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TODAY'S HEADLINES
* EU reopens antitrust probe of Intel * Cyber-Cops Plan to Patrol Internet Chatrooms * Feds want e-voting source code disclosed * Net needs law enforcement, author says * Clear Channel reaches indecency settlement * RIM Fights for Its BlackBerry Rights * Beatles Said to Be in Online Song Licensing Talks * PeopleSoft executive testifies Notice to our readers - June 10 Wednesday, June 9, 2004
EU reopens antitrust probe of Intel - AP Perhaps based on recent evidence provided by Advanced Micro Devices, the European Union is investigating whether Intel is engaged in unfair business practices. According to EU spokeswoman Amelia Torres, the commission is in "a new fact-finding phase" and stressed it is "too early to say if we have a case." In 2002 the European Commission found there was not enough evidence pursue AMD's claims that Intel used unfair sales practices such as offering loyalty rebates to customers and signing exclusive purchasing agreements. AMD spokesman Michael Simonoff: "We've been in continual contact with the EU and shared information with them that we think may be useful. It seems that some information that we may have provided of late has sparked them to issue these letters." Cyber-Cops Plan to Patrol Internet Chatrooms - Reuters Police in Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia plan to patrol Internet chatrooms in order to discourage their use by pedophiles. Police observing conversations in a chatroom would be identified with some type of "cyber badge," according to the plan. Jim Gamble, the UK's National Crime Squad Assistant Chief Constable: "This should not be viewed as a Big Brother tactic - this is about police becoming more visible on the Internet...We want to give the potential predator the idea that we are present to make them think 'will I loiter here or will I flee from that particular chatroom?"' Under the plan police would also move to seize the finances of Web sites that sell child pornography and freeze the credit cards of their customers. Feds want e-voting source code disclosed - News.com DeForest Soaries, chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, said Tuesday that electronic voting machine vendors should not have the right to keep their source code and should disclose their source code for scrutiny by state elections officials. "I find myself at the middle of a national debate that will quickly go global. How do we secure electronic voting devices for the 28 (percent) or 29 percent of the population that will use them?" He suggested computer scientists in each state sign nondisclosure agreements and review the vendors' code. His other recommendations include the use of "enhanced security measures" such as cryptography, and a federal database of problems associated with electronic voting machines. Net needs law enforcement, author says - InfoWorld Clear Channel reaches indecency settlement - AP RIM Fights for Its BlackBerry Rights - PC World Beatles Said to Be in Online Song Licensing Talks - Washington Post PeopleSoft executive testifies - Mercury News Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Music industry readies fresh wave of Net lawsuits - Reuters The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPO) is preparing to sue 24 individuals in Denmark for file-swapping and says others in Britain, France and Sweden may also be targeted. OFPI CEO Jay Berman called the inclusion of those countries "inevitable" and suggested Japan, the world's second largest music market according to the article, could make the list as well as record sales continue to drop there. The IFPO says its litigious strategy has driven the decline of available music files on peer-to-peer to 700 million this month - down 30 percent from an all time high of 1 billion in June 2003. And an IFPO survey found 70 percent of those polled in France, Germany, Denmark and the UK were aware that the unauthorized trade of copyrighted music is illegal. High hopes for unscrambling the vote - News.com Reports on two cryptographic voting systems which according to one inventor "will prove with mathematical rigor whether a vote cast on a computer in a ballot box has been tampered with after the fact." One system invented by David Chaum and being developed by Chaum's company Votegrity uses a special viewfinder to validate votes. The other, invented by Andrew Neff, uses prints encrypted voter receipts that can be delivered by an e-voting machine equipped with a printer. The technologoies look solid say experts, but convincing vendors and state election officials to adopt them will be the hard part, says the article. Neff on voting venders such as Diebold Election Systems: "They're just not technically savvy. They've got incredibly limited technical abilities, and they're desperately clinging to the hope that all this (concern about e-voting) will blow over. They want to sing the praises of the little box they plop on someone's table and not worry about it." British Telecom announces plan to block access to child porn sites - Mercury News Says British Telecommunications PLC plans to begin using in the next few weeks a system, named Cleanfeed, which will block its 2.7 million Internet subscribers from accessing child pornography websites. Attempts to reach the sites will result in a "page not found" notice, but BT will not be able see the details of access attempts or of the sites themselves, says the article. The Internet Watch Foundation will provide the frequently updated lists of inappropriate sites. The group is looking into creating an appeals process for sites that feel they've been wrongly blocked. Microsoft likely to win stay of European ruling - New York Times Consumer group sues cellphone companies over locked handsets - LA Times RIM urges court to throw out patent ruling - News.com Diebold stops top executives from making political donations - Mercury News Corante is updated by 10:30 a.m. EST every weekday. Copyright 2003 Corante. All rights reserved. Terms of use |
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