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Inhaltsverzeichnis / List of Contents:
BUNDESGESETZBLATT (Teil I)
NEUERSCHEINUNGEN vom 19.10.1998-23.10.1998 (43. Woche)
12. November 1998, Bregenz
AUSWIRKUNGEN DES EU-RECHTS AUF DIE LAENDER
AURIS
AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM
QuickLinks 91 - 16 October 1998
edited by Richard Swetenham (richard....@cec.be). -
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BUNDESGESETZBLATT (Teil I)
NEUERSCHEINUNGEN vom 19.10.1998-23.10.1998 (43. Woche)
Nummer: BGBl. I 159/1998 Ausgabedatum: 20.10.1998
Bundesgesetz: Aenderung des Bundespraesidentenwahlgesetzes 1971
(NR: GP XX IA 854/A AB 1394 S. 139. BR: 5779 AB 5781 S. 644.)
Nummer: BGBl. I 160/1998 Ausgabedatum: 20.10.1998
Bundesgesetz: Aenderung des Volksbegehrengesetzes 1973
(NR: GP XX IA 853/A AB 1395 S. 139. BR: 5780 AB 5782 S. 644.)
Nummer: BGBl. I 161/1998 Ausgabedatum: 20.10.1998
Bundesgesetz: Aenderung der Nationalrats-Wahlordnung 1992
(NR: GP XX IA 856/A AB 1396 S. 139. BR: AB 5783 S. 644.)
Nummer: BGBl. I 162/1998 Ausgabedatum: 20.10.1998
Bundesgesetz: Aenderung der Europawahlordnung
(NR: GP XX IA 852/A AB 1397 S. 139. BR: AB 5784 S. 644.)
Nummer: BGBl. I 163/1998 Ausgabedatum: 22.10.1998
Bundesgesetz: Aenderung des Geschaeftsordnungsgesetzes 1975
(NR: GP XX IA 855/A AB 1414 S. 142.)
Naehere Information im Internet:
http://www.verlagoesterreich.at/bgbl/
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12. November 1998, Bregenz
AUSWIRKUNGEN DES EU-RECHTS AUF DIE LAENDER
Institut fuer Foederalismusforschung der
Laender Salzburg, Tirol und Vorarlberg in Innsbruck
Seminar
Auswirkungen des EU-Rechts auf die Laender
am Donnerstag, den 12. November 1998,
in Schluss Hofen, Lochau bei Bregenz.
Der Institutsdirektor:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter PERNTHALER
Der Kuratoriumsvorsitzende:
LAD Dr. Hermann Arnold
P R O G R A M M
9.00 Uhr: Eroeffnung des Seminars durch den Praesidenten des Vorarlberger
Landtages, Dipl. Vw. Siegfried GASSER
9.15 Uhr: Landtagsdirektor Dr. Karl EDTSTADLER, Salzburg
"Die zukuenftige Rolle der Landesparlamente im Rahmen der Europaeischen
Integration"
9.45 Uhr: Dr. Johannes MUeLLER, Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung
"Allgemeine Umsetzungsprobleme des EU-Rechts auf Landesebene"
10.15 Uhr: Pause
10.14 Uhr: Dr. Wolfgang BURTSCHER, Verbindungsstelle der Laender, Bruessel
"Der Folgeprozess der Landesgesetzgebung auf europaeischer Ebene"
11.10 Uhr: Dr. Josef UNTERLECHNER, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung
"Eu-Rechtsanpassung in landwirtschaftlichen, tierrechtlichen und
sonstigen 'gruenen, Bereichen"
11.30 Uhr: Diskussion
ca.
12.30 Uhr: Mittagspause
14.00 Uhr: Ass.Prof. Dr. Brigitte GUTKNECHT, Universitaet Wien
"Vergaberecht - Kompetenzfragen und Probleme der Rechtszersplitterung"
14.20. Uhr: DI Dr. Rainer MIKULITS, Oesterr. Institut fuer Bautechnik,
Wien
"Probleme der Umsetzung der EU-Bauprodukterrichtlinie"
14.40 Uhr: Dr. Gerold GLANTSCHNIG, Amt der Kaerntner Landesregierung
"Umsetzung der EU-Kommunalwahlrichtlinie - Erfahrungen und Probleme"
15.00 Uhr: Diskussion
ca.
16.00 Uhr: Ende des Seminars
AUSKUeNFTE
Institut fuer Foederalismusforschung
Maria-Theresien-Strasse 38b, 6020 Innsbruck,
Telefon 0512/57 45 94
Fax: 0512/ 57 45 94-4
ANMELDESCHLUSS:
5. November 1998
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AURIS
AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM
AURIS bietet im Internet Ueberblick ueber Oesterreichs universitaere
Forschung
Unter http://www.auris.ac.at praesentiert das neue Austrian Research
Information System (AURIS) im Internet die heimische universitaere
Forschung. Abrufbar sind dabei auch Kooperationspartner,
Veroeffentlichungen und die beteiligten Personen jedes Projekts. Die
Datenbank liegt auf einem Server der Technischen Universitaet Graz und
wird
monatlich von allen beteiligten Hochschulen aktualisiert. Der Zugang ist
kostenlos.
AURIS beschreibt sowohl in Deutsch als auch Englisch mehr als 15.000
laufende und abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte im Detail. Gesucht werden
kann nach verschiedenen Kriterien. Aufgelistet werden auch alle
dazugehoerigen Veroeffentlichungen, insgesamt weit ueber 40.000.
Zielgruppen von AURIS sind die Scientific Community und die Industrie.
Geholfen werden soll bei der Suche nach Kooperationspartnern, Gutachtern
und Spezialisten. Aber auch die Oeffentlichkeit hat ueber AURIS die
Moeglichkeit, sich ueber die Forschung an oesterreichischen Unis zu
informieren. Die stark strukturierte Suchmaske ermoegliche sowohl globale
als auch sehr gezielte Abfragen, Volltextsuche in den Beschreibungen der
Forschungsaktivitaeten sowie die Suche nach ausgewaehlten Themenbereichen.
Das Suchergebnis fuehrt direkt an die betreffende Universitaet, an der die
beteiligten Personen kontaktiert werden koennen.
Federfuehrend war im Auftrag des BMWV die Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer eine
oesterreichische Forschungsdokumentation unter der koordinierenden Leitung
von Dr. Bettina Schmeikal (WU Wien) und Dr. Franz Holzer (TU Graz)
Rueckfragen: Dr. Franz Holzer, TU Graz, F&T-Info, Tel. 0316/873-8390
webinfo - mailingservice des bm:wv
web....@bmwf.gv.at
http://www.bmwf.gv.at/euinfo.htm
Dr. Heinz Hauffe Tel: +43 (0) 512 507 2405
Universitaetsbibliothek Innsbruck Fax: +43 (0) 512 507 2864
Innrain 50 E-Mail: Heinz....@uibk.ac.at
A-6010 Innsbruck
http://ub.uibk.ac.at/hauffe.html
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QuickLinks 91 - 16 October 1998
edited by Richard Swetenham (richard....@cec.be). -
USA - A watershed day for high-tech policy
EU set to unveil draft electronic commerce law
Germany - SPD will Medienkontrolle in Deutschland neu
gestalten
Legal and regulatory issues
Access to public sector information / IT in government
* USA - Government Paperwork Elimination Act (Thomas) Lays the
framework for using electronic signatures for federal forms
submitted via the Net, and mandates that more federal documents
be posted online.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24234,00.html
Audiovisual
* Germany - Stoiber will ARD-Strukturrreform erzwingen
(Reuters) Der bayerische Ministerpraesident Edmund Stoiber (CSU)
hat mit dem Ausstieg aus dem Finanzausgleich der
Rundfunkanstalten gedroht, um damit eine Strukturreform der ARD
zu erzwingen. Stoiber erklaerte am Mittwoch auf den Muenchener
Medientagen, es muessten Rundfunkanstalten geschaffen werden, die
aus eigener Kraft lebensfaehig seien. Dies muesse notfalls mit der
Kuendigung des Finanzausgleichs vorangetrieben werden. Stoiber
wandte sich ferner gegen eine Zentralisierung der
Medienaufsicht. Nicht hinnehmen werde er zudem, wenn sich die
Europaeische Union (EU) in der Medienpolitik immer mehr
Kompetenzen aneigne, die bei den Bundeslaendern laegen.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15763
* UK - Londres lance une reflexion sur le financement de la BBC
par la redevance (Agence France Presse) Le gouvernement
britannique a lance mercredi une reflexion sur le financement de
la BBC, le service public de radio et de television,
actuellement assure pour l'essentiel par la redevance mais de
plus en plus conteste par ses concurrents prives.
http://www.nomade.fr/contenu/infoendirect/afp/981014MU00218767.shtml
Competition
* High-tech lawyers thinks antitrust needs help with high tech
(ZDNet News) Industry lawyers think perhaps U.S. antitrust
bodies should have their own powers curtailed. In the mind of
George Riley, attorney and partner at O'Melveny & Myers, the
high-tech industry needs a unique set of antitrust regulations.
The problem with the high-tech industry, said Riley, is that
innovation is too fast, integration makes the concept of a
"product" unclear, and intellectual property is a key tool to
defining markets.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdn
n/technology/19981014/199810141012
Microsoft
* Microsoft: Trial not hurting Europe (Reuters) Microsoft's
antitrust battle is not harming the software giant's business in
Europe, a company executive said today. John Frank, director of
European Law and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Europe, also
said the company would change its policies worldwide if the
Justice Department (DOJ) won its court case over whether
Microsoft had abused its position in the market for computer
operating system software.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27464,00.html?pfv
* How a Giant Software Maker Played the Game of Hardball (New
York Times) A close look at Microsoft's no-holds-barred push
into the Internet software business offers a window into the
ways the company uses its market muscle to influence the
behavior of virtually every player in the industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/biztech/articles/08microsoft.html
* USA - Microsoft Retort Reinterprets Gates E-Mail (New York
Times) In its latest pretrial salvo, the Microsoft Corporation
yesterday issued a
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/10-13record.htm>40-page
document
titled "Setting the Record
Straight" that attempts to refute the Government's antitrust
case -- a case that Microsoft asserts is based on "a handful of
snippets" quoted "misleadingly" from among the 3.3 million pages
of e-mail and memos the company handed over to the Justice
Department.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/biztech/articles/14soft.html
* USA - Microsoft's holy war on Java (CNET News.com) Microsoft
so feared that Java would undermine its Windows franchise that
its highest executives cemented partnerships with influential
companies to prevent Sun Microsystems from getting them first,
according to evidence not yet public in the high-profile lawsuit
between the two companies.
http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/Textonly/0,161,26707,00.html?st.ne.sf.pfv
* USA - Wooing of AOL considered key in Microsoft trial (The
Washington Post - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) The tale of how
Microsoft wooed -- and won over -- Case and his online service
AOL has emerged as a key part of the government's antitrust
lawsuit against Microsoft, which is scheduled to go to trial
this month.
http://www.ardemgaz.com/tech/dbbmicrosoft12.html
Computer crime
* Singapore Takes Hard Line On Computer Crime (Newsbytes)
Singapore's computer crime laws need to be extended to cope with
increased hacking, fraud and theft using computers, according to
Singapore's minister for law and foreign affairs. In 1998 there
had already been 56 reported cases of computer crime in
Singapore, from credit card "swiping" to the cloning of mobile
phones, to hacking, fraud and defacing or breaking Web sites.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/119715.html
* Norway - Child pornography - nine charged (Aftenposten/TV2)
Nine persons were charged with distribution of child pornography
on the Internet. Police seized ten computers.
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/d55740.htm
* Switzerland - Bundespolizei bekaempft Rassismus im Internet
(Neue Zuercher Zeitung) Die Bundespolizei hat Schweizer Internet-
Service-Anbieter aufgefordert, rassistische Internetseiten im
Ausland dem Zugriff ihrer Kunden zu entziehen. Damit soll
offenbar ein Pilotprozess in Sachen Rassismus im Internet
vorbereitet werden. Das ueberstuerzte Vorgehen der Bundespolizei
provozierte Kopfschuetteln und Veraergerung. Nicht nur wurden
viele technische Probleme uebersehen, es gibt auch
Rechtsunsicherheiten.
http://www.nzz.ch/online/01_nzz_aktuell/internet/hintergrund/nzz980731ro
senthal.htm
Convergence of telecommunications, media and information
technology sectors
* Germany - SPD will Medienkontrolle in Deutschland neu
gestalten (Newsroom DE) Offenbar Aufsichtsbehoerde nach
kanadischem Vorbild geplant. Die SPD will als Regierungspartei
die Kontrolle ueber Medien und Telekommunikation in Deutschland
neu gestalten. Dazu sollten Bund und Laender einen
"Kommunikationsrat" fuer Fernsehen und Telekommunikation bilden.
Im Gespraech ist demnach ein Modell, bei dem die 15
Landesmedienanstalten und die Kommission zur Ermittlung der
Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) zu einer
Bundesmedienanstalt als Bundesanstalt der Laender zusammengefasst
werden.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15554
* Germany - VDZ begruesst Forderung Stoibers nach Verbot der
Werbung in Online-Angeboten von ARD und ZDF (Newsroom DE) Der
Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) hat die Aeusserungen
des bayerischen Ministerpraesidenten Stoiber zu einem Verbot der
Werbung in Online-Angeboten von ARD und ZDF begruesst. Auf den
Muenchener Medientagen hatte Stoiber ausgefuehrt,
Rundfunkanstalten seien weder Verlagshaeuser noch Online-
Anbieter. Internet-Auftritte oeffentlich-rechtlicher Sender
duerften nicht aus Werbeeinnahmen finanziert werden, da es sonst
zu Wettbewerbsverzerrungen komme.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15730
Copyright
* British protest Rio invasion (ZDNet News) Three heavyweight
UK industry bodies backed the landmark suit brought against
Diamond Multimedia by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA).
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149218,00.html
* USA - Bands urged to help stop piracy (CNET News.com) In its
continuing battle against Internet piracy, industry group the
Recording Industry Association of America is turning to artists
to back it up. Over the last few weeks, the RIAA has sent a
letter to the management of big-name artists including Mick
Jagger, Sarah McLachlan, and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, asking
them to "speak out against Internet piracy."
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27605,00.html?pfv
Data Protection (privacy)
* UK - Internet cameras to guard school? (BBC) A headteacher's
plan to use the Internet to protect his school from intruders
has fallen foul of data protection regulations. John Mann, head
of Portsdown Primary School, Portsmouth, wanted to connect his
school's security cameras to a Website, so that he could monitor
the premises from home in the evening. But Portsmouth City
Council has advised Mr Mann that the scheme could be in breach
of an updated Data Protection Act, due to be implemented next
year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_192000/192708.stm
* USA - Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (Thomas) Web
sites must get parental consent before collecting information
from children aged 12 or younger.
ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/s2326.is.txt
* USA - New guidelines on child privacy (CNET News.com)
Industry group TRUSTe is creating a new child privacy program
that it hopes will address issues raised by the Federal Trade
Commission and the so-called Bryan bill now pending in Congress.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27489,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv
Electronic commerce
* EU set to unveil draft electronic commerce law (Reuters) The
European Commission is about to issue a proposal on how to
regulate sales of goods and services over the Internet or
similar networks. The European Union's executive arm has begun
debating a draft text covering issues such as advertising,
electronic contracts, liability for illegal content and
professional standards.
http://legalnews.findlaw.com/scripts/legalnews.pl?nofr=y&L=European_Unio
n&R=/new
Electronic democracy
* Amnesty seeks Net aid (BBC) The latest campaign of the human
rights organisation Amnesty International is to get more of its
members onto the Internet. Amnesty believes more people online
will boost the effectiveness of its Urgent Action Network. Its
alerts mobilise thousands of supporters to bombard the
authorities with messages when there is a threat of human rights
violations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_193000/193762.stm
* Elektronische Subversion in China (Neue Zuercher Zeitung) In
China wird zwar das Internet dazu genutzt, vom Regime
unterdrueckte Informationen unter die Oeffentlichkeit zu bringen.
Doch bisherige Erfahrungen lassen (noch) nicht darauf
schliessen, dass die Subversion Auswirkungen auf die
Innenpolitik haette.
http://www.nzz.ch/online/01_nzz_aktuell/internet/hintergrund/nzz980925mo.htm
* Web polls given vote of confidence (BBC) Are opinion polls
taken over the Web as accurate as those done over the telephone
or in the street? At least one major research organisation seems
100 per cent confident they can be (although, as they
traditionally say, it may only be accurate to within plus or
minus four per cent).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_192000/192965.stm
Employment and social issues
* Congress Revives Measure on High-Tech Visas (New York Times)
Congressional leaders on Tuesday revived legislation being
sought by the high-tech industry to nearly double the number of
visas available for skilled foreign workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/cyber/articles/14visa.html
* USA - Workforce Improvement and Protection Act (Thomas)
Increases the number of special H1-B visa for skilled foreign
workers.
ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/h3736.ih.txt
Euro and millennium bug
* UK - Millennium bug hits home (BBC) Householders are being
warned to check for the "millennium bug" inside appliances in
their homes. The UK Government is sending out 15 million
information packs warning of the effects the bug could have on
equipment used in the home every day. Four of the pack's eight
pages are devoted to computers - the most advanced piece of
technology in the home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_193000/193170.stm
Information society and Internet policy
* USA - A watershed day for high-tech policy (Inter@ctive Week)
A last-minute avalanche of deal-cutting and arm twisting
Thursday produced a watershed day for high-tech policy. Multiple
high-tech bills that had languished for months were given a
near-certain seal of approval when they were tacked onto the
larger budgetary deal brokered by Congressional and
administration leaders. In quick succession today, the White
House and law makers signed off on a $500 billion budget deal
that included bills to:
Double the number of temporary visas granted high-tech workers.
Restrict children's access to online pornography.
Place a time-out on further taxation of the Internet.
Require the federal government to post all its forms to the
Internet, as well as accept electronic, online signatures in
lieu of the old-fashioned pen-and-paper kind.
see also
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27617,00.html?pfv>CNET
News.com
and
<http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981015S0022>TechWeb.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2150326,00.html
Internet content
* USA - New laws won't stop hate (New York Times) The author,
James B. Jacobs, a professor of law at New York University and
co-author of "Hate Crime: Criminal Law and Identity Politics",
argues against special laws dealing with hate crime.
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/14jaco.html
Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
* Child Online Protection Act (Thomas) The controversial
provisions require commercial Web site operators who offer
"harmful" material to check visitors' identifications or face up
to $50,000 in fines and six months in prison each time a minor
gains access to the content. Civil liberties groups already
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27609,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh>
plan to file a lawsuit once President Clinton signs the
spending authorization into law. Another provision that troubles
free speech groups was tacked on to the Net Tax Act and <http://
www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27283,00.html>exempts sites from the
moratorium if they give minors unfettered access to "harmful
material".
ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/h3783.ih.txt
* Australia - ISPs liable for Net porn in legal deal (The
Australian) Internet service providers may face liability for
child pornography and other illegal online content after a
series of top-level meetings on Net regulation in Australia.
http://www.newsit.com.au/index.asp?URL=/techno/4223737.htm
* USA - Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act
(CNET News.com) The
<ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/h3494.ih.txt>Child Protection
and Sexual Predator Punishment Act applies
stiff penalties for using the Net to sexually solicit minors or
knowingly send "obscene" material to a person under 16.
Violators could get up to five and ten years in prison,
respectively, for the offenses. The bill also sticks Net access
providers with new liabilities for failing to report child
pornography once they are made aware of the illegal material.
ISPs could be fined up to $50,000 the first time they fail to
report the activity and up to $100,000 for each subsequent time
they don't contact law enforcement authorities. It also provides
an exemption that will make ISPs immune to prosecution should
they wrongly release information. ISPs, for their part, do not
like being put in the position of being forced to police their
members, and the act is criticised by civil liberties bodies for
its vague language. See also
<http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981015S0021>TechWeb
.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27502,00.html?pfv
* USA - Mother cannot sue AOL over porn peddled by member,
appeals court rules (Associated Press) A Florida State appeals
court ruled that a mother cannot sue America Online because one
of its customers peddled a pornographic video of her 11-year-old
son in an AOL chat room. Federal law protects online services
from being held liable for the messages transmitted by their
members. However, the appeals panel asked the Florida Supreme
Court to review the case and determine whether the law should
apply to activity that took place prior to 1996, when the
federal Communications Decency Act was enacted, if the federal
law pre-empts state law and if an online service should be held
responsible if it knows the customer is posting defamatory
messages.
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/101598/info7_26467_noframes.html
* USA - Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (CNET News
.com) The <ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/s1260.is.txt
>Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, which passed
Tuesday, would limit lawsuits against companies with volatile
stock prices by requiring class-action shareholder suits brought
against companies for failed earnings to be filed in federal
court. Proponents say the statute will protect the slew of
public high-tech start-ups from being sued in every state,
arguing that such suits have the potential to stifle the growing
computer industry.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27480,00.html?pfv
Protection of minors
* Microsoft veut promouvoir la protection des enfants sur
l'internet (Agence France Presse) Microsoft a annonce la
creation d'un nouveau site internet pour aider parents et
educateurs a encourager les enfants a explorer le Web tout en
les protegeant, dans un communique publie jeudi.
<http://www.microsoft.com/misc/safeonline/>Ce site offre des
informations
sur la protection de la vie privee ainsi que des liens directs
avec des sites d'interet general ou destines particulierement
aux enfants.
http://www.nomade.fr/contenu/infoendirect/afp/981015MU00219194.shtml
Security and encryption
* Germany - "Kultur der Aufklaerung" (Der Spiegel) Interview mit
Otto Ulrich, beim Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik (BSI) fuer Technikfolgen-Abschaetzung
zustaendig, ueber den Wandel in der Kryptopolitik. Das BSI ist dem
Innenministerium zugeordnet und galt lange Zeit als Vollstrecker
der harten Kryptolinie Manfred Kanthers. Nach der politischen
Wende ist aus dem mit rund 300 Mitarbeitern relativ kleinen
Bundesamt nun viel ueber Kryptographie als Buergerrecht und eine
neue demokratische Diskussion der Sicherheitstechnologien zu
hoeren.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/jump.phtml?channel=netzwelt&rub=02&cont=t
hemen/ul
Taxation and tariffs
* USA - Internet Tax Freedom Act (Thomas) Seen as a boon to e-
commerce, the bill would create a national three-year moratorium
on "discriminatory" taxes on Net access and services. Taxes
passed before October 1, 1998, are exempt.
ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp105/sr276.txt
Telecommunications
* Industry Players Add New Twist to Plenipot Proceedings (Total
Telecom (registration required)) The fifteenth ITU
Plenipotentiary Conference is the first treaty-making conference
in the history of the specialized agency, indeed in the history
of the United Nations system, in which private industry will be
able to participate as observers.
http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/19916/worldmore.html
* Spain - BT solicita licencia para ser operador de servicios
completos en Espana (ZDNet Espana) BT Telecomunicaciones, filial
en Espana de BT, presento ante la Comision de Telecomunicaciones
la solicitud de una licencia tipo B1 para ofrecer servicios de
telefonia fija en Espana. Esta licencia complementarss la actual
oferta de la compania como proveedora de servicios avanzados de
comunicaciones a empresas, y le permitirss convertirse en la
Operadora de Servicios Completos de Comunicaciones, con
infraestructura y redes propias, para toda la sociedad espanola.
http://www.zdnet-es.com/zdnet/hoy/noticia10.html
* USA - Supreme Court hears arguments in telecom case (InfoWorld
Electric ) The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a dispute
over whether the U.S. Federal Communications Commission or state
utility regulatory boards have authority under the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 to write rules governing
competition in the local telephone market. Long-distance
carriers such as AT&T and MCI WorldCom support the FCC's role in
writing the rules because they say it would be too difficult to
enter local markets unless there are uniform price guidelines
effective countrywide for the cost of leasing pieces of an
incumbent carrier's network.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?981014.wntelecomact.htm
Market & Technology
Convergence of telecommunications, media and information
technology sectors
* Digital TV Seen As Home Multimedia Server (EE Times) The
digital TV will not be another PC-like Internet box, but rather
a home multimedia server, judging by the prototypes on display
at the recent Japan Electronics Show. Both JVC and Matsushita
showed off TVs at the show that incorporate HDDs and act as
central systems for audio, video, and data. JVC's prototype
features 1 gigabyte of storage capacity; Matsushita showed a
large-screen TV with a whopping 12.5-GB HDD.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981012S0006
* NTL leads the way for interactive TV (Press release) NTL has
announced its plans for TV-based interactive services, available
nationally across a variety of interactive TV platforms and -
launching on 31 March 1999 - the first to reach the consumer.
NTL Interactive combines the breadth of digital expertise in the
NTL group itself with best-of-breed technology and content
partners including Microsoft, Barclays Bank, Airtours, Press
Association and Universal Studios. NTL is offering an end-to-end
service to new-media entrants who wish to market their products
and services through interactive TV set-top boxes.
http://www.ntl.co.uk/press/latenews.htm
Domain names
* Canadians market Tuvalu's name (Reuters) The world's smallest
country, the south Pacific island of Tuvalu, could undergo a
Cinderella-like transformation after hanging a "for sale" sign
on its Internet domain name. A privately held Canadian company,
the .TV Corporation, today began to market Tuvalu's country code
designation, hoping that major television companies, producers,
television personalities, and others might want to own a Web
site address that has a ".tv" ending.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27570,00.html?pfv
Electronic commerce
* Amazon.com sets up shop in Britain, Germany (Reuters) U.S.
online bookseller Amazon.com Inc set up shop overseas on
Thursday by launching its first domestic services in Britain and
Germany, two of Europe's biggest book markets. The new websites
-- www.amazon.co.uk and www.amazon.de -- mean that Europeans
will have a greater choice of British and German-language
bestsellers, as well as top U.S. titles.
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/19981015/news/908467440-0000017277.html
* EC: businesses are failing to pool ecommerce expertise
(Silicon News) European businesses have come under fire from the
European Commission for stifling the growth of electronic
commerce. Speaking yesterday at the BT E-business awards
ceremony in London, Rosalie Zobel, Head of Unit in DGIII at the
European Commission, said that European businesses are still
failing to pool resources and valuable expertise in ecommerce.
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ,908383289+6004REQEVENT,+REQIN
T1,25238
* Ecommerce predictions way off mark, suggests Cisco CEO (vnu
|net) Estimates of the amount of business that will be done on
the Internet have been very conservative claims John Chambers,
chief executive of Cisco, who believes that by 2002 ecommerce
could pass $1,500 billion or more. Speaking at Gartner Group_s
annual US Symposium, before an audience of 10,000 IT managers,
vendors and analysts, Chambers said the potential savings would
force the pace. He claims Cisco saved $500 million last year
through its Web applications.
http://webserv.vnu.co.uk/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_msn.homepage?p_story=65634
* Net retailers join forces (CNET News.com) Four major Web
retailers today are jointly launching a shopping network
featuring all the firms' products. <http://www.cdnow.com>CDnow,
<http://www.outpost.com>Cyberian Outpost, <http://www.etoys.com
>eToys, and <http://www.reel.com>Reel.com said they plan to
launch the site in November.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27564,00.html
* UK - BT banks on e-commerce for low-value transactions (ZDNet
News) BT is beefing up its e-commerce capabilities with the
launch of a new consumer service for handling low-value
transactions traditional credit card companies tend to shun. BT
Argent - to be launched later this month - is aimed at thrifty,
cyber-shoppers who want to spend anything from a few pence to
u15 on goods, software and information. Customers are charged on
their monthly credit card bill but unlike wallet-based
micropayment systems, do not have to pay up front.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1998/40/ns-5740.html
* UK - Share dealing: an Online revolution (BBC
) Share trading in the UK is about to
undergo a revolution. Next week Barclays Stockbrokers, the UK's
largest share broker, plans to make the first ever "real time"
share trade in Europe over the Internet. Investors will be able
to buy and sell shares at the very latest market prices at the
click of a button.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/your_money/newsid_193000/193421.stm
Employment and social issues
* Europe, like Silicon Valley, reports worker shortage (Reuters)
California's Silicon Valley isn't the only place that says it's
running short of high-tech talent. Western Europe's computer and
telecommunications industry has some 367,000 jobs that it can't
fill, costing it a few percentage points of economic growth. In
Germany, 75,000 jobs are going unfilled because of too few
qualified workers, said Bernhard Rohleder, managing director at
the European Information Technology Observatory.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981015/wr/eu
rope_4.html
Euro and millennium bug
* Printers Lag In Euro Conversion (TechWeb) A survey of 450
European sites with about 170,000 printers carried out over the
past two months found 93 percent of U.K. businesses have not yet
converted their printing systems to handle the euro.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981015S0010
Internet access and use
* Argentina se acerca a Internet2 (Prime Media Press ) Argentina
podria convertirse en el primer pais latinoamericano en disponer
de acceso a Internet2, red academica que alcanzarss velocidades
de flujo de datos entre 100 y 1000 veces superiores a las
actuales.
http://www.pm-press.com/noticias/oct98/not981009a.htm
* British Telecom Lags With ADSL (TechWeb) British Telecom
announced Wednesday a limited trial of a high-speed Internet
access service using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
technology. BT began tests of ADSL technology more than two
years ago, and the technology already is being used by several
telephone companies in the United States. But analysts said BT
has good reason not to rush the service to market.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981014S0015
* Russia - Alle benutzen das Internet - auch der KGB (Neue
Zuercher Zeitung) Wenn es ums Internet oder um E-Mail geht, sind
die Russen regelrechte Fortschrittsfanatiker. Die schrankenlose
Kommunikation findet allerdings an den russischen Realitaeten
ihre Grenzen: an der mangelnden Qualitaet der Telefonleitungen
und an den Kontrollgeluesten des Staates.
http://www.nzz.ch/online/01_nzz_aktuell/internet/hintergrund/nzz980904eg.htm
* Spain - Nace la Asociacion de Internautas (ZDNet Espana) El
pasado fin de semana se reunieron en Madrid miembros de los
grupos que convocaron la jornada de protesta del 3 de octubre,
<http://www.arnal.es/free>FrEE - Fronteras Electronicas,
<http://www.laref.com/gtp/>GTP - Grupo Tarifa Plana,
<http://www.lanzadera.com/lahuelga>PLH - Plataforma La_huelga y
<http://tarifaplana.home.ml.org>PTP - Plataforma Tarifa Plana para
fundar la Asociacion de Internautas.
http://www.zdnet-es.com/zdnet/hoy/noticia8.html
Market
* French To Spend $40 Billion On IT (CNET News.com
) High spending by French companies on IT products and
services is set to continue, while IT spending habits will
change as companies reduce the number of suppliers they use by
half, according to two studies published this week.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981015S0006
* Murdoch wegen Turbulenzen an Finanzmaerkten keine Fusionsplaene
(Reuters) Die Turbulenzen an den globalen Finanzmaerkten
behindern nach den Worten des Medienunternehmers Rupert Murdoch
den Ausbau seines Konzerns. Solange sich die Maerkte nicht
beruhigten, habe News Corp keine grossen Fusionsplaene, erklaerte
Vorstandschef Murdoch nach der Hauptversammlung des Unternehmens
am Dienstag im australischen Adelaide.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15641
* France - L'annuaire depoussiere son image avec Internet
(Agence France Presse) Le bon vieux "bottin" du telephone entre
dans le cyberspace: la plupart des annuaires francais sont
desormais en ligne et leur chiffre d'affaires publicitaire sur
Internet depassera cette annee celui de tous les autres sites
francais sur le web, selon le Syndicat national des annuaires
(SNA).
http://www.nomade.fr/contenu/infoendirect/afp/981015MU00219139.shtml
* Germany - "TM3" dementiert Bericht ueber Murdoch-Einstieg
(Newsroom DE) Der Muenchener Fernsehsender "tm3" hat einen
Magazinbericht zurueckgewiesen, wonach der australische
Medienunternehmer Rupert Murdoch bei dem Sender einsteigen will.
