Microsoft
Presses On With Its Hosting Push - "Vendor
invests $50 million in Digex; readies new licensing,
training programs. Microsoft is one of the few software
vendors that doesn't want to be an application service
provider (ASP). That said, Microsoft is continuing to work
to expand its position as a supplier of products and
services to ASPs..."
McCain:
Internet tax 'pernicious' - "Presidential
hopeful John McCain on Tuesday reiterated his call to keep
the Internet free from taxation and out of the hands of
self-serving politicians. Though McCain spent the day
stumping for his tax plan, which he officially announced
here this morning, the issue seemingly dear to the Arizona
senator's heart is the Internet tax ban..."
America’s
map shifting with migrants - What will America look
like in 2025? A recent analysis by a leading demographer
draws this map: The United States won’t be one single
racial and ethnic melting pot but 10. Moreover, U.S Census
data suggests the South will become more black, the Midwest
will stay about how it is now, and the Pacific Northwest
will become more white...
Miners
freed after being entombed with dead - "Nine gold miners in South Africa trapped more than a
mile underground with the corpses of dead colleagues for
four days were finally brought to the surface last night.
Rescue teams were still trying to reach the bodies of four
men killed in the rock fall at the Orkney shaft, 100 miles
south-west of Johannesburg..."
Rapist Promises To Identify Victims
- Before he is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, a man who admits raping at least 29 women is
promising to help detectives resolve even more cases in which he
terrorized women...
THE
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT - On October 12,
1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a
complex piece of legislation which makes major changes in U.S.
copyright law to address the digitally networked environment. The
President is expected to sign the DMCA shortly. This memorandum
discusses the law's five titles which: (1) implement the WIPO
Internet Treaties; (2) establish safe harbors for online service
providers; (3) permit temporary copies of programs during the
performance of computer maintenance; (4) make miscellaneous
amendments to the Copyright Act, including amendments which
facilitate Internet broadcasting; and (5) create sui generis
protection for boat hull designs. A controversial title establishing
database protection was omitted by the House-Senate Conference, as
was a provision which would have reversed the Supreme Court's
decision in Quality King v. L'anza, 118 S. Ct. 1125 (1998), which
concerned parallel imports...
Judge
blasts Army over poor efforts to protect Web site - A
federal judge criticized the U.S. Army's efforts to keep its public
World Wide Web site secure after a 20-year-old man said it was easy
to hack into it. "The Army didn't do its homework in the first
instance," U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller said Tuesday...
Newsstands
facing e-competition
- "When it comes to delivering news from
afar, few places stand on tradition like the Harvard Out of Town
News. For 44 years, the small brick kiosk across from Harvard
University has offered news from all corners of the globe. The
landmark stand offers the Ha'aretz from Tel Aviv and the Connacht
Tribune, a weekly from western Ireland. It has news printed in
Spanish, German, French and Japanese, and publications from
countries like Greece, Italy, Australia and Russia..."
Lucent
sues porn Web site - Lucent Technologies Inc., the world's
biggest telephone equipment maker, filed suit to stop the use of the
protected ''Lucent'' trademark in the name of an adult-oriented Web
site.
Home
offices protected by workplace rules - The Labor Department
has concluded that companies that let employees work at home are
responsible for federal health and safety violations in home
workspace. ''Ensuring safe and healthful working conditions for the
employee should be a precondition for any home-based work
assignments,'' says an advisory letter from the department's
Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Give
the gift of clicks — to charity
- "You probably can’t get something for nothing,
but perhaps you can give something for nothing. A number of
Web sites have popped up that take advantage of the crazy
economics of the Internet. Just by visiting, you make a
donation to a worthy cause..."
States
Jump Into Internet Legislation - "In Virginia, a new law forbids state employees from
using computers at work to visit sexually explicit sites on line. In
New York, a bill that makes it a crime to post indecent material in
cyberspace to anyone under 17 years of age passed both houses of the
Legislature on July 2 and is now headed for the Governor's desk..."
Yeltsin Quits, Is Granted Immunity
-
"Pleading for forgiveness, Boris Yeltsin resigned Friday as president, clearing the way for his hand-picked successor
to take Russia into a new age and fix the mistakes he admitted having made through eight chaotic years..."
Few Report Y2K Glitches So Far
-
"A world remade by technology began the rollover to the year 2000
today with no early signs of cyber-chaos, easing anxiety from years
of preparation and billions of dollars spent to fix a simple but
widespread computer bug..."
The Outside Shooter...and the Fighting Pilot
Straight shooter - "Bradley and McCain are selling this year's hottest commodity: the aura of authenticity that comes from a life that starts outside
politics..."
'White
Tornado' - John McCain's history as a POW is only part of
his story. He's tempestuous, candid and, in his mother's words, a
'scamp...'
Cindy
McCain's Own Story - The candidate's wife on the joy of
adopting a Bangladeshi orphan—and on the pain of overcoming drug
addiction...
