general internet news - 17 July

World's poor to get own search engine
People in poor countries could soon have a new and cheap
way to get hold of the wealth of information on the
internet. 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3065063.stm

Online wishes available for Madiba
Nelson Mandela, the world's best loved statesman, turns 85
on Friday and well-wishers can now send their personal
congratulations to him on the internet.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,1009,62283,00.html

Presidential pardon only hope for cyber-dissident Zouhair
Yahyaoui
Reporters Without Borders today called on President Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali to grant a swift pardon to jailed
cyber-dissident Zouhair Yahyaoui, who is in a very weak
condition after staging a series of hunger strikes.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7520

.th - Net games off-line as crackdown begins
As of yesterday, the Information and Communications
Technology Ministry has closed all access to what it
considers violent online games after 10pm.
 http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/16Jul2003_data03.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31635.html

PanAfrica: African Union Urges World Leaders to Participate
in UN-Backed Information Summit
The African Union has passed a resolution calling on world
leaders to participate in the upcoming global summit
convened by the United Nations telecommunications agency to
explore ways to utilize information technology to overcome
poverty.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200307150001.html

European Commission's new spam offensive
Spam cost EU businesses €2.5 billion last year, according
to the European Commission which today announced its plans
to wage war against the e-mail menace, through a mix of
enforcement action, technical measures and consumer
awareness.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=europeancommission1058276754&area=news
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3093129

US must ban spam, says European Commission

http://www.cw360.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=123452&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_1326438_9677_1-5041.html

.uk - Grooming to be outlawed
Legislation to criminalise what is known as 'internet
grooming' is due to receive a second reading in the Commons
today, providing some protection for youngsters who use
computer chatrooms.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,998477,00.html

UK Government studies e-crime laws
The UK Government is considering a revamp of the laws on
high-tech crime and has given the IT community until
February 2004 to make suggestions to Home Office minister
Caroline Flint on possible changes.

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=272

No jail over porn email
A UNIVERSITY student who said he believed he had received
photos of Metallica in his email - but who had, in fact,
been sent child pornography - was given an 18-month
suspended sentence in a Perth court.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6760311%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Porn in the USSR: Web attacks baffle experts
Experts believe they have tracked a spate of attacks which
redirect Internet users to pornographic websites. This is
apparently one of the first scams to infiltrate private
Internet users - and boffins are baffled about how the
virus is installed on home PCs.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1058241961290B225&set_id=1

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,997818,00.html

SAPD cracks down on internet child predators
As law enforcement around the San Antonio area catch more
child predators on the internet, police said it's only a
small dent in a global problem.

http://news9sanantonio.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=3116

Runaway girl met US marine, 31, on the Internet
Twelve-year-old Shevaun Pennington had been in contact with
a former US marine via email and the Internet for some time
before the pair ran away together.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137564,00.html

Ex-marine held in hunt for girl
A former US marine who disappeared with a 12-year-old
British schoolgirl has been arrested in Germany, police
said today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,999133,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=424938
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3071717.stm

Scottish newspaper sued for internet defamation
NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson has sued the Sunday
Herald for £200,000 after allegations appeared on the
Scottish newspaper's internet message board, accusing him
of helping Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane killer, to obtain
a gun licence.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=scottishnewspapers1058276642&area=news

AOL slashes Netscape staff
America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees
involved in Web browser development at its Netscape
subsidiary amid a reorganisation of its Mozilla open-source
browser team.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/hr/story/0,2000048610,20276286,00.htm
 http://www.silicon.com/news/500016-500001/1/5153.html

Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE
Think the browser wars are over? The newly formed Mozilla
Foundation claims open-source innovation will allow it to
challenge Microsoft's near-total domination of the market.
It's a mighty tall order.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59640,00.html

Tech-Economy Publishes Its 2003 Global Information
Technology-Economy Index
Singapore, Finland, the United States, Hong Kong and the
Netherlands rank highest in technology and e-commerce
capabilities among 48 nations, according to the 2003 Global
Information Technology-Economy Index (GITEI), released
today by Tech-Economy, an IT research firm.
 http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/030714/183/e45wj.html

Linux spreads its wings
As Linus Torvalds releases a preliminary version of the
next kernel, big companies like IBM continue to put their
resources behind the open-source software. Plus, Linux
inches forward toward the desktop.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-1025939.html

RIAA threat may be slowing file swapping
The record industry's plan to sue individuals who trade
songs online has caused a precipitous drop in the use of
file-swapping applications, according to one Internet
ratings service.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1025684.html

Studios Stage Fight Against Internet Bill
The Hollywood studios are fighting a behind-the-scenes
battle in Sacramento to derail a bill they say would
promote online piracy — though the bill has little to do
with downloading movies. Actually, the fight may have more
to do with who's behind the legislation: the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties and technology
advocacy group that frequently opposes the studios'
anti-piracy initiatives.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-mpaa15jul15224420,1,4237837.story

.au - Sackings for illegal net use upheld
THE right to sack workers for illegal Internet use has been
upheld in two landmark industrial cases.

http://careerone.com.au/resources/story/0,8523,6729339-22549,00.html

.au - Email ban in the 'dark ages'
UNIONS have denounced the national industrial umpire as
locked in the dark ages following a decision allowing
employers to block union emails to a workplace. 

http://careerone.com.au/newsviews/story/0,8523,6735950-22554,00.html

Filtering dos and don'ts
Filters can permit or deny virtually any kind of traffic -
up to a point. Here are some basic dos and don'ts for
filter usage:
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_1326378_9677_1-5044.html


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