Mit Murdoch bestuenden derzeit keine Absprachen, die auf eine
Uebernahme von "tm3"-Anteilen zielten.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15508
Multilingual content and software
* IBM Reports Speech Technology Gains In China (EE Times) IBM's
China Research Laboratory has reported a series of major
developments in Chinese speech- and handwriting-recognition
software that are expected to accelerate the growth of China's
burgeoning information technology market.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981013S0004
* Netscape expands international sites (ZDNet News) Netscape
Communications Corp., aiming to take advantage of what it
describes as the growing Internet fever abroad, will add content
and services on its localized international Web sites.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149470,00.html
Portals and search engines
* AltaVista returns to roots (ZDNet News)
<http://www.altavista.com>AltaVista rolled out a host of new services
aimed at
improving Internet searching. The move is a return to
AltaVista's roots as a search engine. In an effort to be more of
a portal, the site recently had added features unrelated to
searches, such as news feeds and stock quotes. New options
include an improved category search, a "Q&A" search, which lets
the user ask a question such as "What is the weather forecast
for Toledo, Ohio?", Photo Finder: users can search a catalog of
more than a million images and Family Filter: the filtering
option screens out pornographic content, while allowing sites on
such topics as sex education and breast cancer. see also
<http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15579.html>
Wired.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2148981,00.html
* MSN Fires Latest Shot in Portal Battle (Internetnews)
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday debuted the latest addition to its
burgeoning MSN.com portal, adding a personal finance hub dubbed
MSN MoneyCentral.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/1998/10/1401-msn.html
* Netcenter beefs up content (ZDNet News) Netscape
Communications Corp. plans to announce Thursday a number of new
content deals for its Netcenter Web site, part of its drive to
attract a wider audience for the site.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981015/wr/ne
scape_10.html
* The meek (portlets) shall inherit the earth (ZDNet News) The
author discusses
<http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0629/29mind.html>"portalmania" and
suggests a new type of portal called a "portlet."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149399,00.html
* Italy - Internet: Telecom Italia s'allie a Excite (Agence
France Presse) Telecom Italia a annonce mercredi la signature
d'un accord avec le moteur de recherche americain Excite, pour
lancer prochainement Excite Italia, qui offrira a ses clients un
acces internet personnalise et rapide.
http://www.nomade.fr/contenu/infoendirect/afp/981014MU00218697.shtml
Security and encryption
* Software bug hits Cisco (ZDNet News) A software error has
been uncovered that compromises the security of certain products
made by Cisco Systems. The bug which affects the company's
networking software allows unauthenticated users to penetrate
logins for routers and other devices. That, in turn, can open
the door for hackers to read information entered by prior users
of the devices - including passwords.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149744,00.html
Software
* USA - Navigator tops IE in corporate arena (ZDNet News) Far
from losing the browser wars, a new study concludes that
Netscape Communications Corp. is actually pulling away from
Microsoft Corp. in one key market: corporate America. The report
by Zona Research Inc., released Thursday, says that Netscape_s
Navigator has widened its lead in the business market, now
residing on 60 percent of corporate desktops.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149976,00.html
Statistics
* Spain - Ciudadanos digitales: que hacemos, como somos y hacia
donde vamosos (Novatec - La Vanguardia) La comunidad de
internautas crece en nuestro pais y en todo el mundo. En este
articulo de Miguel Perez Subias, presidente de la AUI, se
condensan los datos msss relevantes a modo de radiografia del
Internauta a partir de los -ltimos informes elaborados,
recalcando especialmente el perfil del usuario espanol.
http://www.novatec.net/oct98/articulos/12internet.html
Telecommunications
* High Europe Internet Phone Growth Seen (Reuters) International
telephone services running over the Internet are set to explode
across Europe in the next five years, helping to force some
traditional telephone companies to slash charges by almost 70
percent. But companies leading the way on the Internet will soon
fall victim to a backlash by traditional companies which will
not stand idly watching their markets disappearing, the report
by high technology consultancy Schema said.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981015/tc/eu
rope_2.html
Useful addresses
* CataLaw (Dov Wisebrod) Catalog of catalogs of law on the
Internet. It helps speed research by arranging all legal and
government indexes into a unique, uniform and universal
metaindex. There are now over 7000 links.
http://www.CataLaw.com/
* Telecom Information Resources (Prof. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason)
References to information sources relating to the technical,
economic, public policy, and social aspects of
telecommunications. All forms of telecommunication, including,
voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite,
are included.
http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.html
QuickLinks
Links to news items about
legal and regulatory aspects of Internet and the information
society, and
market and technology
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http://www.echo.lu/news/
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Inhaltsverzeichnis / List of Contents:
27. November 1998, Wien
"AUDIOVISUELLE MEDIEN UND BEHOERDEN"
ORAC ELECTRONICA NEWSLETTER 43/98
QuickLinks 92 - 22 October 1998
edited by Richard Swetenham (richard....@cec.be). -
JURISTISCHES EXCERPT DER EUROPA-DOKUMENTATION
IM BUNDESKANZLERAMT: JEE981027 vom 27. Oktober 1998
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27. November 1998, Wien
"AUDIOVISUELLE MEDIEN UND BEHOERDEN"
Aufgaben und Herausforderungen
fuer Regulatoren in der sich
wandelnden Medienlandschaft Europas
Europaeische Kommission
Bundeskanzleramt
Freitag, 27. November 1998
Expertenreferate mit jeweils anschliessender Diskussion
Veranstaltungsort: Redoutensaele der Hofburg
Josefsplatz-Hofburg
A-1014 Wien
9.30 - 10.15 Begruessung durch SC Dr. Wolf OKRESEK
Einleitungsreferat (Staatssekretaer Dr. Peter WITTMANN)
10.15 - 11.15 "Kultur- und sozialpolitische Auswirkungen
der Konvergenz im Hinblick auf die Medienregulierung
- auf nationaler und auf Gemeinschaftsebene"
Referent: Univ.Prof. Francics BALLE (IREX)
11.15 - 11.30 Kaffeepause
11.30 - 12.30 "Neu Herausforderungen fuer audiovisuelle
Regulierungsbehoerden"
Reerent: Michael REDLEY (ITC)
14.00 - 15.45 "Erwartungen der Rundfunkveranstalter an die
Regulierungsbehoerden der Zukunft"
a) aus der Sicht der privaten Rundfunkveranstalter
Referent: Jan MOJTO (ACT)
b) aus der Sicht der oeffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkveranstalter
Refernt: Prof. Albert SCHARF (EBU)
15.45 - 16.00 Kaffeepause
16.00 - 17.00 "Ueberlegungen der Europaeischen Kommission
zu den Regulierungsbehoerden der Zukunft"
Referent: Spyridos A. PAPPAS (GD X)
17.00 - 18.00 "Typologie moeglicher Organisationsstrukturen
der Regulierungsbehoerden"
Referent: Univ.Prof. Dr. Michael HOLOUBEK (WU-Wien)
Weitere Informationen bei
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ORAC ELECTRONICA NEWSLETTER 43/98
1) EURO-Update
Jetzt wird die Eurofibu Bilanz und Eurofibu Einnahmen-/ Ausgabenrechnung
EURO-faehig. Ab 1.1.1999 ist es in Oesterreich moeglich, die Buchhaltung
in
Euro zu fuehren. Mit dem EURO-Update erhalten Sie die entsprechende
Funktionalitaet, u.a. Umstellung der Buchhaltung auf EURO, Verbuchen von
Rechnungen in EURO, automatische Umrechnungen. Das EURO-Update erscheint
im November 1998.
(EURO-Update fuer Bilanz: 700,- oeS; e18.31.51)
(EURO-Update fuer E/A: 600,- oeS; e18.41.51)
2) Eurofibu Abonnement
Ab sofort gibt es fuer die Eurofibus einen Abo-Dienst. Mit dem Abo
erhalten Sie in Zukunft 2-3 mal im Jahr u.a. alle gesetzlichen
Aenderungen, Funktionsverbesserungen, Anpassungen der Software an
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Im Rahmen des Eurofibu Abos erhalten die Abonnenten das EURO-Update zu
dem um 50% reduzierten Abo-Preis:
(EURO-Update fuer Bilanz-Abo: 350,- oeS; e18.31.51)
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Naehere Infos und Bestellmoeglichkeit unter:
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3) Orac electronica Gesamtkatalog
ist heute erschienen. Auf 20 Seiten stellen wir Ihnen fast 40
elektronische Publikationen vor, fast doppelt soviel wie noch vor einem
halben Jahr. Die K.I.T.-Reihe wurde um zahlreiche Titel erweitert.
Ausserdem beginnen wir die neue Reihe Business-Software mit den Titeln
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QuickLinks 92 - 22 October 1998
IANA chief Jon Postel dies
U.S. supports private Internet domain-name group
Germany - Entscheidung ueber Bund-Laender-Kommunikationsrat
verschoben
Legal and regulatory issues
Access to public sector information / IT in government
* Free European patent search from Austrian Patent Office
(webinfo - mailingservice des bm:wv) Ab Mitte Oktober koennen
Patente der westeuropaeischen Staaten kostenlos via Internet
abgefragt werden. Der Zugriff erfolgt im <http://dips.patent
.bmwa.gv.at>esp@cenet (Patentinformationsdienst des
Oesterreichischen Patentamtes) In einer ersten Ausbaustufe sind
die Patente der letzten 24 Monate aller Mitgliedstaaten der
Europaeischen Patentorganisation (u.a. alle EU-Staaten und die
Schweiz), des Europaeischen Patentamts und die Internationalen
Patentveroeffentlichungen der Weltorganisation fuer geistiges
Eigentum abrufbar.
http://ub.uibk.ac.at/hauffe.html
* Patent applications to be on Web database (Mercury News) IBM's
Almaden Research Center will open a new window on the world's
inventions when it adds international patent applications, not
just granted patents, to its free-access Web database. The move
will make more than 4 million documents freely available for the
first time. Researchers previously had to pay to access patent
information through private database companies.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/top/patents.htm
* Trademark spies get better tools for keeping up with
competition (Wall Street Journal) The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office at the end of August began allowing Web users to search
its database for trademarks, the unique words, logos or symbols
used to identify goods and services.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/206852.asp
* Germany - Koalition will Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (Heise)
Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik gibt es den
<http://www.spd.de/aktuell/programmatisches/vertrag.htm
>Koalitionsvertrag im Internet - noch bevor die
Parteimitglieder selbst davon Kenntnis genommen haben.
Ueberraschend ist die Ankuendigung eines
Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes: "Durch ein
Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wollen wir unter Beruecksichtigung
des Datenschutzes den Buergerinnen und Buergern
Informationszugangsrechte verschaffen." Hier konnten sich die
Buendnisgruenen, die schon vor Jahren einen Gesetzesentwurf
vorgelegt hatten, erfolgreich durchsetzen.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/mis-20.10.98-001/
* Germany - Staedtebund-Sprecher:"Wir muessen die Datenschraenke
aufmachen!" (Spiegel) Das Netz vertreibt den Amtsschimmel aus
deutschen Rathaeusern - meint-Franz-Reinhard Habbel. Im SPIEGEL
ONLINE-Interview sprudelte der Sprecher des Deutschen Staedte-
und Gemeindebundes beim Thema Multimedia vor Enthusiasmus.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/middle.phtml?channel=netzwelt&rub=02&cont
=themen/habbel2.html
* Switzerland - Internet et les administrations a l'etranger,
une source d'idees (Bruno OUDET) "De nombreux pays ont publie
des documents refletant leur strategie. A cet egard, la Suisse
ne saurait reinventer la roue. Elle doit donc s'inspirer des
initiatives et des experiences glanees dans d'autres pays".
Extrait du rapport a l'intention du Conseil federal suisse "La
Suisse et la societe de l'information"
http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/PLAN/
Audiovisual
* EU-Wettbewerbskommissar van Miert weist Vorwuerfe Stoibers
zurueck (Newsroom De) EU-Wettbewerbskommissar Karel van Miert hat
Vorwuerfe Bayerns zurueckgewiesen, die Europaeische Union wolle
sich medienpolitische Kompetenzen der Bundeslaender aneignen.
Solche Beschuldigungen haetten nichts mit der Realitaet zu tun,
sagte van Miert am Sonntag im Deutschlandfunk. Wenn es Probleme
zwischen privaten und oeffentlichen Sendern gebe, die zu Klagen
bei der EU in Bruessel fuehrten, koenne man dies nicht der
Kommission anlasten.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=15932
* Streit in EU um Programmauftrag der Oeffentlich-Rechtlichen
(Agence France Presse) Experten aus EU-Kommission und EU-Staaten
haben am Dienstag ueber Finanzierung und Programmauftrag des
oeffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks und Fernsehens in der
Europaeischen Union gestritten. Am Rande der Beratungen in
Bruessel hiess es, mit den Vertretern von EU-Wettbewerbskommissar
Karel van Miert werde vor allem um die Definition des
Programmauftrages des oeffentlichen Sender gerungen.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=16060
Competition
* Cartel Fears Block ATM Interconnect (Total Telecom
(registration required)) A European industry initiative to
develop a set of standards for high-bandwidth ATM network
interoperability has collapsed following intervention by the
European Commission. The European Public Telecommunications
Network Operators' Association (ETNO) last week accused the
EC's directorate general IV, which oversees competition issues,
of effectively killing its initiative to hammer out standards
for interoperable ATM.
http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20015/worldmore.html
Microsoft
* Microsoft's Antitrust Trial (New York Times (registration
required)) Index of articles on issues traised in trial and
evidence produced. see also
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/msdojtrial.html>ZDNet.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/index-microsoft.html
Computer crime
* Flics contre pedophiles, cybertraque (Liberation) Avec le Web,
les reseaux de pedophiles s'etendent sans souci des frontieres
ni des legislations. Pour les demanteler, les policiers,
assistes de logiciels specifiques, se muent en cracks du
multimedia et tentent de renforcer la cooperation
internationale.
http://www.liberation.fr/multi/cahier/articles/sem98.43/cah981016a.html
* USA - Child Porn on Net Fueled Killer (Wired ) The man who
sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl in a Las Vegas
casino restroom said that there were a number of factors --
among them the availability of child pornography on the Internet
-- that led him to do what he did.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/culture/story/15632.html
* USA - Man who confessed online to murder hit with child
pornography charge (The Associated Press) A man serving 30 years
in prison for killing his daughter in a house fire will serve
another 10 years for trafficking in child pornography, a federal
judge has ruled.
