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News Bytes Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 2:01pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Iraq Car Bombing Kills 3 US Soldiers. Resource Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:46pm EST All Of 'Em holiday advertising sales end tonight. Dirty Gloves Inc, parent company company of All Of 'Em, is wishing you a Dirty Christmas with two rare Holiday discounts for adult online companies looking for webmaster traffic. Both end tonight. First up, advertise in the All Of 'Em To You http://www.allofemtoyou.com daily optin newsletter and receive 20% off the normal price if you contact us before tomorrow and pay by check, advertising starts in January. Second, advertise here on AOE, spend over $500, send us the first check by New Years Eve with a three month commitment and we'll take HALF off off January's bill. Offer ends December 24th, 11:59PM PST (that's tonight). Contact us at sales@allofem.com if interested before the deadline. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:45pm EST WIPO to kick off patent cooperation treaty reform next year. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO )is planning to kick off reforms on the international patent filing system next year in a bid to provide patent protection in multiple countries. According to a WIPO press release on Wednesday, a series of reforms to the WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), ranging from a simplified patent filing system in certain countries to an enhanced search and preliminary examination system, will facilitate the complex procedure of obtaining patent protection in several countries. The PCT, a highly successful international filing system for patents, simplifies the first steps that all inventors and applicants seeking international protection must take and as such is the preferred filing route for many companies as well as individual inventors. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:44pm EST ICANN and the Virtues of Deliberative Policymaking. To make a judgment about public participation in ICANN, it is essential to understand how ICANN's organizational architecture embodies a deliberative, rather than a "representative," model of policy development.The study begins with the observation that "ICANN has repeatedly affirmed its commitment to carrying out a decision-making process that is representative, open and bottom-up," citing the recurrence of the terms "representative," "representation," "openness" and "open" in the various Memoranda of Understanding between ICANN and the U.S. government. ICANN is certainly committed to being open, transparent, bottom-up, and, as a key ICANN policy statement puts it, "representative of the functional and geographic diversity of the Internet." But the study appears to misinterpret the notion of "representativeness" in the ICANN context. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:43pm EST Virus warning over 'Mary' porn photos email. A new Trojan is doing the rounds, using the promise of pornographic pictures in an attempt to take over a user's PC. Sysbug, which comes with the subject line of 'Re[2] Mary', pretends to be a personal email from a friend called James who has attached photographic evidence of a recent tryst. Anyone foolish enough to open the attachment will not find what they are looking for, however, as it actually contains a malicious program that will allow their PC to be taken over. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:42pm EST Where the Net Is Heading in 2004. O.K., your guess is probably as good as mine, but I have a column to write -- and at this time of year that means one thing: Predictions. Making forecasts about the Internet is always a dangerous business. The Web has stubbornly defied conventional wisdom in all manner of areas. Clothes and other high-touch goods would never sell online? Wrong. Everyone would have broadband by 2005? Wrong again. Every kind of communication and entertainment would rapidly converge on the PC? Well, that may yet happen but certainly not for several more years. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:41pm EST High-speed Net connections spike in 2003. The number of high-speed lines connecting U.S. businesses and homes to the Internet jumped 18 percent to 23.5 million lines during the first half of 2003, according to statistics in a report. But that 18 percent increase compares with a 23 percent increase during the last half of 2002, according to the Federal Communications Commission report. High-speed Internet service via cable showed a 20 percent jump, narrowly outpacing the 19 percent growth in digital subscriber line (DSL) services traditional telephone companies offer, the FCC said. Cable companies service 13.7 million broadband lines; Telecom companies service 7.7 million DSL lines. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:37pm EST Pastor's 'Camera Crusade' Targets Porn Patrons. Customers of sexually oriented businesses near Interstate 20 and Mansfield Highway might find a surprise in their mailboxes after their next trip to one of the triple-X stores. A Kennedale pastor recently started a "camera crusade," photographing license plates in the stores' parking lots and mailing postcards acknowledging visits to the customers' homes. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:36pm EST Antivirus vendors post fixes for family of Sober viruses. A self-e-mailing worm is threatening to impose a Sober holiday on individuals and companies alike.The worm created havoc in October by getting into systems and e-mailing itself to every e-mail address it could find. Then a second variant, Sober.B, popped up at the end of last week, attempting to intrigue people with subject lines referencing George W. Bush. The B variant was given a low-risk status as it is relatively easy to stop and remove, and it seemed to have been stopped in its tracks. However, the weekend saw the German writers release the same worm but with different subject lines. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:35pm EST Since You Can-Spam Now, Why Follow Opt-in? Why Permission Practices Remain Critical. If stopping spam was a no-brainer solution, there’d be no debates. In order to stop email crime, porn and the assault of deceptive emails, Congress boldly trumped all state laws and prohibitions relating to spam and opted to loosen the noose on opt-in in order to fix the problem. In the world of email marketing, “permission” has separated legit marketers from spammers. After all if you didn’t have permission to email someone, you respected the anti-spam laws and worked your opt-in channels. Email infrastructures were upgraded to technology that rose above the easily spoofed old “opt-in” and enabled “double opt-in”.  News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:34pm EST Spyware watches 'every keystroke'. Downloaders of free digital music should be aware their computers may be infected with spyware that could compromise passwords and even online bank accounts, says the president of a prominent global Internet security company. John Schwarz, an executive with California-based Symantec, laid out a chilling scenario for members of the Vancouver Board of Trade in a keynote address recently. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:33pm EST Scott Tucker Plans to Step Down From Role as President of FSC Board in January. Scott Tucker announced today that in January he will step down from the board of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) after four years of service. Tucker has served as the president of the board for the last three years. “If I had to list the key thing that was accomplished during my time on the board, I feel that it is the way the industry has come to truly understand that the FSC is it’s trade organization and it is now respected as that,” Tucker said. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:32pm EST 2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms. In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts. And the stakes are only getting higher as we go forward. ''This has been the worst ever,'' says Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at Reston, Va.-based iDefense Inc. ''Without a doubt, malicious code came to a massive head in 2003... we saw a huge impact of malicious code on infrastructure. We had seen worms cause some disruption before, but mostly they'd been an annoyance. Now infrastructure is being impacted.'' Sponsor Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:31pm EST $100 per join til New Years from Flynt Digital This holiday season Larry Flynt is playing Santa Claus. To say "thank you" to their affiliate webmaster network, FlyntDigital announced the kickoff of their "Happy Holidays, Hustler Style" promotion this morning by increasing their payouts to $100 (from the usual $40) through the end of 2003. The increased payout is applicable to both standard and console-free tours for all of FlyntDigital's paid trial sites (including Hustler.com, HustlerPlatinum.com, BarelyLegal.com, JennaXXX.com, BustyBeauties.com, LegWorld.com, HometownGirls.com and BeaverHunt.com). There are no minimums or limits to the number of joins, whether a webmaster sends 1 or 10,000 joins to FlyntDigital each will earn $100 between now and Wednesday, December 31 at 11:59pm PDT. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:27pm EST This was the year spam joined the axis of evil. Or at least the axis of the incredibly aggravating. As exclusive offers of Paris Hilton sex-romp videos multiplied exponentially, pundits estimated that e-crap was costing Australian businesses at least $2 billion per annum. (And that didn't take into account all the productivity we lost worrying about how so many complete strangers knew we had such small penises in the first place.) Then there was the growing problem of spam rage. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:25pm EST More and more tech jobs head overseas. U.S. corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centers, but they are keeping quiet for fear of a backlash, industry professionals said. Morgan Stanley estimates the number of U.S. jobs outsourced to India will double to about 150,000 in the next three years. Analysts predict as many as 2 million U.S. white-collar jobs such as those filled by programmers, software engineers and applications designers will shift to low- cost centers by 2014. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:20pm EST Rush to VoIP turns into slow going. Businesses were abuzz about voice over Internet Protocol technology in 2003, announcing new deployments almost daily, but the reality is that the actual work is only just beginning. Analysts say it could be years before most companies are willing to throw out their old PBX (private branch exchange) phone systems and run end-to-end Internet telephony. And that could mean a slower road to the IP promised-land that Cisco Systems and other IP supporters have been preaching. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:18pm EST Penthouse looks like it could emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy shortly with founder Bob Guccione still in control of the editorial content while a new group of creditors takes over the ownership of the company. "I will remain editor-in-chief," Guccione told The Post yesterday after news began circulating that General Media, his publishing concern, had filed a bankruptcy reorganization plan that awaits final approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Manhattan. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:17pm EST Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws? The acquittal of a Norwegian programmer charged with breaking Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme could lend new urgency to the entertainment industry's efforts to enact tougher global copyright laws. News Article Wednesday, December 24th 2003, 1:16pm EST Mainstream adoption of the Internet was built largely on the popularity of chat rooms, but the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that interest in the medium has hit a plateau. According to the report, the number of Internet users who have participated in chat rooms has only grown a modest 21 percent between March 2000 and July 2002. Mary Madden, author of the report and principal research specialist for Pew Internet & American Life Project, explains that the lack of interest in chat rooms is largely due to a tenured Internet population — including the "Tech Elite" — who prefer more focused online social interactions.  News Bytes Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:52pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Officials say al-Qaida operatives may be fully trained airline pilots. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:39pm EST Acacia Technologies Licenses Digital Media Transmission Technology to 24/7 University. Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Acacia Technologies group has entered into a License Agreement for its Digital Media Transmission ("DMT") technology with 24/7 University, Inc. The license to 24/7 University is Acacia's first licensing agreement for its DMT technology with a company in the e-learning sector. 24/7 University offers courses containing audio/video content to corporate customers. The e-learning sector includes both for-profit companies and non-profit institutions which provide online courses for education and training. Acacia has now entered into 108 license agreements for its DMT technology with companies in the hotel in-room entertainment, e-learning, and online music, movie, and adult entertainment industries. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:38pm EST Class Action Equals Efficient Reach: Acacia. Acacia Research says it was prompted to seek a class-action assignment for its litigation against two defendants in order to "more efficiently" reach all adult entertainment companies using their claimed streaming media patents without a license. "This fits in with our previously announced strategy of reaching all infringers," Acacia executive vice president Robert Berman told AVN Online, four days after the company filed suit against eight new defendants. The company didn't name those eight defendants but has named Global Media Resources (the parent of Python Video) and Cybernet Ventures (which includes Adult Check) as the companies they want to have represent the class, if a federal court assigns class action to the litigation. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:37pm EST Patents amendment Bill introduced in India. In the run-up to meet the deadline of ushering in the product patent regime from January 1, 2005, the Government has introduced the crucial Patents (Amendment) Bill, 2003, providing for introduction of product patent protection in all fields of technology as per the provisions of the trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the WTO. Though the Bill was not scheduled for the day, the Union Minister of Law and Justice and Commerce and Industry, Arun Jaitley, introduced the Bill in the Lok Sabha on the penultimate day of the winter session of Parliament. Sponsor Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:35pm EST WEGCash Increases Payout to $75 For Holidays. In celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa, WEGCash will be paying $75 per $2.95 paid trial sign-up on December 24th, 2003 and December 26th, 2003. That’s right WEGCash wants to make your pockets fatter by increasing our payout to $75! No cap. No limit. WEGCash $1 trials are now available. WEGCash $1 trials will payout $30 - $35 per console sign-up and $26 - $28 per console free sign-up. We will however, in celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa, increase our $1 trial payouts to $55 per $1 paid trial sign-up on December 24, 2003 and December 26, 2003.Last but certainly not least, send your free trial traffic to WEGCash and earn an additional 10%! Offer expires December 31, 2003. Check it all out here http://www.wegcash.com News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:29pm EST Spam gets called a lot of things under the breath of frustrated users and network administrators, but "product of the year" typically isn't one of them. Basex, a New York research and consulting firm, has announced that spam is its product of the year. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:28pm EST The Internet Is a Very Sick Place. Viruses and worms ran rampant in 2003, but be prepared for worse, as the malware writers team up with the Net's other ne'er-do-wells, the spammers. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:27pm EST 7-Eleven Poised to Re-enter Porn Biz. The convenience store chain is at it again, peddling what it calls "adult magazines." After 17 years of not offering pornographic magazines, the 5,300 stores of the 7-Eleven chain are apparently planning to offer "adult publications" once again. The anniversary edition of Playboy magazine is already at 7-Eleven, according to Daniel Weiss, a Focus on the Family analyst who tracks the pornography industry. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:26pm EST N.M. high court won't review pornography decision. The state Supreme Court has refused to review an appellate court's ruling on which types of images constitute sexual exploitation of children in New Mexico.The high court's decision clears the way for a criminal trial against a Santa Fe artist and his daughter, who face sexual-exploitation charges for taking pictures and videos of three nude children. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:26pm EST Unexpected twists in Internet law. Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises, with Congress passing an antispam bill, the courts blessing pop-up advertising, the music industry losing lawsuits and the Supreme Court finally upholding an Internet law. And those are just a few of the highlights from a year in which technology and the law saw their biggest clashes yet.  News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:25pm EST Sober.C Starts Spreading, Germany Most At Risk. A new Sober mass-mailed worm debuted over the weekend and is picking up steam, causing several anti-virus vendors to boost their threat ranking. Sober.C, following hard on the heels of Sober.B, which debuted last week, has hit particularly hard in Germany, according to security firms. Packed with its own SMTP mailing engine, the worm includes a file attachment -- which can come with any of several file names -- that when opened, puts up a bogus error message on Microsoft Windows machines. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:23pm EST Battle Not Over for File Sharers. The recent ruling preventing the Recording Industry of America from using ISPs to go after copyright offenders opens new legal avenues to those who have been sued. But beating the RIAA won't be easy. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:22pm EST Nigerian 419ers surface in Baghdad. There appear to be no depths to which Nigerian 419ers will not go in order to feed their lust for riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. Indeed, they are now masquerading as coalition troops stationed in Baghdad who claim to have unearthed one of Saddam's treasure hordes. It's sort of like "Kelly's Heroes" but relocated to Lagos and the the sun-kissed banks of the Tigris. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:21pm EST The USB dongle: a form factor worth plugging? I've recently been experimenting with those USB Flash drives that seem to be proliferating at the moment. Natty little things, they hold anything from 16MB of data and support recent versions of Windows, Linux and the Mac OS, meaning that the information they contain can be accessed on any current computer with a spare USB port. For older machines, drivers are normally supplied - for some reason every manufacturer seems to have a different device driver, which is a shame, but not the end of the world. They're handy for back-ups, neat for file transfer, a good little floppy disk replacement. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:20pm EST Web addresses get nip and tuck--and spam. A crop of Web sites have sprung up with the mission of making long, easily breakable Web addresses shorter--and at least one of them is trying to make money at the idea. Sites like TinyURL.com, Shorlify and Make A Shorter Link aim to solve a problem as old as the mainstream Web itself: After database-generated Web addresses, also known as uniform resource locators (URLs), get to be a certain length, they become not only impossible to remember, but difficult to forward between some e-mail programs that automatically insert line breaks. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:19pm EST Growth in U.S. Net population levels off. The number of Internet users in the United States expanded much more slowly during the past two years compared with previous years, but many of the 126 million people who are online are becoming more attached to the Web. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:18pm EST IE fix mends flawed open-source patch. A Web site that published a third-party patch to fix a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has had to reissue the patch, after the original was found to be flawed. Openwares.org published the second patch Saturday, after the first was found to contain a buffer overflow exploit. This exploit, which allowed an attacker to take control of the patched PC, might have been far more damaging than the flaw the patch aimed to fix. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:17pm EST Verizon, Vodafone team on transatlantic 'texting'. Wireless carriers Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group on Monday said their customers will soon be able to send text messages via mobile telephone back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Vodafone and Verizon Communications, said the linkup would begin early next year. News Article Tuesday, December 23rd 2003, 12:16pm EST Creator of Linux defends its originality. Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular Linux computer operating system, defended his work Monday as not always lovely but original--and certainly not copied, as a Utah company has contended. News Bytes Monday, December 22nd 2003, 1:05pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Feds hear 'chatter'of 9/11 proportions.  News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 1:03pm EST Jail Terms and Fines Issued For Internet Obscenity Case. On Friday a federal judge sentenced the people behind an adult Website that sold defecation and urination videos and DVDs to jail terms, ending one of the first federal obscenity cases involving the Internet. Michael J Corbett and his ex-wife Sharon Bates, who were married when running the site in question, had pled guilty to one count each of mailing obscene material in August. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 1:02pm EST Why is there virtually no debate about how porn is perverting our society, asks Simon Castles. The most in-demand video over this holiday season may well be a grainy three-minute affair starring party girl Paris Hilton and an old boyfriend. Millions have already seen it; millions more will. According to wordtracker.com, which monitors what the world's internet users are typing in from minute to minute, the current top searches are: "Paris Hilton", followed by "sex", followed by "porn". (The usual search suspects - "nude", "boobs" and "pussy" have been momentarily relegated.) News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 1:01pm EST Ukraine tightens control of Internet, moves to stamp out porn. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma passed a law banning publication, including on the Internet of material promoting terrorism, the overthrow of the state or depicting pornography. The law makes it illegal to publish calls to overthrow the state or forcibly change the country's constitution, material that is pornographic or promotes terrorism, violence or discrimination. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 1:00pm EST Hard-drinking musician Kid Rock claims all war-torn Iraq needs to solve it's endless stream of troubles is an influx of pornography and alcohol. Pink's beau has performed for American soldiers stationed in Baghdad, but believes he knows the way to ease the troubles for good. Kid explains, "Things in Iraq would be a lot better if they had some rock and roll, some porno and some liquor". News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:59pm EST Can Spam? Or New Can of Worms? When the new antispam law kicks in New Year's Day, e-mail users may not have much to cheer. The definition of unsolicited e-mail includes loopholes wide enough to drive a dump truck of junk mail through, critics say. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:58pm EST Firm fined $3 million for spamming Symantec software. Software firm Symantec said today that a court has awarded it $3 million damages against a Baltimore company for selling counterfeit software via spams.Maryland Internet Marketing will have to pay Symantec $3 million in damages, while its CEO, George Moore, will have to cough up $300,000 to the firm. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:57pm EST Understand Search Results Pages. Most search engine results pages (SERPs) present information from a variety of sources, usually a human-based search engine, a crawler-based search engine, and a pay-for-placement (PFP) search engine. We're even beginning to see shopping search engine results appear in "natural" search results. What does this mean for you? Review Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:56pm EST This is like the Swiss Army knife of PCs, it does it all: TV, DVD, hi-fi and radio tuner. It can even put your VCR out of a job as it can record TV programs to its hard disk at the push of a button. But you're not likely to find one of these babies on Dick Smith's desk because the Medion PC is sold exclusively through German-owned supermarket chain, Aldi. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:55pm EST Hospital cop slain - ran gay-sex Web site. A Brooklyn hospital cop who ran a gay-sex Web site was beaten to death and then mutilated inside his own apartment, law enforcement sources said yesterday. Police were investigating last night whether Nubian Knight's Internet sex business led to his brutal killing, sources said. Knight, 37, was pounded over the head until he died inside his Bedford-Stuyvesant home. His throat was cut after his heart stopped, sources said. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:54pm EST SCO sends second letter to Linux users. The SCO Group plans to announce Monday that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.  News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:53pm EST The German city of Cologne is to introduce a sex tax on brothels, erotic sauna clubs and massage salons from next year. For brothels, the tax will work out at 150 euros per bed per month, a city spokesperson said. "I would not be surprised if the costs are passed on to customers," she added. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:52pm EST Younger women come out more than elders; men not so sure. Women in their 20s are more likely to admit being lesbian or bisexual than women in their 40s, but the same trend is not evident among men, according to an Australian study. The research confirms similar findings in the United States and England, Reuters reported. The research, published in the current issue of the journal Gerontology, focused on more than 7,400 adults in one Australian city. Among women aged 20-24, almost 5 percent reported a same-sex orientation. Only 2.7 percent of women 40-44 responded similarly, compared with less than 1 percent of women in their early 60s. News Article Monday, December 22nd 2003, 12:51pm EST FCC Issues Its First 'Do Not Call' Citation. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday cited a company for the first time for allegedly violating the government's new anti-telemarketing restrictions, though it did not impose any immediate financial penalties. CPM Funding Inc., which does business as California Pacific Mortgage, was accused of making eight telemarketing calls to people who had put their phone numbers on the national do-not-call registry. The FCC sent the company a warning letter last month and reviewed its response before issuing the citation. News Bytes Saturday, December 20th 2003, 1:02pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. U.S. Intelligence Learn of Possible Threats to New York and Other Cities. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:44pm EST Free Speech Coalition Looking For a Few More Good Volunteers. Some of the top names in adult have volunteered some of their time to help at the Free Speech Coalition booth during January's Internext and AEE shows, but the lobbying organization for the adult industry could still use some more help. Nina Hartley, Wicked Girl Devinn Lane, Gina Lynn, Shayla LaVeaux, Nick Manning, Mickey G, Alicia Lovelace, Amber Page, Melody Max, Lauren Phoenix, Layne Winklebeck, and Mile High Girls Shelby Bell and Christine Young will be joined by interim FSC executive director Kate Sunlove and interim tradeshow coordinator Mara Epstein behind the booth. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:43pm EST Playboy's Hugh Hefner and the maturing of the porn business. Like Mick Jagger, who has just become Sir Michael, Hugh Hefner is a famous bad boy who has gradually evolved into one of the great and good. The 77-year-old, who launched Playboy magazine 50 years ago this month, has a road named after him in his hometown of Chicago, features in advertisements for such mainstream fare as burgers, gin and casual clothes (and we don't mean silk pyjamas and velvet smoking jackets). And, it is said, nowadays members of the public often greet him in the street with a “You're the Man!” Is there a greater compliment? News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:40pm EST The Most Destructive Viruses of All Time. Hackers and security vendors are engaged in a never-ending game of leapfrog, with the former constantly devising clever viruses and the latter feverishly trying to concoct antidotes. As a result, through the years hundreds of thousands of malignant programs have infected networks around the world. Most have had minimal impact, but a handful have caused hundreds of millions -- even billions -- of dollars in damage. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:39pm EST Google Ranks the other search engines! – Explain this. Google Search engine Page Rankings: Event Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:36pm EST Sex Biz Legal Seminars kick off. Gregory Piccionelli, Entertainment and Internet law specialist, and Frederick Lane, author of "Obscene Profits" and "The Naked Employee," are holding a series of seminars around the country that are designed to give you up-to-date information on the legal and political challenges that face in you in this industry. The next seminar is scheduled for January 8, 2004, in Las Vegas at the Tropicana Casino and Resort Hotel. Seminars are also scheduled for January 28, 2004, at the Park Hyatt in Los Angeles, California, and on January 29, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California. Further dates and locations will be posted on the site. Cost of the seminar is "less than two hour of the average attorney's time". News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:34pm EST Software glitch brings Y2K deja vu. Software running on thousands of computers worldwide will become inoperable in a few weeks because of an obscure date-related glitch, and developers are rushing to create and apply patches. Sound familiar? News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:33pm EST Web Code Fixes Required by Internet Explorer in Early 2004. Except for security fixes, Microsoft has steadfastly refused to make any other updates to IE6 in the past 3 years, although it has fallen farther behind its two main competitors, Mozilla and Opera, in features/functionality, standards compliance and reliability/performance. A recent court decision against Microsoft by Eolas Technologies and the University of California at Berkley has changed the situation, though the 500 million dollar award is being appealed by Microsoft. However, Redmond is immediately changing some of the offending coding constructs. Interestingly, Microsoft will limit the changes in IE6 to patches, security repairs and the new compliance fixes – no fixes to JavaScript, CSS, DOM, and HTML non-compliance. Here, we examine those patent workaround fixes in more detail and what they mean to Web developers. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:31pm EST Sun: Microsoft forcing customers to upgrade. Sun Microsystems' top software executive criticized Microsoft's decision to drop older software products that rely on Java software and offered a steep discount on Sun's own desktop software. In an open letter to customers, Sun executive vice president Jonathan Schwartz said Microsoft's decision to stop distributing older products such as Windows 98 is a deliberate attempt to coerce customers to upgrade to newer software. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:28pm EST 'Open source' IE patch withdrawn for further patching. The third-party 'open source' patch for Internet Explorer that we told you about earlier today, contains more than a few potentially nasty surprises. As we noted, German tech site Heise had already warned of dangerous buffer overflows. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:25pm EST Porn videos arouse women more than men. Stanford University School of Medicine in California claims that the fair sex is also turned on by pornography. The results of the research were published in the prestigious American journal 'Fertility and Sterility'. Researchers showed random clips from erotic films and relaxation videos to 20 women to monitor their effects. They found that the women were fully aroused in an average of just two minutes after watching explicit eroticism. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:23pm EST Kanoodle Debuts Set-And-Forget Search Terms. Timing is everything, they say, and paid search listings company Kanoodle.com is taking advantage of the fact, offering a new technology that sets search terms to become active or inactive depending on the time of day, day of month or month of year. The product, AutoScheduler, is offered by Kanoodle.com at no additional cost to advertisers. It saves money, the company says, because advertisers aren't charged for the periods when their keywords are inactive. According to Kanoodle.com, the feature is unique in the pay-per-click market space. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:22pm EST Is Video EMail finally Emerging? With all this spam stuff going on and Mr. Bush signing the Can Spam Act and creating the NASR, does anyone think this will stop SPAM, to a certain degree, Yes. I recently read in Forrester Research that the only way to sufficiently stop Spam would be to charge everyone who sends it. Then all the Huge ISP's would have to pay more to implement tracking, and billing everyone who sends. I don't know about this either? But if you had to pay for email, wouldn't you want to pay for the best service? Video Email is finally emerging and you will start to hear about it more this year. I don't know about you but I'd rather pay for a video email service that allows you to see friends and family from far away, rather than reading their text email that hurts my eyes from being on the computer all day. News Article Saturday, December 20th 2003, 12:21pm EST US judges blast music labels' attack on ISPs and users. A US federal appeals court has dealt the RIAA a long awaited kick to the groin in its pursuit of file swappers, saying the music label lobby group can no longer force Internet providers to turn over their customers names. News Bytes Friday, December 19th 2003, 1:13pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously US 'seizes al-Qaeda drugs ship' News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:51pm EST United Kingdom: Protecting Innovative Software and Business Methods Collaboration is Key. Sometimes with a relatively intangible and complex product, such as innovative software or a new business method, it