March
13, 2001 - Jupiter
Media Metrix Announces U.S. Top 50 Web And Digital
Media Properties For February 2001 - Total
time spent online soared 51 percent versus last year
Napster now is the 13th most visited property with
16.9 million unique visitors. NEW YORK, - Jupiter
Media Metrix (NASDAQ: JMXI), the global leader in
market intelligence, today released the Media Metrix
U.S. Top 50 Web and Digital Media property ratings for
February 2001. While the total number of minutes spent
online increased 51 percent, from 64.8 billion minutes
in February 2000 to 97.7 billion in February 2001,
home usage increased the most. The total number of
minutes spent online at home increased 59 percent,
from 45.6 billion minutes in February 2000 to 72.7
billion in February 2001, while time spent online at
work increased 32 percent, from 19.3 billion minutes
to 25.4 billion...
March 22, 2001 -
VeriSign Security
Alert Fraud Detected in Authenticode Code Signing
Certificates - VeriSign, Inc, discovered through its
routine fraud screening procedures that on 29 and 30
January 2001, it issued two digital certificates to an
individual who fraudulently claimed to be a representative
of Microsoft Corporation. VeriSign immediately revoked the
certificates. The updated certificate revocation list (CRL)
is available at http://crl.verisign.com/Class3SoftwarePublishers.crl
or through VeriSign real-time Online Certificate Status
Protocol (OCSP) Services...
March 27, 2001 -
U.K.
may resell Microsoft's portal... then again, maybe not
- By Jacqueline
Emigh, Sm@rt Partner, Accenture and Microsoft
also launch co-developed "quick-start"
government portal solution. Microsoft Chairman Bill
Gates unveiled the U.K. government portal during a
keynote speech at the Government Leaders Conference
Tuesday. Microsoft said the new UK Government Gateway
Portal is seen as ultimately enabling the UK's 60
million citizens and 3 million businesses to perform
transactions with 200 central government agencies, 482
local government offices, and many other
"quasi-government" facilities...
March 22, 2001 -
The
Man Jailed In Fairfax for Planting Shrubs - WASHINGTON
POST by Marc Fisher, Owner of a golf driving
range, Thoburn is now in jail indefinitely on a
contempt of court conviction. He sleeps three hours a
night between lock-in and 4 a.m. shouts of "Wake
up for breakfast," spends his days far from his
wife and three boys, shares a day room with nine other
inmates, mostly drug dealers or deadbeat dads, all
astonished to find this man in their midst, in jail
for longer than nearly all of them, in jail because
not only has he planted the wrong number of trees at
his range, but -- I beg you, put down your coffee cup
before continuing -- he has planted some of them in
the wrong place...
March 27, 2001 -
Digital
rights case to be heard by Supreme Court - By
Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News, A showdown before the
U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday could lay the ground
rules for who owns the electronic rights to stories
that have previously appeared in print newspapers and
magazines. Legal experts say the case, The New York
Times v. Tasini, could shape the debate over copyright
and written content in the electronic age in the same
way the Napster file-swapping lawsuit is molding the
digital-music scene...
March 14, 2001 - We
Can Work It Out—On the Web - By Lisa Moskowitz,
Technology Review, Squabbling with your eBay customer
or building contractor? Duke it out more productively
with online dispute resolution. If face-to-face
confrontations make you a little queasy, online
dispute resolution just might be your panacea. Instead
of wincing as someone yells at you, or shouting back
instead, you can swap demands and respond at your
leisure with a cool head...
March 15, 2001 - Senate
committee takes on Net taxes - By Andy
Sullivan, Reuters, WASHINGTON--State officials told a
U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday that their services
could suffer if Internet sales taxes continue to go
uncollected, while others said the struggling dot-com
sector could ill afford new taxes. Members of the Senate
Commerce Committee heard from a panel of state officials,
online businesses and traditional ''bricks-and-mortar''
retailers who alternately praised and criticized an effort
by 32 U.S. states to simplify their tax codes to enable
them to eventually collect revenue from online
transactions. A congressional ban on new Internet taxes,
passed in 1998, is set to expire this October. Members of
the Commerce Committee said they plan to extend the ban on
access and usage taxes...
March 16, 2001 - ER crowding
is a problem - WASHINGTON (AP) - Visits to emergency rooms are
booming even as hospitals are closing, raising fears
that some patients may not get urgent care as fast as
they need it, the American Hospital Association reported
Thursday...
March 16, 2001 - Police say
they couldn't help boy - By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press Writer, BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Police officers didn't try
to revive a dying boy who had been sexually assaulted
because they weren't carrying their disease-deterrent
masks, the officers testified Thursday...
March 16, 2001 - Texas
court upholds sodomy law - By KRISTEN HAYS
Associated Press Writer, HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas appeals
court upheld the state's sodomy law Thursday in the case
of two men charged with having sex in a private home...
March 16, 2001 - White
House To Cut Aid to Russia -
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press
Writer, WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush
administration plans deep cuts in
programs aimed at helping Russia
safeguard its nuclear materials even
though a recent high-level commission
called the program essential to
national security...
November
03, 2000 - Lawyer admits sabotaging
inmate - WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP)
- A lawyer for a death row inmate has
stepped forward and admitted
sabotaging his client's appeals
because he didn't like the man and
thought he ought to be executed. The
disclosure came Wednesday in the case
of 34-year-old Russell Tucker, who is
scheduled to die Dec. 7 for the 1994
murder of a security guard. A
remorseful David B. Smith said he
caused his co-counsel to miss a key
state Supreme Court deadline for
filing one of Tucker's appeals. On
Wednesday, co-counsel Steven Allen
asked a Superior Court judge to allow
the appeal to be heard and to appoint
new lawyers for Tucker. But the judge
said both questions are up to the
Supreme Court. In any case, the
execution will probably be delayed
because the federal courts have yet to
hear the case. Asked why he decided to
come forward, Smith said: Tucker's
execution date was set after the
defense missed the deadline. Just over
a week later, Smith came forward and
admitted what he had done.