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/102198/info12_25212_noframes
.html
* USA - Net Gambling Double Play (Wired) Investigators pulled
the plug on computer systems allegedly used to host an illegal
offshore Internet gambling operation taking bets on Yankee
playoffs and other sporting events.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/15684.html
Consumer protection
* EU - Commission proposal for regulatory framework for distance
selling of financial services (Press Release) A proposal for a
Directive to establish a regulatory framework for the marketing
of financial services at a distance within the Single Market was
presented by the European Commission on 14 October 1998. The aim
of the proposal is to ensure a high level of protection for
consumers of retail financial services (e.g. insurance, banking
and investment services) marketed by telephone, by electronic
means such as the Internet or by mail. The proposal would fully
harmonise Member States' rules on distance selling of financial
services.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg15/en/finances/consumer/891.htm
Convergence of telecommunications, media and information
technology sectors
* Germany - Entscheidung ueber Bund-Laender-Kommunikationsrat
verschoben (Heise) Im Koalitionsvertrag der neuen
Regierungskoalition wurde auf die Forderung nach Einrichtung
eines Bund-Laender-Kommunikationsrates verzichtet. Sowohl SPD und
Buendnisgruene hatten das Konzept eines Kommunikationsrats in
ihren Positionen verankert und zuletzt seine Einrichtung im
Schlussbericht der Enquetekommission "Neue Medien" (S. 27, 119)
gefordert: Der Rat sollte Koordinierungsaufgaben im Bereich von
Rundfunk, Mediendiensten und Telekommunikation wahrnehmen und
damit das "Risiko von Fehlentscheidungen" aufgrund der "jetzigen
Zersplitterung von medienpolitischen Zustaendigkeiten"
verhindern. Wie aus Kreisen der SPD bekannt wurde, hatte sich
die designierte Bildungsministerin Edelgard Bulmahn waehrend der
Koalitionsverhandlungen gegen die Etablierung des
Kommunikationsrates ausgesprochen. Bulmahn hatte behauptet,
dieser sei in verschiedenen Laendern umstritten, und sich damit
durchgesetzt.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/fr-21.10.98-001/
Copyright
* UK - Court order can't halt European Rio - Diamond (ZDNet
News) The UK arm of Diamond Multimedia says the Rio MP3 player
will not be affected by an American court's decision to halt its
release in the US and will launch in Europe as planned after the
26th November.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1998/41/ns-5784.html
* USA - Copyright Battle Looms For AltaVista (7am News) It
would appear that AltaVista didn't do their legal homework
before launching the new <http://image.altavista.com>AV Photo
Finder service -- and that could see them facing charges of
copyright infringement bought by photographers and graphic
artists whose works they are allegedly using without permission.
http://7am.com/cgi-bin/twires.cgi?1000_t9810140.htm
* USA - Judge puts MP3 player on hold (ZDNN) The Recording
Industry Association of America Friday won an initial skirmish
to prevent a company from bringing a digital music player - a
device that plays so-called MP3 files downloaded from the
Internet - to market. Los Angeles U.S. District Court Judge
Audrey Collins granted a 10-day restraining order that prevents
PC multimedia hardware maker Diamond Multimedia from
manufacturing its digital music player, the Rio, until a
preliminary injunction hearing can be held Oct. 26.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/206128.asp
Data Protection (privacy)
* USA - "We spy for you" (Spiegel) Oeffentlich kursierende
Kontostaende und Krankengeschichten, marktgerecht ausgeforschte
Kinder und hohe Preise fuer zielgruppengerechtes Datenmaterial
kennzeichnen den Datenschutz in den USA. Der Datenbank-
Vermarkter <http://www.metromail.com>Metromail zum Beispiel
wurde kuerzlich fuer 845 Millionen Dollar verkauft - und zwar vor
allem wegen der Daten, die die Firma ueber das Internet sammelt.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/middle.phtml?channel=netzwelt&rub=02&cont
=themen/datenschutz_schoen.html
WebTV
* Mehr zu Micosofts Umgang mit Benutzerdaten bei WebTV
(Telepolis) Die Settop-Boxen von Microsofts WebTV zeichnen, wie
<http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1590/1.html>Telepolis
gestern berichtete, nicht nur alle vom jeweiligen Kunden
gesehenen TV-Sendungen, Filme, Websites und Online-Bestellungen
auf, sondern versehen das Interessenprofil auch mit einer
digitalen Signatur. Damit werden aus anonymen Daten weitgehend
vollstaendige Persoenlichkeitsprofile mit Namen und Adressen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1594/1.html
* Reporting Practices Put WebTV on Defensive (New York Times
(registration required)) The WebTV device can record practically
all of the actions of users. The company already keeps track
which shows people watch and which Web sites they visit. It also
monitors when people click through to different Web sites after
seeing particular advertisements on television. The
<http://webtv.net/home/privacy_text.html>company's privacy policy starts
by saying it will not disclose personal information, like
someone's credit card number or the e-mail a user might send, in
part because federal law forbids it. But, WebTV may offer up
aggregated information about users to advertisers and other
partners. So it won't reveal which Web sites a user visits, but
it may compile a list of the most popular sites all users visit.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/cyber/articles/18webtv.html
* Germany - WebTV-Skandal erster Anwendungsfall fuer EU-
Datenschutzrichtlinie? (Heise) Der Virtuelle Ortsverein der SPD
warnt nun davor, dass auch im deutschen WebTV-Projekt, das
die Firma zusammen mit der Deutschen Telekom zur Zeit erprobt,
Daten an Werbefirmen zum Zwecke einer zielorientierten Werbung
weitergegeben werden sollen.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/fr-21.10.98-002/
Digital signatures
* Germany - Die Digitale Signatur kommt (Der Stern) Vom Ende
dieses Monats koennen Multi-Media-Vertraege mit einer digitalen
Unterschrift unterzeichnet werden. Wer eine digitale Signatur
benutzen moechte, muss sich zu einer Zertifizierungsstelle
begeben. Dort erhaelt man seine persoenliche Signatur nebst deren
Beglaubigung. Die ersten staatlich genehmigten
Zertifizierungsaemter sind die "T-Punkt"-Laeden der Telekom,
mindestens 30 weitere Firmen haben sich um eine
Zertifizierungserlaubnis beworben.
http://www.stern.de/webguide/webreporter/computer/1998/10/14/signatur.ht
ml
Domain names
* IANA chief Jon Postel dies (CNET News.com) Jon Postel, an
Internet luminary and one of the most powerful men on the Net,
has died of heart problems at the age of 55. Postel, who played
a critical role in both the Internet's past and its future, died
Friday evening during heart surgery, according to friends and
colleagues.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27672,00.html?pfv
* U.S. supports private Internet domain-name group (ZDNet News
) The White House on Tuesday gave a conditional go-ahead to the
process of privatizing the governance of the Internet. ICANN's
bylaws must be altered to respond to the demands of some rival
Internet governance proposals. see also
<http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?981020.widociana.htm>I
nfoWorld
Electric and
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27757,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv>
CNet.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2152320,00.html
* French court judgement online (legalis) Le TGI de Draguignan a
rendu une nouvelle ordonnance de refere concernant les litiges
entre droit des marques et noms de domaines.
http://www.legalis.net/legalnet/judiciaire/ord_0498.htm
* USA - House panel probes Net name reform (Reuters) The House
Commerce Committee said it had opened an investigation into the
Clinton administration_s drive to privatize the Internet_s name
and address system, following complaints that reform plans were
drafted behind closed doors without public input. see also
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2150769,00.ht
ml>Inter
@ctive Week.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/205957.asp
Electronic commerce
* Battle rages over protection for consumers who shop on the Net
(European Voice) Consumer Affairs Commissioner Emma Bonino and
her single market counterpart Mario Monti are at loggerheads
over proposals for an EU-wide legal framework for electronic
commerce. A draft policy statement on the consumer protection
issues raised by electronic commerce drawn up by the
Directorate-General for consumer affairs (DGXXIV), which is
currently being debated by EU member states, argues that
customers should have the right to seek legal redress action in
the country in which they live when contractual disagreements
arise over goods and services bought over the Internet. This is
in stark contrast to Monti's draft directive, which calls for
Internet service providers and other companies conducting
business online to comply with the laws in the country from
where the goods were supplied.
http://www.european-voice.com/thisweek/stories/5.pl5
Electronic democracy
* Chinese telling government over Internet just what they think
(Reuters) Opinion polls on the Internet have emboldened Chinese
web surfers to abandon political correctness and tell the
government -- anonymously -- what they really think. China's
most popular website, Sohoo, on Friday officially launched what
executives said was the first series of online surveys aimed at
Chinese Internet users.
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/101698/info3_12536_noframes.html
Employment and social issues
* German group stages Net strike (Reuters) A German information
technology group rendered a chunk of its Internet pages
unreadable today to protest wages--effectively the first firm
ever to stage a strike on the Internet. The OeTV trade union
said that 120 researchers at First, a Berlin computer
architecture and software group, had filled 13.5 percent of
pages with dollar symbols to protest against a 13.5 percent wage
cut by their state employers.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27821,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv
Euro and millennium bug
* President Signs Y2K Protection Bill (TechWeb) President Bill
Clinton signed a bill Monday giving companies new legal
protections when they share year 2000 information with the
public. The Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act,
which passed both legislative houses in early October, is
designed to let companies share information about products and
their readiness for the year 2000 without fear of immediate
lawsuits. The bill does not protect companies from damages
resulting from actual computer breakdowns.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981019S0018
* UK government U-turns to avoid bug buster flop (vnu|net) The
UK government is hoping to revive its flagging Bug Buster
campaign by bearing the full cost of training new programmers.
The U-turn came after plans to charge businesses for the service
flopped, with only a few hundred takers.
http://webserv.vnu.co.uk/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_msn.right_frame?p_story=
66285
Filtering and rating
* UK - Film censor dragged into legal row over Carmageddon II
(ZDNet UK.) SCi and the British Board of Film Classification
BBFC are squabbling again over the ratings of the controversial
Carmageddon game. Citing an "unwarranted delay in the
classification process", SCi issued a statement on Wednesday
saying it has instructed lawyers to seek an order that forces
the BBFC to make a decision on the certification of Carmageddon
II Carpocalypse now!
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1998/42/ns-5814.html
Interception
* Globales EU-FBI-Ueberwachungssystem? (Telepolis)
Anschlussbericht der STOA-Kommission veroeffentlicht. Der mit
einiger Spannung erwartete Anschlussbericht der STOA-Kommission
von Mitte September fuer das EU-Parlament
(<http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1573/1.html>Streit im
europaeischen
Parlament ueber ECHELON) ist seit heute im Netz erhaeltlich. Das
knapp dreissig DIN A4 Seiten umfassende Dokument mit dem Titel
<http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/166499/execsum.htm>
An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control enthaelt neben einer
recht allgemein gehaltenen Gesamtschau auf neue Ueberwachungstechnologien
im
Abschnitt 7.4 Brisantes und bis dahin nicht Dokumentiertes. see also
<http://jya.com/stoa-atpc-so.htm> full text
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1598/1.html
Internet access and use
* Ireland wired for low-cost Internet (Reuters ) Ireland's
Public Enterprise Minister Mary O'Rourke signalled that Europe's
lowest cost Internet access would be introduced in the country
shortly. O'Rourke said the European Commission had responded
positively to her proposal for a more progressive charging
mechanism to bring Internet access in Ireland more into line
with the low cost policy of the U.S.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981015/wr/ir
eland_1.html
Internet content
* USA - Library filtering suit dismissed (CNET News.com) In
what the ACLU is calling a victory for free speech, a California
superior court judge today threw out a lawsuit that called for
mandatory filters to be installed on library computers used to
surf the Internet.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27818,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv
* USA - Neo-Nazi Group Sued For Online Threats (TechWeb) The
Pennsylvania state attorney general filed suit Tuesday against a
White supremacist group whose Web page allegedly contained
threats against several state government employees.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981020S0010
Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
* Australia - Treading a fine line (Australian) Australia's 600-
plus Internet service providers are at the centre of a
legislative debate that will be vital for the future of the Net.
ISPs will be held legally liable for the content, but they will
be protected by a code of practice, under which they will be
obliged to delete illegal material from their servers once they
have been made aware of it.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/techno/4020821.htm
Security and encryption
* AOL attacked by hacker (MSNBC) Mail from outside the AOL
system to AOL users was apparently re-routed to other
destinations, possibly due to a hacker_s attack that resulted in
a key DNS address being changed.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/206069.asp
* Crackers Hijack Indian Army Site Reuters (Reuters) India said
that hackers had hijacked an army Web site set up two months ago
to present New Delhi's position on the disputed Himalayan
territory of Kashmir.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/15650.html
* Schwindel mit der Sicherheit bei WebTV fliegt auf (Telepolis)
Ein Ingenieur von WebTV bestaetigt: Microsoft hat fuer US-Behoerden
Sollbruchstellen in die 128-bit Verschluesselung eingebaut.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1595/1.html
* UK - Millenium Bug and Electronic Commerce Bill (Campaign
Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain) Summary of
provisions by civil liberties group opposed to the measure
governing encryption services, including digital signatures.
see also
<http://omnisite.liberty.org.uk/cacib/artview.php3?currentgroup=0&pid=15
&type=news>OFTEL to license encryption services
http://omnisite.liberty.org.uk/cacib/artview.php3?currentgroup=3&pid=12&
type=resources
* USA - 'Private Doorbell' Rings Hollow (Wired) The US Commerce
Department will allow a coalition of 10 technology firms to
export strong data-scrambling products with a technology that
also gives authorities access to scrambled communications.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15698.html
* USA - A crack unit aims arsenal at computer hackers (Reuters)
The newly established National Infrastructure Protection Center
(NIPC) is designed to fend off threats to the nation's banks,
transportation networks, power and water resources and military
networks. By employing the collective muscle of several
intelligence and law enforcement agencies, NIPC (pronounced
"nip-see") can conduct investigations that would normally be
beyond the scope of a single agency.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/wr/cy
berterror_1.html
* USA - Q & A with William Reinsch (Information Security )
Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch defends the government_s
encryption export policy - even though it puts him "in the hot
seat."
http://www.infosecuritymag.com/sept/q%26a.htm
* USA - WebTV uses strong encryption (Telepolis) Die US-
Behoerden, die keine Exporte von 128-bit Programmen fuer den
individuellen Gebrauch genehmigen, stoert dies im Fall von WebTV,
das speziell auf private Nutzer abzielt, ueberhaupt nicht. Im
Gegenteil, Unterstaatssekretaer William Reinsch zeigte sich beim
internationalen Launch von Web TV zufrieden, dass diese
Applikation kein "ungebuehrliches Risiko fuer die nationale
Sicherheit und Strafverfolgung" darstelle.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1594/1.html
Software
* USA - Wal-Mart sues Amazon, others (CNet News.com) Wal-Mart
said today that it has filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drugstore.com, and others,
alleging violation of an Arkansas trade secrets law. The
complaint alleges that "by hiring individuals to gain the
specific knowledge and programs developed at Wal-Mart's expense,
Amazon.com is improperly trying to obtain trade secrets, as well
as other confidential information, that are unique to Wal-Mart."
