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Thursday, November 29, 2007
 
  Advertising now in PDF files
Adobe Systems and Yahoo plan to launch a service on Thursday allowing publishers to insert advertisements into many online newsletters or other electronic documents.

Newspaper archive goes live - Information World Review
National and regional newspapers from the 19th century are available online following a three-way collaboration between the British Library, funding body JISC and Cengage Learning. Access to the online archive will be free for higher and further education users, but not for others.

Yahoo apologises for Black Monday fiasco - vnunet.com
Yahoo is attempting to placate members of its Small Business Merchant programme after an outage left many sellers unable to process orders on the busiest online shopping day of the year.

Online spend to reach £15bn - 29 Nov 2007 - Computing
The three-month festive period is tipped to set an online spending record of £15bn ­ 60 per cent higher than last year ­ despite a 13 per cent dip over the past month, according to the latest figures.

UK leads the new media way - 29 Nov 2007 - Computing
The UK’s next-generation content sector has secured £331m-worth of venture capital (VC) funding since the start of last year ­ a third of the European total and more than double that of its nearest rival, France.

'Distance learning' gets its close-up - USATODAY.com
Hannah Cross, a marketing major at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, hasn't let anything derail her from her college degree — not having a baby, not having back surgery, not having to hold down a job.

Software Sniffs Out ISP Data Meddling
An Associated Press investigation, published last month, confirmed in nationwide tests that Comcast, the No. 2 U.S. Internet provider, interfered with attempts by some subscribers to its high-speed service to share files online. EFF, which had been running its own tests, later said its findings were consistent with the AP's results.

Facebook Gives an Inch in Privacy Melee
Some observers say they don't expect big changes to the advertising policy unless Facebook, which had 15 million daily visitors in June, sees members leaving its site or slower growth in key countries. 'They really do try to push the edge of the envelope and then make changes' if they have to, said Rodney Rumford, publisher of FaceReviews.com.

Lessons for the hi-tech future
The customer is not always right, especially when it comes to technology, says regular columnist Bill Thompson. The customer is not always right, especially when it comes to technology, says regular columnist Bill Thompson.

Do you know what they know about you?
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. The scandal of the 25 million missing records has highlighted the vulnerability of data. Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. The scandal of the 25 million missing records has highlighted the vulnerability of data.

How firms and fraudsters deal in data
The information lost by the HMRC could prove very valuable to fraudsters, computer security experts say.The information lost by the HMRC could prove very valuable to fraudsters, computer security experts say.

Kicking off the debate about free speech
The legal system is starting to get to grips with chat on the internet, says regular columnist Bill Thompson The legal system is starting to get to grips with chat on the internet, says regular columnist Bill Thompson

Net vigilantes 'should listen more'
Regular columnist Bill Thompson wants 'net vigilantes' to focus more on customer service. Regular columnist Bill Thompson wants 'net vigilantes' to focus more on customer service.

UK 'slow' on ultra-fast internet
Broadband industry leaders are to meet ministers to discuss how to stop the UK dropping into the internet 'slow lane'. Broadband industry leaders are to meet ministers to discuss how to stop the UK dropping into the internet 'slow lane'.

Hackers hijack web search results
A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted.

FBI: Millions of computers roped into criminal 'robot networks' - CNN.com
More than 1 million computers in the last five months have become part of robot networks, or 'botnets,' in which hackers take over computers without their owners' knowledge and use them in criminal campaigns, the FBI said Thursday.

China, Brazil give Africa free Satellite land images
China and Brazil will give Africa free satellite imaging of its landmass to help the continent respond to threats like deforestation, desertification and drought, the two countries said on Wednesday.

Google adds tracker to mobile phone map service
Google on Wednesday released upgraded mapping software that figures out the general vicinity a mobile telephone is in based on which transmission tower it is using.

Broadband, business telecoms prices in SA far too expensive
South Africans continue 'to have some of the most expensive broadband' in the world and 'business use of telephony is far too expensive'.

Google plans to go local
Google is planning to establish a local presence for its services – something which will greatly benefit the SA online market.

Critical Blogs Shine Light on Judges' Actions
A handful of legal blogs that have started in South Florida in the past two years that have shone a spotlight on the justice system. Supporters credit the blogs with providing valuable information about the inner workings of the court system, and bringing change. Critics counter that the blogs can be venues for inaccurate information and unsubstantiated personal attacks.

Google Discloses Blogger Data in Israeli Libel Suit
Google is taking issue with reports saying that it 'voluntarily' turned over information about a Blogger.com user to someone who filed a libel lawsuit in Israel. An article published on an Israeli news site said that the search company had 'agreed to supply the IP address' of a blogger sued for alleged defamation, marking 'the first time that Google forewent legal action in such a case.'

