general internet news - 2 June

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

What Danish children really do when surfing the internet...
Danish parents know little about what their children
actually do on the internet. But, on the other hand, Danish
parents make less rules for their childrens use of the
internet than parents in other countries.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16520

Email fraud targets 2m UK online customers
Customers of eBay, the biggest e-commerce website in
Britain, have been targeted with a sophisticated new email
fraud designed to trick users into disclosing their bank
details.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,967538,00.html

“Of Course it’s True; I Saw it on the Internet!”
The internet is revolutionizing research methods at
colleges and universities around the world. Though the
internet can be extremely useful to researchers, it
presents a significant challenge as it is quite different
from traditional sources. The lack of uniform standards and
the ease of access have made the internet a powerful but
uncertain medium. Substantial effort is required to
adequately evaluate information provided on the internet,
and this may not always be apparent to users. [5] This is
particularly challenging for students as many have come to
rely on the internet as a primary source of information
without formal instruction about the difficulties involved.
The internet has gained a primary place in research
methods, and it is vital that students become able to
critically evaluate information on the internet.
 http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/pmetaxas/CriticalThinking.pdf

Iraqis scramble to restore Internet
Amr Bakr is an Internet addict. These days, the computer
repairman finds himself in need of a fix.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/05/31/internet.revived.ap/index.html

OECD Communications Outlook, 2003 Edition
The OECD Communications Outlook 2003 presents the most
recent comparable data on the performance of the
communications sector in OECD countries and on their policy
frameworks. The data provided in this report map the four
years of competition for many OECD countries that fully
opened their market to competition in 1998. The 2003
edition analyses major changes and trends in the
communications sector and explores future developments.

http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-13-nodirectorate-no-1-41616-13,00.html

India: Internet Service Provider´s Liability For Copyright
Infringement (sub req'd)
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=21249&p=5&c=19497&e=on

United Kingdom: Online Reputations, Cybersmearing and the
Changed World Of The Internet (sub req'd)
Cybersmearing does what it says on the tin. It is the
smearing of an individual or company online. Cybersmearing
can take a number of different forms including websites,
message boards, e-mail and auctions. We will look at each
of these in turn - but it might help first to illustrate
the problems at their simplest level with a cybersmearing
case from Ireland. Back in May 2001 the Irish courts heard
their first cybersmearing case when an Irish businessman,
Frances Kenny, was convicted for malicious publication of a
defamatory libel under the Irish Defamation Act 1961. Kenny
ran a sandwich business in Castlerea, Co Mayo, as did his
business rival Maureen Walker.

http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=21255&p=5&c=19531&e=on

Porn, music driving European broadband: Study
High-speed Internet access in Europe continues to grow at a
healthy rate, boosted by consumer demand for file-sharing,
pornography and music, a new study.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=477695398
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2947966.stm

10 Men Indicted in Investigation of Child Porn on Web
Five of the O.C. residents have agreed to plead guilty in
the case, which had been given a push by the Internet
findings of Danish police.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-sweep29may29,1,2770862.story

Injunction granted against Net posting of sex offenders
A Superior Court judge has issued an injunction preventing
the state from posting photographs and other personal
information of high-risk sex offenders on the Internet.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-05-29-mass-offenders-superior_x.htm

EU extends action plan on internet content
The EU Council of Ministers agreed on Monday to extend an
action plan on promoting safer use of the internet. The
plan, which ran from 1999 to 2002, has been extended for a
further two years taking into account some new technology
threats.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=euextendsactionpl1054134524&area=news

For TiVo and Replay, New Reach
Why hasn't the digital video recorder become the must-have,
smash-hit, world-changing appliance of the digital age?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/technology/circuits/29stat.html

South Africa: ICT Making a Difference in Communities 
Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri says
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is making a
difference in the lives of communities around the country.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200305290247.html

Half of all e-mails are spam
Unwanted messages now make up more than 50% of e-mails,
according to experts.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2950408.stm

China jails web dissidents
Four Chinese internet writers have been sentenced to long
prison terms for subversion.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2946526.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,966696,00.html
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7014
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2842114

Waffling Ontario coming up short on privacy law
With Canada's national privacy legislation slated to take
full effect on Jan. 1, 2004, most privacy watchers
anticipated that 2003 would be an eventful year. Led by
Ontario, some provinces were expected to introduce their
own privacy legislation. 

http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251652912&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

Criminals' new trick - CHILD-PORN COLLECTORS USING
POCKET-SIZE STORAGE DRIVES
They're small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and
so unassuming that they are sometimes mistaken for
lighters.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/5968311.htm

I am the Baghdad blogger
The most gripping account of the Iraq conflict came from a
web diarist known as the Baghdad Blogger. Rory McCarthy
finally tracked him down.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,966967,00.html

U.K. Paper Recruits Iraqi Blogger
The Iraqi known as Salam Pax, who has capivated thousands
of readers around the world with his online accounts of
life in Iraq, will write a biweekly column for The Guardian
in Britain.
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59057,00.html

India leader advocates open source
The president of India added to a growing foreign-relations
headache for Microsoft with a speech in which he advocated
broader adoption of open-source software.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011255.html

The Munich Revolution - 
Germany's third-largest city gives the cold shoulder to
Microsoft and a big hug to Linux. Is this a sign of more
European problems for the world's biggest software company?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52851-2003May29.html

Web browser war ends in truce 
Microsoft and AOL-owned Netscape end their battle in an
unlikely alliance that could see new audio and video
services launched
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993784
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59039,00.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011356.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55960-2003May29.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57421-2003May30.html

Canadian research could turbo-charge Net
When University of Toronto professor Ted Sargent looked
into the heart of a laser, he saw something remarkable; the
potential to significantly increase the speed of worldwide
communications.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030530.gtlasermay30/BNStory/Technology/

For those who make it to the end of the news, and want
something... trivial, or maybe it is important!...
Handsome men have the best sperm
Handsome men have the best sperm, a new study reveals. The
researchers showed that men with the healthiest, fastest
sperm were rated as the most facially attractive by women.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993777
 
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