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27654,00.html?pfv
Market & Technology
Convergence of telecommunications, media and information
technology sectors
* Reuters unveils TV news-on-demand product (Press Release)
Reuters on Wednesday unveiled a multimedia news-on-demand
product that will let viewers pick the stories they want to
watch on TV. The interactive product, called NewsBreaker, will
allow users to view a menu of regularly-updated headlines and
select the items they want to see for full video playout.
NewsBreaker is targeted at digital TV operators such as cable
and telecoms companies that may not want to invest in their own
editorial infrastructure. These operators will then offer the
service to their subscribers.
http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/014481.htm
* UK - BBC defends u20m online bill (Silicon Times) BBC
chairman, Sir Christopher Bland addressed the House of Commons
Culture Committee yesterday to explain that the u20m of license-
payers money used to set up BBC Online is money well spent.
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ,909065461+6004REQEVENT,+REQIN
T1,25575
+REQSTR1,newsnow
Digital signatures
* Banks join Internet electronic ID system (Wired) Eight
international banks signed a joint venture Wednesday to create a
system for exchanging digital certificates, or electronic IDs,
and promote electronic commerce over the Internet. A central
certificate authority will register individual banks and ensure
that they have complied with the system's technological
guidelines. see also
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27800,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv>
CNETNews.com.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981021/wr/ba
nking_1.html
Electronic commerce
* Amazon.co.uk opens its doors (vnu|net) Online store Amazon
.co.uk has opened its doors for business ahead of its rival
Bertelsmann with a big selection of titles and keen prices, but
analysts are sceptical that it is enough. Amazon.co.uk_s site
replaces the one previously operated by Bookpages, which Amazon
acquired in April. Amazon has also launched a similar service in
Germany, replacing Telebook, which it also acquired.
http://webserv.vnu.co.uk/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_msn.homepage?p_story=66278
* Germany lags in e-commerce (Reuters) A report published
yesterday said German companies are showing a dangerous disdain
for electronic commerce and may lose out as business transacted
over the Internet explodes over the next five years. The report,
from KPMG Management Consulting, said German companies expected
only 5 percent of their sales to be transacted over the Internet
in three years time.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,27625,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv
* Lexis-Nexis to roll out Web service (ZDNet) Lexis-Nexis, the
high-end provider of news and information archives, is expected
to announce this week a product that will essentially replace
the proprietary information-retrieval service it has operated
for decades. And, at the heart of this product is the Internet.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2149241,00.html
Employment and social issues
* Germany - Informationsbranche klagt ueber Mangel an Fachkraeften
(Reuters) In der deutschen Informations-und
Kommunikationsbranche koennnen derzeit Zehntausende von Stellen
nicht besetzt werden. Der Bundesverband Informations-und
Kommunikationssysteme (BVB) teilte mit, 1998/99 wuerden 100.000
neue Arbeitsplaetze angeboten. Ihnen stuenden jedoch nur 500
Hochschulabsolventen der Fachrichtung Wirtschaftsinformatik
gegenueber.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=16118
Internet access and use
* Connecting the Dots on Net Calls (Wired) Internet telephony
guru Jeff Pulver is at it again, launching a clearinghouse for
ISPs and telcos to get together and buy each other's time.
"There's a huge gap between capacity [for Internet phone
service] that's been purchased and actual usage," said Pulver,
who has been hosting telecom industry conferences for over two
years to promote the deployment of Internet telephony service.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15629.html
* USA - GTE Abandons Unlimited Internet Access (Reuters) GTE
became the latest Internet service provider to move away from
unlimited pricing plans and put a cap on usage of its GTE.net
service. Under the new plan, customers will be limited to 100
hours of online time a month for $19.95. After the 100-hour cap
is reached, customers will be billed $1 an hour. Internetnews
http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/1998/10/1601-gte.html
Market
* T-Online waechst weiter rasant (Reuters) Der Online-Dienst T-
Online der Deutsche Telekom AG gewinnt weitermit hohem Tempo
neue Kunden. Telekom-Vorstandsmitglied Detlev Buchal sagte am
Montag auf der Fachmesse Systems in Muenchen, T-Online werde in
wenigen Tagen den 2,5millionsten T-Online-Kunden begruessen
koennen. Dabei sei der Sprung von 2 auf 2,5 Millionen Kunden in
der Rekordzeit von nur acht Monaten erreicht worden. Ende des
Jahres 1997 lag T-Online noch bei rund 1,90 Millionen Kunden.
http://www.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=16022
* Time Inc. Exec Says Print Will Survive Internet (Reuters) The
president of Time Inc. New Media said that she did not expect
the Internet to kill off the printed word, although rivalry
between media is fiercer than ever. Linda McCutcheon told
German media officials at the Munich Media Conference that
survey data showed that time that consumers spend in front of
the computer meant time spent away from primarily other
electronic media. In the United States, 18 percent said they
read fewer magazines due to time spent on the Internet, 18
percent said they spent less time reading books, 11 percent read
fewer newspapers and 78 percent watch less television due to
time spent online.
http://www.internetnews.com/Reuters/1998/10/1605-time.html
* Wired for speed: Yacht race goes online (CNN) It's not a mass
spectator sport yet, but high-tech yacht racing is attracting an
increasing body of fans -- including a loyal following in
cyberspace. Case in point: this year's solo yacht race around
the world, known as <http://www.aroundalone.com/>Around Alone.
http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9810/15/t_t/solo.cybersailing/index.html
Multilingual content and software
* Telia stoppt lokale Altavistas (Computerwoche) Der schwedische
Carrier Telia hat die von ihm betriebenen Ableger der populaeren
Digital-Suchmaschine Altavista ueberraschend vom Netz genommen -
offenbar ohne die Oeffentlichkeit zu informieren. Telia hatte den
Hauptkatalog der Compaq-Tochter Digital aus Kalifornien in
mehreren europaeischen Laendern gespiegelt und mit einer
Eingangsseite in Landessprache versehen.
http://www.computerwoche.de/info-point/top-news/main.cfm
Portals, browsers and search engines
* Caught in a Web of 'Sticky' Services (New York Times
(registration required)) The World Wide Web is starting to
resemble a spider's web in more ways than one. As Internet
companies shift their focus from merely acquiring customers to
retaining the ones they have worked so hard to capture, the
buzzword du jour is "stickiness" -- the challenge of making sure
customers stick with a particular portal site, Internet service
provider or online retailer.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/cyber/articles/20commerce.html
* Geocities Loves Inktomi Now (Wired) Geocities said Monday it
has dropped Lycos' search-engine technology in favor of one
powered by Inktomi, in an effort to improve the home page site's
search capabilities and keep ad revenues closer to home.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/business/story/15701.html
* Google graduates (Red Herring Online ) Stanford University
has just spawned a third search engine company, Google. The
first two were Yahoo and Excite. The infant startup has new
technology that sorts Web search results by the number of other
"important" sites linking to each page.
http://www.herring.com/insider/1998/1016/google.html
* New Netscape Ships (Wired) Netscape Monday released
Communicator 4.5, the latest version of its browser software.
The program incorporates the company's Smart Browsing option,
which opens Web sites based on simple keywords that users enter
in the URL field. Another new related option, Internet Keywords,
uses a database housed at Netscape to point users directly to
content related to the keywords. For example, a user typing
'Kenneth Starr' would be led straight to the Starr Report.
Another feature called "Net Watch" will allow parents to mark
certain sites off limits to their children.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15699.html
Security and encryption
* IE can treat Internet sites as if they were on intranet
(MSNBC) Posters on a Danish newsgroup have discovered a new
security hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Microsoft has
confirmed the potential security breach, dubbed the "Look Ma, No
Dots" bug. The problem for Internet Explorer 4 comes from the
fact that Microsoft_s browser assumes that any address not
containing dots is an intranet address, and applies security
accordingly.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/206992.asp
Standards
* Battle brews for Internet-linked mobile phones (Reuters) A
global battle in the mobile phone market loomed Friday as
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said it would
retaliate if U.S. high-tech company Qualcomm Inc did not license
key technologies to European rivals. The European Union has been
promoting efforts to set up a common standard for the new
products that would mimic the success of Europe's existing GSM
mobile phone standard. This new standard, the wide band W-CDMA,
draws heavily on a technology pioneered by Qualcomm known as
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), but Qualcomm says it would
not be compatible with the competing standard that it supports-
CDMA 2000.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/wr/ph
ones_4.html
Statistics
* Die Welt: Study Claims 12 Million Online in Germany (NUA) Over
the last six months the number of people with Internet access in
Germany has increased by one third and the German consultancy
firm, GfK, estimates that there are now over 12 million Germans
online. NOP Research estimated that there were over 7 million
Germans online in March of this year.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354433&rel=true
* UK Survey: Do you know where your kids are online? (Reuters)
British parents are largely unaware of what their pre-teen and
teenaged offspring are doing when they access the Internet but
the children themselves enjoy the risks of the unregulated
medium, new market research shows. One in 13 children aged 11 to
13 and one in 10 aged 14 to 16 told market researchers NOP
Family in a survey earlier this year that they regularly used
the Internet at home. The main uses were for games, homework and
making friends. In a followup survey last month called "Kids
.net", NOP found that many children over 11 claimed to have
accessed pornography on the global computer network. Some spoke
of being bothered by adult men when talking in chat rooms.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981016/wr/ki
ds_2.htm
* Web surfers getting older, survey says (Reuters) More than 13
million Americans over the age of 50 surf the Web, according to
a new survey, suggesting that marketers may want to consider the
older crowd more often.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981020/wr/ag
e_1.html
Technology
* MP3 Player Could Skirt Legal Challenge (TechWeb)
In a climate of growing record-industry opposition to the MP3 format, a
small British company is working on a mobile MP3 player for cars that
combines laptop and stereo technology as well as the Linux operating
system.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981021S0003
Forthcoming events
* Une communication responsable (APP) L'Agence pour la
Protection des Programmes et l'Universite des Sciences Sociales
de Toulouse (DESS Droit et Systemes d'information) organisent a
Toulouse les 19 et 20 novembre 1998 le 16eme Forum de l'APP "Une
communication responsable"
http://app.legalis.net/paris/forums/forum16.htm
QuickLinks
Links to news items about
legal and regulatory aspects of Internet and the information
society, and
market and technology
edited by Richard Swetenham (richard....@cec.be). -
Contributors: Daniel Duthil, Gerhard Heine, Nathalie Labourdette
Archive http://www.qlinks.net/ * Now with subject index *
For more news, don't forget Newsdesk, daily
Information Society, Information Market and
Information Communication Technology news
http://www.echo.lu/news/
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IM BUNDESKANZLERAMT: JEE981027 vom 27. Oktober 1998
Die gesamte, monatlich erscheinende Bibliographieliste und
individuelle Literaturrecherchen in der seit 1992 aufgebauten
Datenbank mit ca.10.000 Zitaten werden auf Anfrage als Word-
Dokument versandt.
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Auswirkungen der Ost-Erweiterung der EU hinsichtlich der
Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Justiz und Inneres:
Entschliessung v. 3. April 1998 / EP. Europaeisches Parlament
<Strassburg, Luxemburg, Bruessel>. - In: Europaeische
Grundrechte-Zeitschrift - EuGRZ; Jg. 25/1998, H. 17-18. -
S. 542-544. - Kehl am Rhein; Strassburg [u.a.]: Engel, 1998
Brinker, Ingo: Zustaendigkeit des Bundeskartellamts bei
Anwendung des europaeischen Kartellrechts: BGH, Beschluss
v. 7.10. 1997 - KVR 14/96 (KG). - In: Juristen-Zeitung - JZ;
Jg. 53/1998, H. 19. - S. 960-964. - Tuebingen: Mohr, 1998
Dauses, Manfred A.: Information der Verbraucher in der
Rechtsprechung des EuGH. - In: Recht der Internationalen
Wirtschaft - RIW; Jg. 44/1998, H. 10. - S. 750-757. -
Heidelberg: Verl. Recht und Wirtschaft, 1998
? Ausgehend von der Labelling Doctrine im Fall Cassis de Dijon
wird in Werberegelungen, Ursprungs- und Gattungsbezeichnungen,
in den Auswirkungen von Keck und Mithouard sowie in
Grundrechtsaspekten die Tendenz gesehen, zwischen Marktfreiheit
und Konsumentenschutz - durch Information fuer rationale
Kaufentscheidungen - auszugleichen.
Feil, Erich; Wennig, Fritz: Anwaltsrecht: Rechtsanwaltsordnung,
EWR-RechtsanwaltsG 1992, Standesrichtlinien,
RechtsanwaltstarifG, Autonome Honorar-Richtlinien,
Disziplinarstatut ua mit ausfuehrlicher Kommentierung. - 532 S.
