Admitida a trámite la demanda de la AI contra Ya.com por las cláusulas de sus contratos de ADSL: El objetivo de la iniciativa es "clarificar los contratos, esclarecer las peticiones y llamar la atención sobre la situación del ADSL en España", afirmó Domingo. Asimismo, se quejó de que la actual situación, en la que las operadoras son "intermediarios" entre usuarios y Telefónica, "no es lógica, puesto que sólo las beneficia a ellas y estrangula el interés general". [lá como cá...]

Webs within Web boost searches: Internet search engines regularly use information about the text contained in pages and the links between pages to return relevant search results because the approach works reasonably well, but less is known about why these relationships exist. A researcher from the University of Iowa has expanded the utility of using text and links in search engines with a mathematical model that divides a large network like the Internet into small local Webs.

Congress Triples Spending for Cybersecurity: The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday that would triple federal spending on a program to increase computer security research, sending it to the White House for final approval.

British Hacker Case Largest Ever Against U.S. Military: Gary McKinnon, 36, of London was indicted in federal courts in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday on eight counts of computer-related crimes. These included break-ins over 12 months at 92 separate U.S. military and NASA networks across 14 states, including two at the Pentagon. McKinnon also was accused of hacking the networks of six private companies and organizations. [...] McKinnon was charged in "the biggest hack of military computers ever, at least ever detected"

New Tools a Spying Boss Will Love

Managing Digital Photos: Digital photography comes with its own set of archiving problems. Microsoft, Cirius, and Lifescape want to help.

Are Tech Innovations Drying Up? The technology slump of the past two years has cost thousands of workers their jobs, decimated some companies and slowed down the economy. Will it also result in fewer innovations from America's high-tech firms?

Real-life µ-tetris

Dumb Divergence Targeting Tablet PCs: If you want to read about a dumb idea resulting from lack of coordination by sectors of the publishing industry, then this is your lucky day. Here goes: Imagine if you had to use the AOL browser to visit any newspaper's websites, but had to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to visit any magazine's sites, but had to use Opera 6 to visit any broadcaster's sites, but had to use Netscape 6 to visit any e-commerce site. OK, that's far fetched, but something similar is really happening in regard to the new Tablet PCs

Text scam warning for consumers: Scams using e-mail, text messaging and faxes are increasingly ripping off consumers, the UK Government has warned.

Her picture became a porn ad: “Don’t put your picture online” was a common warning in the early days of the Internet. Sound paranoid in the era of online dating? Don’t tell that to Laura, who 18 months ago put up an online personals ad for one month. Since then, her photo has been stolen and used in dozens of fake personals ads soliciting hard-core sex and pornography. “You have no control,” she said. “What’s hardest is you have no idea who’s seen it. What if someone really believes those things?”

New Microsoft software sparks privacy fears: Computer experts say the new “Palladium” software being developed by Microsoft could be misused to gain unprecedented access to personal computers and endanger freedom of speech.

New flaws could spawn more Net attacks: A network protection firm [...] revealed three new flaws in the software on which the Internet's domain name system relies.

New Zealand: 'Duty' of telecoms to assist snooping: The Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Bill, tabled in Parliament yesterday, will mean telephone and internet service providers will be legally obliged to ensure their systems are capable of isolating and intercepting suspect emails and mobile calls while still protecting the privacy of others.

Bill Gates says most of his inheritance will go to charity: Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest man, said Tuesday he will pass a sizeable portion of his wealth to charity and not his three children. [...] But Gates added: "Certainly I'll make sure they are taken care of in a sense that they can live a very comfortable life."

Virus: Un tout nouveau magazine en couleur sur l’incommensurable univers de l’informatique et des nouvelles technologies.

Euro thought police criminalize impure speech on line: The Council of Europe has amended its cybercrime treaty to devise criminal penalties for those who dare to express unpopular ideas for public consumption with any manner of computer equipment. The measure specifically targets so-called 'racist and xenophobic material', and would apply to any controversial Web-site, or even a mean-spirited posting to a BBS or an e-mail newsletter.

