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Scripts Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:47pm EST Ionan launches Killer Security system Ionan launches KillerSecurity a password and bandwidth protection system. "With the increase of broadband subscribers, it is clear that brute force attacks, password leaks, and site copying software products have become the bane of webmasters trying to minimize web hosting costs. KillerSecurity eliminates these threats KillerSecurity is fast and efficient, and requires no modifications to the site's HTML or special software to be installed.The expanding sets of features include fully automated blocking of abusive users based on rules which may be configured differently for each web site. Complete activity and traffic reporting is included." The KillerSecurity service starts at $14.95 per month. Alternatively, there is a standalone version with no monthly fees available for $149.95. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:46pm EST Utah Polygamist Invokes Ruling on Gay Sex A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives argued Monday that his bigamy convictions should be thrown out following a Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex. The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no business of government. It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, to the Utah Supreme Court. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:46pm EST Blue-laser DVD players will replace the current generation of red-laser DVD players in a few years. A blue-laser disc can store around five times more information than red-laser discs -- which is up to three hours of high definition video. The DVD Forum, by backing the so-called HD DVD standard from Toshiba and NEC, means a new format war is looming. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:45pm EST Advertising: Why Track Flash Interactions? At least three product enhancements rolled out in recent weeks aim to give marketers detailed information about how Web users interact with Flash ads and apps. But do Flash interaction metrics say anything about the branding impact of an ad or Web site? News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:45pm EST Microsoft Plots (Badly?) Against Spam Microsoft has already tackled online accountability through its .Net Passport identity authentication technology, but critics argue that the software giant acts as the sole gatekeeper of the system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is promoting the use of whitelists -- lists of trusted addresses -- as a credible way of identifying users. However, spammers are becoming increasingly adept at spoofing identities. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:44pm EST Training police to capture online child predators A conference to help police capture online child predators is launched today. The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) is running the four-day Conference on Computer-Facilitated Crimes Against Children at the headquarters of international police agency Interpol in Lyon, France. Microsoft is sponsoring the conference and delegates from 36 countries are attending. ICMEC plans to run up to 10 training programmes a year around the world. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:43pm EST Wired Magazine presents 77 of the coolest stereos, 3-D screens, toys, cameras, DVRs, games and gadgets of the year. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:43pm EST A brush turkey thought he had found his perfect match yesterday when a middle-aged man tumbled into a mating hole in a Burleigh park and was close to being buried alive. The man was walking along a track in the Burleigh Heads National Park when he fell into the 'hole of love' before being buried up to his head. It is believed a brush turkey scampered up to the man, moments after he fell, and tried to bury him in a mating ritual. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:39pm EST Ask Questions First, Shop Later The holiday shopping season promises an intensification of two key trends -- consumers flocking to the Web to shop, and shoppers using it to harvest information for online or offline purchases, executives and analysts say. The first trend promises another banner year for online retailers. The second is provoking intense competition among sites seeking to be the definitive source of product information -- and thus a gateway to transactions. News Article Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 12:38pm EST RIAA wins round in file-swapping suit A San Francisco federal judge last week moved the venue for SBC Communications' lawsuit against the recording industry's file-swapping legal strategy, a potentially significant victory for record labels. The decision, which was released late last Wednesday, transfers a closely watched legal battle over the RIAA's dragnet for online music traders to courts in the nation's capital, where the industry group has already had success.  News Bytes Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:59pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. U.S.: 54 Iraqis Killed in Samarra Battle News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:57pm EST Visa sees 46% jump in online transactions at Xmas start Visa USA reported on Sunday that spending on its credit and debit cards for the two days following Thanksgiving, traditionally two of the year's biggest U.S. shopping days, rose 12 percent to $6.5 billion. Visa said retail spending on its cards was up 9 percent to more than $3.4 billion. The number of e-commerce transactions jumped 46 percent and online sales reached $338 million. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:57pm EST Google Drops Ads From Unlicensed Web Pharmacies Advertisements from unlicensed Web pharmacies selling millions of prescription drugs without medical authorization will be dropped by Google, the Internet’s top search engine said over the final weekend in November. This move follows similar decisions earlier in the fall by Yahoo and MSN, according to the Washington Post, which added the move comes as federal regulators and lawmakers start moving from the rogue sites to the legitimate sites that help the sales. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:56pm EST VoIP: The Next Internet Tax Battleground The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today begins a landmark proceeding to determine what, if any, taxes and regulations should apply to the emerging broadband Internet telephone industry built on Voice over Internet Protocol (define) technology. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:54pm EST Website of .name registry hacked The main website of the .name registry was hacked over the weekend, a company official has confirmed. The site runs on Linux. Hakon Haugnes, president of Global Name Registry, the licensed operator of .name, said Apache and PHP were updated last week and someone managed to exploit a hole in one of these and replace the index file on the webserver. "No other data than the index.php were replaced, and no other data could be accessed." Resource Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:54pm EST GA launches Anime Resources run by Bestat GA Media Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of their new adult webmaster resource site, Anime Resources, http://www.animeresources.com. Bestat of Exclusive Content, http://www.exclusivecontent.com, who is quite well known for her work in the adult anime marketplace, has teamed up with GA Media to operate the new site. Bestat will manage all aspects of the resource site from concept to forums. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:53pm EST World AIDS Day, December 1, is a time to celebrate the progress we have made toward eradicating HIV, preventing its spread, and enabling millions of people infected with it to live full lives. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:52pm EST Sniffed password used for Debian server compromise A member of the Debian GNU/Linux system administration team believes there is an unknown local root exploit for the Linux kernel circulating in the wild and says it may have been used to compromise four servers belonging to the free software project, after initial unprivileged access was gained by using a sniffed password. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:51pm EST Disappearing links cause consternation In one recent study, one-fifth of the Internet addresses used in a Web-based high school science curriculum disappeared over 12 months. Another study, published in January, found that 40 percent to 50 percent of the URLs referenced in articles in two computing journals were inaccessible within four years. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:51pm EST Making pitch to advertisers for Web radio Arbitron says four in 10 Americans have listened to online radio. And yet, there are not many advertisers lining up to buy time on the fairly new medium. Ken Dardis intends to change that -- and he has the kind of experience to make one a believer. His focus for the past 18 months has been on creating the RRadio Network, which aggregates about 40 popular online stations for the purpose of selling ad time over the entire network.  News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:50pm EST Despite advances in antispam technology, spammers consistently manage to evade the products designed to thwart them. As long as sending unwanted e-mail remains a profitable proposition for spammers, they will continue to find ways around filters by using increasingly advanced techniques. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:50pm EST Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again There's been a new outbreak of Google Dance Syndrome, causing some web sites last month to lose top positions for some search terms. However, unlike previous outbreaks, a "cure" exists that makes it easy to compare results from "old" to "new" Google. These comparisons have some marketers convinced that recent changes at Google are designed to boost ad sales, a charge Google flatly denies. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:49pm EST Yahoo, Sprint team up for mobile photo service Sprint today announced a new service designed to let its PCS Vision subscribers access their personal Yahoo photo albums from their cell phone handsets. With the new Java-based service, PCS Vision phone users will be able to access Yahoo Photos accounts to look at saved pictures and create screensavers on their handsets. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:48pm EST Internet sex column thrills, and inflames, China Mu Zimei is both reviled and admired, but she is not ignored. The country's most popular Internet site, Sina.com, credits her with attracting 10 million daily visitors. Another site, Sohu.com, says Mu Zimei is the name most often typed into its Internet search engine. Upsells Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:48pm EST Camen Luvana and Gina Lynn on Flirt4Free Thursday December 4th is going to be Christmas come early for many enthusiastic web surfers. Carmen Luvana and Gina Lynn are set to appear live on Flirt4Free.com for an action-packed two-girl show between 5 and 8pm PST. This will be the first Flirt 4 Free feature show broadcast for both girls. Webmasters can make 20-35% on the video upsells. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:47pm EST Internet growing more egalitarian The gap was so great among those who knew how to use computers and go online and those who did not in those heady days of the late 1990s, when the world began to recognize the potential of the Internet, that the issue was given a name: the Digital Divide. While the Digital Divide still has the potential to create a new type of caste system, experts say the chasm is narrowing. "As the Internet has grown, the profile of Internet users has become more like that of the total population." News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:43pm EST Further tests suggest gay is hard wired in the brain Sexuality is pre-determined by the part of the brain that deals with desire, according to research that is set to stir up the “nature or nurture” debate once again. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the University of Chicago has found that the centre of sexual feelings in the brain, known as the hypothalamus, is distinctly different in gay and straight men. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:43pm EST Google is one of the best things to happen to the Net. So will its IPO, expected this spring, be a must-buy? The reporting revealed plenty about a company that has succeeded on the Net beyond anyone's imagination. But it also turned up signs of trouble—enough to worry any founder and raise alarms for investors considering (and who isn't?) betting on the IPO. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:42pm EST Microsoft decries overseas Longhorn rustling Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Microsoft Windows operating system years before it is supposed to be on sale. Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia, CDs containing software that Microsoft has code-named Longhorn are on sale for 6 ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. Content Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:41pm EST Eight sets of teen cutie at UltraXGirls Eight new "upgraded to broadband" sets of hot teen Rebekka "with a butt to die for". Broadband images are 1200x900 and go for a buck a pop; number of images per set vary but often range in the 40-pic area. Email list members get half price off between now and next Sunday.  News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:40pm EST Topless nappy ad raises temperatures A production company is in hot water for filming a bank commercial with topless women wearing nothing but nappies in public, local media reported on Monday. About 50 men and women wearing large nappies paraded in a closed-off section of Burg Street in Cape Town on Sunday, The Star newspaper reported. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:40pm EST Spammers turn to classic prose Poetry is probably not top of the list of things you expect to see in the spam and junk mail messages landing in your inbox everyday. But lots of people are starting to find literary value hidden among the porn, penis patches, generic Viagra deals and mortgage offers. Some have composed poems using the subject lines of the spam they receive; others are creating verse using the strings of strange words that are often found inside spam messages. News Article Monday, December 1st 2003, 2:39pm EST Business flourishes on Web's seedy side Last year, victims lost $122 million in Internet-related fraud schemes, according to a Federal Trade Commission. Among the most common "dot-cons": online auctions, in which scammers offer items they don't have or misrepresent what they're selling; computer equipment scams, in which victims order merchandise and never get it. Other popular scams use e-mail to pitch phony sweepstakes or bogus health and diet products, such as pills that claim to help people lose weight without dieting or exercise, or products that "cure" impotence or hair loss. |
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