- Wien: Linde Verlag, 1998 ISBN 3-85122-810-3 ? ATS 864,-
Holoubek, Michael: Vergaberechtsschutz im Spiegel der
Rechtsprechung des Verfassungsgerichtshofs. - In:
Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftsrecht - OeZW;
Jg. 25/1998, H. 3. - S. 75-84. - Wien: Braumueller, 1998
Lorenz, Stephan: Richtlinienkonforme Auslegung,
Mindestharmonisierung und der "Krieg der Senate": Zur Anwendung
des Haustuergeschaeftewiderrufsgesetzes auf Buergschaften. -
In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift - NJW; Jg. 51/1998, H. 40. -
S. 2937-2940. - Muenchen; Frankfurt am Main: Beck, 1998
Nichtigkeit der Kommissionsentscheidung zum Nicht-Taetigwerden
wegen Behinderung von Remailings (IECC / Kommission): EuG Urt.
v. 16.9.1998 - Rs. T-133/95, T-204/95. - In: Zeitschrift fuer
Wirtschaftsrecht - ZIP; Jg. 19/1998, H. 40. - S. 1674-1689. -
Koeln: Kommunikationsforum GmbH Recht Wirtschaft Steuern, 1998
Niemeyer, Hans-Joerg; Soltesz, Ulrich: Das neue
Antidumpingrecht der Europaeischen Gemeinschaften. - In:
Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftsrecht - OeZW;
Jg. 25/1998, H. 3. - S. 65-74. - Wien: Braumueller, 1998
Rydelski, Michael Sanchez: The Community's New Anti-Dumping
Practice towards China and Russia. - In: Europaeische
Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftsrecht - EuZW; Jg. 9/1998, H. 19. -
S. 586-589. - Muenchen; Frankfurt am Main: Beck, 1998
Schulze-Osterloh, Joachim: Unzureichende Umsetzung der EG-
Vorschriften zur Offenlegung des Jahresabschlusses von
Kapitalgesellschaften (Kommission / Deutschland): EuGH Urt.
v. 29. 9.1998 - Rs. C-191/95 (OLG Duesseldorf). - In:
Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftsrecht - ZIP; Jg. 19/1998,
H. 41. - S. 1716-1722. - Koeln: Kommunikationsforum GmbH
Recht Wirtschaft Steuern, 1998
Tomasovsky, Daniela: Verfassungsrechtliche Fragen der
Genehmigung des Vertrags von Amsterdam. - In: Journal fuer
Rechtspolitik - JRP; Jg. 6/1998, H. 3. - S. 313-327. - Wien;
New York: Springer, 1998
Tumpel, Michael: Vorsteuerabzug fuer Personenkraftwagen und
Gemeinschaftsrecht. - In: Steuerrecht aktuell. - OeStZ;
Jg. 51/1998, H. 19. - S. 490-497. - Wien: Orac, 1998
? Der EuGH hat den im franzoesischen Umsatzsteuerrecht
vorgesehenen Ausschluss vom Vorsteuerabzug fuer
Personenkraftwagen als gemeinschaftsrechtskonform erkannt. Ob
damit die oesterreichische Regelung, wann ein PKW als nicht
fuer das Unternehmen angeschafft gilt, auch dem
Gemeinschaftsrecht entspricht, scheint fraglich.
Unzulaessigkeit des auf nationales Recht gestuetzten
Rechtsmissbrauchseinwandes bei Berufung auf Richtlinienverstoss
durch Aktionaer (Kefalas / OAE): EuGH Urt. v. 12.5.1998 -
Rs. C-367/96 (Efiteio Athen). - In: Zeitschrift fuer
Wirtschaftsrecht - ZIP; Jg. 19/1998, H. 40. - S. 1672-1674. -
Koeln: Kommunikationsforum GmbH Recht Wirtschaft Steuern, 1998
Wettbewerbsrecht: Verbindliche Gebuehrenordnung fuer alle
Zollspediteure verstoesst gegen EWG-Vertrag: EuGH Urteil
v. 18.6. 1998 - Rs. C-35/96 Kommission gegen Italienische
Republik. - In: Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft - RIW;
Jg. 44/1998, H. 10. - S. 815-819. - Heidelberg: Verl. Recht
und Wirtschaft, 1998
Winkler, Roland: Zur Wahrung des Gemeinschaftsrechts bei
Kollegialbehoerden nach Art 133 Z 4 B-VG durch den VfGH. - In:
Juristische Blaetter - JBl; Jg. 120/1998, H. 9. - S. 551-560. -
Wien; New York: Springer, 1998
Bernhard Steiner
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Inhaltsverzeichnis / List of Contents:
In der 44. Woche wurden keine BGBl. (Teil I) veroeffentlicht.
5. November 1998, Wien
WEB-KONZEPTE FUER DIE VERWALTUNG
6. November 1998, Wien
TELEARBEIT - NEUE ARBEITSPLAETZE IM LAENDLICHEN RAUM
10. November 1998, Wien
MODERNES GESCHAEFTSPROZESS- UND AKTENMANAGEMENT IN DER OEFFENTLICHEN
VERWALTUNG
November 12 - 13, 1998, Vienna
INFORMATION SOCIETY BRINGING ADMINISTRATION
CLOSER TO THE CITIZENS
16. November 1998, Wien
ROUNDTABLE: INTERNET
ARD-CD-ROM Arbeitsrecht, Sozialrecht und Steuerrecht
NEW EIOP PAPER:
PUBLIC ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS AFTER THE ENTRY INTO FORCE
OF THE AMSTERDAM TREATY
Information Society Trends
Issue number: 85 - (16.9.1998 - 18.10.1998)
JURISTISCHES EXCERPT DER EUROPA-DOKUMENTATION
IM BUNDESKANZLERAMT: JEE981102 vom 2. November 1998
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5. November 1998, Wien
WEB-KONZEPTE FUER DIE VERWALTUNG
Vortrag von Univ.Ass. Dr. Tom GROSS
an der Universitaet Wien, Juridicum, Hoersaal U 17 17.30,
im Seminar aus Rechts- und Verwaltungsinformatik
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dr. Friedrich LACHMAYER,
Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag. DDr. Erich SCHWEIGHOFER,
Univ.Doz. Dr. Werner Robert SVOBODA
Wintersemester 1998/99,
jeweils Donnerstag von 17.30 bis 19.00 Uhr
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6. November 1998, Wien
TELEARBEIT - NEUE ARBEITSPLAETZE IM LAENDLICHEN RAUM
Bundesamt und Forschungszentrum fuer Landwirtschaft (BFL)
Spargelfeldstr. 191, a - 1226 Wien
Anlaesslich der Europaeischen Telearbeitswoche 1998 veranstaltet die
Forschungsgesellschaft fuer Informatik (FGI) im Auftrag des
Bundesministeriums fuer Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BMLF) obige
Fachtagung.
Bundesminister Wilhelm Molterer wird ein ausfuehrliches
Eroeffnungsstatement abgeben
Telearbeit, eine Arbeitsform bei der ein Arbeitnehmer nicht in den
Raeumlichkeiten des Arbeitgebers, sondern zu Hause oder in einem
Telezentrum in seiner naeheren Umgebung arbeitet, kann fuer den
laendlichen Raum bedeutende Impulse bringen.
Es eroeffnet sich die Moeglichkeit fuer Landwirte, einem Nebenerwerb
nachzugehen ohne lange Anfahrtswege in Kauf nehmen zu muessen.
Ausserdem wird diese Arbeitsform auch auf die Erwerbstrukur der
Nichtlandwirte im laendlichen Raum beachtliche Auswirkungen haben.
Es wird erwartet, dass neue und qualitativ hoeherwertige
Erwebsmoeglichkeiten entstehen werden.
Anmeldung:
Wenn Sie an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen moechten, melden Sie sich bitte
per Fax (585 23 00 - 11) oder e-mail (off...@fgi.at) an.
Die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist kostenlos!
Tagungsablauf:
9.00 - 9.05
Gen. Dir. DI Arnold Koechl (BFL)
Begruessung
9.05 - 9.30
BM Mag. Wilhelm Molterer
Eroeffnungsstatement
9.30 - 10.30
Jeremy Millard (European Telework Development)
"Telework from the European Commission's Point of View in Consideration
of new Employment for rural Areas".Vortrag und
Diskussion(Simultanuebersetzung)
10.30 - 11.00
Kaffeepause
11.00 - 11.30
Klaus Rapf (Forschungsgesellschaft fuer Informatik)
Status Quo der Telearbeit in Oesterreich
11.30 - 12.00
Ing. Heinz Dicketmueller (Telekom Austria AG)
Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur fuer Telearbeit
12.00 - 12.30
Dir.Georg Keuschnigg (Bauernbund Tirol)
Veraenderungsdruck im laendlichen Raum - neue Erwerbs- und
Sozialstrukturen
12.30 . 13.30
Mittagessen
13.30 - 14.00
Dr. Michaela Schramm (Amt d. OOe Landesreg.)
Telearbeit in der oberoesterreichischen Landesverwaltung
14.00 - 14.30
Franz Woegerer (Telezentrum Eschenau)
EDV und Telekommunikation: die neuen Chancen der Bauern
14.30 - 15.00
Kurt Ceipek (Raiffeisenzeitung)
Telearbeit in der Zeitungsredaktion;
Zukunftsvisionen
15 00 - 16.00
Abschlusscocktail
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10. November 1998, Wien
MODERNES GESCHAEFTSPROZESS- UND AKTENMANAGEMENT IN DER OEFFENTLICHEN
VERWALTUNG
Compaq, C.S.E und Fabasoft
10. November im Ana Grand Hotel Wien, am Kaerntner Ring 9, in A-1010
Wien:
12:00 Begruessungscocktail
12:30 Impulsreferat "Warum Intranet/Internet und andere Technologien
wichtig sind, aber ohne WFM und DM in der Oeffentlichen Verwaltung nichts
laeuft".
Gerald A. Pitschek, intos
12:45 Elektronischer Akt im Rahmen der Verwaltungsreform
Andreas Patterer, BH Hermagor
13:15 Mit Domea auf dem Weg zum modernen Dienstleistungsunternehmen
Christoph Fischer, Vorarlberger Gebietskrankenkasse
13:45 LinkWorks im Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen
Arthur Winter, Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen
14:15 Altavista Works bei der PTA und Telekom AG
Reinhold Autengruber, Telekom Austria AG
14:45 Kaffeepause
15:00 Wiener Wohnen mit Fabasoft Components - Kuerzestmoeglicher Weg von
der Idee zu zum Produktivbetrieb: 350 User mit 270.000 zu verwaltenden
Mietobjekten in nur acht Monaten im Echtbetrieb
Guenter Bryndza, Magistrat der Stadt Wien
15:30 Produktivitaetsgewinn durch hohen Vorfertigungsgrad: Kooperation
Gemdat fuer kuerzeste Time-to-Market in der Oeffentlichen Verwaltung
Walter Andreaus Gemdat OOe
16:00 Podudiumsdiskussion und anschliessendes Kamingespraech
Herr Mag. Harald Hartl, Herr Walter Schill und Herr Dr. Harald Raetzsch
werden zu Ihren aktuellen Fragen Stellung nehmen und Ihnen exklusiv die
neuesten Produkt- und Marktstrategien aufzeigen. Geben Sie direkt dem
Management der Unternehmen Ihre konkreten Vorstellungen und Wuensche an
ein Produkt- und Dienstleistungsspektrum weiter. Das Kamingespraech laesst
noch genuegend Zeit fuer Einzelgespraeche und Diskussionen ueber die Vor-
und Nachteile der einzelnen Partnerschaften zu.
Die Teilnahmegebuehr fuer die Management-Tagung
betraegt ATS 1.490,00 exkl. MWSt.
Information
Intos, Daniela Suntinger, Tel 0463/3875-250,
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November 12 - 13, 1998, Vienna
INFORMATION SOCIETY BRINGING ADMINISTRATION
CLOSER TO THE CITIZENS
Conference of the WG 5 ("Public Administration")
of the Information Society Forum / ISF
Objectives of the conference:
The European Union is currently planning enlargement and structural
reform (Agenda 2000). This is reflected internally in intensified
discussion on the relationship between the people of Europe and the
administration of European affairs. In the programme of the
EU-presidency in the second half of 1998 the government of Austria
claims to focus - among other major targets - also on "bringing Europe
closer to the citizens". This is in accordance with the results of the
last European Council, which took place in Cardiff under the British
presidency (June 98):
"The Austrian Presidency will work to promote relevance to the citizen
and democratic legitimacy and will continue the discussion of these
issues which was started at the European Council in Cardiff. As a first
step, the President of the European Council will convene an informal
meeting of Heads of States and Governments to intensify discussions in
this connection and prepare the debate on the future of Europe at the
European Council meeting in Vienna. In all its activities the Presidency
will endeavour to work in close cooperation with the European Parliament
and pay special attention to the regional dimension of the integration
process."
(http://www.eu.presidency.gv.at/policy)
The Information Society Forum's conference will support integration and
increasing identification of citizens with administration on national
and European levels by identifying new and effective ways of ICT
(information and communication technologies) implementation in public
administration. The conference will study best practice cases from a
variety of EU Member States and administrations on different levels,
suggest improvements concerning the use of ICT on behalf of the citizens
in critical areas, particularly in health services, education, culture,
and transport. Results of the conference will foster better networking
between well informed high level civil servants in the member states of
the EU, developing appropriate approaches to meet challenges the
Information Society holds out for public administrations. The conference
shall discuss and adopt a "Vienna Declaration to bring administration
closer to the citizens" which will be prepared and proposed on the basis
of professional expertise and scientific research conducted prior to the
conference. This declaration will provide a tool for the practical
fulfillment of conclusions the European Council may draw from political
discussions regarding the aim of bringing European adminsitration closer
to the citizens.
Profile of participants:
The conference will be attended by invited concillors and executive
level civil servants identified by the following profile:
* Administrative bodies from major cities (municipalities), regions,
provincial governments, national governments, European Commission or
European Parliament
* Prioritized sectors of competence are health services, education,
culture, transport, and department responsibles for the implementation
of information and communication technologies
* Executives experienced in running pilot projects or other measures for
the deployment of ICT in order to improve public services to their
clients
There will be free admittance to the conference for up to 10
representatives of public administrations per member state (about five
on average). However, travel costs and subsistance can not be granted by
the ISF and need to be born by their relevant administration.
