June 30,
2002 -
Spam King Living High In The
Bayou - CTNOW.com, By
JOHN M. MORAN, Courant Staff
Writer, SLIDELL, La.,
Running east from New Orleans,
Interstate 10 slips alongside
marshland dotted with weeping
willows and billboards touting
the "Swamp Tour" and "Gator
Fest." Thirty miles later, the
highway arrives here in the
bayou town of Slidell - a busy
suburb of strip malls and
subdivisions that bills itself
as "Louisiana's Best-Kept
Secret." It is also home to
Ronnie Scelson, one of the
biggest spammers in America...
June 19,
2002 -
Fresh fears over mobile phones
- BBC News, The
scientists said mobile phones
were still safe to use. A major
study into the safety of mobile
phones has concluded that they
may affect the health of people
who use them. Research carried
out by scientists in Finland
suggests radiation from mobile
phones causes changes in the
brain...
June 25,
2002 -
India Tech: What's the Matter U?
- By Ashutosh Sinha, Wired
News, NEW DELHI -- It is
called the biggest export house
of the Indian sub-continent.
With Dr. Arun Netravali, former
president of Bell Labs, Rajat
Gupta of McKinse, Desh Deshpande
of Sycamore Networks, Vinod
Khosla of Kleiner Perkins and
Suhas Patil of Cirrus Logic the
alumni lineup could not get much
better. Its students power
innovation at the Silicon
Valley, run the largest airlines
and shape the tech indices at
Nasdaq...
June 28,
2002 -
NPR Retreats, Link Stink Lingers
- By Farhad Manjoo, Wired
News, In response to furious
criticism of its online linking
policy, National Public Radio
will no longer require
webmasters to ask permission to
link to NPR.org. But there are
still limits on linking to the
nonprofit radio network's site.
Links to NPR's site "should not
(a) suggest that NPR promotes or
endorses any third party's
causes, ideas, websites,
products or services, or (b) use
NPR content for inappropriate
commercial purposes," according
to a new policy...
June 07, 2002 -
MS turns up heat on warezed
WinXP copies - By
John Lettice, TheRegus.com,
The beta of Service Pack 1 for
Windows XP has now shipped to
testers and, as previously
advertised, it declines to
install if you're using a leaked
WinXP license key. But - again
as previously advertised - it
doesn't deactivate your
installation, just stops you
applying the service pack...
June 07, 2002 -
China Paper Bites on Onion Gag
- Reuters, 7:00 a.m. June 7,
2002 PDT, BEIJING --
Beijing's most popular newspaper
has unwittingly republished a
bogus story about U.S. Congress
threats to skip town for Memphis
or Charlotte unless Washington
builds them a new Capitol
building with a retractable
dome. The source?
America's celebrated spoof
tabloid, the Onion...
June 12, 2002 -
All-American Criminal - John Gotti was driven not by
fanaticism but by simple, old-fashioned greed, By Peg Tyre, NEWSWEEK WEB
EXCLUSIVE, Flamboyant mob boss John Gotti died on Monday afternoon
at age 61. He died of throat cancer alone in his cell in a federal
prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., where he was serving a life
sentence for murder and racketeering, far from the streets of New York
City, far from the glare of the media spotlight he loved so much...
June 17, 2002 -
Priests
fear charter’s broad wording - MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS,
DALLAS, For the last six months, many Roman Catholic priests have
felt like the public face of scandal in their communities, even though
most had no role in the sex abuse crisis engulfing the church. Now, they
say, they face a new concern: whether the blameless in their ranks will
be hurt under the ambitious policy bishops have adopted to keep abusive
clergy away from parishioners...
June 13, 2002 -
U.S. eyes more Internet control - Reuters, WASHINGTON--U.S.
lawmakers said on Wednesday that they would step up oversight of the
nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's domain-name system, but
stopped short of saying the United States should run the controversial
body. Several senators and a Bush administration official said the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would
have to change the way it operates if it wants to continue to oversee
the system that allows Internet users to navigate using easy-to-remember
domain names like "www.example.com."
...
June 12, 2002 -
Bottom line: E-tail is growing
fast - By Troy
Wolverton, Special to ZDNet
News, Once known for dot-com
excess, online retailing is on
its way to becoming a profitable
industry, according to a
Shop.org study to be released
Wednesday. Some 56 percent of
retailers surveyed by Shop.org
reported profits at their online
operations in 2001. Meanwhile,
the study projects that the
total U.S. e-tail market,
combining the results of all the
companies involved in online
retailing, will hit breakeven on
operating margins this year...
June 11, 2002 -
IT's high seas: Software pirates plunder away - By Margie
Semilof, Senior News Writer, SearchWin2000, Windows administrators
may hate Microsoft's new licensing plan, which is due to go into effect
later this summer, but one of the benefits that Microsoft will itself
enjoy is the ability to keep better track of who's paying (or not
paying) for their software licenses. Software piracy continues to be a
headache for Microsoft and all software vendors worldwide, especially
today as more illegal software can be found and transferred easily from
Internet auction sites, news groups, and peer-to-peer systems.
Compression and speedy broadband services make downloading easy and
quick for everyone...
June 18, 2002 -
Nigeria Hoax Spawns Copycats
- By Joanna Glasner, Wired News, For most
recipients of e-mail, the Nigerian spam scam is a familiar sight. It
comes, often quite regularly, from an alleged former dignitary of the
Nigerian government. The typical storyline is that the sender has
stashed away a huge wad of cash, but needs a foreign bank account
through which to funnel it...
June 04, 2002 -
FBI most wanted: new IT
priorities - By Dan
Farber, ZDNET.com, The
controversy over who knew what
when about the 9/11 terrorist
attacks has the country buzzing.
It's likely to make for an
entertaining summer as the
committees and subcommittees
play the Beltway parlor whodunit
game, partly for the political
gain and partly to find remedies
for systemic problems plaguing
various government agencies
tasked with protecting national
interests...
June
05, 2002 -
Broadband by the bootstraps
- By Lisa Napoli, MSNBC
CONTRIBUTOR, How a group of
neighbors built their own
high-speed network. Residents of
this rural neighborhood didn't
have access to 56k dial-up
service because there's no
copper connection to the central
phone office. If you’ve ever
dreamt about wresting control of
your lousy Internet Service
Provider, or wished you could
give the phone or cable
companies a giant piece of your
addled-by-crappy-customer-service-mind,
you will love the following
story about some kindred spirits
in the mountains of Summit
County, Colo. ...
June
03, 2002 -
Netscape Keeps On Pitching
- Wired News Report,
Netscape isn't going to let a
little thing like being in a
market-share coffin cramp its
style. It's making Netscape 7.0
available for free preview.
According to the Web developer
site, W3schools.com, Netscape
(AOL had just a 4 percent market
share as of this April, compared
to Internet Explorer's (MSFT) 90
percent share...
June
13, 2002 -
U.S. spy imagery
viewed by civilians
- British enthusiast
downlinks spyplane images on
satellite TV, MSNBC NEWS
SERVICES, LONDON, Uncovering
a potentially serious lapse in
NATO security, a British
satellite TV enthusiast has
discovered that unencrypted U.S.
spy plane transmissions used by
the Alliance can be downlinked
on commercially available
satellite television. Video
available includes images from
sensitive military locations
such as the NATO mission in
Kosovo...
