[eccr] QL - part3

30. USA - Government rebuilds Net image (Reuters) 
The U.S. government got an online facelift as Vice President Dick 
Cheney unveiled an updated government Web site that encourages 
citizens to do everything from pay taxes to book campgrounds over the
Internet. The redesigned site ropes together 35 million federal Web 
pages, along with state and local government sites, to provide an 
array of services and information. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13184.htm
31. Virgin Mobile launches 'safe text guide' (Ananova)
Virgin Mobile is launching a safety guide to help text messagers 
avoid hand and finger injuries. Its 'How to Practice Safe Text' 
campaign has been developed with the help of medical experts. Tips 
include doing regular 'textercises', such as shoulder shrugs, finger
spreads and neck muscle stretches. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13202.htm
32. Vatican City - Roman Catholic view of the Internet
(Wired) 
Demonstrating its understanding of communications in the new 
millennium, the Vatican set out its "Catholic view of the
Internet" 
in an effort to bring "moral wisdom" to what it considers a
"marvelous technological instrument" in a document called
Ethics in 
Internet. see also The Church and the Internet (Pontifical Council 
for Social Communications). 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13167.htm
33. UK - BT halves price of fast Internet access (Reuters)
Dominant fixed-line operator BT Group will slash monthly wholesale 
prices for fast Internet access. BT plans to have one million 
broadband connections running over its network by the middle of 2003,
which would help pull the UK off the bottom of the broadband table 
among the Group of Seven wealthy nations. BT joins battle for fast 
internet customers (FT) The battle for Britain's broadband consumers
began in earnest when BT's announcement of sharp wholesale price cuts
prompted its cable operator rivals to offer even faster internet 
access and Cable companies push ahead with broadband (FT). 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13204.htm
34. Online Porn Purveyors Get Under E-Mail Users' Skin
(E-Commerce 
News) 
Few things sell quite like sex, but the sales strategy of some 
online porn purveyors is getting under the skin of e-mail users. 
Their complaint: pornographic spam, that particularly vexing form of
junk e-mail that is increasingly infecting computers. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13205.htm
35. France - Yahoo case taken to criminal court (Reuters)
A French criminal court will try Internet giant Yahoo and its former
chief executive for allegedly condoning war crimes by allowing the 
sale of Nazi memorabilia on Yahoo sites. La justice rattrape Yahoo !
(transfert) 
Tim Koogle, l´ex-président de Yahoo peut être poursuivi par la 
justice française. Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris s´est déclaré 
compétent à le juger, en rejetant les exceptions d'incompétence 
ratione loci et de la prescription. voir Affaire Yahoo! (Forum des 
droits sur l'internet). Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, 17ème 
chambre et Le PDG de Yahoo! sera jugé personnellement par un juge 
correctionnel français (droit-technologie.org). 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13169.htm
36. Deutschland - Unterschriften gegen Internet-Zensur
(Heise) 
Eine Initiative von Journalisten und Mediendesignern sammelt 
Unterschriften gegen die umstrittenen Sperrungsverfügungen der 
Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf. siehe auch Provider im 
Paragrafendschungel. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13203.htm
37. EU - Monti vows action on mobile phone charges (FT)
Mario Monti, the European competition commissioner, pledged to root 
out anti-competitive practices by telecommunications operators across
Europe over the next few months. see also EC to clamp down on mobile
roaming charges (ZDNet UK) and Competition and the consumer: What are
the aims of European Competition Policy? Prof. Mario Monti, European
Commissioner for Competition Policy, European Competition Day, 
Madrid, 26 February 2002. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13187.htm
38. TV, movies, and kids' behavior (Christian Science
Monitor) 
Children and early teens who see R-rated movies are much more likely
to smoke and drink than those who don't, says Relation between 
Parental Restrictions on Movies and Adolescent Use of Tobacco and 
Alcohol in the medical journal Effective Clinical Practice. The 
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
in New York found 31 percent of high school students binge drink at 
least once a month. It blamed the entertainment industry for 
glamorizing alcohol use while rarely showing its ill effects. The 
report urges legislators to ban all alcohol ads, including beer ads,
from television. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13172.htm
39. France - Rencontres du Net - Internet, jeunes et
familles 
(Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité) 
Paris, 20 mars 2002. Durant cette journée, les pouvoirs publics, les
représentants des associations concernées et des experts débattront 
et échangeront sur les enjeux et les risques de l'entrée de 
l'Internet dans la cellule familiale. Thèmes de la journée: Internet
pour éduquer, Un Internet plus sûr, Un Internet utile, Internet pour
tous. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13191.htm
40. USA - Commerce Department Fines Company For Illegal
Crypto 
Exports (Newsbytes) 
The federal body that regulates exports has fined San Diego firm 
Neopoint Inc. $95,000 for exporting strong encryption software to 
Korean companies without the necessary government approval. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13217.htm
41. USA - N.Y. Times source database hacked (MSNBC) 
A computer security researcher accessed internal New York Times 
computer networks this week through the Internet and managed to view
hundreds of sensitive Times files. Among them: a database of 3,000 
Times contributors. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13189.htm
42. EU - Slow progress in unbundling of the local loop
(RAPID) 
Access to the last mile of telephone lines into European homes or, 
as specialists say, the unbundling of the local loop (ULL), which is
essential to develop competition for the benefit of consumers and put
broadband Internet within the reach of citizens, has so far been very
unsatisfactory, shows a study by law firm Squire, Sanders and 
Dempsey. see main document - overall report (PDF - 792 KB) and annex
(PDF - 1003 KB). 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13178.htm
43. Spain - Regulator investigates Telefonica preselection
(Reuters) 
Spanish telecoms regulator CMT is investigating dominant operator 
Telefonica for allegedly not complying with regulations allowing 
callers to preselect the phone company of their choice. 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13181.htm
44. USA - Congressional Broadband Fight Intensifies (New
York Times) 
Two weeks after the House of Representatives approved legislation to
limit the influence of money in politics, the House is expected to 
approve a telecommunications bill that is largely shaped by the huge
campaign contributions it has generated. see also House Passes Tauzin-
Dingell Telecom Deregulation Bill, House OKs Violations Amendment To
Tauzin-Dingell Bill and Senate Leader Contemplates Tauzin-Dingell 
Compromise and Competing Telcos Gaining Market Share - FCC 
(Newsbytes). 
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem13195.htm
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