Patterns for Personal Web Sites

Google Search: http

Ghostzilla: The Camouflage Web Browser For Total Screen Privacy

Banish Foreign Language Email Spam

Video games no longer child's play: Sony Australia's sales figures for the PlayStation 2 reveal that males aged between 18 and 40 make up 60 per cent of the lucrative computer game market. Games market analyst Phil Burnham said that men aged between 18 and 35 were the main market for game designers and manufacturers.

Maybe It Is the Magic Kingdom: Last week, Disney announced a modest milestone - its Internet properties are profitable. The company doesn't report the results of its Internet properties as a group, so Disney did not provide any profit figure when it reported fourth-quarter earnings. [...] What Disney learned and other companies are discovering is that it's best to abandon a one-size-fits-all approach to the Web.

Three New 'Net Domains Could Be Added Next Year, but those alternatives likely will be reserved for specific online communities.

Computer Break-Ins: Your Right to Know: California law now demands that the public be informed when government or corporate databases are breached. It's about time

New Web Portal Takes Aim at Yahoo: The businessmen who salvaged the Excite Network from one of the Internet's biggest bankruptcies are launching a new Web site targeted at disaffected Yahoo! users. "Yahoo! is Toast" is the theme of their aggressive new advertising campaign introducing MyWay.com, a new online portal that replicates many of Yahoo's popular features without ads, fees and intrusive privacy policies.

Microsoft memo: Linux fight backfiring MS admits its Linux-bashing jihad is a failure

How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time: The ability of attackers to rapidly gain control of vast numbers of Internet hosts poses an immense risk to the overall security of the Internet. Once subverted, these hosts can not only be used to launch massive denial of service floods, but also to steal or corrupt great quantities of sensitive information, and confuse and disrupt use of the network in more subtle ways. We present an analysis of the magnitude of the threat. Researchers predict worm that eats the Internet in 15 minutes

Making the Macintosh is an online project documenting the history of the Macintosh computer.

Bajar el precio del ADSL tendría un efecto "distorsionador" sobre la competencia, opina el Gobierno El Gobierno considera que "no cabe en principio" la adopción de medidas encaminadas a imponer precios finales para las conexiones a Internet mediante las líneas digitales asimétricas (ADSL) inferiores a los fijados actualmente por el mercado - 39 euros para usuarios y 24 euros para los mayoristas -, puesto que tendría un efecto "distorsionador del marco de competencia concebido para estos servicios".

Are Macs Virus-Proof? According to mi2g's analysis, the Mac OS "suffered only 31 overt digital attacks, i.e., 0.05 percent of all attacks in 2002," in spite of the fact that Apple holds about 3 percent of the global computer market.

[O problema da falta de banda larga:] Angry Janesville Man Barbecues Slow Modem: Janesville police responded to a smoke complaint around 1 a.m. Tuesday and found a man barbecuing his computer modem. The 39-year-old man told police the modem was operating too slowly, and he decided grilling it might make it dial up faster.

Antenas de telemóvel à margem da lei: O país tem 8467 antenas de telemóveis registadas pelo regulador das comunicações, mas as autarquias suspeitam que o total seja superior, a maior parte das quais ilegais. Antenna Safety Violations Costs ATT Wireless: AT&T Wireless Services would prefer to collect $117,000 from the Federal Communications Commission for voice or data services, but the carrier caught a fine of that sum for safety violations on some of its antenna structures. [...] The problems include failure to register, light, and paint antenna structures, and failure to post antenna structure registration numbers at the base of antenna structures.

No content, no takers: The trouble is, why should the majority of residential internet users be excited by broadband? Why do they need fast, always-on internet access? As yet there is no compelling reason for them.

