general internet news - 12 November

Singapore tackles cyber terror
Singapore has passed strict new legislation to protect the
country's computer systems from attack.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3259601.stm

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/11/11/singapore.internet.reut/index.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39117786,00.htm

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3792841

'We must make the Web safe for our children'  2003-11-10
17:25:35
Singapore's government has urged Internet access providers
to follow Microsoft's lead in clamping down on unregulated
chatrooms to prevent them from becoming havens for sex
predators.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1068466507279B252

.uk - Warning over credit card fraud
Fraudsters steal about £800 a minute using credit cards
over the internet, phone or by fax, consumers are warned.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3256031.stm

U.N. summit to look at tech big-picture
The man who calls himself the United Nations' "wedding
planner" is no lightweight. I met Monday with Nitin Desai,
whose latest project is the World Summit on the Information
Society, which takes place in Geneva December 10-12 and
will be the first time the U.N. has attempted a big-picture
look at the global importance of information technology.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,537466,00.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/06/fortune.ff.united.nations/index.html

Agenda lacking as U.N. info society summit looms
Who controls the Internet and how richer nations should
subsidize its growth in poorer countries are central issues
dividing planners a month ahead of the first U.N. summit on
information technology.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7208980.htm

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7821808%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

APEC cites ICT role in freer world trade, investments
This year's meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum pressed for wider use of
information and communication technologies (ICT) to further
the group's aim of a free world trade regime characterized
by open economies.
 http://itmatters.com.ph/news/news/news_10292002a.html

Porn Mag Sales Going Limp
With Internet porn relatively cheap and readily accessible,
some of the venerable rags are feeling the pinch. Screw
magazine recently folded and yesterday's smut kings are
scrambing to reinvent themselves.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61165,00.html

.uk - Porn surfing a big employers' headache
Misuse of e-mails and the Internet in the workplace has
become a big headache for employers, and UK companies are
increasingly disciplining staff for accessing racy Web
sites or sending porn to colleagues.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3785127

http://www.hrgateway.co.uk/viewnewsdetail.asp?uniquenumber=2400&loginstatus=

Future Kids Online - Conference Documentation
Politicians, researchers, experts, industry representatives
and kids themselves was gathered in Stockholm at the end of
October for the SAFT conference Future Kids Online - How to
Provide Safety Awareness, Facts and Tools. It turned out to
be two eventful days with speakers and guests from Europe,
Asia, Australia and America debating possibilities and
risks concerning children's online life.
 http://www.saftonline.org/latestnews/1373

An experiment in Internet self-regulation
As an employee of the Norwegian government, Elisabeth
Staksrud's job title used to be official film censor.
 http://news.com.com/2008-1028_3-5103481.html

Cops break huge yakuza kiddy porn ring
A massive crackdown on a yakuza-run kiddy porn ring has
resulted in the arrest of eight men and seizure of tens of
thousands of pedophile videos, police said Tuesday.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20031111p2a00m0dm015000c.html

Fake porn pix of M'sian posted
When the students crowded around a computer in a Malaysian
Chinese school's multimedia room took off quickly when a
teacher entered the room, they left behind a screen full of
pornographic photographs with a surprise.

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39156968,00.htm

Europe exceeds U.S. in refining grid computing
When the Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant Novartis needed a
new supercomputer for designing drugs, the company found
that it already had one. It was hidden in the unused
computing power the company had available in the thousands
of PCs that were already being used in its offices.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-5104759.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/technology/10grid.html

Why Tech Is Still the Future
It seems almost irresponsible to say so, in this sober
post-bubble age. But the information revolution really is
leading us into decades of prosperity. An essay by one of
the country's foremost economic thinkers, W. Brian Arthur.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,538792,00.html

Los delitos en Internet se multiplican en el último año
Según los Mossos d'Esquadra el auge de pornografía infantil
en la Red, las estafas y los ataques de seguridad a la
empresas, tanto del ámbito privado como del público, han
disparado estas cifras.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/106854935887503.shtml