Supreme Court Hears Internet Cigarette Case
Several Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism over a Maine law aimed at cracking down on Internet tobacco sales to children. Paul Stern, Maine's deputy attorney general, argued that states like Maine are trying to protect public health by ensuring that tobacco does not end up in children's hands.

Dell Pursues Three Registrars in Cybersquatting Case
Personal computer giant Dell Inc. is pursuing a major 'cybersquatting' lawsuit against several companies that buy and sell Web site addresses, alleging that the entities earned millions of dollars from Internet traffic intended for Dell and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. In a case quietly filed with the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in October and recently unsealed, Dell took aim at a stable of registrars -- companies that are licensed to register and sell new domain names to the public -- allegding that they are responsible for registering and profiting off of nearly 1,100 domains that were 'confusingly similar' to Dell's various trademarks.

GigaLaw.com Daily News: Bullies Get New Power Over Victims in Cyberspace
Hateful text messages, abusive e-mails and cyber-gossip are giving bullies new power over their victims -- even in the supposed safety of their own homes, U.S. researchers reported. And most of the victims are themselves new, with two-thirds of children who report such harassment saying they had not been bullied before in other ways.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
 
  Is Facebook Overrated?
Whether you realize it or not, social networking is something you do every day. Each time you tell a friend about a good movie, bore a neighbor with pictures from your kid's birthday party or catch up on gossip at work, you are reaching out to people you know to share ideas, experiences and information. The genius of social-networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook lies in their ability to capture the essence of these informal exchanges and distill them online into an expanding matrix of searchable, linked Web pages.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
 
  Anti-Copying Technology Proves Successful for Microsoft
If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in policing the legalistic user agreements that restrict how software can be used. While a copyright crackdown by the Business Software Alliance and other industry players has been in force for years, piracy rates -- as measured by BSA-commissioned studies -- have stopped falling.

Study Warns Internet Usage Could Outstrip Capacity
A new research study warns that the Internet could stagger under the weight of the digital media clogging its pipes. The study, conducted by Nemertes Research and distributed by the not-for-profit Internet Innovation Alliance, suggests that consumer and corporate Internet usage could outstrip network capacity both in North America and worldwide in a little more than two years.

State hires new data firm after student records are lost
Just more than a month after a massive loss of college student records was revealed, Louisiana's student financial aid office is hiring a new data security company and considering litigation against the previous one.

Cisco hack suspect convicted of breaking into universities | The Register
A Swedish teenager suspected of hacking into the network of Cisco systems has been convicted of cracking into the systems of three local universities.

Nothing Says Holiday Cheer Like Free Software
To save money this holiday season, you could break out the construction paper and rubber cement and make something really, um, nice; or you could take a quick cruise on the Web, download a few free applications, put them on a thumb drive and really make someone's holiday. It's your choice. No pressure. Put down the safety scissors, please.

Monday, November 26, 2007
 
  ISOC-ZA tackles poor Internet Access
The newly elected board of the South African chapter of Internet Society (ISOC-ZA), will empower more people to use the Internet by strengthening the existing community outreach projects and community gatherings, says Naresh Dajee, the new chairman of ISOC-ZA.

Uncapped local ADSL bandwidth kicks in
Telkom Internet is trialing its uncapped local ADSL bandwidth service where users who have reached their cap still have local access.

Google SA plans big broadband drive
Google South Africa, set to officially launch in February 2008, says it will go on a big broadband drive next year.

Industry doesn't trust ICASA
Industry does not trust the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) with information needed to bring certainty to the market, says ICASA councillor Marcia Socikwa.

SA regulations ‘difficult to grasp'
The South African regulatory environment is difficult to grasp and the country has missed out on a big development opportunity by not liberalising the telecommunications sector earlier, says Gateway Communications CEO Peter Gbedemah.

ICT charter stalls again
The ICT industry's black economic empowerment (BEE) charter has stalled again, although it is unclear what has caused the latest delay.

Online harassment outlawed
Missouri town city officials have declared online harassment a crime, less than two weeks after they learned of a 13-year-old girl who killed herself after receiving hurtful messages on a popular social networking Web site, reports Chron.

Top international law firm Taylor Wessing turns to Mimecast to save money, increase control and keep a full forensic trail of all e-mail traffic
Leading international law firm Taylor Wessing has chosen Mimecast's Web-based unified e-mail management service to store and manage internal and external e-mails for 1 200 users in its British, French, German and Belgian offices.

