general internet news - 27 October

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

A testing ground for tools to defend the Web
A consortium of university and industrial scientists has
created a computer network designed to test a new
generation of tools that may one day lead to a smarter,
more secure Internet.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/114985.html

.us - Senate to ponder permanent Net access tax ban
The U.S. Senate as early as next week will consider a
permanent ban on taxing people's Internet access bills, a
measure that has sparked concern among state tax
regulators.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5096010.html

Survey: Spam threatens death of e-mail, 'the killer app'
While unsolicited commercial e-mail takes a considerable
toll on businesses and bandwidth, its biggest impact has to
do with its effect on people, according to a new study from
the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001772631_spam23.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/technology/circuits/23spam.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39117368,00.htm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3209189.stm

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1066565357201

REPORT - Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life
on the Internet
 http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=102

California wins anti-spam case
A California court fines a marketing firm $2m for sending
out unsolicited e-mails telling people how to spam.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3213161.stm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15948-2003Oct25.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60968,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3687809

Hotmail promises better spam-catching

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39117359,00.htm

Survey: Porn Found Often on Work Computers
Many of us apparently forget that our office computer
belongs to the boss - along with all the Internet material
you may load onto it.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5272

Court to Rule on Cyber Cafe Regulations
An appeals court will determine within 90 days whether to
uphold a Superior Court decision to prevent Garden Grove
from imposing strict regulations on cyber cafes, which city
officials have said attract gangs and violence.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-cyber24oct24,1,2911110.story

.uk - The Met takes safer surfing to the classrooms
The Metropolitan police is to hand out mouse mats, pencils
and temporary tattoos to children in a campaign to make
them more aware of the dangers of Internet chatrooms.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33550.html

.uk - Typical child porn user is white male IT pro
The typical British consumer of child pornography, is a
white male professional, probably working in IT.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33517.html

.uk - Youth guilty of having child porn
The parents of an 18-year-old who downloaded pornographic
images of children off the internet spoke of how their son
became obsessed with the material.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1068098,00.html

.uk - Chaucer Goes Online with 'Canterbury Tales'
English poet Geoffrey Chaucer made a pilgrimage to the
Internet on Saturday when the British Library published on
its Web Site the entire first two editions of his 14th
century classic, "The Canterbury Tales."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3688121

China jails cyber-dissident
A Chinese court has sentenced a cyber-dissident to three
years in prison for subversion for posting articles on the
Internet attacking the government, the Paris-based
Reporters Without Borders says.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031023/80/ebwsc.html

Privacy compliance when trading internationally
A summary of best practices was published yesterday for
those trading outside their own national borders, covering
the use of technology to protect on-line data to aid
compliance with privacy laws in Europe, the US and
Australia.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=privacycompliancew1066921166

Violent games attractive to teen boys
More than 70 percent of American teenage boys have played
the violent but popular “Grand Theft Auto” video games, and
they are more likely to have been in a fight than those who
have not played, according to a new Gallup company poll
released on Tuesday. Although the study showed twice as
many boys who had played the criminal adventure game
reported having been in a fight in the last year, the
survey’s authors cautioned that did not prove a link
between game violence and real-life behavior.
 http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/967490.asp

Romania's Internet Vampires Prey on the World
A loosely organized but aggressive network conspires to
steal millions of dollars each year from consumers and
companies.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-adfg-vampires26oct26,1,3996689.story

"Phishing" Is Foul on the Net
This rapidly growing type of e-mail fraud is particularly
dangerous because you're lured into revealing valuable
personal info. Beware.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031021_8711_tc047.htm

OECD Report Indicates Toughening Competition in
Knowledge-based Economic Sectors
Despite economic slowdown and talk of the death of the "new
economy," the knowledge-intensity of OECD economies
continues to increase. This is reflected not only in
productivity patterns but also in a wide range of
indicators contained in a new OECD publication, OECD
Science, Technology and Industry - 2003 Scoreboard.

http://www.oecd.org/document/36/0,2340,en_2649_37409_17191460_1_1_1_37409,00.html

ITU Internet Reports 2003: Birth of Broadband
to purchase see:

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/sales/birthofbroadband/index.html

Journal of Interactive Advertising
Special Issue on Broadband Internet Challenges
 http://www.jiad.org/

APEC tackles online piracy
RAMPANT piracy caused by the enormous popularity of the
internet and technological advances needs to be countered
with a major rethink by governments and business, experts
said at this week's APEC summit.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7634938%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

.au - TIO: Internet dumping complaints increase
Despite efforts by the federal government to curtail the
practice of Internet dumping, the Telecommunications
Industry Ombudsman's latest report revealed complaints over
the practice rose almost 200 percent in 2002/03 over the
previous year.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000048620,20280030,00.htm

.uk - Justice e-censorship gaffe sparks controversy
A government watchdog group Wednesday accused the Justice
Department of improperly censoring portions of a key report
on internal workplace diversity, after online activists
successfully unmasked the blacked-out portions of an
electronic copy of the document.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33549.html

