ICANN has received many reports of domain name registrants receiving mailings from an entity calling itself XChange Dispute Resolution and claiming to be an ICANN authorised arbitrator in domain name dispute cases, which it is not. In the mailing, XChange Dispute Resolution states it received a domain dispute-resolution complaint and asks the domain name holder to mail a deposit of between $250 and $1250 to defend ownership of a domain
Business lost more money to Internet fraud last year than individuals, and men lost more money than women, according to the annual report of the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre. Auction fraud was the most common type of crime reported to the Washington-based IFCC, which is operated jointly by the FBI and the non-profit National White Collar Crime Centre, but the Nigerian e-mail scam hit its victims the hardest
NetSol have sold Leslie Harpold’s hoopla.com domain out from under her — a domain that wasn’t due to expire until June. The company seems far more interested in buck passing than in fixing their own screw up
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of blocking
as a way of regulating content on the Internet. The vote — 460 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstentions — this morning means that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access to Web sites. Instead, they have been given the green light to continue with self-regulation
Princeton University professor Andrew Appel says Microsoft has the ability to create and release a modular version of the Windows operating system so computer makers can swap out Microsoft functions for competitors’ programs. Microsoft has maintained that it would be impossible to create a stripped-down Windows because so many portions of it are dependent on others
Pioneer has released its first rewritable DVD drive to support a technology that cuts down to one minute from one hour the time take the format a DVD-RW disc
All electrical equipment in Europe must now be recycled. New legislation just passed by the European Parliament will force manufacturers to keep used items off the scrapheap
The settlement that AOL extracted from a pair of Florida men this week may have closed a loophole used by spammers to flood e-mail in-boxes with junk mail
Infraserv has lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Commerce Commission, alleging that recent changes to Microsoft’s product licensing arrangements, encompassed in Software Assurance, are anti-competitive and contravene New Zealand commercial laws
Telstra’s 80,000 Web Personal users are currently unable to update their sites whilst the telco giant conducts ‘essential upgrade work’ on the back of last week’s loss of personal web pages
Capable of surviving airdrops, rough handling and extreme climates, and just about anything except a GIs jaws, the new indestructible sandwich is designed to stay fresh
for up to three years at 26°C, or for six months at 38°C
Gateway is taking to the airwaves in a bid to rally consumers against a copyright-protection bill that would prevent computers from playing pirated movies and music
Cray has announced the availability of the world’s highest-capability expansion memory and data transfer system. The new system, compatible with Cray SV1e and Cray SV1ex supercomputers, includes a 224GB Solid State Disk with a data transfer rate of 80GB/sec — 800 or more times faster than the 10 to 100MB/sec speeds typical with today’s disk servers
Web surfers who thought online advertisements were becoming increasingly obtrusive may be dismayed by a new tactic: pop-up downloads
A Japanese telescope designed to find asteroids that might threaten Earth apparently detected a previously unknown and unregistered satellite circling Earth
A new breed of spam-filtering technology that combines peer-to-peer communications with machine learning could intercept nearly all unwanted e-mail, according to its creators. The new technology is code-named Folsom and its creators say that tests using it on e-mail streams containing between 40 and 60% unsolicited e-mail reduced to the spam to near zero
Gary Wilke, from Appleton, Wisconsin, bought a $2,600 Gateway PC for his daughter in January. During its short life, the PC had problems both with its hard drive, and its sound system. After returning the persistently faulty PC to a shop five times over three months, he snapped and took it apart with a sledgehammer in front of shocked shoppers
In the UK companies don’t have the right to police their employees’ emails even if they have reasonable cause to believe that the email is personal. But conversely, the UK government thinks it’s entirely reasonable to require all ISPs to record all traffic
In October of 2001, Kim Pedersen dedicated the Niles Monorail, thereby introducing a new hobby to the world… rideable garden monorails
A super-fast multimillion dollar data network that will push Australia to the forefront of advanced communications research has been given the green light. GrangeNet (GRid And Next GEneration Network) will form a 10 gigabit per second broadband backbone linking universities and research groups in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, with a 5Gbps link to Brisbane
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