Online filtering gets smarter.
A NEW TYPE OF ONLINE FILTERING is sweeping across American schools, allowing staff members to go to Web sites from which students are blocked. As IT staffs know, most online filters are meaningless given students' know-how in finding proxy sites that allow them to check out sites...

Yahoo Offers 2 New E-mail Domains.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-24 June 2008-Yahoo Offers 2 New E-mail Domains(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Yahoo announced the availability of two new e-mail domains that will give users the chance to register for the e-mail address or Yahoo ID they have always wanted. Yahoo Mail is the...

The Eclectic Shade Tree.
LOCATION: ONLINE How did your group form? The Eclectic Shade Tree Book Group began in 2002, when Jason, its facilitator, took his brother's advice and launched an online book club in which they and their friends, but no others, could participate ("no others" in order...

ICANN SELECTS MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is slowly forming itself into a body capable of running the internet's domain name and number infrastructure, but one of the keys to its future success or failure is a membership to elect the board of directors and vote on...

Internet unleashed: ICANN escape.
THE U.S. Department of Commerce must love the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, because it is setting it free. ICANN, the California-based nonprofit organization that assigns Internet domains, such as .corn, and country domains, such as .uk, is finally on its way to full privatization. ...

John Howard's apology: a short history.
Storm in a Podcast Less than 36 hours after the launch of johnhowardpm.org on 13 March 2006, this site received 10,500 visitors. Then it disappeared. It took 48 hours to discover that the plug had been pulled by Melbourne IT, the registrant of the domain name. This...

The internet in 2006: a global, corporate or community construct?
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) pages i-xii, pages 1-219. Price A$59.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0 19 515266 2. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler...

Governors of cyberspace: who will decide what we can read on our computer screens?
THE words 'democracy' and 'human rights' cannot be used to search the web in China. The big internet companies--Google and Yahoo--install filters that comply with Chinese censorship efforts. On 30 December last year, Microsoft even shut down a Chinese-language blog on its MSN Pages when the blogger aggressively criticized...

Persistent problems of porn: offensive online content assaults school users though multiple channels.
When students in Livonia, Mich., were prompted by a local radio station to visit a unique Web site with the name of their school district in the address, they were assaulted by adult-oriented content touting "75 live cams, 12 girls and no rules." The site was initiated...

Acme Sports & Entertainment to Acquire Rockit! Productions.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-14 August 2007-Acme Sports & Entertainment to Acquire Rockit! Productions(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com ACME Sports & Entertainment has announced an agreement to acquire Florida based Rockit! Productions, Inc. a provider of The Rockit! branded handheld MP3 and MP4 players and accessories. In an...