The net crusader: He used to write lyrics for the Grateful Dead. Now John Perry Barlow wants to stop global corporations colonising cyberspace

What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration Scams Notices and Offers in .BIZ

Still a long way from fulfilling the Lisbon objective: Europe is not investing enough in knowledge: The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden and Finland) are in the lead, with investment levels and growth distinctly higher than in the USA. A second group, made up of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, has built up strong momentum which could see them catch up at a very rapid pace. By contrast, most European countries are around the European average (and, therefore, lagging behind the USA), while certain big countries like Italy or Spain urgently need to make an extra effort.

Comissão de dados faz recomendações... sobre a privacidade no local de trabalho. [ver: O tratamento de dados em centrais telefónicas, o controlo do e-mail e do acesso à Internet]

Pac-Man Going To Movies

uDrive Me Crazy: BMW's iDrive cockpit-of-the-future concept has taken some heat since the 745i debuted. We rode shotgun with an interface design expert to see what works, what doesn't.

Amazon.co.uk unveils free delivery offer: In time for the Xmas rush...

Nokia's Games Go Global: Phone maker has signed up one million players for an around-the-world interactive game. "Games will be the next big thing in mobility," said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president of Nokia Mobile Phones

Cordless keyboard woes continue: The Stavanger men who discovered that data input on a cordless keyboard also appeared on a neighbor's computer - supposedly far out of range in another building - have had their equipment replaced. Nothing has changed, and the manufacturer is worried.

Microsoft calls 'foul' on OS vulnerability data: The report, a summary of which was released to the public by Mi2g, attributed 44% of the software vulnerabilities announced in the first 10 months of 2002 to Microsoft's Windows operating system and 19% to the open-source Linux operating system. By comparison, the company attributed only 1.9% to Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS.

Minister calls for new website to help cut unnecessary government spending: The outgoing Dutch Minister of Finance, Hans Hoogervorst, has come up with a novel idea to fight financial waste of government bodies. Mr. Hoogervorst has called on his ministry to set up a special website, where citizens can lodge complaints against wasteful government bureaucracy, and inefficient and ineffective working practices, and propose money saving measures.

More than 600 million people have Net access: 605.6 million people had Internet access at the end of September, up from 580.7 million in May 2002.

Magazines to publish on tablet PC: Six major magazine publishers, including Forbes and the New Yorker, plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising.

Los europeos utilizan más los SMSs que el email: Los analistas de Gartner G2 aseguran que los celulares ofrecen ahora más del doble del alcance que tienen los PCs conectados a la Red en Europa, ya que hay más personas que utilizan los mensajes de texto (SMSs) de sus móviles que el email. El floreciente negocio de la telefonía móvil se ha ensombrecido en 2002 por las ingentes deudas en que han incurrido las telecos y las dudas y retrasos que rodean la tercera generación de móviles. Gartner G2 advierte que la industria continua obsesionada con el UMTS y ha olvidado al consumidor.

Microsoft's new open-source woes Fighting Microsoft the Open-Source Way: Apple, IBM, and Sun have opened up their software code to the public in their battle against Redmond. It just might work.

Patient dies in robot-aided surgery: Such robots are considered a major surgical breakthrough, but something went wrong.

Honeypots: Tracking Hackers: What's interesting with honeypots is the fact that they began to be widely used only in the past 2 years or so. I think that the majority of the people heard about honeypots thanks to the Honeynet Project and Lance Spitzner, whose excellent "Know Your Enemy" whitepaper series became a sort of a bestseller among the security community. And now, the man that started it all has written a book about it. Available for download is chapter 4 entitled "The Value of Honeypots".

Three arrested in Ericsson spying scandal: Telecommunications group Ericsson was caught up in an international espionage scandal yesterday after Swedish security police arrested three people for allegedly handing over its secrets to a foreign power. [...] The Swedish authorities have refused to name either the foreign power it believes was involved or any of the three Swedes arrested - although it said the trio face serious charges of either espionage or industrial espionage. They said the investigation was at a sensitive stage and they could not release more information.

Génération Haut débit: En septembre 2002, 20 % des internautes connectés à leur domicile disposent d’une liaison Haut Débit (ADSL ou Câble). Cette proportion ne cesse de croître. Qui sont ces internautes? Quelles sont leurs attitudes et comportements?

