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4. COPYRIGHT: ISSUES : COUNTRIES: BELGIUM : INTERNET: NEWS: REPORTING
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1. EDUCATION: K-12: TEACHERS : CHILDREN: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY ILLEG
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:47 am ((PST))
EDUCATION: K-12: TEACHERS :
CHILDREN: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY ILLEGAL AND INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT :
COMPUTER: VIRUSES MALWARE SPYWARE COOKIES :
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ISSUES:
Connecticut Substitute Teacher Faces Forty (40) Years in Jail: Computers
Riddled with Viruses, Malware and Spyware Blamed for Pornographic Popups
Behind Criminal Charges
Questionable Conviction of Connecticut Teacher in Pop-up Porn Case
By Lindsay Beyerstein
AlterNet.
Posted January 19, 2007
<http://www.alternet.org/rights/46925/>
When lax cybersecurity meets anti-porn hysteria, an innocent computer
infection can land you in jail. Just ask Julie Amero, a 40-year old
substitute teacher who maintains she's a victim of a malicious software
infestation that caused her computer to spawn porn uncontrollably.
Julie Amero, a 40-year-old substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing
up to 40 years in prison for exposing her seventh grade class to a cascade
of pornographic imagery. Amero maintains that she is a victim of a
malicious software infestation that caused her computer to spawn porn
uncontrollably.
Adware, spyware and other infectious software are known hazards to
security and privacy -- and when lax cybersecurity meets anti-porn
hysteria, a mailware infection can even land you in jail. Malicious coders
are getting more sophisticated all the time, but law enforcement and the
criminal justice system aren't keeping up. A criminal conviction can hang
on the difference between a deliberate mouse click and an involuntary
redirect on an infested computer. Too often, even so-called experts can't
tell the difference.
On the morning of Oct. 19, 2004, Julie Amero's life changed forever when
pornographic ads flooded her web browser during a class. According to the
prosecuting attorney, David Smith, Amero's computer began displaying
images of naked men and women, couples performing sexual acts, and "bodily
fluids."
Chances are, these kids had seen porn pop-ups before. Family Safe Media
estimates that boys 12 to 17 consume more internet porn than any other
group. The adults at Kelly Middle School, however, were shocked and
scandalized. The next week, the school sent home a notice telling parents
why Amero would never teach in the district again. She was arrested
shortly thereafter and charged with multiple felonies.
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Substitute teacher convicted in school computer porn case
January 9, 2007
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/01/09/
substitute_teacher_convicted_in_school_computer_porn_case/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybmyd4>
Julie Amero, 40, of Windham, was convicted Friday on four counts of risk
of injury to a minor in connection to pornography the students saw on her
computer screen.
Prosecutors said sexually graphic computer images she accessed were seen
by several of her Kelly Middle School students in October 2004.
During the trial, Amero said any inappropriate images on her computer
screen were from adware, which can generate pop-up ads and not from sites
specifically keyed.
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Column: Teacher in porn case victim of own ignorance
By ALEX ECKELBERRY
Norwich Bulletin
Saturday, January 20, 2007
<http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20070120/OPINION/701200303/1014>
In response to your editorial "Reason needed in teacher porn case
sentencing," I can only say I am shocked and dismayed at what is such a
clear miscarriage of justice.
There is no question in my mind, and those of many other experts in the
computing community, Julie Amero is innocent of the charges, and should
not be imprisoned for one day, much less 40 years.
When I first read of the case, my reaction was how illogical it all
sounded: A middle-aged, substitute female teacher accessing porn on a
classroom computer, in front of her students on one particular day? It
made no sense.
Computer analysis
Then I read on to find out the forensic examination of the computer
clearly showed this machine was an old, poorly maintained system, riddled
with spyware, without adequate protections in place, and it all became
clear. Amero is the victim, not the perpetrator.
Piecing together the evidence, we can get an idea as of what happened that
day: Teacher Matthew Napp logged Amero, a substitute for the day, into the
classroom computer, and told her not to turn off the computer, as he was
leaving for the day. Amero used the computer briefly, and then allowed
students to access the computer.
The children went to an innocuous Web site which, unknown to them, loaded
a small program (a "script") that showed pornographic popups. Amero
immediately stepped in and shielded the children from the images, pushing
them away or physically blocking them from seeing the images.
