The Scotsman’s website, scotsman.com,has won a prestigious national award for the second consecutive year when it was named the Newspaper Society’s Best Daily Site of 2003.

Uzbekistan: Privatisation In Publishing
Radio Free Europe, September 23

The publishing sector has been largely privatised in both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, which means the publication of school textbooks has become a commercial undertaking instead of being wholly subsidised by the state.

Bringing NHS IT into the 21st century...
Computing 23 Sep 2003

The budget for the National Programme is £2.3bn over the next three years and it is central to plans to modernise the health service. The programme breaks down into four main elements - national applications for electronic bookings, prescriptions and patient records, and a high-speed broadband infrastructure.

Bill Gates donates $168 million to fight malaria
The Times Online, September 22

America’s richest man has declared that before his death he will give all his fortune away to improve the health of the four billion people living on less than a dollar a day.

World Response to AIDS Called Inadequate
Yahoo! News AP, September 22

The world's financial and political response to curbing the AIDS epidemic has been woefully inadequate, with many countries failing to achieve goals set two years ago at a historic United Nations session on the disease, a new report said.

AOL Time Warner name change
Revolution, September 19

AOL Time Warner, the global media and entertainment group, is to change its name back to Time Warner, the company's board of directors has confirmed. will also see the readoption of the "TWX" ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.

WH Smith PLC announces the sale of its two US businesses
FT.com, September 18

WH Smith announced that its US airport retailing business is being sold to the Hudson Group for £41m ($64m) and its US hotel retailing business  is being sold to former management for £8m ($12.5m).

UK bans spam messages
BBC News, September 18

The UK has made spam a criminal offence to try to stop the flood of unsolicited messages

Bowker acquires Simba
Bowker Press Release, September 16

R.R. Bowker has announced that it has acquired Simba Information Inc., the market intelligence and forecasting unit of PRIMEDIA, Inc. (R.R. Bowker is a unit of privately owned Cambridge Information Group).For more information about the entire Simba product line, please visit www.simbanet.com.

75% of UK can now get broadband
Creditman,  September 12

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has revealed that broadband services are now available to over 75% of the population.The latest figures announced by communications minister Stephen Timms reveal that broadband access in the UK is growing by 30,000 subscribers a week. By the end of July over 2.3m people in the UK had signed up to broadband services.

For the first time in the United States, BMG Music will release a music CD that's loaded with anticopying protection, a move that opens a new round of technological experimentation for record labels.

In the third quarter of fiscal 2003, Adobe achieved revenue of $319.1 million, compared to $284.9 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2002 and $320.1 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal 2003. On a year-over-year basis, this represents 12 percent growth. Adobe's third quarter revenue target range was $300 to $315 million.

A virus or worm that exploits newly revealed vulnerabilities in the current versions of Windows could emerge fairly soon, security experts say. This article includes a Patch wizard.

Barely 24 hours after suing alleged 261 file swappers around the United States, the recording industry has settled its first, agreeing to drop its case against a 12-year-old New York girl in exchange for $2,000.

AOL and Reuters wired for IM
CNET News, September 9

Media and financial markets content provider Reuters has signed a partnership with America Online that provides access between the two companies' instant-messaging software systems.

Barnes & Noble shelf eBooks
Barnes & Noble, September 9

PRS Note According to the Open eBook Forum, a trade organisation, e-book sales totalled about $5 million in the first half of 2003, compared to $3.8 million in the first half of 2002.

Seybold Conference scales back
Wired News, September 8

The premier publishing trade show has some conspicuous absences, including digital-publishing bigwig Apple Computer. Among the big-name exhibitors Seybold did snag are Microsoft's publishing division, Adobe, Macromedia and Quark.

McGraw-Hill Named Exclusive Publisher of Harvard Medical School Consumer Health Books
Yahoo! Finance, September 8

McGraw-Hill, a leading provider of medical resources for both consumers and professionals, today announced that it has signed an agreement to become the exclusive publisher of Harvard Medical School health books for consumers.

Databases--the next copyright battle?
CNET News, September 5

House lawmakers are weighing a proposed bill that would give news archives and other factual databases similar copyright protections to those enjoyed by music and novels.

Computer worm attacks British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Sophos Anti-Virus, September 4

A new internet worm which, when run, launches a scathing attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and attempts to knock the Downing Street website off the internet

Virus Damage Worst on Record for August 2003
CyberAtlas, September 2

Thanks to the havoc that Sobig-F and the Blaster worms wreaked, August reportedly has gone down as the worst month in digital history for virus attacks.

WHO Urges Effective Use of Cheap Drugs Via WTO Deal
Yahoo, Reuters News, September 1

New WHO Director-General Dr Lee Jong-Wook welcomed the deal agreed   by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that permits poor states to override patent rights and import cheap generic copies of drugs under certain circumstances.

Reunion site for the media industry launched

Launched in September 2003, Mediabuddies.com, the reunion site for the media industry worldwide, has a rapidly growing membership of journalists, public relations, advertising and marketing executives who are finding old colleagues and contacts

Saddam's doctor publishes a book
Publisher's weekly, September 1

Ala Bashir, personal physician to Saddam Hussein for 10 years until this spring, and former dean of the Department of Medicine at Baghdad University, is writing an account of his experiences in Saddam's inner circle

UK Trade Minister welcomes deal on cheaper medicines
DTI Press Release, September 1

The UK Government has welcomed the agreement on easier access to
cheap medicines for poor countries reached at the WTO meeting in Geneva. New WHO Director-General Dr Lee Jong-Wook welcomed the deal agreed   by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that permits poor states to override patent rights and import cheap generic copies of drugs under certain circumstances.  

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