EDUPAGE> Edupage, April 07, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, APRIL 07, 2003
New Search Engine from Yahoo Targets Google
ICANN Accepts Whois Recommendations
National Archive Documents Go Online
Red Hat Releases Applications
Filtering Spam to Ensure Appropriate Work Environment
NEW SEARCH ENGINE FROM YAHOO TARGETS GOOGLE
In an effort to become the most widely used Internet search resource,
Yahoo is offering a new search engine promoted as more powerful and
easier to use than Google's. The new version will combine Google's
index with Yahoo's customized services for sports, weather reports,
and the like. Industry analysts expect a struggle for dominance to
ensue between Yahoo and Google. Currently Google handles an average of
112 million searches a day compared to Yahoo's 42 million, which are
generated by Google's software. Yahoo supported Google's creation and
licensed its software three years ago for searches on Yahoo's portal.
To wean itself from Google, Yahoo purchased Inktomi and will use its
search-engine tools instead.
Wired News, 7 April 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58368,00.html
ICANN ACCEPTS WHOIS RECOMMENDATIONS
The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to adopt several recommendations
concerning the Whois service, a directory of who has registered domains
and other Internet "real estate." The recommendations come from
ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) and appear to
address some of the ongoing concerns about Whois. Some have objected to
the openness of Whois data, which can be harvested relatively easily
for purposes ranging from phone solicitations to identity theft. One of
the proposals seeks to place limits on who may access at least some of
the Whois data and under what circumstances. The same proposal
establishes procedures for registrars and registrants to verify the
accuracy of the information in the database. The other key
recommendation from the GNSO calls for developing standards for the
formatting of data in the database.
Information Today, 7 April 2003
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030407-2.shtml
NATIONAL ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS GO ONLINE
Fifty million historical records in the National Archives are now
available online. Instead of visiting the Archives or requesting
records by phone, researchers, genealogists, and others can now search
for records ranging from the details of battles to immigration
information remotely and free of charge. Veterans in particular are
expected to welcome the system to search for information on military
action, casualties, and prisoners of war. The database of searchable
records contains only a small portion of the archive's electronic
holdings and is compiled from 20 federal agencies. To ensure their
integrity, the records from the different agencies have not been
altered, so some contain typographical and historical errors.
Associated Press, 4 April 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/840830p-5910961c.html
RED HAT RELEASES APPLICATIONS
Red Hat, maker of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment,
has moved into the application market with its release of the Red Hat
Enterprise Content Management System and the Red Hat Enterprise Portal
Server. Red Hat hopes to gain an advantage over some of its competitors
by offering applications and not just an operating system. Both
applications are built using Red Hat's Java-based development platform
and are J2EE-compliant. Delivering the source code with the
applications is one of the selling points of the software, according to
Red Hat. A company statement accompanying the software release said
that companies need more "extensibility and control" than are available
with closed-source packages. Dunkin' Donuts has already used both
applications in building a franchisee portal that offers operational,
marketing, and training functions and information to the company's
more than 1,500 franchises.
Internet News, 7 April 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2176761
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FILTERING SPAM TO ENSURE APPROPRIATE WORK ENVIRONMENT
Some experts have recently begun speculating that laws requiring
employers to ensure that work environments are not "hostile" could
apply to pornographic e-mail delivered to employees. Courts have ruled
that sexually explicit or lewd comments by employees constitute a
hostile, and therefore illegal, work environment, and some argue that
pornographic solicitations in e-mail represent the same type of
situation. According to one antispam company, pornographic e-mail is
the fastest growing category of spam. Eugene Volokh, a professor of law
at UCLA, said companies' liability is not necessarily mitigated simply
because the source of the e-mail is outside the company. "If the
employer is reasonably capable of filtering the material," Volokh
said," and if it doesn't do that, it would be held liable." Joanna
Grossman, a professor of law at Hofstra University, suggested that some
employers will install filters to ensure safe working conditions even
if no complaints are received. David Burtof of filtering company N2H2
noted that sexually explicit spam is much more difficult to detect than
sexually explicit Web sites.
ZDNet, 7 April 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-995658.html
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