| - High
Court Takes Online Freelance Case
- Forum
to create standard performance tests for supercomputers
- FCC
to telecom gear makers: Regulate yourselves
- Justice
Dept. Widens Homestore.com Antitrust Investigation
- US
Tech Group Urges Euro Cyber-Crime Convention Delay
- Microsoft
Must Pay Legal Costs In Private Antitrust Case
- U.N.
Agency Evicts Cybersquatters
- Hackers
Make Mark on Presidential Race
- Sophos
Issues Mobile Phone Virus Hoax Warning
- Feds
seek advice on reverse auctions
- DVD
Piracy Judge Tells All
- FTC warns online
retailers to keep holiday shipping promises
- New
Concerns Over FBI Net Spy Service
- OSHA
Releases Final Version Of Workplace Ergonomics Rules
- Atento
Continues Expansion with Argentina Launch
- Kiwi
Tech Laws Taking Hard Turn
- Proposed
Discount For Internet Postage Gets Key Support
- Porn
Sites Fear a Crackdown
- Treasury Secretary
Outlines Net Tax Challenges
- The Problems
with Online Privacy Laws
- Online Medicine
a Legal Nightmare?
- European Microsoft
Cases To Be Combined
- Los Angeles Passes
Cable Open-Access Resolution
- Study
Calls For Stronger Audit Trail In FBI's Carnivore
- High
Court Takes Online Freelance Case
High
Court Takes Online Freelance Case
Supreme
Court to decide freelance writers' rights over stories news organizations post
on the Web Forum
to create standard performance tests for supercomputers
At the SC2000
supercomputing conference in Dallas, a users' group proposed a plan for performance
testing of supercomputers. FCC
to telecom gear makers: Regulate yourselves
Federal regulators are on
the verge of doing something rarely seen in this town: handing their oversight
authority back to a regulated industry. Justice
Dept. Widens Homestore.com Antitrust Investigation
The Justice Department
has widened its antitrust investigation of online real estate listing provider
Homestore.com US
Tech Group Urges Euro Cyber-Crime Convention Delay
A group of US high-tech
executives is asking the Council of Europe to extend the deadline set for completion
of a draft international convention on cyber-crime, citing the need for less government
intervention and more industry-led solutions to worldwide computer crime.
Microsoft
Must Pay Legal Costs In Private Antitrust Case
A federal judge has ordered
Microsoft to pay a Danbury-based software company $3.7 million in legal fees in
addition to $1 million awarded for unfair trade practices. U.N.
Agency Evicts Cyber Squatters
French actor Alain Delon, KLM airlines,
Nintendo, Suzuki Motor, and EMI Group have won their cases against alleged cyber
squatters Hackers
Make Mark on Presidential Race
Hackers put their own spin on one of the
closest presidential races in U.S. history, breaking into the Republican National
Committee Web site, as well as wreaking havoc on the Democratic National Committee
site hours before voters began casting their ballots. Sophos
Issues Mobile Phone Virus Hoax Warning
Sophos, the antivirus specialist,
has warned its customers that a mobile phone virus hoax is circulating once again...
Feds
seek advice on reverse auctions
The question is whether the private-sector
input will cause the government to institute new rules governing these auctions.
DVD
Piracy Judge Tells All
Judge Lewis Kaplan, who sided with the movie industry
in last summer's descrambling lawsuit, says he doesn't dislike hackers, but they're
not on his holiday gift list, either. FTC
warns online retailers to keep holiday shipping promises
The Federal Trade
Commission is warning more than 100 online retailers that they'd better not make
holiday shipping promises they can't keep. New
Concerns Over FBI Net Spy Service
Disclosures by the U.S. Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) concerning its embattled "Carnivore Diagnostic Tool" sparked
doubts about past assurances that the technology will not violate Fourth Amendment
rights against "unreasonable search and seizure"... OSHA
Releases Final Version Of Workplace Ergonomics Rules
The U.S. Occupational
Safety and Health Administration announced a set of ergonomics standards aimed
partly at reducing the repetitive-motion injuries that afflict many heavy users
of computers. Atento
Continues Expansion with Argentina Launch
Spanish CRM provider Atento
announced Thursday that it has launched operations in Argentina and expects to
employ 3,000 people there by the end of next year. Kiwi
Tech Laws Taking Hard Turn
Adding new anti-hacking legislation in New
Zealand at first looked like it was going to be easy, but now it's threatening
to undermine basic rights of privacy in an Echelon kind of way. Proposed
Discount For Internet Postage Gets Key Support
A proposal to give users
of Internet postage a discounted rate on first-class mailings was recommended
for approval by the U.S. Postal Rate Commission, which reviews rate requests for
the U.S. Postal Service. Porn
Sites Fear a Crackdown
Recent FTC action against the adult Web business
may be, as one attorney put it, the beginning of a 'clean-up-the-Internet sweep.'
Treasury
Secretary Outlines Net Tax Challenges
The US Treasury Secretary said that
tax laws should create neither roadblocks nor unfair advantage for business conducted
over the Internet. The
Problems with Online Privacy Laws
The United States' first attempt at
Internet privacy legislation -- the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act --
is impractical and unworkable Online
Medicine a Legal Nightmare?
The proliferation of patients seeking medical
advice over the Internet and a number of after-hour call centres springing up
in Australia calls into question a doctor's indemnity and may legally be putting
the medical profession's neck in a noose European
Microsoft Cases To Be Combined
The combination of evidence from an investigation
started in February and from legal proceedings opened in August would not only
speed up the whole process; the chances of the commission succeeding would be
greater because it would reveal a pattern of behavior. Los
Angeles Passes Cable Open-Access Resolution
The city of Los Angeles passed
a resolution calling for "open access" to broadband cable Internet platforms
Study
Calls For Stronger Audit Trail In FBI's Carnivore
While the FBI's controversial
e-mail surveillance tool basically functions as advertised, the system suffers
from a lack of audit functions,
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