Internet Chat Ban On Malaysia Tops Newsbytes Asia Week In Review.TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1999-- A global ban by the operators of the Undernet Internet relay chat See IRC. (chat, messaging) Internet Relay Chat - (IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A client-server chat system of large (often worldwide) networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet servers, each accepting connections from client programs, one per user. (IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Computer conferencing on the Internet. There are hundreds of IRC channels on numerous subjects that are hosted on IRC servers around the world. After joining a channel, your messages are broadcast to everyone listening to that channel. ) system on all users in Malaysia tops this week's Newsbytes Asia Week In Review. The ban, begun after administrators at local ISPs ignored abuse reports, meant all users accessing through Jaring and TMNet were unable to access the Undernet. Other stories making the news include a Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 related lawsuit brought against NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. by a personal computer user, the reaction to a speech given in Australia by the president of the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. in which the country's IT policy was attacked, plans by Japan's MPT to launch a Super Internet, the formation of a specialist computer crime team in Hong Kong and plans by a New Zealand ISP to launch its own finance company. Newsbytes Asia Week In Review is a comprehensive roundup of the week's top Internet and technology news from across Asia as reported by Newsbytes journalists. It is available free by e-mail. To subscribe fill in the form at http://www.newsbytes.com/subscribe/free_weekly.html. |
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