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NewsScan | 1 Nov 2004 18:08

NewsScan Daily, 1 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Spyware Epidemic Threatens to Stall Computer Industry
        Internet Music Rewrites Industry Rules
        Comparison Shop Your Local Mall from Home
        Do-It-All Gadgets Do Too Much
        'Robotiquette' for Robots

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SPYWARE EPIDEMIC THREATENS TO STALL COMPUTER INDUSTRY
      Computer makers say that their technical support lines are lit up by 
consumers frustrated over sluggish performance and increasingly they're 
tracing the problems back to one culprit: spyware. Companies are concerned 
about the cost of the calls, but they're even more worried that that 
customers will wrongly blame them for performance deficiencies. Russ 
Cooper, senior scientist with TruSecure Corp., says now that spyware has 
become epidemic, it's time for Microsoft and other technology companies to 
launch a public education campaign along the lines of the old "Only *you* 
can prevent forest fires" concept. The industry's incentive is pure 
survival, says Cooper. Microsoft officials blame rogue software for up to a
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NewsScan | 2 Nov 2004 13:52

NewsScan Daily, 2 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       AMD's Low-Cost Online-Access Device
       Netflix Drops Prices
       A Choice Between Present and Future
       China Closes Internet Cafes
       Internet Stalker in Another 'Bad Patch' of His Life

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AMD's LOW-COST ONLINE-ACCESS DEVICE
     Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to sell an Internet access device in
India and other developing countries for two to three hundred dollars.
Called the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), it was developed in
conjunction with companies such as Solectron, Seagate, Samsung, and
Macromedia, and will be sold in India through VSNL, an international phone
service and Internet access provider that's part of the India's Tata
conglomerate. VNSL will offer the device, which runs on a Microsoft
Windows-based operating system, as a bundled service to broadband customers.
Although Internet penetration in India is now about 0.4% and broadband
penetration 0.02%, the country plans to have 20 million broadband and 40
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NewsScan | 3 Nov 2004 17:52

NewsScan Daily, 3 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Touchscreen Voting Spawns Glitches
        Political E-Mail Smacks of Spam
        Cell Phone Photos Make the Front Page
        IE Losing Ground to Open Source Browsers
        Inuit Language Finds Home on the Web

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TOUCHSCREEN VOTING SPAWNS GLITCHES
      U.S. voters across the country reported some 1,100 problems with 
e-voting machines, bearing out scientists' concerns that touchscreen 
machines are prone to tampering and unreliable unless they're equipped to 
print out paper records for recounts. Some problems were blamed on factors 
as mundane as power outages and incompetent poll workers, but there were a 
number of voters in six states -- especially Democrats in Florida -- who 
said that although they voted for John Kerry, when the computer asked them 
to verify their choice, it indicated that they had voted for President 
Bush. One voter in Clearwater reported that it took her about 10 tries and 
a quick touchscreen clean-up with a wet-wipe towel before she could
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NewsScan | 4 Nov 2004 16:32

NewsScan Daily, 4 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Exit Poll Leakers and Leakees
       India Unveils National Internet Hub
       Innovators Who Helped Shape America
       Hollywood Launches Anti-Piracy Campaign
       Dead Code, in All Respects

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EXIT POLL LEAKERS AND LEAKEES
     On election day this week exit-poll data suggested a Kerry trend that
proved to be quite wrong, but Warren Mitofsky, the longtime CBS election
analyst who co-heads the National Election Pool (NEP) that took the polls
defends them by saying: "We had called the networks earlier in the day and
told them about a handful of states where we didn't think the results were
accurate. But we didn't think we were supposed to share that with the leaker
and the leakee. All the people getting leaked stuff were getting it from
people who weren't always accurate and were premature, and now they are
complaining about it. We didn't mislead the people we were working with. We
made any number of projections. All of them were correct." He argues: "In a
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NewsScan | 5 Nov 2004 17:06

NewsScan Daily, 5 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Hollywood Threatens Lawsuits Against Online Pirates
        Spammers Guilty, May Draw Jail Time
        Ireland to Silence Mobiles in Cinemas, Theaters
        E-Governance Faces Challenges Abroad
        Game Makers Threatened by Patent Lawsuit

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HOLLYWOOD THREATENS LAWSUITS AGAINST ONLINE PIRATES
      The Motion Picture Association of America says its members are poised 
to file copyright-infringement lawsuits against digital movie downloaders, 
following the lead of the music industry, which has filed thousands of such 
lawsuits over the past year. But while the music industry has demonstrated 
decidedly mixed results, the movie industry may be more successful, in part 
because the campaign is getting underway while movie downloading is still 
relatively rare, representing only 2% of all online file sharing. "The 
studios have a little bit of a head start. By taking action now, [they] 
have a better chance in making a real dent in the problem," says one
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NewsScan | 8 Nov 2004 15:57

