Further drop in RP piracy rate to generate more jobs, increase gov't revenues - new IDC study.
Byline: edu h. lopez The Philippine economy would generate an estimated $363 million if its software piracy rate is further reduced to 53 percent by 2006 from the current 63 percent, according to a study by IDC (International Data Corporation). Commissioned by Business Software Alliance...

Further drop in RP piracy rate to generate more jobs, increase gov't revenues - new IDC study.
Byline: edu h. lopez The Philippine economy would generate an estimated $363 million if its software piracy rate is further reduced to 53 percent by 2006 from the current 63 percent, according to a study by IDC (International Data Corporation). Commissioned by Business Software Alliance...

New economy will force restructurings.
The new economy is real and will affect all businesses. This is the core belief of the Ayala Group of Companies, according to Ayala Corp. president Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II. "New global specialists will attack traditional players. Almost every industry will restructure. Industry...

Poachers with PCs: the United States' potential obligations and ability to enforce endangered wildlife trading prohibitions against foreign traders who advertise on eBay.
ABSTRACT The Internet has become a dangerous tool in the illegal trading of wildlife; a recent one-week survey found over 9,000 wildlife products for sale. As the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the United States' implementing legislation, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), address...

Gallup Finds Slight Drop in Crime Victimization Compared With 2005; Twenty-eight percent say their household was victimized by crime in last year.
Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Following a slightly higher estimate in 2005, Gallup finds a drop in self-reported crime victimization this year. Gallup has not found a lower estimate of household crime victimization since 2001, and has not found a lower personal crime victimization rate since 2000....

What are we protecting them from: by mandating schools restrict internet access, CIPA and other federal and state legislation intend to guard student's safety online--but all they may be doing is keeping vital educational technology out of the classroom.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On June 23, 2003, in writing the Supreme Court's majority opinion that upheld the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist shot down concerns that the law's mandated internet filters would block users of public library computers from...

Stronger child rape penalties outlined.
Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - House Democratic leaders and Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. joined Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday to outline a proposed new child protection law they said would provide new powers to track child predators on the Internet and impose mandatory minimum...

Veneta man, 64, sentenced to prison on child pornography charge.
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard A 64-year-old Veneta man, Thomas Wesley Boren, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison on a federal charge of possessing child pornography. The case arose from an undercover investigation into the distribution of child pornography over the Internet. A...

West Boylston Police Log.
Monday, March 24 9:55 a.m.: West Boylston Street, minor motor vehicle accident at Wal-Mart. No injuries reported. 12:36 p.m.: West Boylston Street, ambulance requested at Classic Suites for a male who was dizzy. 1:29 p.m.: West Boylston Street, lost purse reported at Wal-Mart....

Plea deal ends Simoncini's job.
Byline: Michael Kane WEST BOYLSTON - Former history and social studies teacher Scott Simoncini - on paid suspension since mid-January following his arrest on Internet-related sex crimes - has resigned from the West Boylston School District as part of a plea arrangement made with the district attorney's...