Bill Summary & Status: To develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet jamming and censorship.

One of key Net computers moved: Verisign takes defensive action after last month’s attack Experts have made an important change to the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic, separating two of them to help better defend against the type of attack that occurred last month.

Microsoft launches Tablet PC: analysts have offered dim projections on early sales. Gartner says that portables running the Tablet PC operating system would account for a mere 1 percent - or about 425,000 units - of worldwide notebook shipments next year. Analyst IDC predicted U.S. shipments of 575,000 tablets out of an estimated 13 million notebooks. [aposto que se vão enganar, excepto pelo ainda elevado preço?... É o primeiro equipamento informático que se pode levar para a casa de banho para ler os jornais e tomar notas...] Can the Tablet PC Hit the Mainstream?: I don't see these first Tablets as mainstream products. Instead, I see them catching on with gadget freaks, people in business or college who deeply desire to take notes on a PC instead of paper, and those with large amounts of on-screen reading to do on a regular basis.

Europa quiere patentar el software: La propuesta, en teoría, pretende regularizar las patentes de programación que ya está concediendo la Oficina Europea de patentes (EPO, con sus siglas en inglés). “Las patentes tienen buena prensa”, reconoce Jesús M.González Barahona, profesor de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid y coordinador de Proinnova. “Si en Europa no se da luz verde a las patentes, parece que no se quiere promover la innovación”. Sin embargo, normalizar la situación puede introducir al software en un peligroso campo de batalla.

MS Palladium: A must or a menace? Microsoft developers touted the company's upcoming Palladium architecture as technology that would enhance privacy, stymie piracy and increase a corporation's control over its computers.

windows1984.com: The aim of this website is to draw attention to issues, particularly those related to personal computer use, which threaten to bring us closer to the dystopian nightmare of George Orwell's novel 1984 - O Ano Que Ainda Não Acabou

Money Wired: What happens when a gambling town falls hard for the computer network? Hacker crooks. Megajackpot slots. Cutting-edge surveillance software. And that's just the start.

Patent issues could stymie Web standard: A Web standards body is close to approving a key Web services specification, but concerns about patent rights may hold up the process.

El ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología reconoce el fracaso del plan Info XXI

Feeling lethargic? Blame the PC: Prolonged daily computer use can make you sore and sap your strength, energy and motivation.

MIT's Superarchive: Every year MIT researchers create at least 10,000 papers, data files, images, collections of field notes, and audio and video clips. [...] In September the Institute launched DSpace, a Web-based institutional repository where faculty and researchers can save their intellectual output and share it with their colleagues around the world and for centuries to come. The result of a two-year collaboration of the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard, DSpace is built on open-source software and is available to anyone free of charge. But it’s even more important to note that many believe this groundbreaking effort will fundamentally change the way scholars disseminate their research findings.

Website contest to tempt teen girls: The UK Government is teaming up with the music industry in an attempt to entice young girls into technology. ITbeat is a nationwide initiative, designed to encourage girls aged 11- 15 to rethink their attitudes to careers in information technology.

Hacking syndicates threaten banking: The number of organized hacking syndicates targeting financial institutions around the world is growing at a disturbingly fast rate. And so is the number of banks willing to pay these high-tech extortionists hush money to protect their reputations, according to a security expert at The World Bank. Hackers stick California city with $30,000 phone bill: A number of calls were placed to the Philippines over a five-day period in July -- and they weren't made by city workers. AT&T investigators confirmed that hackers broke into the city's telephone system to make the bogus calls before they were detected and cut off.

Holograms in Motion: The newest 3-D video displays herald an interactive future for imaging.

Bill Gates Views What He's Sown in Libraries: Bill Gates predicted in 1995 that the Internet would help rural people stay put, in part because they would have the same advantages as city slickers in the virtual world. [...] There is scant evidence, for example, that the wiring of rural America has done anything to make Mr. Gates's prediction about population flight come true. The new computers may even be aiding the exodus from rural America, as people go online to find jobs far away.