She reported the incident, telling other teachers about the problem, one
of whom promised to get the school principal to help (no assistance ever
came).
At the end of the day, she reported the problem to the assistant
principal, who told her not to worry.
Antiquated system
<snip>
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Teacher Faces Jail Over Pornography on Class Computer
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Published: February 14, 2007
New York Times Company
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/nyregion/14teacher.html?ref=education>
Julie Amero, a substitute teacher at a middle school in Norwich, Conn.,
said she had simply wanted to e-mail her husband. The authorities contend
that she was purposely or, perhaps, carelessly exposing 11- and
12-year-old students to pornography rather than teaching them English.
Last month, Ms. Amero was convicted in Norwich Superior Court of four
counts of risking injury to a child and faces up to 40 years in prison at
a sentencing hearing scheduled for March 2. She has insisted on her
innocence, refusing to accept a plea bargain that would have allowed her
to walk free. She portrays herself as a hapless technophobe too clueless
to unplug a wayward computer.
Ms. Amero, 40, a longtime substitute, contends that when she arrived that
day in October 2004, she asked the regular seventh-grade language arts
teacher at Kelly Middle School if she could use his computer to e-mail her
husband. But first, she says, she went to the bathroom, and when she
returned, the teacher was gone and students were gathered around the
screen, watching a hairstyle Web site.
When she tried to close the site, what she got was an endless barrage of
pop-up ads for pornography sites. The images continued all day, since I
absolutely have no clue about computers, she said in an interview.
Ms. Amero plans to appeal, and she says lawyers have offered to handle the
appeal free.
School administrators and prosecutors have accused her of everything from
spending too much time staring at the computer to deliberately surfing
pornography sites, and have pointed out that if she was an unwitting
victim of an Internet bombardment, she should have fetched help, blocked
the screen or, at least, unplugged the machine.
She could have turned off the computer, the assistant states attorney,
David J. Smith, said in his closing arguments. Ms. Amero insisted during
cross-examination that she had never turned off a computer herself and did
not even know how to turn off a monitor.
An Internet chatter campaign has made Ms. Amero something of a cause clbre
for Luddites worldwide.
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Substitute teacher's porn conviction sparks tech debate
Posted 2/14/2007 7:55 AM
By John Christofferson, The Associated Press
USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/
computersecurity/2007-02-14-teacher-porn_x.htm>
WINDHAM, Conn. Until recently, Julie Amero lived the quiet life of a
small-town substitute teacher in eastern Connecticut. She can't believe
that the events of one awful day at work could send her to prison for 40
years.
"I'm scared," said Amero, a 40-year-old Windham resident with no prior
criminal record. "I'm just beside myself for something I didn't do."
<snip>
Amero, who claims to have little experience with computers, has become a
cause celebre for technology experts around the country who say she is the
victim of a miscarriage of justice that could happen to anyone.
<snip>
"It can happen to anybody," Horner said.
Prosecutor David Smith contended Amero clicked onto graphic websites,
which included meetlovers.com and femalesexual.com, and failed to prevent
children from seeing the pornography. Several students testified during
the three-day trial that they saw pictures of naked men and women,
including at least one image of a couple having oral sex.
Amero is emphatic that she did not click on the Web pages. She said any
inappropriate images on her computer screen were from adware, which can
generate pop-up ads, and not from sites specifically keyed.
Amero and her supporters say the old computer lacked firewall or
anti-spyware protections to prevent inappropriate pop-ups.
"What is extraordinary is the prosecution admitted there was no search
made for spyware an incredible blunder akin to not checking for
fingerprints at a crime scene," Alex Eckelberry, president of a Florida
software company, wrote recently in the local newspaper. "When a pop-up
occurs on a computer, it will get shown as a visited website and no
'physical click' is necessary."
Critics say adware can track a user's browsing habits and mysteriously
appear on computers without a user's full knowledge. Pop-up blockers that
can prevent so-called porn storms are now in wide use. The Federal Trade
Commission has been cracking down on companies accused of spreading
malicious spyware to millions of computer users worldwide.
