/mostrarnoticias_n.html?id=3768

More Britons go online (Guardian)
Subscriptions to internet service providers rose 11.5% in Britain
last year, according to official figures.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,652272,00.html

From BNA Internet Law News
Judicial Internet Use Scandal Hits New Zealand
A judicial Internet scandal hit New Zealand over the weekend after
routine scans of sites accessed by people with computers provided by
the Department of Courts revealed that four or more judges had
accessed sex sites. While there were initial calls for resignations,
the New Zealand government has announced that it does not plan to
take action against the judges.  Highlighting the danger of
monitoring judges' computer use, the Attorney-General announced today
that four of the judges accessed the material for work-related
reasons, while the fifth was an accident.
 http://nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=940048
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=939890
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=940107

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