Mitnick's 'Lost Chapter' Found: A missing chapter from hacker Kevin Mitnick's recent book has been published on the Internet.

Bank error exposes e-mail addresses: Bank of the West exposed the e-mail addresses of thousands of its online banking customers Monday, in a mistake it blamed on "human error."

German secret service taps phones, bills buggees

MS settlement rotten with loopholes

Citing Security Risks, U. of California at Santa Barbara Bans Windows 2000 on Residential Network: In an effort to protect its residential computer network from worms, viruses, and other threats [...] The Microsoft Corporation, however, says the problems the Santa Barbara campus has experienced are more the result of the way its network is configured than of any flaws in the operating systems.

Digital Library of Information Science and Technology

Scramble it!: Encrypting data on hard drives + Encrypting e-mail

Best Websites for Business: Keeping Informed; Finding and Filling Jobs; Checking Competitors; Buying Gifts; Wasting Time; Managing Your Portfolio; Traveling; Tracking Trends; Managing a Small Business; Mastering Your Gear

FTC: Where Spam Goes Off to Die [The Federal Trade Commission] now has the most complete spam database in the world, a collection of over 20 million missives containing the solutions to all human wants and woes. [...] The FTC now gets around 70,000 forwarded spams a day. Last year, they received about 40,000 pieces a day. Three years ago, that mailbox received about 4,000 missives daily, and in 1998 the entire year's take was fewer than 100 spams.

3D Model Search Engine

Searching for a search that works [how metadata works:] The prescription for search success: 1. Identify your goal. 2. Define a common language. 3. Choose the right technology. 4. Process, process, process.

TV Linux Alliance is a consortium of technology suppliers to cable, satellite and telecommunication network operators who wish to support the deployment of Linux-based digital set-top boxes capable of interactive television applications and services.

World Wide Web packed full of trash – official [in finance, health and comparison prices sites]

Cordless keyboard wrote on neighbor's computer

Gaming Industry Serious Business: In-Stat/MDR estimated that the game console market reached revenues of nearly $7.4 billion in 2001 with 31.8 million units shipped, and Strategy Analytics predicts global shipments of 41.9 million units in 2002. Sony's PlayStation 2 (PS2) accounts for 63 percent of sales, followed by Nintendo's GameCube with 21 percent and Microsoft's XBox with 16 percent. By the end of 2002, 72 percent of global cumulative shipments will be PS2 systems, compared to 16 percent GameCube and 12 percent XBox.

The Worst Coders in Washington: American Open Technology Consortium has researched the sponsors of eight bad Internet laws and compiled a list of their most prolific campaign contributors. These laws were written and sponsored by a tiny handful of lawmakers, backed by a tiny handful of wealthy financiers. These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined.

Monday is busiest day on the NetAccording to the data, 15.34 percent of worldwide Internet traffic occurs on the first workday of the week. Tuesday is the second most popular day to go online with 15.16 percent of global Internet traffic. Around 14.57 percent of Net traffic occurs on Wednesday, while Thursday and Friday account for 14.57 percent and 14.43 percent respectively.

Non-English speakers dominant online: After English speakers, the next biggest language group online are Chinese speakers who comprise 10.8 percent of the world’s Internet users. [...] Portuguese speakers account for three percent of all Internet users

Govt. To Hide Identities Of Hacking Victims: Senior law enforcement officials assured technology executives Thursday that the government will increasingly work to keep secret the names of companies that become victims to major hacking crimes, along with any sensitive corporate disclosures that could prove embarrassing. The effort, described at a cybercrime conference in northern Virginia, is designed to encourage businesses to report such attacks and build public confidence in Internet security. Officials promised to use legal mechanisms, such as protective orders and sealed court filings, to shield corporate hacking victims from bad publicity.

FBI Finds Source of Internet Attacks: Last month's denial of service attacks against Internet's core servers have been traced to computers in U.S. and Korea.

The Myth of Cyberterrorism: There are many ways terrorists can kill you - computers aren't one of them.