November
03, 2000 - Productivity grows at 3.8%
rate - WASHINGTON (AP) - A key
measure of American workers'
productivity grew at a healthy though
considerably slower pace in the third
quarter, while labor costs picked up.
That and other reports released
Thursday showing a key measure of
economic activity unchanged in
September and disappointing sales by
major retailers in October added to
mounting evidence that the nation's
economy is slowing to a more
sustainable pace, analysts said.
Productivity - the amount of output
per hour of work - rose at an annual
rate of 3.8% during the July-September
quarter after a sizzling 6.1% rate of
growth posted in the second quarter,
the Labor Department said. While
third-quarter productivity growth was
the slowest since the beginning of the
year, the gain exceeded many analysts'
expectations. Gains in productivity
are the key to rising living standards
because they allow wages to increase
without triggering higher inflation
that would eat up those wage gains. If
productivity falters, however,
pressures for higher wages could force
companies to raise their prices
sharply, thus triggering inflation.
November
03, 2000 - Sailor trapped in Kursk
buried - ST. PETERSBURG, Russia
(AP) - "Mustn't despair" -
these words from Lt. Dmitry
Kolesnikov's note, scribbled in the
dark inside the sunken submarine Kursk,
were displayed in a black frame
Thursday next to his flag-draped
coffin. Funeral services for
Kolesnikov, one of the 12 sailors
whose bodies have been recovered from
the wreck by deep-sea divers, were
held in his hometown of St.
Petersburg. The recovery of the note
helped revive public criticism over
the military's slow response to the
Aug. 12 disaster. Written as he and
other sailors huddled in an intact
rear compartment after explosions
ripped the front of the submarine
apart, it showed that at least some
sailors survived the initial
catastrophe - despite official claims
that everyone had died almost
immediately. His widow, Olga, sat with
his father, a retired submarine
sailor, his mother and his brother
Alexander, also a submarine officer,
in the hall at the Admiralty, the
czarist-era naval headquarters and a
city landmark for its soaring golden
spire.
November
03, 2000 - Paper finally covers civil
rights - JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) -
During the 1960s, The Jackson Sun all
but ignored one of the biggest
upheavals in U.S. history - the civil
rights movement. The people of Jackson
got little if any news from their
hometown paper on the sit-ins, the
boycotts and the mass arrests that
were shaking their town to its core. A
generation later, though, the
40,000-circulation daily newspaper is
trying to make amends, running a
21-page series of articles and photos
on the civil rights movement. Many
newspapers in the 1950s and '60s,
particularly in small Southern towns,
played down or ignored coverage of the
civil rights movement. But few, if
any, have gone to such lengths to set
the record straight. The newspaper
said its then-owner, Sally Pigford,
was aligned with the city's white
power structure and had a policy of
not reporting on events in the black
community.
March 10, 2001 -
How
The Mighty Have Fallen - © 2001 Forbes.com™,
"NEW YORK - A year ago, the Nasdaq Composite hit the
5,000 mark, climbing the next day to its record, 5,048.62.
It has been downhill ever since, and the value of
high-tech execs' portfolios have fallen with it. Just how
bad? Bill Gates held shares worth $79.3 billion on March
10, 2000. Today, those shares are worth just $44.2
billion. Here's how he and others fared over the past
year..."
March 06, 2001 - Copyright
fight might narrow TV, music options -
"After getting hooked on the cult cinema show Mystery
Science Theater 3000 in early 1997, Jessica Evans wanted
to see earlier episodes. On the Internet, she found people
who would trade videotapes of the since-canceled program
for tapes of other shows..." - By Mike Snider, USA
TODAY
March 09, 2001 -
The
Man Who Fell to Earth - Copyright © 2000
FEED Inc. Christine Kenneally, on the man who
plans to skydive from space. NEXT YEAR, Rodd Millner,
an Australian ex-commando, plans to one-up the
American hero Chuck Yeager, the first person to travel
faster than the speed of sound. In a stunt that will
either redefine the boundaries of science or the
boundaries of idiocy, Millner intends to don a space
suit and ride a balloon 130,000 feet up to the edge of
space. Once he gets there, he will jump. An
experienced skydiver, speedboat racer, scuba diver,
and, before that, an insurance salesman, Millner
believes that he will reach a speed of between 700 and
900 miles per hour within one minute of leaping from
the balloon. If he is successful, he will be the first
human to break the sound barrier sans vehicle.
March 08, 2001 -
AOL
immune from porn
lawsuit, Florida
high court rules
- By JACKIE
HALLIFAX,
Associated Press,
Nandotimes.com,
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
The state Supreme
Court said
Thursday that
federal law
protects America
Online Inc. from
illegal
third-party
transactions - in
particular, the
sale of child
pornography - that
take place on its
service. In a 4-3
decision,
Florida's high
court said the
Communications
Decency Act gives
the Internet
service provider
immunity from a
lawsuit filed by a
Florida woman,
whose 11-year-old
son appeared in a
lewd videotape
sold by one AOL
user to another...
March 06, 2001 - Student
Web Sites Pose Rising Test of Free Speech Rights
- By MARTHA GROVES JILL LEOVY,
DAVID COLKER, LA Times Staff Writer, Many contain
violent, personal attacks. But their creators usually
avoid school discipline if work is done off-campus.
Student Web sites are pushing the envelope of free
speech nationwide, forcing teachers, students,
parents--and their attorneys--to contend with the
fallout of unfettered adolescent expression...
