While the events of 11 September have focussed the attention of CIOs on catastrophic outside threats to operations, they should keep their attention closer to home. Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has upheld Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana’s right to use InternetNews.info, rejecting a challenge from media giant INT Media Group
IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing
Honda is investing more cash into hydrogen powered cars. It is helping to develop home-based generators which produce the fuel so drivers don’t have to fill up at stations
The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F Hollings. Legislation introduced in March 2002, by the South Carolina Democrat to require that copyright-protection software be embedded in PCs, handheld computers, CD players — and anything else that can play, record, or manipulate data — could make open-source software such as the Linux operating system illegal
Tom Lonsdale, an Australian vet, claims that pet food diets of processed meat and cereal are making animals ill and shortening their lives
What do a 17th-century Swedish warship, an opulent Chicago theatre and a Kansas City hotel skyway
have in common? All met catastrophic ends — and they have important lessons to teach today’s innovators
Three cast-iron Scottish cannons believed to date back to the late 1700s have been found by workers at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo
Lindows has announced that a Seattle Judge has denied Microsoft’s appeal to shut them down, citing that Microsoft’s own use of evidence helped determined Windows
is a generic word
Hackers posing as Ford employees have managed to steal some 13,000 credit reports which include, not only credit card numbers, but also such useful information as address, SSN, bank account details and credit ratings
In an effort to preserve and expose scholars around the world to rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint project between the University of California and the Max Planck Institute have photographed and digitised around 60,000 tablets. Ironically enough, the digitised versions will probably not go anywhere near to outlasting the original clay tablets — via Slashdot
NORAD is considering deploying zeppelins along the west coast and Canadian border to keep an eye out for terrorists. Larger than jumbo jets, easier to repair and upgrade than satellites, this may be an idea whose time has come. Again
Mireille Breitwieser, the mother of an art thief, was imprisoned after admitting she shredded up to 60 masterpieces by leading artists, such as Bruegel and Watteau, stolen in broad daylight from museums in five countries. French police also dragged the Rhône-Rhine canal in eastern France looking for priceless objects, such as weapons, vases and musical instruments, dumped there last November
Hotmail, the free email service which was purchased by Microsoft some years back and is now part of the MSN Internet Service, has changed its users’ personal profile
settings by adding and pre-checking a new set of option boxes
The creep towards paid-for online content continues with news that access to the NYTimes.com’s archives is now available at a price on Yahoo. The archives date back to 1 January 2000 and individual stories can be bought for $2.50 each — the same price as charged by the NYTimes.com’s own archive service
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla hope to wash away the problem of land mines with technology that harnesses — and focuses — the power of water, as a child’s plastic water pistol does
Two of the recent litter of six red wolf puppies born at the North Carolina Zoological Park have been placed with a female already raising her own pups in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. This is the first time that captive-born red wolves have been placed with a wild mother
Music CD copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape
With all the excitement over fingerprint scanners, it comes as no surprise that they can be easily fooled with the use of gelatine
Greenpeace is accusing Japan of buying votes from new members of the International Whaling Commission in a bid to lift a global ban on commercial whaling
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