Computer book publisher O’Reilly & Associates is taking a dramatic stand against automatic extensions of US copyrights by voluntarily limiting its own copyright protection on hundreds of technical titles — and promising they’ll enter the public domain after that
Emarketersamerica.org has filed suit against spam opponents, seeking a jury trial and damages of $75,000. The complaint alleges antispam groups have interfered with contracts between marketers and their Internet service providers by petitioning the ISPs to remove the marketers from their networks
In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com will delete most references to Syria, Iran, Sudan, Myanmar and five other countries from job postings and resumés
The Cypherpunks have finally caught on to the blog phenomenon: enter Invisiblog. This blog system allows users to register accounts and update their weblogs using Len Sassaman’s Mixmaster anonymous remailer program. Now you can post all those tales of late-night dumpster diving, without fear of being branded a terrorist — via Slashdot
Uninvited guests could soon be in for a shock. Security experts are discussing plans to roll out a non-lethal land mine that zaps intruders with 50,000 volts. The Taser Area Denial Device is based on the Taser electric shock weapon, widely used by police forces around the world. Like the Taser gun, the land mine fires darts at its victims. It satisfies the convention that bans explosive land mines, but some experts question its safety
A civil liberties group is again trying to gain access to a secret list to determine if Pennsylvania’s attempt to block access to child-pornography Web sites is affecting innocuous sites
Another chapter in the high times of the internet stockmarket bubble closed yesterday when the Chaos Group, a one-time high-flyer, announced plans to sell its internet music business back to its founder
Telstra has attracted political and media controversy over revelations that it uses Indian outsourcers for some of its software development after it was reported that almost 100 Indian programmers and analysts were working on Telstra projects for as little as $12,000 a year, undercutting Australian IT specialists who can earn about $60,000 for doing the same job
The Australian Direct Marketing Association has been branded as delusional following its criticism of the National Office for the Information Economy’s anti-spam report, which called for legislation banning junk e-mail
Web firms, such as Spoonfull.net, face investigations of cramming
— charging via telcos for unordered services
A new security device, Observation Camera, allows householders to keep an eye on their properties using cameras that transmit images of intruders to their mobile phones
The Bush administration’s doctrine of pre-emptive first strike represents a radical departure from previous US national security doctrine and national values. Non-aggression had been the guiding beacon in the United States’ relations with the rest of the world
AntiCap UK, a not-for-profit pressure group, has been launched in the UK to campaign for unlimited broadband access after ntl’s decision to limit the amount of downloads customers can make to one gigabyte per day
As fighting in Iraq enters the final chapter, the winners of the information war seem certain — online news services were boosted to new heights by those seeking a broader view
Richard Alston’s Framework for the Future report came under fire before it was even released today, boding ill for the governments attempts to demonstrate it is acting decisively to improve Australia’s ICT industry
A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code
The National Office for the Information Economy has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, with spammers possibly facing prison sentences, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits
AOL has launched an intensified legal assault on junk e-mail by filing five lawsuits against more than a dozen individuals and companies accused of being major purveyors of spam
Legislation aimed at blocking freedom of information applications on the government’s internet censorship regime appears to be heading for defeat in the Senate, as the Democrats are unlikely to support it
Telstra will not support laws banning the use of hands-free and handheld mobiles in vehicles, ignoring concerns by safety advocates who point to research that both are unsafe for driving
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