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New Zealand

4  E-Force walks away from its portal
E-Force's consumer Web portal is still on air today, even though the company yesterday officially abandoned the business...
IDG

4  Internet birth plan draws fire
Health professionals and Christians are incensed the owners of a Christchurch live-sex website want to broadcast a live birth on Christmas Day...
Stuff

4  No Fast Option for Developer
Waitakere City software developer Ambient Design desperately needs broadband access to expand its export business to the US but without competition on the local loop faces exorbitant Telecom charges or the world-wide wait at modem speeds...
NZ.Internet.com

Other

4  Judge Blocks Whois Spam
A federal judge prohibits a Web hosting firm from tapping into a domain name registrar's Whois database to conduct a phone and e-mail marketing campaign...
Wired

4  Record company prepares to sell copy-protected CDs
Country music record company Fahrenheit Entertainment says it will begin selling copy-protected CDs by early next year using encryption technology from SunnComm...
CNet

4  Energy Shortage Taking A Toll On Silicon Valley
A widening energy crisis in the western United States is disrupting industry in California's Silicon Valley...
TechWeb

4  Windows developers weigh Java's worthiness
As the legal battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over Java drags into a third year, Windows developers are wondering: Who needs Java anyway?...
CNet

4  Getting a Read on New E-Books
New e-book readers are hitting stores just in time for the holidays. But will shoppers empty their pocketbooks for these highly anticipated devices? By Kendra Mayfield...
Wired

Australia

4  More Playstation 2 stock for Oz gamers
Demand overtook supply in the first week of the cutting edge console's release. Sony Computer Entertainment Australia has swiftly secured an additional 65,000 units to satisfy retail demand...
ZDNet

4  Online jobs slump as outlook sours
THE Australian IT&T industry has posted its first significant decline in online job advertisements, reflecting a general economic downturn, a new survey shows...
Australian IT

4  Ban fight as GoCorp folds
AUSTRALIA'S internet casino moratorium has claimed another victim, with fledgling operator GoCorp closing its virtual doors...
Australian IT

4  WIN TV broadcasts Australasia's first interactive TV program broadcast
WIN Television has broadcast Australasia's first interactive TV program in Orange, NSW. The broadcast, on Saturday evening, was part of an interactive television trial being undertaken by WIN and ICE Interactive in 150 Orange households...
Fairfax

Other

4  Plenty Wrong With WAP
Wireless Application Protocol was supposed to bring the Web to your mobile phone. But think twice before buying into this troubled technology...
NewsWeek/MSNBC

4  Yahoo Hits New 52-Week Low
Shares of Internet media network Yahoo! Inc. clawed their way back into positive territory late Monday morning after dropping to their lowest price in more than two years in early trading when several analysts questioned the company's growth prospects...
Yahoo

4  Is streaming media coming of age?
At Streaming Media West, companies will attempt to improve the broadcast quality of what we see and hear over the Internet...
ZDNet

4  Merrill Finds Deep Discounting of Online Ads
Internet analysts at Merrill Lynch on Monday offered more evidence of a soft online advertising market, saying that smaller Web sites are selling ad space at fire-sale prices while even Yahoo Inc. has cut rates substantially...
Yahoo