4  IRD ditches Ir-File
Inland Revenue is to ditch its controversial electronic filing system after 16 months of operation, although it characterises the move as an "enhancement" to the system....
IDG NZ

4  Swain's email bill cops flack
Opposition to IT minister Paul Swain's proposed interception of email bill is gathering, even before the bill has been written or put up for public debate...
IDG NZ

4  Move to e-government no gravy train, says Swain
Taking government into the electronic age will not mean an "e-government gravy train" for the private sector...
Stuff

Other

4  Get Your Music Mojo Working
Got Mojo? A new file-sharing system called MojoNation hopes to beat Napster and Gnutella through encryption and micropayments. Its developers say it's uncensorable...
Wired

4  Dow Scrubs 50 for Eyeing Porn
The chemical company cuts loose employees for having illicit content in their e-mail. Dow suspended another 200 after a search of the company's message archives...
Wired

4  Attacking piracy at the source: CDs
Nearly all of the music traded on the Internet comes from CDs, which can be easily copied, or "ripped," as MP3 digital audio files. Analysts point to CDs as the biggest hole in the music industry's strategy for thwarting online piracy...
CNet

4  Court grants stay of Napster injunction
Nine hours before it would have been forced to shut down its music-swapping service, Napster wins a temporary reprieve...
CNet

4  Vendors To Design Secure CD-RW Drives
While recording studios worry about music being ripped from their CDs, a partnership between Oak Technology and Earjam.com aims to stop piracy before it begins, within the CD-RW drive itself...
TechWeb

4  Cash hoost for local e-businesses
Undeterred by continued nervousness on world technology markets and the Nasdaq's heavy losses on Friday, Deutsche Asset Management and f2 yesterday made separate cash injections into local dot coms...
AFR

4  NetRegistry plans IPO
nternet domain registrar NetRegistry will float on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) later this year, CEO Larry Bloch confirmed today...
Newswire

4  GST confusion causes Telstra-One.Tel dispute over local calls
CONFUSION over the GST has locked Australian telcos Telstra and One.Tel in a dispute over the provision of local calls...
Fairfax

4  dstore gets its name aired
Melbourne radio personality Neil Mitchell changed his name to dstore.com.au for today's broadcast as a fundraising stunt for charity...
NewsWire

Other

4  Join Us, Don't Fight Us, Pentagon Tells Hackers
The largest-ever convention of computer hackers has opened here with top-ranking U.S. military officials offering to hire the elite of the cybervandal world and put them to work defending against foreign government attacks...
Yahoo

4  European Union Ministers Vow Cyber Crime Crackdown
European Union ministers said on Saturday they would seek new laws to crack down on fast-growing crime by Internet fraudsters, computer hackers and child pornographers...
Yahoo

4  Internet Fight Brewing Over 'Spam'
Peter Kaldis, a systems support manager for Pixar Animation Studios in Richmond, Calif., estimates he gets about 100 e-mails per day, some 25 percent of which are junk e-mails offering everything from get-rich-quick schemes to entry to pornographic Web sites and sham cures for cancer...
AP

4  Privacy groups: Cookie deal a monster
Consumer advocates blast the agency's decision to let online advertisers collect data on consumers without prior permission...
ZDNet