NewsScan Daily, 8 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Bidding Up Prices on Online Auctions
       FCC to States: Leave Internet Phone Oversight to Us
       Yahoo Yodels for Original Hollywood Content
       Pirates See Video Games Before Paying Customers Do
       Iran's Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Web Sites

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BIDDING UP PRICES ON ONLINE AUCTIONS
     Eight eBay sellers who bid up products online to inflate their prices
have been ordered by the New York Attorney General's office to pay almost
$90,000 in restitution and fines. More than 120 people will receive money
from the settlement of the three cases. One man will receive a check for
$3,089 after overpaying for a 1999 Jeep Cherokee sport-utility vehicle he
bought from an eBay seller in 2002.(Washington Post 7 Nov 2004)
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FCC TO STATES: LEAVE INTERNET PHONE OVERSIGHT TO US
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NewsScan | 9 Nov 2004 18:20

NewsScan Daily, 9 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Panel Calls for Gov't-Funded Supercomputing Research
        P2P Radio Is Latest Twist in Music Sharing
        Flash-Based Shopping Carts Aim to Close E-Sales
        U.K. E-University Record 'Abysmal'
        Nigerian Scammer Jailed

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PANEL CALLS FOR GOV'T-FUNDED SUPERCOMPUTING RESEARCH
      A panel of scientists convened by the National Research Council has 
issued a report titled "Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing," 
which urges the U.S. government to significantly increase support for 
advanced research on supercomputing, or risk losing its lead in the field. 
"If we don't start doing something about this now there will be nothing 
available in 10 years when we really need those systems," says UC-Berkeley 
computer scientist Susan L. Graham, who co-chaired the panel. The report 
recommends that the federal government bump up its spending to $140 million 
from its current $42 million per year to develop new supercomputing 
technologies. "We are calling for a sustained and long-term investment to
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NewsScan | 10 Nov 2004 15:24

NewsScan Daily, 10 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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       Unanimous Ruling: FCC, Not States, Will Regulate VoIP
       Microsoft Joins the Search
       Spitting Mad at Spam
       E-Learning Means Less Money for Traditional Schools
       Kiwis Combat Mobile Phone Voyeurs

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UNANIMOUS RULING: FCC, NOT STATES, WILL REGULATE VOIP
     The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that the federal
government -- rather than state regulatory bodies -- has the authority to
oversee phone service offered over the Internet (known as Voice over
Internet Protocol, or VoIP). FCC chairman Michael K. Powell says, "This
landmark order recognizes that a revolution has occurred. Internet voice
services have cracked the 19th century mold to the great benefit of
consumers." (Washington Post 9 Nov 2004)
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NewsScan | 11 Nov 2004 16:59

NewsScan Daily, 11 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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        Authentication Won't End Spam, Say Experts
        Phone Companies Tackle Cybersecurity
        New Domain Rules 'Will Make Hijacking Easier'
        New Photo Printers Skip the PC
        Firefox Makes a Splash

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AUTHENTICATION WON'T END SPAM, SAY EXPERTS
      Panelists at a forum sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission warned 
that criminals are already one step ahead of major e-mail authentication 
initiatives planned by major ISPs, including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and 
EarthLink. The ISPs are still testing and backing several different plans, 
but the basic idea is that the e-mail system would check that the block of 
Internet addresses assigned to an e-mail provider includes the specific 
numeric address of a message sender. If the numeric address of the sender 
doesn't correspond with addresses assigned to the purported mail service, a 
red flag would be raised. The problem with that scheme, said the panelists, 
is that a majority of spam is now launched by "zombie" machines controlled
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NewsScan | 12 Nov 2004 17:07

NewsScan Daily, 12 November 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Cisco to Build China's Next-Generation Network
       Studying Nanotech Risks
       New Competition in the Online Travel Business
       AOL Winds Down Broadband Service
       Online Bride Scam

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CISCO TO BUILD CHINA'S NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK
     Cisco Systems has been chosen by China Telecommunications Corp.,
China's biggest telecom company, to build China's next-generation backbone
network. Known as the China Telecom Internet Protocol Next-Generation
Network, it will connect more than 200 cities and allow China's users to
connect to overseas networks through virtual private network (VPN) services.
The next-generation network is part of a plan by China Telecom to become one
of the world's largest providers of Internet protocol services within the
next two decades. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Nov 2004)
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