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News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:14pm EDT Google tool spurs privacy fears People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data. If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged. That could mean revealed passwords, conversations with doctors or viewed Web pages detailing online purchases. "It's clearly a very powerful tool for locating information on the computer," said Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security consultant in Cambridge, Mass. "On the flip side of things, it's a perfect spy program." News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:13pm EDT ‘Toon porn’ pushes erotic envelope online Adult animation booming on Web, spreading to mainstream media. Reality has always been an insubstantial constraint for pornographers, but never has it been as trifling as it is in the thriving Internet niche of “toon porn” – a world where impossible couplings among cartoon characters are as routine as bad plots and fake orgasms in the flesh and blood arena. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:12pm EDT "Despite spending untold amounts of money to build and maintain their web sites, both the candidates as well as the Democratic party (DNC) and Republican party (RNC) have overlooked the role web search can play in the overall communication process." In addition to their lack of a search engine optimization strategy, the presidential candidates and political parties are not managing their reputations on the search engines. "Between 20% and 40% of Google's top-10 results for both presidential candidates' names are derogatory or parodies." Paysite Content Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:12pm EDT Full On, Mansion team up on new release Two of the largest and most highly respected adult webmaster entities on the Internet, Full On Video, the premier content provider of full-length movies for download or streaming, and Mansion Productions, a leading innovator in self automated programming products for the adult Internet arena, have decided to expand their hold on the web by uniting their forces on the all new Mansion release of MAS v1.6. This new updated version of MAS will include all the Full on Video leased content for free to all MAS users. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:11pm EDT Research: Two-Thirds of Firms Wireless by 2007 Over two-thirds of all companies will have deployed at least one wireless application by 2007, according to research. Meta Group predicts that messaging will top the most-wanted application list, with half of organizations enabling wireless e-mail within three years and three-quarters within four years. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:11pm EDT State Sues Landlord For Refusing To Rent To Stripper The state attorney general's office is suing a real estate company because it refused to rent an apartment to a topless dancer. The NEOC contends Charleigh Greenwood didn't get the apartment because she was the victim of sex discrimination. A manager for the Richdale Group said they have a policy to refuse to rent to anyone employed as a dancer at a gentlemen's club. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:10pm EDT N.Y. court denies halt to equal benefits law New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is facing more resistance as he tries to thwart a new law that would force contractors who do business with the city to offer domestic partner benefits to their employees. City lawyers sought a court order last week to block the law, but Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Faviola Soto on Monday refused to grant the request. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:09pm EDT E-Voting States Brace For Problems Nearly 30 percent of U.S. voters will cast their 2004 ballots electronically. U.S. voting-security advocates are bracing for e-voting problems in the upcoming general election that could rival those in Florida during the 2000 presidential race. Counties in 27 states, including presidential swing states such as Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as the District of Columbia, will use direct electronic recording machines, accounting for about 30 percent of U.S. voters on November 2. News Article Wednesday, October 20th 2004, 1:08pm EDT ATMs in peril from computer worms? Some anti-virus firm are trying to carve out a new market for their technology by trying to persuade that banks Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) running Windows need protecting from computer worms.The new generation of ATMs are migrating from the IBM OS/2 operating system to Microsoft Windows and IP networks. This saves costs and enhances customer services. But it also means that ATMs are now at risk from computer worms, according to Trend Micro. News Bytes Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:32pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Head of CARE abducted in Baghdad  News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:29pm EDT UK watchdog blocks 11 rogue dialler operators Eleven companies have been barred from running premium rate internet dialler services as part of a crackdown on scammers ripping off UK punters. Another 33 companies also face the chop after premium rate watchdog ICSTIS used emergency powers to tackle the growing problem of rogue diallers, which hijack people's computers and run up huge phone bills. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:29pm EDT The Internet is about to take its next big leap. Imagine being instantly connected anytime you opened the lid of your laptop, anywhere. WiMAX, the high-powered technology that promises to bring true mobility to the Web, is just around the corner. It is a step beyond Wi-Fi, the wireless technology already being installed on many laptop computers today. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:28pm EDT The Government has published its new gambling bill today designed to shake up the gambling industry. Although the legislation covers the whole of the industry, part of it also covers the explosion in internet gambling and casinos. The Government insists the new measures would protect children (by including compulsory age checks for gambling websites for example) and the vulnerable. Critics claim the measures -- which include a relaxation of some existing laws -- would lead to a massive rise in gambling addiction and indebtedness. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:27pm EDT eEye finds critical flaws in W2K, RealPlayer Security vendor eEye Digital Security has discovered critical flaws in Windows 2000 and RealPlayer, both of which can be exploited remotely, according to advisories released on the company's website. The flaw in RealPlayer was discovered a week ago and is present default installations of the affected software. It allows malicious code to be executed with little user interaction. The Windows 2000 flaw allows anonymous attackers to compromise default installations without any user interaction. The attacker could then "own" the machine in question. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:26pm EDT Utah Sheriff Documenting Porn Found at Crime Scenes The county sheriff here is said to have started requiring his deputies to document any and all porn found at crime scenes and during arrests, a policy the American Civil Liberties Union is calling something close to a bid for thought control. Sheriff Bilodeau likened the new policy to the way law enforcement approaches gang crime. "Like gangs, people who use pornography have associated traits, and we'll define them so we can link them to crimes and pornography." Utah’s ACLU chapter head would like to know just where the Cache County sheriff got such a notion, comparing the sheriff's edict to rummaging a suspect’s book shelf and trying to build a criminal profile based on the books he reads. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:26pm EDT Anti-gay groups get into Calif. marriage suit On Friday, Judge Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court in San Francisco agreed to let two conservative groups revive their lawsuit against San Francisco, effectively allowing the organizations to keep making the case that same-sex couples should not be allowed to wed. Content Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:25pm EDT Bargain Basement: Entire site for a song Paul Markham's biggest sale ever and only for two weeks. The enitre content of BestBasementContent.com, 835 sets, over 96,000 images, for $1,200. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:24pm EDT British director Michael Winterbottom's sexually-explicit new film, 9 Songs, is set to cause controversy after being passed by the UK's film watchdog. 9 Songs is among a slew of provocative movies released during the past few years featuring real, rather than simulated, sex. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:24pm EDT Online theft of financial information from individuals has become one of the fastest-growing non-violent crimes in the Asia-Pacific region, according to research group IDC. Financial identity theft - known as "phishing" - could deter people from engaging in electronic commerce and companies should take steps to protect customers if the online finance industry is to succeed, it said. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:22pm EDT Porn film companies fined as actors perform unprotected sex acts The Cal/OSHA program in the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the California Department of Industrial Relations on Wednesday fined two Los Angeles-area adult film companies $30,560 each for allegedly allowing actors to perform unprotected sex, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cal/OSHA filed citations against Evasive Angles and TTB Productions, both located in Van Nuys, Calif., and owned by Phillip Rivera. The fines mark the first time the agency has taken regulatory action against the adult film industry. The citations come six months after an "HIV outbreak" in the pornographic film industry, according to the Times.  News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:22pm EDT E-Voting Still a Florida Bugaboo With memories of 2000 and the state's bitter fight over ballots still fresh, Floridians began casting votes Monday and within an hour problems cropped up. In Palm Beach County, the center of the madness during the recount four years ago, a Democratic state legislator said she wasn't given a complete absentee ballot when she asked to opt for paper instead of the electronic touch-screen machines. Several voting sites in Broward County had problems with laptops connected to elections headquarters. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:21pm EDT More Engines, More Services, More Investment New search engines continue to proliferate just as the existing engines add services. Amazon has added A9. Snap, a search engine that promotes results that can be easily sorted, has been launched by Idealab, a California investment company. Clusty is a search engine from Vivisimo. Clusty uses artificial intelligence methods to cluster, index, and characterize results of searches. Apple Computer has announced that its next generation operating system, called Tiger, will have text and media search capabilities. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:20pm EDT Were porn stars an O'Reilly factor? If Bill O'Reilly needs someone to talk him through his sexual-harassment scandal, porn star Savanna Samson says he should just pick up the phone. Samson and fellow Vivid Entertainment actress Sunrise Adams were surprised last week to be drawn into the legal battle between the Fox News pundit and "O'Reilly Factor" producer Andrea Mackris. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:19pm EDT VoIP unplugged, as Wi-Fi meets Net phoning Two major VoIP providers took steps Monday to further unwire Net-based phoning, traditionally a service tethered by wires. Vonage, the world's largest commercial provider of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services, and commercial hot-spot provider Boingo Wireless said they intend to co-market each other's services later this year. The announcements from Vonage and Boingo, and another Monday from Net2Phone, underscore the collision course of Net-based phoning and Wi-Fi. News Article Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 1:19pm EDT Powell: Feds must use light touch on Net Government must regulate both lightly and carefully to encourage the expansion of broadband infrastructure and applications such as Net phone calls, the Federal Communications Commission's chairman said Tuesday. Speaking at the Voice on the Net conference here, Michael Powell reiterated his perspective that the government should not rush to create rules without understanding their long-term effects on new industries. Central among these issues are the growth of super-fast fiber-optic data lines to the home and the rush among large and small companies to offer Net phone services. News Bytes Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:33pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Hundreds Protest as Belarus Leader Sweeps Election News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:32pm EDT Almost as quiet as the proverbial mouse, gay Adult Internet media and services company PlanetOut became the first known gay-directed business to hit the stock market, launching an initial public offering October 14. The company picked an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, LGBT, as its trading symbol. Day one of PlanetOut trading began at $9.26 per share and closed at $10.40. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:31pm EDT Four charged in landmark UK phishing case Four eastern Europeans appeared in a London court yesterday charged with defrauding online banks of hundreds of thousands through an elaborate 'phishing' scam. The two men and two women from Russia, Estonia and Ukraine are allegedly leading members of a gang that siphoned cash from ebanking accounts after conning consumers into handing over confidential banking details. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:31pm EDT MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firms Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses that contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them. Worm writers are threatening to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee. In the latest version of MyDoom -- MyDoom.AE -- the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm Netsky and promising to attack the antivirus companies. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:30pm EDT Court orders downloaders named The British High Court has ordered internet service providers to hand over the names and addresses of 28 alleged music pirates to Britain's trade body for the recording industry. The ruling is a victory for both the BPI and IFPI which announced earlier this month that its affiliates were filing a total of 459 lawsuits against alleged internet pirates in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Austria.  News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:29pm EDT China jails four for running porn site Four men have been jailed for peddling porn as China continues to wage its war against online smut. The four men who are all in their twenties have been jailed for between 12 months and two-and-a-half years. Ever since China began tough line on porn in the summer, some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 web sites have been shut down. China's XXX clampdown is meant to halt the "rampant" increase in online porn that the Government believes is damaging the moral fabric of the nation - and young people in particular. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:28pm EDT Amex, Citibank block UK gambling online Two major credit card companies have taken steps to prevent their punters from using their cards to gamble online. American Express and Citigroup took the decision to block the use of their cards because of concerns over fraud and fears that people might run up debts. The Financial Times quotes Citigroup as saying: "We implemented this rule in the US two years ago but did not have the right systems to do it in the UK until last month." A spokesman for the UK's online gambling industry said that the move "smacked of a nanny state", insisting that people should be free to spend their money how they wanted. The Government is currently looking to deregulate the UK's gambling sector. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:28pm EDT Why Broadband's Pipes Need Reaming A few years ago, telecom experts thought that all the networking problems in the world could be solved by letting users tap into the Internet at faster rates. Now, as broadband really catches on, they are discovering it isn't a panacea. The problem: There's plenty of capacity in the home and in the networks's core, where massive routers can handle almost unlimited amounts of traffic. But capacity in other parts is overbooked. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:27pm EDT Google tests personal search service Google Inc.'s two founders said on Monday that their company is working on a personal search service, but they remained coy on plans for an instant messaging client or Web browser. The company is testing a personal search service along the lines of those offered recently by Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc., he said. Personal search services allow users to store, annotate and share the results of their searches, and block specific results that the user may deem irrelevant, for example. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:26pm EDT Dozens of Thai men have been treated in hospital after having a suspected paraffin mixture injected into their penises during botched enlargement attempts, a hospital official said. At least 48 men have each needed two months of treatment at a single hospital for inflamed penises after paying for syringes of blue liquid administered by illegal backstreet doctors. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:25pm EDT Web radio gets $1.7 billion boost The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced Monday that it has reached a $1.7 billion deal with the Radio Music License Committee to let stations legally stream their on-air content over the Internet. With the deal, the radio group said, its 12,000 member stations gain the right to program ASCAP-regulated music online simultaneously with their on-air signals. The two industry groups labeled the agreement as the largest licensing deal in the history of American radio. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:24pm EDT Hold the phone - or it will pollute the planet An international convention in Geneva will try to tackle the latest toxic waste crisis - mobile phones. The phones - a billion are in use around the world - are packed with chemicals and metals that can endanger people and the environment once they are thrown away. Developing countries complain they are being dumped on them under the guise of providing technology to the poor, and that phones are contaminating whole communities. News Article Monday, October 18th 2004, 2:23pm EDT RFID, coming to a library near you For a glimpse of how RFID technology could transform stores, factories and people's everyday lives, you may only need to look as far as your local library. Hundreds of city and college libraries are placing special microchips, known as RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, on books in an effort to make libraries more efficient. The tags are central to a new breed of digital tracking system that can speed checkouts, keep collections in better order, and even alleviate repetitive strain injuries among librarians. One snag facing RFID, however, is that consumer advocates are in an uproar. They say the unchecked spread of the devices in libraries and elsewhere could spell disaster for privacy. News Bytes Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:31am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Kerry Warns Draft Possible if Bush Wins. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:30am EDT Fox moves to fire Bill O'Reilly accuser. Scandal-hit Fox News moved yesterday to fire an employee who says she was sexually harassed by Bill O'Reilly - but wants a judge to declare the canning isn't retribution. Andrea Mackris, 33, said she was served legal papers about her termination by a man lying in wait for her at her Manhattan apartment building. The documents said Fox had asked a judge to let the TV station dump her from a $93,200-a-year job as associate producer on "The O'Reilly Factor" - and to rule that the firing was not in retaliation for her accusations about the show's host.  News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:29am EDT 3 state utilities may offer Internet via power lines. Clearing the way for homes and businesses to receive high-speed Internet services through their electrical outlets, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules this week that would enable the utility companies to offer an alternative to the broadband communications services now provided by cable and phone companies. And at least two of Washington state's utilities are rolling out pilot projects in central and Eastern Washington or planning to. And a third, Seattle City Light, is moving in that direction. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:29am EDT Men more willing to sleep with their boss. More men are willing to have sex with their bosses to get a promotion or a salary increase than women, according to a Belgian human resources weekly. According to the Vacature poll -- based on 12,078 Belgians interviewed -- 12 percent of all men would be willing to sleep with their boss to try to advance their career, compared to only 1 percent of women. The survey did not reveal how many said they actually had sex with their bosses. It showed that 22 percent of males often fantasise about having sex with one of their colleagues, compared to 7 percent of women. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:28am EDT Anti- Bush Thong Protest Charges Dropped. Prosecutors dropped the charges Friday against six men arrested for protesting the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal by stripping down to their thong underwear and forming a human pyramid during a visit by President Bush. Lancaster County District Attorney Donald R. Totaro said prosecutors would not have been able to prove the defendants' actions served "no legitimate purpose" a requirement under the state's disorderly conduct law. "The mere presence of unwilling viewers does not determine whether unwelcome views are prohibited from public forums," he said. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:27am EDT Phishing attacks may be coming from your computer. Most phishing attempts come from about 1,000 compromised "zombie" computers owned by broadband customers, and the phishing attacks are likely generated by less than five phishing operations, according to a survey by CipherTrust (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc. The e-mail survey company, in a survey this month of more than 4 million pieces of e-mail, found that nearly all of the attacks came from about 1,000 machines, mostly customers of DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable modem services The number of compromised machines remained fairly static during the two-week survey, suggesting that a limited number of groups were looking for exploited machines to send out phishing-scam e-mail, said Dmitri Alperovitch, a research engineer with CipherTrust. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:26am EDT Federal court: Bush's recess appointment of antigay judge legal. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Bush did not overstep his authority when he appointed William Pryor to the bench while the Senate was on a holiday break. The 11th U.S. circuit court of appeals rejected a challenge by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who argued that the Alabama judge's appointment to the same court was an end-run around the Senate's right to confirm or reject the president's judicial nominees. Pryor was appointed to the 11th circuit during the Presidents' Day recess in February, after the Senate refused twice to bring his nomination to a floor vote. His nomination had languished as abortion rights advocates fought Pryor over his criticism of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. He was also criticized for a Supreme Court brief in which he compared homosexual acts to "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia." News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:25am EDT What does a grainy night-vision video of oral sex have to do with expensive charity galas? Answer: Both have become career-launching pedestals for those seeking fame in that ever-expanding job category known as "the socialite." So-called Polite Society reached a new nadir this fall when the September issue of W magazine came trussed with a bonus Guess catalogue featuring photos of Paris Hilton role-playing her way through a series of ironic porn cliches -- as slutty kinderwhore in fur-trimmed coat and bikini; as wanton, upper-class trollop straddled by her chauffeur in the back of a limo; as self-obsessed tart staring into her compact mirror while applying a thick layer of candy-pink lip gloss. It was a clever layout, subtly playing off hotel heiress Hilton's torrid persona as a girl willing to perform real-live sex acts with a video-cam running. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:24am EDT E-commerce experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. Some Internet pioneers who survived the roller-coaster of the dot-com boom and bust said Friday that the ride has only just begun. Much work and much opportunity lie ahead for e-commerce companies, executives from Yahoo, VeriSign and CNET Networks (publisher of News.com) said during a panel discussion here on Friday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of e-commerce. "We haven't even started yet; we're really in 'E-commerce 101,'" said Dan Rosensweig, chief operating officer of Yahoo. "I think this is going to get really fun in the next 10 years." News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:24am EDT Google watchers abuzz about the search darling's new desktop tool are already betting on its next product: instant chat. Such speculation isn't new, but it's gained legs as some intriguing facts have come to light this week. First, although few people seem to realize it, Google already owns an instant-messaging (IM) client called Hello that it picked up this summer with its acquisition of photo-sharing service Picasa. Meanwhile, code uncovered in the Google Desktop Search tool released Tuesday suggests that the company may have broader plans to integrate IM into its growing list of products. News Article Saturday, October 16th 2004, 10:23am EDT Ottawa wants child porn producers' DNA. The federal government is proposing that DNA samples be collected from people convicted of making child pornography. The Liberals introduced legislation Friday that would give judges the power to authorize collection of the samples. "This legislation would make it possible for more DNA samples to be collected from more convicted offenders," Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said in a statement. News Bytes Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:43am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Britons Hurt in Iraq Suicide Attack.  