is difficult to identify precisely the inventive elements which require protection. This is where collaboration between the Patent Attorney and Inventors is particularly key. In this discussion, we adopt the pragmatic assumption that very many software and business method developments are patentable. This holds not least before the United States Patent and Trademark Office following the State Street Bank decision, which sets out that an invention needs to provide a useful, concrete and tangible result. This has been described by some US Attorneys as simply requiring that the invention provides "a competitive advantage". Moreover, grant of such patents in other jurisdictions and in particular, the European Patent Office often goes unheeded sitting as it tends to do in the shadow of the misconception that software inventions are not patentable. The following discussion is an illustration of how collaboration between the patent attorney and inventor can be used to best effect in order to draw out the technical contribution of a software or business innovation with a view to not only meeting the requirements under US law but also those prevailing at the European Patent Office. Announcement Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:48pm EST Acacia Adds New Defendants to Patent Litigation and Seeks Class Action Status. Acacia Research Corporation announced today that it has added 8 new adult entertainment defendants to its patent infringement litigation, now pending in the District Court for the Central District of California. Acacia originally sued 39 adult entertainment companies, and prior to adding the new defendants, had only 11 defendants remaining in the litigation. The new Complaints, filed with the Court, seek to create a defendant class for all adult entertainment companies that infringe Acacia's DMT patents by transmitting pre-recorded, digital audio and audio/video adult content via any electronic communication channel into or from the Central District of California, or that operate at least one interactive website where a user located in Central District of California can exchange information with a host computer. Defendant class action status, which must be approved by the Court, would permit the Court's rulings on certain key issues to legally bind all members of the class, whether or not they have been specifically named as defendants in the litigation. This would result in a much more efficient use of Acacia's resources, eliminating the need for certain duplicative litigation. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:47pm EST The harsh reality of royalties. E-learning may be the loser in a software copyright stoush. Universities are set to become both the victims and beneficiaries of surprise royalty demands, as the IT market polarises between free and patented software. At the centre of the storm are two technologies fundamental to e-learning - streaming video and webpage applets - with universities potentially both ambushing and being ambushed by software patent claims. Two cases in the United States this year highlight a dilemma which over the next decade could redraw the IT industry map. One is the upholding of a patent filed by the University of California, with an award for $US520 million ($A700 million) in royalties. This was for embedded applets in webpages and is still under appeal. The other case involves an intellectual property (IP) company hitting US universities with royalty claims for using streaming video, even though no action has been taken since their first patent was filed - back in 1992. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:46pm EST Dutch Supreme Court rules Kazaa legal. A Dutch supreme court today reaffirmed that it is lawful to make the file sharing software Kazaa openly available. It is the first time that a Supreme Court or other national high court is ruling on the legitimacy of P2P technologies such as Kazaa. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:45pm EST Porn Vendors Finding it Hard to Keep Things Up. Seun Sagga and Cheonggyecheo 8-ga, in Seoul's Jongno-gu, were known from the 1970s to the mid-90s as a shopping Mecca for porno. Yet the pornography market has been shrinking fast over the last four or five years, as the online market for illicit material grown with the rapid spread of Internet use in Korea. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:44pm EST Proposed constitutional amendment could impact family photos. New Mexico’s attorney general wants a tough constitutional amendment on child pornography. Opponents say the idea could keep parents from having even a picture of their child in the bathtub. The issue surrounds Santa Fe artist Mark Rendleman and his daughter, Tiffany Mia Barbosa. Both currently face sexual exploitation charges for taking pictures and videos of three nude children. News Article Friday, December 19th 2003, 12:43pm EST Wiring the world is one thing, making the Net truly global another. ``The point is to produce more content that is useful,'' said Bernardo Sorj, an adviser to Viva Rio. ``If people go on the Internet and do not find good content for themselves, then they go to pornography.'' |
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