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Friday, April 21, 2000
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Microsoft
insurer tries to bolt
ZDNet
Microsoft has a new legal headache: At least one of its
insurers is balking at providing coverage for a slew of private
class-action antitrust suits filed against the software giant. At
issue is not only the insurers' obligation to cover any damages or
settlement awards in those lawsuits, but also their duty to pay
Microsoft's legal costs, which are likely to be significant
Children's
Net privacy law goes into effect
CNET
News.com
Web site
operators must begin complying today with a federal law requiring
them to get a parent's permission before they collect personal
information from children. Government agents will peruse thousands
of Web sites to enforce the law
Microsoft
CFO Sees Single-Digit Q4 Profit Growth
Yahoo Tech News
Microsoft expects to post only single-digit profit growth in
its fourth quarter, citing a slowdown in demand for business PCs and
a strong year-ago quarter that will be tough to beat, Chief
Financial Officer John Connors said. ``I would expect
earnings-per-share to grow in the mid-single digits compared to the
year-ago,'' Connors told analysts and media in a conference call
following the company's third quarter earnings
reportHackers,
cybercops continue cat-and-mouse game Nando Media
Computer hackers cruising the Internet these days should
check their rear-view mirrors. Those flashing lights might not be
the modem. They could be the technology police. With increased
personnel, better know-how and higher-profile cases, law-enforcement
agencies from the United States to Europe are joining forces to
crack down on Internet crime
Mafiaboy's
Father Busted Too
Newsbytes
The father of the 15-year-old hacker known as Mafiaboy was
arrested in Montreal after police wiretaps, originally placed to
gather evidence against his son, revealed that he was plotting an
assault on a business associate. Mafiaboy was arrested last week in
connection with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
against CNN.com last February
Experts: U.N. doesn’t
‘get’ Net age
MSNBC
The world body has a Web page, which
the experts said had made a good start, but was sorely lacking in
organization and even in researching basic statistics. “It’s
disturbing to say the least,” said Jose Marie Figueres-Olsen, a
former Costa Rica president and chairman of his country’s Foundation
for Sustainable Development
Girls
Don't Feel Left Out--They're Opting Out of IT
Information Week
A recent study by the American
Association of University WomenEducational Foundation determined
that girls consider IT careersuninspiring, computer programming
tedious and dull, and video games redundant and violent. Oh, dear.
"There's valid concern about what will happen in 10 to 20 years--
these ideas exacerbate the IT labor
shortage"
Experts
Echo Net Ad Bureau Findings
E-Commerce
Times
When the
Internet Advertising Bureau released its "Internet Ad Revenue
Report" earlier this week, the common misperception that "banners
are dead" was shaken to its foundation. To gain some perspective on
the dramatic rise in Internet ad spending -- along with some insider
views on upcoming trends
Priceline.com
Expands Car Service
E-Commerce
News
Priceline.com Inc. Friday
expanded their "name-your-price" car shopping to 48 states.
Priceline's auto service works like the grocery and airline ticket's
service: customers choose the car and options the price they want to
pay and Priceline Auto Services will notify them in one business day
whether a local dealership accepted your offerPortable
MP3 Player Sings for Six Hours
PC
World
The problem with portable MP3 players is that they just
don't store enough music. But IBM's Microdrive technology may change
that. At the size of a coin, the 340MB Microdrive can store up to 6
hours of MP3 music, 20 hours of voice recording, or about 300
novels
Leading
Internet Indicators: Porsches and Real Estate
The Industry Standard
Visiting the Porsche dealership in
Palo Alto is the Sunday act of faith for Silicon Valley's true
believers. And the Sunday after the NASDAQ's Big Dip, Carlsen Motor
Cars was as busy as ever. Ron Burton, a Carlsen veteran, was in an
upbeat mood, having already booked several sales that
morning
USD7
Trillion in Ecommerce Revenues by 2004
NUA Internet Surveys
Global ecommerce will be worth USD6.9
trillion by 2004 and almost 89 percent of all online transactions
will be made in only 12 countries, according to new research from
Forrester. Online buyers in North America will account for just over
half the total, or USD3.5 trillion. Asia Pacific will be the second
most profitable market with a value of USD1.6 trillion and USD1.5
trillion of this will be b2b based
Is
Yahoo! Illegal?
ClickZ
In order to provide a coherent view of the web, Yahoo!,
Google, Inktomi, and all other web search engines or indexes have to
enter your site and "steal" your property. They work at night,
either hunched over keyboards or using automated "spider" programs.
Right now they may be inside your site, cataloging your intellectual
property and offering access, for their profit, to
everyone
else
Hacker
disrupts service to Area 51 Web site
Boston.Com
A hacker disrupted service for 36 hours to the Web site that
displays detailed satellite images of Area 51, the top-secret Air
Force site in Nevada. Raleigh-based Aerial Images Inc. said the
hacker struck six hours after five images of the desert proving
ground were loaded Monday night onto the site, http://www.terraserver.com
UK government
to investigate 'thief' IBM
The
Register
Following an
impassioned plea in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Patrick
Nicolls, the DTI has launched an inquiry into alleged patent
infringement by IBM and speech recognition company Dragon Systems.
Nicolls championed the case of AllVoice, a Devon-based company which
claims IBM pinched its technology while feigning interest in a
licensing deal
UK unprepared for phone
number changes
VNU
Business
UK
businesses and consumers will need to update their phone records
this Saturday or face dead phone lines or even find their calls
diverted to Egypt. The Big Number change kicks in on Saturday 22
April, changing more than 11.4 million UK phone numbers in London,
Cardiff, Coventry, Northern Ireland, Portsmouth and
Southampton
Chinese
hospital puts heart surgery live on Internet
nineMSN
A
Beijing hospital showed open heart surgery live today on the
Internet, letting web surfers watch as a 57-year-old man underwent a
triple bypass operation. Fuwai Hospital said the webcast was the
first of its kind in China. The surgery began at 9.30am (1130 AEST)
and was to last three to four
hours
Netscape 4 Has a Hole in
It
The people at Peacefire.org, which represents
the interests of people under 18 in the debate over freedom of
speech on the Internet, have announced a security hole in Netscape
4.x that allows Web sites to read HTML pages on a visitor's hard
drive. This is done by setting a cookie that contains JavaScript
code. For the hole to become apparent, you must be using the
Communicator profile named "Default," you must have JavaScript and
cookies enabled, and you must have at least one bookmark set. For
the entire lowdown and the demonstration page, visit
Ken's Pick for
the day
Today's issue of
the journal Science reports that experts at North Carolina State
University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, who
discovered the world's first dinosaur specimen with a fossilized
heart, are thinking the animal was warm blooded. "Not only does this
specimen have a heart, but computer-enhanced images of its chest
strongly suggest it is a four-chambered, double-pump heart with a
single systemic aorta, more like the heart of a mammal or bird than
a reptile," said Dale Russell, a paleontologist at the University.
Russell said that means the dinosaur's circulatory system was more
advanced than that of reptiles, and supports the hypothesis that
dinosaurs were warm-blooded. The fossilized skeleton of the
Thescelosaurus - which was a 600-pound, plant-eating creature 66
million years ago - has been nicknamed Willo and is on display at
the museum's new digs in Raleigh. And, of course, Willo already has
his own Web site.
The Dinosaur With A
Heart
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