For further inquiries please contact:
Josef Hochgerner, Centre for Social Innovation, Hettenkofergasse 13/45,
A-1160 Vienna
Tel.: +43.1.4950442-42; Fax.: +43.1.4950442-40; e-mail:
j.hoch...@magnet.at, http://www.zsi.at
For registration please contact:
bco GmbH, Alser Strasse 20/16, A-1090 Vienna
Tel. +43-1-403 28 20, Fax +43-1-403 28 20-10
eMail off...@bco.co.at
Draft Programme
12.11.1998 Introduction
13.00 Registration and coffee
14.00 Welcome by representative of the Austrian Government
Presentation of the state-of-the-art survey by Josef Hochgerner, Centre
for Social Innovation in Vienna
The Declaration on public services in the Information Society by
Mr. Wautrequin, Chairman of Working Group 5 of the IS Forum
Comments by the participants
15.00 - 18.30 Session Chaired by Prof. Herbert Kubicek, University of
Bremen
Time frame: 20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes questions
Theme: Reengineering of the public service
15.00 Mr. Esteban Gonzales Juarros, DG III/E/3:
Using electronic networks to address the European commitments of
Administrations in the EU
15.30 Point of view of a city:
Mr. Bruno Peeters, Councillor, City of Antwerp/Belgium
16.00 Point of view of a government:
Mr. Philippe Schnaebele, Chef de la Mission (Delegation
Interministerielle ss la Reforme de l'Etat), France
Utilisation des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la
communication dans l'administration
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break
Theme: Access to public sector information
17.00 Mr. Frans De Bruine, European Commission, Director of DGXIII/E:
Presentation of the issues of access to and exploitation of Public
Sector Information
17.30 Ms. Emma Louise Avery, Freedom of Information Unit, UK:
Presentation of the Green Paper
"Your right to know. The Government's proposal for a Freedom of
Information Act"
18.00 - 18.30 Moderated discussion among the speakers and the audience
Evening Reception
13.11.1998 Theme: The public sector in the Information Society
09.00-11.00 Chaired by Mr. Jacques Wautrequin,
Chairman of the Working Group 5 of the Information Society Forum
09.00 Mr. Claudio Carelli, President of the IS Forum, Welcome
The political debate:
09.05 Mr Wautrequin: Presentation of the Vienna Declaration
09.15 Mr. Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, Secretary of State for Public
Administration, Austria (to be confirmed)
09.30 Mr. Pawel Mertlik, Deputy Prime Minister, Czech Republic
09.45 Mr. Mariano Gago, Minister of Science and Technology, Portugal
10.00 Mr. Franco Bassanini, Minister for the Public Function and
Regional Affairs, Italy (to be confirmed)
10.15 Mr. Martin Bangemann, European Commission, DG III: Comments on the
Vienna Declaration and on the leading role of the Commission in
re-inventing the administration by adopting Information Society tools
10.45 Mr. Claudio Carelli, President of the IS Forum:
Conclusion and adoption of the Vienna Declaration
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee and demonstrations (exhibits)
11.30 Visit to the Siemens Museum
13.00 Farewell Cocktail
11.00 Press conference
Mr. Martin Bangemann, the Ministers and ISF Representatives will
address a press conference held in the Siemens building
Organizer WG 5 ("Public Administration") of the Information Society
Forum / ISF
Scientific Centre for Social Innovation
Coordination Hettenkofergasse 13, A-1160 Vienna
Tel. +43-1-495 04 42-41
Fax +43-1-495 04 42-40
eMail j.hoch...@magnet.at
Conference bco GmbH
Secretariat Alser Strasse 20/16, A-1090 Vienna
Tel. +43-1-403 28 20
Fax +43-1-403 28 20-10
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Travel Austropa Interconvention
Agency Waehringer Strasse 6-8, A-1090 Vienna
Tel. +43-1-316 80-26
Fax +43-1-315 56 50
eMail austropa...@verkehrsbuero.at
Conference German/English/French
Languages (simultaneous translation will be provided)
Participation Free upon invitation
Venue Siemens Forum Vienna
Dietrichgasse 25
A-1030 Vienna
On the Web http://www.bco.co.at/isbacc98
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16. November 1998, Wien
ROUNDTABLE "INTERNET"
Veranstalter: Juristenverband
Ort: Restaurant "Alter Rathauskeller", 1010 Wien, Wipplingerstrasse 8
Zeit: 16: November 1998, 19.30 - 21.30 Uhr
Das Internet bestimmt zunehmend den Informationsalltag auch von
Juristen und Juristinnen. Es wirkt sich zwar tendentiell gegen die
Hierarchien aus, welche im juristischen Milieu oft zu finden sind, doch
schafft es neue Kommunikationswege. Der Satz "Neue Methoden -
neue Eliten" gilt auch fuer den Einsatz der elektronischen Medien.
Die traditionellen Rechtsdatenbanken und Rechtsinformationssysteme,
die sich der Pull-Technik bedienen (die Informationen muss sich der
aktive User herunterholen, was fuer ihn Aufwand bedeutet), werden
tendentiell durch Push-Techniken (die Informationen werden den
passiven Usern nach Interessensprofilen zugesandt) ueberlagert
und abgeloest. Solange jedoch die Fragen der elektronischen Signatur
(sowie und der Kryptographie) noch nicht geloest sind, die teils
Voraussetzung fuer die elektronischen Bezahlung sind, wird der
elektronische Handel nicht voll einsetzen. Das Internet bietet
auch ueber die Homepage neue Wege der elektronischen
Selbstdarstellung von Personen und Institutionen, und ueber die Links
neue Optionen der Sozialisation und Solidarisierung. Scheinbar
dem Chaos verwandt, eroeffnet das Internet unerwartete Moeglichkeiten
und Probleme fuer die juristischen Berufe.
Im Rahmen der Diskussionsabende des Juristenverbandes,
Club Allgemeiner Juristen, findet am Montag, den 16. November 1998,
im Restaurant "Alter Rathauskeller", Wien 1., Wipplingerstrasse 8, ein
Roundtable zum Thema "INTERNET" statt. An die Kurzreferate
(etwa 5 bis 10 Minuten) schliesst eine Diskussion an.
Moderation: Ao.Univ.Prof. Dr. Friedrich LACHMAYER
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Information Society Trends
Issue number: 85 - (16.9.1998 - 18.10.1998)
EUROPE
Trends: The development of infrastructures triggered by
liberalisation is gaining momentum, in particular with the project of
a new comer, Global Crossing. Competition is also heating up in the
on-line book selling market with an alliance between Bertelsmann and
Barnes & Noble. News in the fixed-line market include the retreat of
Bouygues in France and the entry of ONO in Spain. At regulatory
level, the Commission cleared the acquisition of PolyGram by Seagram
and adopted a draft Directive on the distance selling of financial
services.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Global Crossing, a US company specialised in laying fibre-optic
cables in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has said that it would
invest 640 million Ecu in developing, by the end of 1999, a
high-capacity network linking up 18 European cities to the USA, Asia
and Latin America. It would then lease capacity to telecoms
operators.
*****
The French and German incumbent operators France Telecom and Deutsche
Telekom said they would jointly develop a state-of-the-art telecoms
network linking Europe's main financial centres to offer corporate
communication services. This would include 40 cities in 16 countries.
The new network, to become fully operational by the year 2000, would
be based upon the upgrading and interconnection of the existing
networks of the two partners, and would build upon their Europe-wide
assets.
MULTIMEDIA SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
The German media giant Bertelsmann said it has agreed to spend $200
million for a 50% stake in Barnes & Noble.com, the on-line bookstore
of the largest US book retailer, Barnes & Noble. The two partners
intend to invest an additional $100 million each in the joint
venture. The move is aimed at striking back at Amazon.com, a US
start-up which pioneered on-line book selling and has imposed itself
as the world's leader. In parallel, Bertelsmann said it would launch
in November its own European on-line bookstore, Books Online (BOL).
BOL would initially target the German, UK, French, Spanish and
Benelux markets. Barnes & Noble.com would of course build upon BOL to
sell foreign language books in the USA. In what could be a response
to the new alliance as well as a reflection of its overseas success,
Amazon.com unveiled plans to open new Web sites targeting the UK and
German on-line book selling markets.
MARKET AND COMPANIES
The incumbent German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom said it has
decided to spin-off its cable-TV business in January 1999 and divide
into regional units. Stakes in the regional units would be sold to
cable-TV operators and other companies.
*****
In a move to step out of the fixed-line telecoms business, the
private French telecoms operator Bouygues Telecom announced that it
intends to transfer control over its subsidiary 9 Telecom to its
Italian partner Telecom Italia. In practice, Bouygues would reduce
its stake in 9 Telecom from 51% down to 10% to 20% in favour of the
incumbent Italian telecoms operator. Another partner in 9 Telecom is
Germany's Veba.
*****
ONO, a Spanish telecoms operator controlled by the Spanish cable-TV
operator Cableuropa, said it has started offering fixed-line services
in Valencia, thus becoming the first company to rival the incumbent
operator Telefonica in the local loop. Further competition is
expected to come from Retevision, which is 60%-owned by the Italian
national telecoms operator STET alongside the Spanish electricity
utilities Endesa and Union Fenosa. ONO is also the first Spanish
company to offer an integrated package of cable TV, telephone and
Internet access services. It intends to further expand its service
offer in the mobile sector through Lince, a consortium led by the
French incumbent telecoms operator France Telecom with a 69% stake
alongside the Spanish holding company Editel with 30%. Cableuropa
owns 1% of Lince.
*****
The Belgian national railway company SNCB said it plans to start
offering corporate telecoms services in 1999 based on its private
telecoms network. The move would step up competition in the Belgian
corporate markets, which is currently dominated by the incumbent
operator Belgacom and its main competitor Mobistar.
*****
NetCom Systems, Sweden's second-largest telecoms group, said it has
agreed to spend 50 million Ecu on buying a 48% stake in the Estonian
mobile operator Ritabell.
LEGISLATION AND POLICIES
The European Commission has cleared the acquisition by the Canadian
beverage and media group Seagram of PolyGram, a world leading music
group owned 75% by the Dutch electronics giant Philips. Although both
groups have overlapping activities in music and movies, the
Commission said the venture does not raise serious doubts as to its
compatibility with the Internal Market. While Seagram will integrate
PolyGram's music business into its entertainment arm Universal
Studios, it intends to dispose of PolyGram's movie arm, PolyGram
Filmed Entertainment (PFE). The Commission therefore noted that it
would assess PFE's sell-off on the basis of the buyer's identity.
*****
The European Commission has cleared WSI Webseek Inforservice, a
German Internet joint venture aimed at providing free search and
navigation services for German-language Internauts. The joint venture
will be owned 25% by each of the four parent companies: DeTeOnline,
the on-line unit of the German incumbent operator Deutsche Telekom,
the German publishers Axel Springer and Georg von Hotzbrinck, and
Infoseek, a US group specialised in Internet navigational tools.
*****
The European Commission has adopted a draft Directive aimed at
establishing a clear regulatory framework for the marketing of
financial services at a distance within the Internal Market. The
Directive would ensure a high-level of protection for consumers of
financial services such as insurance, banking and investment services
marketed by mail, phone or electronic means such as the Internet. By
encouraging consumer confidence and providing financial service
suppliers with legal transparency, the proposal should support the
development of innovative forms of trade in financial services.
*****
The Polish government has said it would sell-off an initial 20% to
25% of the national telecoms operator TPSA in late October-early
November 1998. A further 15% would go to company employees at a later
stage.
SOCIAL, SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL
Since September, the incumbent Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica
has been faced by two Internet users strikes to protest against high
local tariffs charged by the operator.
NORTH AMERICA
Trends: Infrastructure news are topped by Angel Technologies, which
has demonstrated that the Internet in the sky doesn't need to rely on
satellites but can also be airborne. At market level, the spotlight
is on the partial dismantling of Stentor and on Tellabs' decision to
drop plans to buy Ciena. At regulatory level, core news are the
extension of NSI's contract with the US government, final clearance
of the WorldCom- MCI merger and a new setback for Baby Bells trying
to enter the long-distance market
INFRASTRUCTURE
Angel Technologies, a US company founded in 1996, has announced a
successful real-life condition demonstration of its HALO broadband
wireless network, featuring a transmission speed of 52 megabit per
second. The High-Altitude Long-Operation (HALO) network is a new
concept developed by Angel. It would provide high-speed
communications services based on HALO aircrafts circling the sky
above commercial airline traffic. The airborne communication
equipment is being developed by the US commercial and defence
electronics group Raytheon Company. Angel says the HALO network would
offer a cheap alternative to the costly deployment of high-speed
terrestrial networks for the supply of high-quality multimedia
services in metropolitan areas. Residential and corporate customers
would be equipped with small receiving antennas. Angel says the
concept should be particularly appealing to developing nations.
MARKET AND COMPANIES
The US network equipment maker Tellabs said it has decided to abandon
plans to purchase its US counterpart Ciena in a stock swap valued at
$6.9 billion because shareholders approval of the venture was
unlikely.
*****
Partners in Stentor, a consortium formed in the early 90s by 11
Canadian regional telecoms operators to face competition in the
long-distance sector, said they have agreed to loosen their alliance
because they need greater flexibility to adapt to Canada's rapidly
changing telecoms market. As of January 1999, the 11 partners would
regain control over product, services and technology development,
regulatory affairs management and national sales support.
Furthermore, the restructuring, which amounts to a partial
dismantling of Stentor, would do away with the understanding that the
11 partners do not compete in each other's market. Stentor would
continue to operate and manage Canada's national network comprised of
the regional networks of the 11 members.
*****
The French telecoms equipment giant Alcatel said it has agreed to
spend $315 million on purchasing Packet Engines, a US manufacturer of
high-performance routers and Gigabit Ethernet solutions. The move is
aimed at reinforcing Alcatel's strategy to enter the rapidly
expanding high-speed data communications market, thus mending the gap
with fast-growing networking companies such as Cisco Systems, 3Com or
Ascend. It follows the purchase worth $4.4 billion in mid-1998 of the
US network equipment manufacturer DSC Communications. Other leading
equipment manufacturers such as Lucent Technologies and Northern
Telecom (Nortel) are following a similar approach.
LEGISLATION AND POLICIES
The US Department of Commerce's (DoC) National Telecoms and
Information Administration (NTIA) said it has agreed to extend by two
years the monopoly of the US company Network Solutions (NSI) over the
attribution and management of addresses regarding the Internet's most
popular domain names, namely ".com", ".org", ".net" and ".edu". In
parallel, the NTIA and NSI have agreed to a implement a phased
transition towards a shared registration to be fully into place by 1
June 1999. Last June, the DoC released a policy statement on the
Internet Domain Name System (DNS) which advocated the privatisation
of the DNS in a way that would allow for the development of
competition and facilitate global participation in the management of
Internet names and addresses.
*****
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has decided to
block the business agreements by which the US regional telecoms
operators (or Baby Bells) US West and Ameritech agreed to provide the
long-distance services of America's Qwest Communications as part of
their local services offer. The agreement was seen as a way to bypass
the FCC's ban on Baby Bells offering long-distance as long as their
home markets are insufficiently open to competition.
Separately, the FCC also rejected the second application by
BellSouth, another Baby Bell, to enter the long-distance market in
Louisiana. On this occasion, the FCC provided a detailed blueprint
which should help Baby Bells complying with the market-opening
measures outlined by the US Congress as a prerequisite for providing
long-distance services to their local customers. The FCC concluded in
particular that competition from broadband Personal Communications
Services (PCS) providers could form the basis for a successful
application. So far, no Baby Bell has been entitled by the FCC to
enter the long-distance market in its home region.
*****
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given its green
light to the $47 billion worth purchase by WorldCom, the
fourth-largest US long-distance operator, of its counterpart MCI, the
nation's second-largest long-distance company. The decision removed
the last regulatory hurdle to the completion of the merger.
ASIA AND PACIFIC
Trends: Competition is heating up for NTT, both in the telecoms
market, with plans by Global One to soon launch Type I services, and
in the data communications market, where it is about to face joint
competition from Sony, Toyota and IIJ. Meanwhile, high- speed
Internet access over cable-TV networks is gaining additional momentum
in Japan. As for BT, it is further expanding its presence in the
Asia-Pacific region.
MULTIMEDIA SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
Two new initiatives to provide high-speed Internet access services
over cable-TV networks in Japan have been unveiled respectively by
the cable-TV operator Titus Communications and the Internet access
provider J-Com Internet.
MARKET AND COMPANIES
Three Japanese companies, the Internet service provider Internet
Initiative Japan (IIJ), the car giant Toyota and the electronics
giant Sony, said they intend to set up Japan's first company
specialised in corporate data communications services. The joint
venture, which would become operational in April 1999, would charges
prices about one- third of those charged by the incumbent telecoms
operator Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). The venture, to be
owned 40% by Internet Initiative and 30% each by Toyota and Sony,
would lease capacity from the Japanese long-distance operator Teleway
Japan, a subsidiary of Toyota. Teleway is to fully merge with the
Japanese overseas telecoms operator Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) by
December 1998.
*****
The leading UK telecoms operator BT said it has agreed to spend
around 160 million Ecu for a 23.5% stake in the South Korean mobile
operator LG telecom (LGT). This follows the purchase worth 170
million Ecu of a 33% stake in the Malaysian fixed-line and mobile
operator Binariang. BT is thus consolidating its presence in the
Asia-Pacific region, which already includes strategic partnerships in
Japan with BT-NIS, Singapore with StarHub, India with Bharti and New
Zealand with Clear Communications. BT's expansion strategy is clearly
benefiting from the Asian crisis, which has driven down the price of
corporate assets in the region.