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The Connecticut school district IT Director should be convicted, not the
substitute teacher
By Michael R. Farnum on Fri, 01/26/2007 - 4:29pm
Computer World
<http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4457>
I know a few of you out there have been following the story about the
substitute teacher in Connecticut who is facing a HUGE sentence (though
doubtful she will do much time) because she was convicted of exposing
students to online pornography. This is one of those cases where people
tend to judge immediately and cheer the conviction of someone who would
harm children. But wait, there is much more to this story.
Brian Krebs at Security Fix has unearthed a lot of details on this case.
Mr. Krebs has dug deep and has made the effort to talk to the people
involved. And what has come up from this case is nothing short of
maddening. I won't post everything that has come out since Mr. Krebs has
done a marvelous job at doing this, but I had to post on this recent event
because it has me bebfuddled and quite angry.
Mr. Krebs posted about a new development yesterday. The story says that in
a school board meeting this week, the IT Director of the school district
blamed the incident on the company that provides the district's
web-filtering software. He said the company "failed to send him the
necessary paperwork to activate an updated version of the filter prior to
the 2004 school year." The article goes on to say:
Hartz also blamed himself for the computer pornography incident, saying he
may have overlooked an invoice for the update.
That's why we didn't get this thing updated in time for the 2004 school
year and that's why this incident happened, Hartz told the board.
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Brian Krebs on Computer Security
Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware
Washington Post Blog
<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
2007/01/substitute_teacher_faces_jail.html>
I had a chance this week to speak with the accused, Windham, Conn.,
resident Julie Amero. Amero described herself as the kind of person who
can hardly find the power button on a computer, saying she often relies on
written instructions from her husband explaining how to access e-mail,
sign into instant messaging accounts and other relatively simple tasks.
<snip>
The case came to trial this month, and computer expert W. Herbert Horner
testified for the defense that the images were the result of incessant
pop-up ads served by spyware on the classroom computer. The prosecution's
expert, a local police officer, said time-stamped logs on the machine
showing adult-themed images and Web pages accessed by the Web browser at
the time she was in the classroom proved that someone had intentionally
visited the sites by clicking on a link or typing the address into the
browser address bar.
An explanation for this is that Web browser logs will keep records of
sites accessed whether they were generated by internal pop-up serving
software or clicked on by a user. Also, try not to dwell on the fact that
the judge in the case barred Horner from presenting technical evidence to
back up his claims. Horner on Monday published a summary of the facts he
would have presented were he allowed to at trial.
I checked out theInternet Archive's view of the site referenced in this
case, and it is clear that the page was a gateway site for the type of
products typically promoted by spam -- penis enlargement and hair loss
drugs. A review of the site's source code shows that it also uses
Javascript to launch at least one pop-up ad promoting various online
dating and porn sites. When I clicked on one of the sites in that list --
"CoolSexx!" -- my anti-virus program alerted me that it was trying to drop
a Trojan horse program on my machine (Trojans are generally used to
download malicious software to your PC). The spyware was attempting to
load itself onto my computer despite the fact that I was using Internet
Explorer 7 and up-to-date anti-virus software.
Try also to ignore that the computer in question was a Microsoft Windows
98 machine running an outdated version of Internet Explorer Web browser
(IE 5.0), or that the school's license for its firewall program expired
prior to the date of the alleged incident. Likewise, the machine's
anti-virus software (Cheyenne Software) was expired and it lacked any
anti-spyware tools. In short, the Windows 98 computer was completely
exposed to the Internet without any kind of protection.
Then there is the admission by the prosecution that it had failed to
conduct even a rudimentary scan of the computer's hard drive with
anti-spyware software. Amero's defense said that had it been allowed to
present its full testimony, it would have shown the results of spyware
software scans on the PC she used, which found two adware programs and at
least one Trojan horse program. The logs showed that all of the unwanted
programs had been installed weeks prior to the alleged incident, the
defense claims.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
On teachers and the lack of computer literacy, this Net-Gold vintage post
may be of interest.