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News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:40am EDT XPays Awarded Affiliate-Pooling Technology Patent. XPays, Inc. has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. patent number 6,804,660 covers XPays' affiliate pooling technology, which enables Virtual Affiliate advertising on the Internet. XPays has assigned the patent to sister company Essociate. "The originality of our affiliate pooling technology is confirmed by the issuance of our first patent, and the continued growth of our business validates the strength of the model," said XPays and Essociate co-founder/chief executive Evan Horowitz, announcing the patent. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:39am EDT Annulment and more sex videos for Hiltons. Nicky wants an annulment and Paris popped up in a new sex video as the Hilton sisters compete for headlines, E! Online reported Thursday. Little sister Nicky reportedly is trying to get an annulment from her 2-month-old marriage to New York money manager Todd Meister, a seemingly impromptu Las Vegas union. Paris reportedly appears in a new amateur porn video, the third sex film for the reality TV star. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:38am EDT Internet pornography poses a huge threat to the Church over the next 10 to 20 years, more than 300 delegates were warned at CARE's recent conference, In Search Of Intimacy, in London. The wake-up call came from addictions expert David Partington, former leader of the Yeldall Manor rehab centre, who said: "Thousands - if not tens of thousands - of men, and some women, will exit the Church leaving all sorts of excuses. It's one of the biggest problems you will have to deal with. But God has answers and contrary to what most people expect, they are basic biblical answers." News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:37am EDT Vivid Girls Allegedly Inspired O’Reilly’s Sexual Harassment. An August appearance on the O’Reilly Factor by Vivid Girls Savanna Samson and Sunrise Adams allegedly left conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly “excited” enough to call his associate producer at her home for unsolicited phone sex. Andrea Mackris, a 33-year-old associate producer on The O'Reilly Factor, accused O’Reilly of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed October 13. The suit alleges that O’Reilly engaged in a consistent pattern of sexual harassment over a span of two years. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:36am EDT Internet Porn Trio Apologizes, Then Strips. Three porn stars, who were arrested for filming and producing pornographic material overseas and broadcasted them over the Internet, held a press conference on Friday to apologize for their actions. They then held a publicity event for a new Internet broadcast service. The three porn stars, who were featured in such films as "Strawberry," were arrested in May and released in June under probation. The women, known by their stage names Strawberry, Chae-yun and Na-young, said during their press conference at a club near Hongik University that the Internet broadcast they were involved in before was more graphic than other adult-oriented broadcasts and that they regretted jumping at the chance to make "big money." They proceeded to announce the opening of a legitimate Internet adult site and held a publicity event that included filming topless shots. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:33am EDT Speaker: Students beware of porn. A recovering porn addict spoke to WVU students and led a presentation Thursday on the dangers of pornography, in an attempt to lead them away from sexual addiction to healthier relationships. "Porn Nation -- The Naked Truth," a multimedia lecture that educates college students on the hazards of pornography, kicked off its 40-campus tour in the Mountainlair Ballroom on Thursday evening. The 90-minute presentation, sponsored by the WVU chapter o f Campus Crusade for Christ, aimed to show the dangers of pornography. Michael Leahy, who heads the Atlanta-based organization Bravehearts, led the event. Virus Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:32am EDT 90s retro virus spreads over physical media. A "retro" virus which spreads by floppy disks and CD-ROMs is spreading (modestly) across Scandinavia. Bacros replicates by using floppy disks and CD-ROMs - a throwback to the virus propagation techniques of the 1990s. This illustrates its marked difference from the latest generation of email, file sharing or network exploit-based worms. However some things don't change: Bacros infects Windows PCs only. Bacros, first spotted a month ago, copies itself to all floppy disks it sees. It also attempts to burn itself to CD-R disks (complete with an AUTORUN file, which will run the virus when the CD-R is inserted to another machine). Unlike current worms - which often try to surreptitiously take over user's machines, Bacros caries a destructive payload. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:32am EDT Endangered species: US programmers. Say goodbye to the American software programmer. Once the symbols of hope as the nation shifted from manufacturing to service jobs, programmers today are an endangered species. They face a challenge similar to that which shrank the ranks of steelworkers and autoworkers a quarter century ago: competition from foreigners. Some experts think they'll become extinct within the next few years, forced into unemployment or new careers by a combination of offshoring of their work to India and other low-wage countries and the arrival of skilled immigrants taking their jobs. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:31am EDT Google unveils desktop search. Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:30am EDT Six Million South Koreans exposed in slam and spam scam. South Korean police want to question 15 mobile phone workers and brokers over allegations they traded the personal information of an estimated six million people in the northeast Asian country. The group netted 360m South Korean Won ($314,0000) by allegedly selling the personal details of an estimated one in five of south Koreas 30m net users. Police are still investigating exactly how the group obtained the sensitive data but some details are already emerging. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:30am EDT Adultcon takes place in Los Angeles twice a year to give porn aficionados a chance to mingle with the stars in all their flesh-and-silicone glory. You're encouraged to bring your camera, your autograph book and cash for perks available only at the free after-party in Hollywood. I didn't go. Unlike the Adult Entertainment Expo, Adultcon focuses more on the fans and less on the industry. It's not a hotbed of technological development, although one friend brought back reports of a vibrating condom. Adultcon is pretty much all about the boobs. I have to admit, I'm creeped out by porn star breasts. Don't get me wrong -- large breasts don't faze me, and I'm certainly not envious. The girls Playboy hails as "busty" could barely fill one of my bra cups with both bosoms and a scoop of ice cream. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:29am EDT Federal regulators on Thursday adopted rules aimed at tempting electric utilities to offer broadband services -- a move officials hope will someday enable U.S. consumers to jack in to the web from virtually any power outlet. It's unclear, however, just how long it will take for such services to become widespread. The Federal Communications Commission's order also creates rules designed to protect existing licensed radio service users from harmful interference from broadband over power lines, or BPL, systems, providing more regulatory certainty for electric utilities considering deploying internet service. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:28am EDT China jails four for running mucky site. Four men have been jailed for peddling porn as China continues to wage its war against online smut. The four men - Liang Hongbin, Li Yufei, Yu Jianhong, and Chen Dong who are all in their twenties - have been jailed for between 12 months and two-and-a-half years. According to state media, the men rang up a profit of 16,000 yuan (£1,070) during the couple of months their site was online. During that time it attracted some 16,000 hits as punters paid to watch mucky movies. Ever since China began tough line on porn in the summer, some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 web sites have been shut down. What's more, officials have handed out around 2,000 yuan (£133) in rewards to people snitching on illegal sites. Last month a 22-year-old Chinese computer student known only by his surname Xie was jailed for four years for running a porn site. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:27am EDT Expo Tries to Whet Geek Appetites. DigitalLife 2004, which runs all weekend at the Jacob K. Javits Center, aims to get the latest technology in the hands of the consumer. Jim Hasl, executive producer and creator of the show, envisioned an event to take the geek out of technology, making it accessible to the masses. Whether he's succeeded remains to be seen. But Hasl is expecting 25,000 visitors over the weekend, so organizers have packed in the products, with more than 100 companies vying for attendees' time. New laptops, games, home-networking equipment and even Google applications are making their public debuts at the show. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:26am EDT Four charged in landmark UK phishing case. Four eastern Europeans appeared in a London court yesterday charged with defrauding online banks of hundreds of thousands through an elaborate 'phishing' scam. The two men and two women from Russia, Estonia and Ukraine are allegedly leading members of a gang that siphoned cash from ebanking accounts after conning consumers into handing over confidential banking details. Russian Olga Borissova, 31, Ukrainian Vitalij Kirilenko, 34, and Estonians Liiv Ravino, 30, and Teni Terje, 25, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud financial institutions and a single laundering charge at a hearing in Bow Street Magistrates Court. Bail was refused for all four. A preliminary hearing at Southwark Crown Court has