Stats SA Aids dissident found guilty
A Statistics SA employee, accused of vandalising a Wikipedia entry and sending threatening e-mails to the Aids Foundation of SA (AFSA), has been found guilty, says Stats SA spokesman Trevor Oosterwyk.

The Biggest Winners and Losers of 2007
As the holiday season starts up, most major tech companies have laid down all the big cards they intend to play in 2007. Apple won out in personal media players but produced a relative dud in the set-top box category. In gaming, the Wii's surprise hotness is still hot, but no longer that surprising. In DVDs, Blu-ray and HD DVD are locked in a battle for supremacy that's left both starving.

Thinking Through Your 2008 Security Budget
I don't mean to suggest that metrics are the complete solution to your budgetary woes, but the budgeting process is the one area where you're likely to see quite a bit of return on your metrics initiative. If you're measuring, you can come up with a reasonable -- or at least logical -- estimate of future activity based on historical trends.

HMRC loses records on 25 million people in the post | OUT-LAW.COM
Details of 25 million child benefit recipients have been lost after two discs containing the data were sent from HM Revenue and Customs to the National Audit Office (NAO) but appeared not to arrive. The data included details of millions of bank accounts.

Movie posters banned for 'glorifying' guns | OUT-LAW.COM
Two ads for the movie Shoot Em Up have been banned in the UK. The national advertising watchdog said they could be seen to condone violence 'by glorifying or glamorising' the use of guns, in breach of rules on social responsibility and violence.

Outcry over Tarzan's yell prompts trade mark clarification | OUT-LAW.COM
A sound can be registered as a trade mark if it can be written in musical notation. But a sound like Tarzan's yell can also be registered if a graphical representation is accompanied by an MP3 file, according to Europe's trade mark registry.

Monday, November 19, 2007
 
  Judge Orders Violent Anti-Abortion Website Taken Down
A federal judge ordered an anti-abortion activist to remove Web site postings that authorities said exhorted readers to kill an abortion provider by shooting her in the head. District Court Thomas Golden granted an injunction seeking the removal of postings on Web pages maintained by John Dunkle.

Court Affirms Expulsion of Student for Hacking
A divided panel of the Commonwealth Court has affirmed a school board's decision to expel a student involved in hacking the district's computer network over the student's protest that the district's policies don't explicitly provide for expulsion as a penalty for such conduct. The majority in M.T. for A.T. v. Central York School District found that the district properly exercised its discretion under a provision allowing for expulsion of students who violate local, state and federal laws.

Bosses crack down on internet socialising | Technology | The Guardian
For anyone with a case of mild Facebook addiction, finding the time to squeeze a little work in between messing around online has become one of the great challenges of the 21st-century office. So if you are taking a quiet moment at work to read this online, steal a glance over your shoulder now: an investigation by the Guardian has found that employers are taking an increasingly draconian line on workplace time-wasters.

Webber Wentzel Bowens merges with Mallinicks to create legal powerhouse
Webber Wentzel Bowens (WWB), one of South Africa’s leading corporate law firms, will merge with Cape Town-based law firm Mallinicks to create one of the largest legal firms in South Africa.

Judge Blocks Disclosure of Anonymous Critics Online
A former school board member's request for disclosure of the names of anonymous Internet critics has been rebuffed by a state judge, who ruled that the comments were protected speech. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Marcy S. Friedman found that Google, the Internet service provider hosting the blog 'Orthomom,' did not have to disclose the identities of blogger Orthomom or of the anonymous users who posted allegedly defamatory comments on the site about Pamela Greenbaum.

Internet Conference Focuses on How to Combat Cybercrime
The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals. All this has left computer experts, lawmakers and Internet service providers at a U.N.-sponsored conference grappling with how to balance these concerns in an increasingly globalized, digital world.

Saturday, November 17, 2007
 
  Blogger warned to delete Avis logo | OUT-LAW.COM
A US blogger who reported on a court ruling has been ordered by car rental firm Avis to remove an image of its logo from his blog posting to avoid charges of trade mark abuse.

Internet Conference Focuses on How to Combat Cybercrime
The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals. All this has left computer experts, lawmakers and Internet service providers at a U.N.-sponsored conference grappling with how to balance these concerns in an increasingly globalized, digital world.

Saturday, November 03, 2007
 
  Someone might be stealing your domain name searches, says ICANN | OUT-LAW.COM
The body that regulates the structure of the internet is investigating whether unscrupulous operators are stealing domain name ideas from customers.

Tarzan yell must be written in music for trade mark registration | OUT-LAW.COM
Tarzan’s distinctive yell cannot be registered as a trade mark because it is almost impossible to represent graphically. Sounds can be registered as trade marks, but the ruling could limit that to sounds that can be written in standard musical notation.

 

 

 

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