The next hot internet stock - How good is Google?
IF THE ultimate measure of impact is to have one's name
become a new verb in the world's main languages, Google has
reason to be proud. When they founded the company five
years ago, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, friends at Stanford
University, chose a word play on “googol”—the number 1
followed by 100 zeros—because their ambition was to
organise the information overload of the internet in a
transparent and superior way. These days, singles “google”
suitors before agreeing to a date, housewives “google”
recipes before cooking, and patients “google” their
ailments before visiting doctors. Dave Gorman, a comedian,
even has a popular show, the “Googlewhack Adventure”—a
Googlewhack being what happens when two words are entered
into Google and it comes back with exactly one match.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2173573

Peter Lewis: Is Microsoft’s Latest Software Worth the
Upgrade?
The Office 2003 productivity suite includes dozens if not
hundreds of improvements. Should you cough up $149 to $499
to get them? Peter Lewis sizes up the new features.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ontech/0,15704,534294,00.html

.us - Catholics seek recruits in cyberspace
Some Catholic religious orders, shaken by church sex
scandals and a drop in priesthood volunteers, are turning
to cyberspace to attract new vocations, church officials
say.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3792203

Microsoft Faces Showdown at the EU Corral
Microsoft faces a major showdown in Brussels this week when
it gets a last chance to defend itself against European
Union regulators' charges it abused its dominance of
desktop computer operating systems.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3783419

.us - Senate Still Talking of Internet Access Taxes
U.S. Senate lawmakers on Monday struggled to renew a ban on
Internet access taxes as proponents offered to limit its
scope in order to allay concerns that it could hurt state
coffers.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3792214

Google ready for Microsoft search face-off
Search company Google is testing software that lets people
navigate the web without opening up an internet browser,
placing itself in a field that Microsoft has designs on -
desktop search.

http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39116811,00.htm

Spam set to soar this Christmas
Spam, rather than turkey, looks set to be on the menu of
net users this Christmas.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3258179.stm

EU - Legal and Market Aspects of Electronic Signatures
(QuickLinks)
(Europa) Report of the European Commission project on legal
and market aspects of electronic signatures. This study is
performed by the K.U.Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven). Project manager Jos Dumortier, Professor at the
Faculty of Law and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre
for Law and Information Technology (ICRI). For the legal
aspects he worked together with his research fellow Patrick
Van Eecke and with Georgia Skouma of the IT Law Unit of the
law firm Landwell (Bogaert & Vandemeulebroeke, Brussels).
For market and technical issues Professor Dumortier was
assisted by Hans Nilsson and Stefan Kelm. They are
well-known technical experts in electronic signatures and
related standardisation and implementation issues.

http://www.europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/all_about/security/electronic_sig_report.pdf

Net makes royal rumour spread inevitable
So was it a good idea for the Prince of Wales's private
secretary Sir Michael Peat to come out fighting, and
declare that the unreportable allegations about the prince
were "untrue" and "risible"?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=461224

.uk - Fear of fraud 'key deterrent to online banking'
A third of Britons who have internet access do not use
online banking because they worry about the possibility of
fraud

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;$sessionid$JITSBI3CYL1U1QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/connected/2003/11/05/ecncnfraud03.xml&sSheet=/connected/2003/11/07/ixconnrite.html

Cyber terrorism not real: Gartner
Gartner's information security and risk research director
has dismissed cyber-terrorism as a "theory".

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20280859,00.htm

http://www.silicon.com/management/government/0,39024677,39116842,00.htm

E-crime just old crime in new bottles
Police electronic crime laboratory boss Maarten Kleintjes
loves catching crooks.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2721922a28,00.html

Michael Moore attacks e-voting
Controversial US documentary maker and author Michael Moore
has lambasted electronic voting machines being used in some
US states, claiming the technology is inherently open to
misuse.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20280797,00.htm

http://www.silicon.com/management/government/0,39024677,39116833,00.htm

Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Microsoft plans to add the ability to block pop-up Internet
advertising in an update due out next year
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39117783,00.htm

Germany cracks down on software piracy
German law enforcement officials raided homes and
businesses across the country and made at least nine
arrests in connection with a multimillion-euro software
piracy ring.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/117133.html

Can Microsoft succeed with Tablet PC?
On the first anniversary of the release of the Windows XP
Tablet PC operating system, the question remains whether
Microsoft's latest pen computing platform can succeed where
others have failed before.

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=7&Art_ID=16156

More men logging on than tuning in
Men aged 18-34 are turning more to their computers and away
from their televisions, a new study has revealed.

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,233804-1-454,00.html

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