State senator denies running for governor.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - Eugene Sen. Vicki Walker continues to deny that she's considering running for governor, but she acknowledged Monday reserving several Web site names that strongly hint at a campaign for the state's top office. How strongly? Try...

Picking a great--but not too great--product name.
Irecently saw a news story about a couple with a daughter they had not yet named; she was a year old! The mother lamented, "It's just so hard to pick the right name." I thought, if she thinks it's stressful to pick a child's name, she ought to try...

WIPO arbitration and mediation centre goes from strength to strength.
Introductory The Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialized agency of the UN, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Center provides arbitration and mediation for settling a wide range of commercial and IP disputes, including an ever increasing number of sporting ones....

Law and Internet Cultures.
LAW & INTERNET CULTURES. BY KATHY BOWREY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Press, 2005. Pp. iv, 241. $21.99 (paperback). Kathy Bowrey's short volume on Internet cultures puts contemporary discussion about intellectual property law into a global, cultural perspective. Bowrey is herself Australian, a professor at New...

Setting the stage for spam-free schools.
E-mail spam is universal--even in schools. "Children are not protected and are receiving spain containing advertising for products like tobacco, alcohol and pornography," says Erin Barry, vice president of public relations for Unspam. Although it is illegal to advertise these products to children, most states cannot enforce...

The UN's desire to control the Internet: UN pirates sailed into Tunis this November 16-18, looking to take the helm of Internet supervision from U.S. hands.
Do you treasure the freedom to wade out into the vast sea of information that is the Internet and surf the World Wide Web? Then look out for what is coming over the horizon: a fleet of ships is bearing down on you and your little surf(key)board, and they...

Online porn: how do we keep it from our kids?
In the age of the Internet, it is laughingly easy for kids to view pornography online. A mere 3 percent of the more than 450 million individual porn Web sites ask for proof of age, according to a recent report by the Washington-based Third Way, a progressive research and...

Pulver Hopes .tel Will Promote ENUM, VoIP.
By Kevin Murphy Pulver.com Inc wants to market voice over IP services using a new internet domain, but it first must be given the okay by the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers and could face opposition from the International Telecommunications Union. Pulver.com last...

Opening Pages; Nano-nano 2.
Byline: Peachy Limpin Some updates first before I discuss nanotechnology further. There are now ten applications for new top level domain names (TLD) pending before ICANN. Some of the more interesting ones are: .jobs for human resources management sites; .mail for spam-free email; .travel for...

Go Daddy Takes Cut Prices to SSL Market.
By Kevin Murphy Go Daddy Software Inc is getting into the SSL web server certificate business, with a cut-price offering it hopes will let it do to the SSL market what it did for the domain names market - grow fast at the expense of the incumbents....