*****
Global One, a global telecoms joint venture set up by the French,
German and US telecoms groups France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and
Sprint, said it would start offering "Type I" telecoms services in
Japan using its own network. Type I licenses gives operators the
privileges of a public operator, including the right to build their
own network. Global One would become the third foreign operator to
offer Type I services in Japan after America's MCI WorldCom and
Britain's BT.
MIDDLE-EAST
MARKET AND COMPANIES
The US telecoms equipment manufacturer ADC Telecoms said it has
agreed to spend 180 million Ecu on buying the Israeli networking
equipment company Teledata Communication. The move amplifies the
current wave of acquisition of small high-tech Israeli companies,
mainly by US groups. Recent take-overs include the purchase for 100
million Ecu by the US telecoms equipment giant Lucent Technologies of
another networking company, LanNet, and the acquisition for 248
million Ecu by America OnLine (AOL), the world's leading commercial
on-line service, of the Internet start-up Mirabilis, which produces
the popular ICQ ("I seek you") software.
WORLDWIDE
LEGISLATION AND POLICIES
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), elements of a shared vision for global electronic
commerce emerged from the Ministerial Conference on electronic
commerce held in Ottawa on 7-9 October. The meeting, which was also
attended by representatives of other international organisations,
businesses, as well as labour, consumer and public interest groups,
agreed that national regulatory frameworks and safeguards may need to
be adjusted to help ensuring continued confidence in the digital
marketplace. Ministers from the OECD's 29 member countries adopted
three Declarations, respectively on the protection of privacy, the
protection of consumers, and authentication. They also agreed on a
programme of future work in the areas of taxation, privacy, consumer
protection, authentication, access to infrastructure and the
socio-economic impact of electronic commerce.
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publicly available information, in particular news articles and press
releases, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European
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Electronic commerce
* Visa pushes e-commerce growth (Cnet News.com) Visa says it
made a "significant" equity investment in CyberSource to help
fuel e-commerce growth.
http://www.news.comNews/Item/0,4,27991,00.html
* Agents who sift information overload (Financial Times
(registration required)) The wealth of data on the internet has
created a role for 'infomediaries' able to package it for
clients.
http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/qb65e2.htm
* AOL builds up shopping sites (CNET News.com) Coming on the
heels of a robust earnings report yesterday, the online giant
signs on 40 merchants to further beef up its shopping services.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28041,00.html
* Digital Business (Financial Times (registration required))
Digital business embraces e-commerce and the internet, but
extends much further. This 10-part series examines the impact
of technological advance on business
http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/qa4b56.htm
* E-Commerce Stays On Course (InternetWeek) Surprising nobody,
market research-firms predict a groundswell of e-commerce
projects by firms in the United States and abroad. Fifty-seven
percent of companies will implement e-commerce systems by the
end of next year, according to Zona Research, which earlier this
month announced a quarterly research program that tracks
Internet adoption.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981025S0001
* Europe overtakes U.S. in Internet banking (Reuters) Europe has
nearly twice as many advanced Internet banks as the United
States, with value-focused specialists and small, new players
leading the way, a new survey said Wednesday.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19981028/wr/eu
rope_1.html
* Excite UK launches Christmas shopping channel (Internet
Magazine) Yes, Christmas is coming and Excite UK is trying to
tempt you away from the high street scrum with an <
http://www.excite.co.uk/shopping/>online Christmas shopping Channel.
Retailers selling on the Excite channel will have to adhere to
the company's Certified Merchant Programme (CMP), which includes
email confirmation within one day of purchase and the use of
secure servers and encryption technology.
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/oct/23b.htm
* How the Internet is revolutionizing your health care (ZDNet
News) Not satisfied with their current health-care providers,
consumers are going online in greater numbers to find out more
about how to get and stay healthy. Meanwhile, medical
professionals are finding the Internet a valuable tool, too, in
the battle to reduce costs.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2156568,00.html
* Microsoft inks $90 million ad deal (Cnet News.com) Microsoft
signs a $90 million Internet advertising deal with credit card
lender First USA.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28028,00.html
* Visa losing ground in ecash war (Computing) Visa's battle
with Mondex to become the electronic cash standard appears to be
losing ground. Last week, the credit card giant announced that
its trial of Visa Cash will be slightly expanded, although the
company was sketchy on details. Visa and the rival Mondex
electronic purse consortium are locked in battle to ensure their
electronic card system becomes used throughout the UK and
Europe. Both have moved to sign card issuers to their systems
across Europe.
http://webserv.vnu.co.uk/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_msn.homepage?p_story=67121
* Visa pushing for Net shopping (CNET News.com) After watching
warily from the sidelines, the credit card giant is trying to
convince consumers that using Visa cards to shop online is safe.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28054,00.html
Employment and social issues
* Software sex bias 'puts girls off' (BBC) Research suggests
schoolgirls would be just as good as boys in computing if the
software were made 'gender neutral'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_200000/200286.stm
Internet access and use
* Bandwidth_s New Bargaineers (Technology Review) You may not
think of it as a commodity, but some brash startups are treating
bandwidth the same as pork bellies.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov98/cavanaugh.htm
* Can free-access ISPs defy gravity? (ZDNet News) Why not make
Internet access free, like TV? After all, advertising brings
vastly expensive and complex programming into our homes, so why
can't it work for e-mail and Web surfing as well? A number of
companies have built their business models around this plan and
-- almost without exception -- they have gone out of business or
suspended operations.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2156786,00.html
* Italians make waves with Net protest (IDG) Italian cybernauts
Wednesday launched their first-ever Internet protest against
plans by Telecom Italia to increase the cost of local phone
calls, organizers of the protest said. Organizers of the
protest used a Web site to invite Internet users to contact
Telecom Italia's Web site and download information and thus
blocking access to the site for other users.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/22/italnet.idg/
* TCI Dances Around Internet Access Issues ( Reuters) Cable
giant TCI said it was willing to share its new high-speed
Internet service with leading online services such as America
Online, but under conditions that the other services have
previously rejected.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981023/tc/tc
i_1.html
* UK - Users will miss out on new technology (Guardian) New
standards to enable ordinary users to surf the Internet 30 times
faster than the fastest current modems are being agreed in
Geneva this week. But it seems likely that users in Britain will
have to wait longer than in other countries to take advantage of
this low-cost technology.
http://online.guardian.co.uk/computing/908989833-games.html
* USA - Free Internet access provider folds (ZDNet News) An
Internet service provider that offered free lifetime service has
has folded after 21 months. The provider, @bigger.net, launched
in January 1997 offering users in the San Francisco Bay Area a
lifetime of Internet access for a one-time $59 fee, with e-mail
services for an extra $10 a year.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdn
n/technology/19981028/199810281306
Market
* Nielsen and NetRatings Unite (The Industry Standard
http://www.thestandard.net/articles/article_print/0,1454,2252,00.html)
Just one month ago, four major ratings firms were vying to
become the standard in Web site measurement. Today there are
two. At AdTech in New York, Nielsen Media Research and
NetRatings announced a strategic alliance to measure consumer
behavior on the Web: Nielsen NetRatings.
Null
* Smart Devices To Outsell Home PCs By 2001 (Reuters) Growing
popularity for devices that free users from desktop computers
means that by 2001 these smart appliances will outsell consumer
desktop PCs in the United States. The hottest items in this
market are Internet-smart hand- held devices like 3Com Corp.'s
Palm Pilots and devices running on Microsoft Windows CE software
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981023/tc/sm
art_1.html
Multimedia content and tools
* Cable titans say content is king - even on the Net (ZDNet
News) Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone and Time Warner Vice Chairman
Ted Turner may have their differences, but they agree about the
Internet. Speaking at the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Business Week
forum, the two media giants said that what matters is content --
not where that content is viewed.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845,2156597,00.html
* Can You Charge for Online Content? (ZDNet News) Recent
consumer research by Jupiter Communications indicates people
will not pay for content which appeals to a mass audience.
However they will ante up for niche information.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2697.html
* Microsoft unveils new names for software packages (NandoNet)
Microsoft has christened the next version of Windows NT, its
operating software for business computers, with a new name:
Windows 2000.
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/102798/info20_14172_S1_nofra
mes.html
Portals, browsers and search engines
* When.com plans calendar launch (CNET News.com) Internet
start-up <http://www.when.com/>When.com is expected to launch
its new calendar service next month, yet questions remain
whether it will join forces with one of the portal heavy
hitters.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,28049,00.html?st.ne.ni.pfv
* Yahoo! browses for more acquisitions (Reuters) Internet
navigation company Yahoo! Inc. said Monday it had $450 million
in cash to make more acquisitions and partnership deals to
retain its leadership position in the Net directory business.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/printer_friendly/0,3845
,2155083,00.html
Security and encryption
* Dial-A-Strength Crypto on a Chip ( Wired) In a development
that could break a longstanding deadlock between Silicon Valley
and the Clinton administration, Hewlett-Packard and Wave Systems
on Tuesday will announce a new hardware system. It's designed to
administer encryption policies on PCs anywhere in the world.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15848.html
* MSN.com Suffers Password Glitch (TechWeb) An unusual password
prompt on the home page of Microsoft's MSN.com website raised
concerns among users that an unauthorized Trojan-horse program
was stealing passwords. The problem was not an external threat,
but an internal glitch.
http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19981028S0025
Standards
* ICE group releases spec for content exchange, syndication
(InfoWorld Electric) The ICE Authoring Group and Advisory
Council on Tuesday released the ICE (Information and Content
Exchange) specification, Version 1.0. The ICE 1.0 specification
is intended to streamline the exchange of content across the
Internet and enable the syndication of such information between
companies in business-to-business exchanges. see also
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981020S0007>TechWeb
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi-bin/Goto/104111
* Standard may speed ADSL adoption (MSNBC) A high-speed standard
for accessing the Internet over today_s copper telephone lines
passed a critical test Thursday when the International
Telecommunications Union gave it the technical thumbs up. The
soon-to-be standard, called G.Lite, simplifies installing
necessary hardware and connecting to the Internet via a
technology known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, or ADSL.
Most G.Lite services offer connection speeds of up to 1.5Mbps _
about 30 times that of today_s fastest modems.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/208085.asp
Statistics
* China to top Asian Net use by 2001 (Reuters) China will have
more Internet users than any other Asian country by 2001,
excluding Japan, according to a new study. China's user
population will reach about 9.4 million by 2002, up from 1.4
million in 1997, according to the International Data Corporation
(IDC). By 2001 the country is expected to have the largest
Internet user base in the region, surpassing Australia, which is
expected to have about 5.8 million users by 2002.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,28073,00.html?pfv
* EITO analysts expect 8% increase in Western Europe (Press
Release) Growth in the European market for information
technology and telecommunications (ICT) should be 8.3% by the
end of 1998. These industries of the future are expected to
achieve a turnover of 385 billion Ecu this year in hardware,
software and services in Europe as a whole. In 1999, turnover
should reach 416 billion Ecu. This represents a further increase
of 7.9%. The forecast comes from the latest study of the
European Information Technology Observatory (EITO)
http://www.fvit-eurobit.de/pages/eito/abstract/Ab-011.htm
* Over 1 Million Belgians Have Surfed the Web (NUA) 1.32 million
Belgians, 15.9 percent of the population, connected to the
Internet in the first six months of 1998, according to a study
conducted by <http://www.imcyberscan.com>Initiative Media
Brussels.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354449&rel=true
* Study Profiles Spanish Internet User (NUA) Almost 2.25 million
Spaniards, 6.6 percent of the population, have Internet access,
according to a <http://www.aui.es/estadi/egu/datos98/contexto.htm>study
by the
Spanish Internet Users Association, AUI. It
predicts that the number will rise to 8.74 million by 2001. The
study found that the typical Internet user in Spain is male, 78
percent, under 37 years old, 80 percent, with a third level
qualification, 70 percent, and a high-income level. Over 94
percent of those surveyed access the Internet to surf the Web
and to send email.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354460&rel=true
Technology
* An end to the ad wait? (MSNBC) New technologies may allow for
'rich' banner ads, delivered fast. New York City plays host this
week to AdTech, a conference of the Internet advertising
industry, and center stage will be attempts to improve how fast
online ads can be delivered to consumers. On Monday, IBM is
expected to introduce a technology called Hot Media, which will
allow 3D rotation of an object within an ad. Another company at
AdTech, Narrative Communications, will give the first public
demonstration of a new version of its Enliven software, a Java-
based technology that lets people do things like take a quiz or
play a game right in an ad banner.
http://msnbc.com/news/208173.asp
* Buyers get a peek at paperless book (Wall Street Journal) A
group of major book companies have agreed to provide texts for
one of the country_s first electronic books. The Rocket eBook
was created by NuvoMedia, whose investors include a unit of
media giant Bertelsmann and Barnes & Noble. Other companies are
racing to launch rival electronic-book formats, but NuvoMedia is
the first to announce a list of publishers, hundreds of book
selections, and to conduct a public demonstration.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/208125.asp
* Digital Cameras Harness Chip Technology to Do the Job of Film
(New York Times (registration required)) Once considered an
engineering folly in a world of film and video cameras, digital
still cameras have become a booming industry in the last decade.
[<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/circuits/howitworks/29howw-s
ide.html
>with illustrations]
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/circuits/howitworks/29howw.html
Telecommunications
* Bertelsmann Unveils IP Telephony (IDG) Media giant Bertelsmann
Tuesday launched its long-awaited Internet telephony service for
the German market. It is offering a telephone service over ISDN
lines, where consumers are charged on a call-by-call basis, and
is also beta-testing a multimedia messaging service that sends
different forms of data via the Internet. But the big price
advantages that usually come with voice-over-IP will only come
if there are regulatory changes in Germany, due to the high
interconnection fees which ISPs have to pay to lease
transmission lines from Deutsche Telekom. see also <http://www
.newsroom.de/news/db_detail.cfm?Datensatz=16391>OTS.
http://www.thestandard.net/articles/article_print/0,1454,2261,00.html
* Wireless Alliance Prepares to Oppose Microsoft (New York Times
(registration required)) Cementing an alliance intended to block
the Microsoft Corporation from dominating new consumer
communications markets, Motorola Inc. said yesterday that it had
completed an investment in a European joint venture, known as
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/biztech/articles/29wireless.h
tml#1>Symbian, that is developing an operating
system for a future generation of digital wireless phones.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/biztech/articles/29wireless.html
* Wireless Duels in China (Reuters) Qualcomm, the San Diego-
based telecommunications firm, is lobbying Beijing to adopt a US
cellular standard in an effort to take market share from
entrenched European mobile phone companies.
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/15889.html
* Italy - Scramble to appoint Telecom Italia CEO this week
(Bloomberg News) Telecom Italia SpA, Italy's former telephone
monopoly, aims to find a chief executive within a week, an
official said, after executive chairman Gian Mario Rossignolo
resigned, ending a 10-month tenure marred by mishaps.
http://www.totaltele.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi/20250/worldmore.html
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