been scheduled for 21 October. News Article Friday, October 15th 2004, 11:26am EDT Schools, patents and the future of Linux. Open source activists need to get Linux into schools if Windows' pre-eminance on the desktop is ever to be seriously challenged, a panel discussion at LinuxWorld conference in London last week concluded. StarOffice is offered free to schools and has made significant progress as an alternative to Microsoft Office. But Windows remains "entrenched" in schools, so children have no opportunity to get to know alternatives. Vendors on the panel gave mixed responses about their companies' interest in introducing open source technologies into schools. Brian Green, director of Linux at Novell, said that it intending to unveil a spectrum of initiatives to push Linux, adding that details will come later. But Adam Jollans, worldwide Linux strategy manager at IBM, said that Linux on the desktop is still leading-edge. News Bytes Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:23am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Kerry guns down Bush with zinger. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:21am EDT iBill "Won't Close Its Doors," Negotiates First Data Reserve Release. Amidst a small flood of new speculation hitting the Adult webmaster message boards this week, Internet Billing Co. (iBill) insists it will not close its doors and that it is negotiating the release of six-month client Visa reserves said to be held by its now-former processing bank, First Data Bank. In addition, executive vice president Cathy Beardsley said October 13 that iBill has begun releasing funds to webmasters. "We recognize all past-due amounts," she said responding to queries from AVNOnline.com, "and we will ensure that all clients are brought current on money owed." News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:18am EDT Fake Beckham pix in new virus scare. Virus writers are attempting to take over computer users' PCs by enticing them to click on a malicious programme masquerading as lurid photos of England soccer captain David Beckham, according to a security firm. According to Sophos, thousands of messages have been posted to Internet message boards in the past week claiming the married soccer star has been photographed with a Spanish prostitute. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:17am EDT Sun Microsystems has called for reform of the US patent system, with its president and chief operating officer saying authorities are too free to issue patents, some of which were "spurious" and being used to stifle innovation. Jonathan Schwartz told ZDNet Australia in an interview during a brief visit to Australia this week that while intellectual property constituted "the foundation of global economies", there was also a limit. "My view on the patent system in the United States is that we are too free to issue patents, so someone can patent one-click shopping, which to me is ridiculous," he said. "That's like patenting scroll-bars". News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:16am EDT Acacia Research to Release Third Quarter Financial Results. Acacia Research Corporation announced today it will release its third quarter financial results on Thursday, October 21, 2004. Results will be released at the close of trading on the NASDAQ national market. A conference call is scheduled for the same day. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:16am EDT Fox's O'Reilly accused of sex harassment. Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, the nation's top-rated cable news host and an insistent advocate for personal responsibility and self-control, was accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a producer on his show who says O'Reilly repeatedly pressured her to engage in phone sex and frightened her with lewd "monologues." The suit, filed in New York by Andrea Mackris, a 33-year-old associate producer on "The O'Reilly Factor," quotes O'Reilly as speaking to her in highly explicit terms about vibrators, oral sex, masturbation and a fantasy involving a Caribbean hotel room shower. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:15am EDT Classification concerns Ruddock in wake of Au.porn raids. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has contacted the Office of Film and Television Classification over whether procedural changes are needed in the wake of recent child pornography investigations. Mr Ruddock says quick action is needed to address concerns about the volume of material needing classification as a result of the police raids. He says the head of the Australian Federal Police has also flagged the possibility of legislative change and his department is following up the concern as a matter of urgency. News Article Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:14am EDT Election Day Falls During Protection From Pornography Week. One of the most polarized Presidential elections in recent history, with two candidates representing two vastly different visions of the future of America, will fall in the middle of Protection From Pornography Week. After 15 years of celebrating the week beginning on the last Sunday of October as Pornography Awareness Week, anti-porn activists have followed the example set last year by the White House and given their annual week of campaigning against pornography a new name – Protection From Pornography Week. |
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