Google has launched a free news archive service enabling internet users to search for printed articles dating back to the 1700s
In an effort to track down the source of information leaks by Hewlett-Packard insiders, private investigators working for the company obtained reporters’ telephone records without permission. The reporters’ records were accessed as part of a private investigation into news leaks that was initiated by company Chairwoman Patricia Dunn
Sony will delay the launch of its PlayStation 3 Australia and Europe giving rivals Microsoft and Nintendo a free run at the Christmas shopping season
FreeDOS 1.0 has been released only a little bit later than planned. The 1.0 milestone is considered to be a stable and viable MS-DOS replacement
and features long filename support, HIMEM and EMM386 management, and CD-ROM support
Apple may soon launch a service that allows users to download feature-length films, boosting its presence in the digital home
Bush said that 14 of the most notorious terrorism suspects had been transferred to the Guant?°namo Bay detention center to face eventual trial
Matsushita Electric Industrial said Tuesday it has begun recalling 6,000 lithium-ion batteries used in Panasonic-brand notebook computers on concerns they might overheat
Google is asking surfers with time on their hands to help it categorise and label the images indexed by its search engine, building a database of knowledge about the contents of the images
Google, which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to US authorities fighting children’s access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court’s orders to turn over data that could help identify users accused of taking part in online communities that encourage racism, pedophilia and homophobia. The difference, it says, is scale and purpose. The Justice Department wanted Google’s entire search index, billions of pages and two months’ worth of queries, for a broad civil case. Brazil, by contrast, is looking for information in specific cases involving Google’s social networking site, Orkut
Canadian Ministers of Education are pushing a copyright proposal that will harm Internet access and a copyright group is seeking to create a new license for Internet content. Access Copyright, a copyright collective, wants to use a new international text standard to license everything from books to blogs. Geist outlines in his blog how Canadians can fight back against these proposals — via Slashdot
There’s a new video codec out there that claims to offer up to 40 percent better video quality
but that resets your computer’s DNS settings — opening the way for Trojans, rootkits or whatever. Techworld warns that zCodec looks professional enough, is widely available, and comes in at 100KB — via Slashdot
Researchers at Microsoft have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of those pages. The BrowserShield project, an outgrowth of the company’s Shield
initiative, could one day even become Microsoft’s answer to zero-day browser exploits such as the WMF (Windows Metafile) attack that spread like wildfire in December 2005
The naturalist and television star Steve Irwin has died in a diving accident in far north Queensland. He was 44. Police say he was stung through the heart by a stingray while diving off Port Douglas. He was filming a documentary when the accident occurred around midday AEST near the Low Isles
The recently released Browzar
web browser, based on the Internet Explorer core, is designed to protect a user’s privacy whilst surfing the Internet and be an effective throw-away
browser. However many who deal with the removal of malware have flagged this software as malware. The application Browzar has been branded adware
by many because it directs web searches to online adverts. Some technical experts also say Browzar, which claims to leave no trail of web pages visited, does not work. Browzar’s developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware
Brazilian authorities have given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over user information from web sites that promote criminal activity, threatening the company with $US23,000 in daily fines if it does not comply
UK graffiti virtuoso Banksy has smuggled 500 doctored versions of Paris Hilton’s new CD into stores across the country. The CD contain Banksy’s remixes and have titles like Why am I Famous?
, What Have I Done?
and What Am I For?
— via Boing Boing
After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle. But the young man behind the counter had other ideas. He said she was barred — because she was too old
New Orleans resident Mark Morice is credited with having rescued over 200 people from the flood immediately following Hurricane Katrina, using an idle boat he comandeered. The owner of that boat is now suing Morice for using the craft to save fellow citizens’ lives without receiving permission
, and claims grief, mental anguish, embarrassment and suffering… due to the removal of the boat
— via Boing Boing
The American Astronomical Unions Division of Planetary Scientists recognises the IAU’s authority to make a new planet defintion but expects it to be altered. Separately, 300 astronomers have signed a petition saying they won’t use the definition. All this stems from the discontent over how only 424 astronomers voted on the proposal that demoted Pluto — via Slashdot
The state of California is embarking on a ground-breaking effort to curb global warming, following an agreement between Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state’s movie star Republican Governor, and the Democrat-dominated state legislature, to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020
RSS – Posts