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Plan for UN to run internet ‘will be shelved’: “An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month’s world information summit in Geneva – but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda, summit sources say…The critics argue that the …
Companies largely ignore Web sites lambasting them: Many corporations choose to ignore criticism of their products and/or services on websites created to give voice to dissatisfied customers, whose comments in turn may or may not have merit.
“Microsoft Corp. today announced the creation of the Anti-Virus Reward Program, initially funded with $5 million (U.S.), to help law enforcement agencies identify and bring to justice those who illegally release damaging worms, viruses and other types of malicious code on the Internet. Microsoft will provide the monetary rewards for information resulting in the arrest …
From the EFF press release: “Claiming that it is an “anti-piracy mechanism,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today mandated that consumer devices capable of receiving broadcast digital television (DTV) signals must implement content control technologies demanded by the entertainment industry. The “broadcast flag” mandate will go into effect by July 1, 2005.” The FCC’s Report …
The increase in the number of attacks against the Internet has raised growing concerns about national security. The San Franscisco Chronicle reported that researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California received a $5.6 million grant to build a parallel Internet, on a much smaller scale, which will be subjected to malicious attacks …
New on LLRX.com this week: LLRX Named One of the 10 Best Sites of the Decade Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update To Portal or Not to Portal – That is the Question Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources: Staying One Step Ahead in Your Research Presentations Without a Laptop FOIA Items of Interest …
From the World Wide Web Consortium: “Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the ‘906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to US Under Secretary of …
A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley released a new study today, How Much Information? 2003, that chronicles the information explosion over the past several years. According to the team, during the period of 1999 to 2002, “new stored information grew about 30% a year.” Additional …
CircleID reports that a letter to ICANN, seeking increased privacy for the wealth of personal data available in the WHOIS database, has been signed by a coalition of 50 organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA). The ICANN Meeting is currently underway in Carthage, Tunisia through October 31, and a link to the agenda is …
According to a new Nielsen//NetRatings study (link not available, and commissioned by Newsstand), “users of so-called e-editions of print publications are shown to be more affluent, better educated and heavier users of the Internet than the average online user.” [Link thanks to dc] See also this pbs.org interview by Terence Smith that “examines the growing …
Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry. GAO-04-8, October 24. Highlights. “Competition leads to lower cable rates and improved quality. Competition from a wide-based company is limited to a very few markets. However, where available, cable rates are substantially lower (by 15 percent) than in markets without this competition.”
On October 15, Project Gutenberg marked a milestone in the publication of free ebooks online, with this link to the Magna Carta. The pioneering project has now published 10,000 ebooks since its inception in 1971. [Slashdot]