Do You Copy? Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery. Theft is. Or rather, copying. Because copying is usually not theft, and not necessarily bad even when it is, it needs to be stated loud and clear in these loud and unclear times: Copying is a Good Thing.

The Miscrosoft Decision: Microsoft gets settlement nod; states could appeal A federal judge largely approves a proposed settlement in the years-old antitrust case. The government praises the decision, while critics say the case should have looked at what Microsoft's up to now. But it may not be completely over just yet; the remaining states could appeal, and European officials are continuing a separate investigation. Is It Over Yet? European Union Still Pursuing MS Law Is Better, But World Is Worse Machiavelli meets Microsoft: When it came to her final word on Microsoft, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly turned to "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli's famous Renaissance treatise on power politics, for direction. Quoting the Florentine philosopher as she issued her landmark antitrust ruling, Kollar-Kotelly gave Microsoft most of what it wanted. Yet at the same time, she didn't rely on the software maker's good intentions to make sure the decision will stick. But some shut their Windows: Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel, a college professor turned politician, is succeeding where multibillion-dollar multinational corporations have failed. He is managing to unseat Microsoft Corp. as the dominant player in the software industry, at least in his little part of the world. Vazquez de Miguel is the minister of education, science and technology in Extremadura, a rural western region of Spain made up of expanses of olive trees and small towns and villages with a total of 1.1 million inhabitants. In April, the government began an unorthodox campaign to convert all the area’s computer systems, in government offices, businesses and homes, from the Windows operating system to Linux, a free alternative. Already, Vazquez de Miguel said, more than 10,000 desktop machines have been switched, with 100,000 more scheduled for conversion in the next year.

Future Hacking: How Vulnerable Is the Net?

A New Cryptography Uses the Quirks of Photon Streams: A start-up company, MagiQ Technologies, plans to announce today a cryptogaphy — or code — system that uses a technology called quantum key distribution to thwart eavesdropping on a fiber optic communication channel. The company, based in New York, says it has a working model of its system and will have a commercial version available in the second half of next year.

Free thinkers: Can free source-code stop Microsoft? Focus on what you do best. This age-old strategy has worked well for RealNetworks, Microsoft's main competitor in multimedia software for the Internet. Now, the smaller Seattle-based firm is trying a novel way to contain the software giant. On October 29th, it released the underlying recipe, or source-code, of its RealPlayer software and will soon do the same for its other programs—giving away a big chunk of its intellectual property.

Cape Verde Seeking Technology Partnership: Authorities of Angola and Cape Verde this month started preparing a project for cooperation in technological field towards boosting bilateral relations.

First victim of broadband price war: The broadband price war in the UK has claimed its first casualty with the low-cost start-up ET Global Solutions going bust. The company, which was one of the first in the UK to offer broadband services for less than £20 a month, has ceased trading and closed down its website. Its collapse has raised doubts about whether cut-price operators offering low-cost broadband services can survive.

Anatomy of a Search Engine: Inside Google

Why Can't Hackers Be Stopped?

The Google gods: Does search engine's power threaten Web's independence? "When you're No. 4 that plays well; when you fall off, you tend to lose phone traffic. And if you don't have the right relationship with Google to find out what you could have done wrong, you're out of luck," [Patrick Ahern, Data Recovery Group' president] said, noting that this can have a dangerous domino effect. "If you're not ranked in Google, Yahoo won't list you. It's incestuous."

'Grand Theft Auto' Video Game Riles Critics: If you wanted to buy a copy of Vice City now, forget it. You would have had to call months ago. The new Grand Theft Auto video game is sold out nearly everywhere. Rockstar, the maker of Vice City, has learned one lesson: Simulated crime pays — and it pays well. The game sold 4 million copies before it was even released — and an industry expert says it could eventually sell 10 million copies, bringing in $400 million. Compared to a top-grossing movie like Jackass, which brought in $22.8 million on its opening weekend, Grand Theft Auto has already earned blockbuster status: $160 million in sales before it even hit stores.