Electronic Publications of the State Academies of Science.
ABSTRACT Since their beginning, state academies of science have promoted and disseminated local and regional scientific research through the publication of refereed journals and conference proceedings. Increasingly, electronic publication and distribution are becoming important components of scholarly research and publication. To date, only a few state academies...

New venture focuses on Cuba-related online advertising.
Steve Marshall, the Havana-based British entrepreneur known for online Cuba travel service Go Cuba Plus, online supermarket Cuba Gift Store and investment site Real Estate Cuba, is now taking his Internet ventures to the next level by launching a digital advertising firm: Digital Panorama S.A. The new...

Who owns the name 'Anglican'? Question is raised: 'what's in a name?'.
Anglicans wanting to get online information about General Synod 2004 might have entered "General Synod 2004" or the acronym "gs2004" into a search engine. Either way they were likely to come across two similarly-named Web sites: gs2004.anglican.ca and gs2004.classicalanglican.com. The first, "the Web site for General Synod...

UN wants the internet.
March 25 was a busy day for Kofi Annan. In addition to his speech at the Rwanda memorial conference, the secretary-general made another address to a UN summit addressing the so-called "digital divide." Criticizing the current, largely informal and blessedly unregulated nature of the Internet, Annan insisted that the...

Dodge, Martin and Rob Kitchin. Mapping Cyberspace.
Dodge, Martin and Rob Kitchin. Mapping Cyberspace. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii, 260. ISBN 0-415-19884-4 (pb.) $36.95. Though Mapping Cyberspace addresses some of the most recent sources of information, the underlying problem of visualizing information has a long history. In fact, the method it...

Intellectual Property Cover.
Venture Programs has introduced VIP Cover, an insurance program designed to protect the intellectual property rights of manufacturers, technology, life sciences, and all types of service companies. VIP Cover, underwritten by Lloyd's of London, protects against disputes over the origin of or the right of use of intellectual property,...

The big block: a secret online blacklist. (Citings).
LAST YEAR Pennsylvania passed a bill to crack down on child pornography online. The cause was uncontroversial, but the law's approach--requiring Internet Service Providers to block Web sites based on their Internet Protocol addresses--drew immediate criticism from the technology community. "Child pornography is abhorrent," says Alan Davidson, associate director...

REALNAMES FIRM TO UNVEIL INVESTORS & NEW SERVICES.
By Nick Patience Developments at Centraal Corp, the company with the RealNames natural language mapping system as an alternative to regular domain names show no signs of slowing. In two weeks the Palo Alto-based startup will announce a two-year extension of its flagship deal with Compaq Computer Corp's AltaVista...

MICROSOFT SUES CYBERSQUATTER.
Microsoft Corp has filed suit against two companies it accuses of cybersquatting - the practice of registering domain names that use famous trademarks belonging to others in the hope that they will eventually buy them from you at a high price. The two Texan companies named in the suit,...

IBM OFFERS GUIDING HAND THROUGH ICANN'S GROWING PAINS.
By Nick Patience One thing that has become apparent over the past few weeks in the geopolitics of the internet, and especially the domain name system (DNS), is the role of IBM Corp. At least two of the nine board members of the newly-formed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...