KEITH OLD'S RESPONSE : EDUCATION: K-12: COMPUTERS : EDUCATION: K-12:
TEACHERS AND TEACHING: Teacher Technophobia and Computer Refusal : KEITH
OLD'S RESPONSE TO MY POST
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold/browse_thread/thread/
7057cafc1d04e395/2965e9bf0383a256?lnk=gst&q=%22net-gold%22+and+%
22high+school%22+and+teacher+and+computers+and+science&rnum=9&hl=
en#2965e9bf0383a256>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/268wea>
WEBBIB0607
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
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2. DISCUSSION GROUPS: SERVICES AND SERVERS: MailSpaces.com Upgrade an
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:19 pm ((PST))
Mailspaces is a discussion group server and service like Yahoo Groups,
Google Groups, Listserv and others. Its services to list owners and
members are at this time free of charge and the websites for list home
pages have the look and feel of a weblog home page. Those interested may
be further interested in the post below my signature lines from MailSpaces
regarding downtime this weekend to facilitate major system upgrades.
Please notice the customer serivce that just flows from this message, a
personalized friendly approach complete with an email address in the sent
from address that creates a contact person for the user receiving this
email.
I have no connection with this provider exact as a newer and happy user of
their services.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:05:15 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LibInfoSource <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MailSpaces.com Upgrade and Improvements This Weekend
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:34:11 -0000
From: Nigel Cannings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MailSpaces.com UBpgrade and Improvements This Weekend
Dear David,
Just to let you know about some scheduled downtime at MailSpaces.com and
some exciting new developments.
First, the downtime. Can you please warn your members:
Friday 16th February 2007 20:00 GMT to Saturday 17th February 2007 14:00 GMT
(approx)
And the reason?
We're putting in a massive upgrade to the system this weekend. What that
means is:
1. Your space will become known as
http://net-gold.mailspaces.com - the email address is the same, and the old
links will work
2. You will be able to invite new members direct from your
space
3. There is a new checklist on your space home page to help
you get the most out of configuring your space
4. E-mail will be clearer, and have better structure
5. Many spaces will be faster to load and view. You will see
more and more improvements in this area
6. We will be introducing "Themed" spaces, around family,
sports and other activities such as recycling and "FreeSharing".
There are a lot more improvements "under the hood".
If you're a regular user, we hope these will help you make your space even
better. If you don't come and see us that often, why not pop back next
week, and see what we've been up to (give us a few days to shake the bugs
out).
There's loads of help and assistance at
http://mailspaces.com/spaces/support
http://support.mailspaces.com
<http://support.mailspaces.com/> from next
week), including how to personalise your space, and make it your own.
Take a look at
http://www.anoraknation.com
<http://www.anoraknation.com/> ,
http://mailspaces.com/spaces/ncttest
and
http://mailspaces.com/spaces/freesharing
for some examples.
All the best
Nigel Cannings
MailSpaces.com
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3. EDUCATION: K-12: TEACHERS : CHILDREN: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY ILLEG
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:45 am ((PST))
EDUCATION: K-12: TEACHERS :
CHILDREN: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY ILLEGAL AND INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT :
COMPUTER: VIRUSES MALWARE SPYWARE COOKIES :
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ISSUES:
Teacher Faces Prison for Pop-Up Infested PC
What I do have is a working knowledge of spyware and plenty of experience
cleaning infected PCs.
I also have a copy of the report written by computer forensic specialist
W. Herbert Horner, the expert witness who testified in Ameros defense. You
can read it, too; its on the NetQos site .
Horner made an image of the computers hard drive. He saw that there was no
firewall and that the antivirus program was outdated. He also found 42
active spyware/adware tracking cookie/programs. Most important, Horner
said that 27 of the spyware apps were accessed before Amero had access to
the computer.
The defense wanted Horner to have Internet access at the trial in order to
re-create what happened to Amero in the classroom. The prosecution
objected, claiming they hadnt had full disclosure of Horners examination.
On January 24 the Norwich Bulletin reported that the school districts
technology administrator, Information Services Director Bob Hartz, said,
from August to October 2004, the districts filtering system didnt
regularly add newly discovered pornographic sites to its restricted Web
sites database. Oddly enough, they upgraded the software just after Ameros
incident.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Thanks to Newsroom-L Net for posting an excerpt of this story
Prosecution bars expert defense testimony in order to convict teacher on
dubious porn charges
She refused offers of a plea bargain and now faces an astounding 40 years
in prison.