CyberPrivacy - New BOLD Series to Launch 23/10/03
This program is free and open to everyone. CyberPrivacy, a
new BOLD series led by Professor John Nockleby of Loyola
Law School, will launch on October 28th, 2003. A new module
will launch each Tuesday for seven weeks. The Berkman
Center is excited to announce that the whole series will be
hosted on H2O for the first time. To register, please join
the H2O project here.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=116

Where Kids Are Active Online
Nielsen//NetRatings reports that in September, 27 million
Internet users between the ages of two and 17 went online
-- 12 million of whom were between the ages of two and 11.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5295

BOOK: Law on The Electronic Frontier By Ian J Lloyd and
Moira Simpson
The Wild West analogy furnishes an appropriate theme for
the present work. Its basic thesis asserts that we are
living on a new, electronic, frontier. The question to be
addressed concerns the manner in which the law should be
applied to the new forms of behaviour resulting from the
invention and application of the computer. One of the more
notorious phenomenon's of the computer age has been that of
computer hacking. The nature and legal implications of this
will be discussed in detail in chapter three. In terms of
the present analogy the computer hacker may be seen as a
modern equivalent of the gunslinger. Here discussion is
only partly concerned with the question whether conduct is
prohibited by the law. Of greater significance are
questions as to the adequacy of law enforcement and the
obtaining and presentation before a court of the evidence
necessary to secure a conviction. In other areas, direct
marketeers and the controllers of data bases may be equated
with the railroad barons and the mining undertakings whose
insatiable thirst for resources threatened the interests of
other landowners located downstream from their activities.
The system of riparian rights in respect of access to and
use of water is adequate for regulating the activities of
private parties, less so when water becomes an industrial
resource. Here the issue is the more significant one
whether existing legal models are suitable for the new age.
When a car or a domestic appliance breaks down, its owner
is faced with the choice whether to seek to have it
repaired or to replace it with a new model. A similar
dilemma faces today's law makers. In a number of
significant areas, the introduction of information
technology is exposing limitations in existing legal
provisions. The question whether the response should
involve repair or replacement is of critical importance.
 http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Law/dept/diglib/book/

BOOK RELEASE: Lloyd and Mellor: Telecommunications Law 
By Ian Lloyd, Professor and Director of the Centre for Law,
Computers and Technology at the University of Strathclyde,
and David Mellor, President, Cable and Wireless Virtual
Academy
The telecommunications sector is a vital component of the
Information Society. Whilst telecommunications services
were generally provided by a monopoly (normally public
sector) supplier, relatively few legal issues emerged. In a
new deregulated telecommunications market, however, there
is an ever-increasing range of important legal issues to be
addressed. Whilst Telecommunications Law is written from a
UK perspective, detailed coverage is also given to the EU's
telecommunications policy, which increasingly shapes
national laws and policies. Extensive reference is also
made to the application of telecommunications policy within
the context of the GATT and GATS. Some reference is also
made to developments within the United States where these
have particular relevance for the UK and EU markets.
Telecommunications Law will be of vital importance to
students studying the increasing number of courses in
telecommunications law. The book will also be of interest
to those involved in the provision (or use) of
telecommunications services and to those involved in the
provision of legal advice on the matters covered.

SMS-based crime reporting a success
A text message-based crime-reporting system has proven to
be a success, according to police in a Malaysian state.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/communications/0,39001141,39155726,00.htm

Hand-size Windows PCs within your grasp
Start-up Antelope Technologies is getting ready to release
the Modular Computing Core, a Windows XP computer that fits
into a person's hand.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5097013.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-5097013.html

Acer: Tablet PC fees hard to swallow
Senior executives at Taiwan PC maker Acer took swipes at
Microsoft during an event this week marking the first
anniversary of the software giant's Tablet PC operating
system. Acer President Wang Chen-tang said Microsoft is
charging too much for its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
operating system, which has resulted in disappointing
tablet PC sales.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1005_3-5095467.html

Tablet PC OEMs chafe at low sales, costly Windows
Microsoft has garnered an impressive range of OEMs for its
Tablet PC initiative, but they're not a happy lot.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/33566.html

School laptops losing luster
Social studies teacher Eric Chamberlin clicks on a
projector connected to a laptop computer, beginning a slide
on how a bill becomes a law. His eighth-grade students flip
open laptops, eagerly winding through the lesson on their
screens. Chamberlin has seen a big change in his students
since laptops were introduced into his Boothbay Middle
School classroom. "Stuff will go wrong," he said, "but in
the end ... learning is infinitely better than from a
static page in a book."

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/10/23/school.laptops.ap/index.html

EU develops guidelines for migrating to open source
software
The European Commission has developed a set of guidelines
to help public administrators decide whether to migrate
their enterprises to Open Source Software or not.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/1066631472777.html

German Television Enters the Digital Age
The days of fuzzy pictures and poor reception are numbered
in Germany. After Berlin became the first region to
completely scrap analog terrestrial television, the rest of
the country is now leaping into the digital age.

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1446_A_1011636_1_A,00.html

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