<http://newsroom-l.net/newsroom/?p=85>
Job Hunting Advice:
If you are looking for a job as a teacher and you happen upon an
application for a teaching job in Connecticut in a place called Norwich,
you may want to consider filing this document in a special circular file
whose contents are handled by sanitation engineers who visit your curb
side either every week or every other week depending on your locale.
Remember this document may be paper, so recyling helps our environment.
If the paper was printed at this school district, it may be printed on
wide paper from a Decwriter, so there will be a larger quantity of paper
making recyling that much more important. Your professional career may be
at stake. Word has it, however, that a computer upgrade is being
considered by this district and the Commodore 64 is being heavily
considered as a replacement for currently held computers.
The DEC LA36 DECwriter II Terminal
<http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
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4. COPYRIGHT: ISSUES : COUNTRIES: BELGIUM : INTERNET: NEWS: REPORTING
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:58 am ((PST))
COPYRIGHT: ISSUES :
COUNTRIES: BELGIUM :
INTERNET: NEWS: REPORTING PROVIDERS AND SERVICES:
Belgian Court Deals Google a Bombshell
Belgian Court Deals Google a Bombshell
Europe February 13, 2007, 12:07PM EST
Kate Norton
Business Week
<http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2007/
gb20070213_427972.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe_companies>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yo5beh>
Publishers who sued the Internet giant for copyright infringement have won
their case. A one-off glitchor the end of search-engines as we know them?
by Kate Norton
It has all the makings of an epic David vs. Goliath battle: A band of
scrappy Belgian publishers, citing copyright infringement, have taken on
Google and emerged victorious. On Feb. 13, a Belgian court said the search
giant could not reproduce certain copyrighted titles and summaries on its
Belgian Google news or Google.be Web site. What's more, the Mountain View
(Calif.) company must pay 25,000 a day ($32,500) until it removes all
related content. Google says it will appeal.
At first glance, it might be easy to dismiss the case as a one-off. After
all, the ruling only applies to French- and German-language publications
in Belgium, including Le Soir and La Dernire Heure, that are represented
by Brussels-based copyright group Copiepresse.
But if the Belgian case is upheld, or if similar cases are filed and won
in other jurisdictions, it could have radical implications for Google
(GOOG). "A lot of the value of the [Google] service is its comprehensive
nature," says Frdric Louis, a partner at the law firm Wilmer, Cutler &
Pickering in Brussels. "The more national exceptions you have to make, the
more it loses that value."
An Internet in Disarray
Indeed, the search powerhouse has traditionally taken a very aggressive
position on copyright, citing the principle that "fair use" allows it to
use snippets of material and a link to the full story on the
copyright-holders' sites, says Lee Bromberg, an intellectual property
attorney at Bromberg & Sunstein in Boston. "The Belgian ruling suggests
thatthey're going to have to be more compromising," Bromberg says. "That's
a pretty serious wake-up call."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
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5. EMAIL: PROVIDERS AND SERVICES: Google E-Mail Service Ready for All [
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:07 am ((PST))
EMAIL: PROVIDERS AND SERVICES:
Google E-Mail Service Ready for All [ Gmail ]
Google E-Mail Service Ready for All
By Associated Press
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - Updated: 01:52 PM EST
Boston Herald
<http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=182982>
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.s free e-mail service will shed the final
remnants of its invitation-only restrictions Wednesday, extending the
reach of an increasingly popular product that has emerged as a vital cog
in the online search leaders expansion efforts.
Invitations will no longer be required to join the nearly 3-year-old
"Gmail" service in the United States, Canada, Mexico and a swath of Asian
and South American countries where the Mountain View-based company
previously limited the number of users.
With those restrictions now lifted, Gmail will be open to all comers
worldwide for the first time since Google unveiled the service on April
Fools Day in 2004.
<snip>
Although it will no longer require invitations to sign up, Gmail is
retaining its "beta," or test, status, signaling that Google still
considers the service to be a work in progress.
Making Gmail more widely available is important to Google because
other key products like instant messaging and calendar management are tied
into the e-mail service, company co-founder Sergey Brin said an interview.
"It has become a real cornerstone for us."
Because Gmail users often remain logged into Googles Web site while
they conduct online searches, the service also helps the companys
engineers learn more about individual preferences - knowledge that can
help deliver more relevant search results and foster more loyalty.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
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