Telstra will sign up to a series of strict performance hurdles when it
inks a long-awaited wholesale DSL deal with Optus, now in the final stages of negotiation. Optus has indicated it will seek to extend its popular bundling strategy when it begins offering the wider-reaching DSL broadband service
Takara, Japan’s number two toy maker, is set to launch a device in November that translates cats’ meows into human speech, following the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter Bowlingual
AOL has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid a reorganisation of its Mozilla open-source browser team. Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organisation, will continue mozilla.org’s work of co-ordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase
Researchers at MIT are developing a search engine for people using the web on slower net connections. The software will e-mail queries to a central server and receive the most relevant web pages from the search results by e-mail in a compressed form
Quentin Tarantino has persuaded his producers to release his latest movie, Kill Bill, in two instalments after finding it impossible to cut it down to less than three hours
Allegations are flying around the world as consumer groups battle printer makers over claims that some inkjets tell porkies about how much ink is really left in a cartridge
DSL Reports are currently pursuing a spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area and have been quite successful. More interesting is that the spammer appears to be posting in the thread
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is going for several notorious anti-abortionists necks and a famous cybersquatter in a case it has brought over nine domains it claims infringe its trademarks
Scientists hoping to clone prehistoric mammoths are preparing their first frozen DNA samples in a bid to revive the species
For the first time in three years something has happened in browser land. In fact, major events have started happening at a breathtaking pace
A young, female red wolf that scientists had hoped would pair with an older male on Bull Island was struck and killed by a car on in rural Awendaw earlier this week. The female, a 2-year-old named Echo, had been rejected by her intended mate, an 8-year-old male who has lived in the wild the past three years
Harvard has revoked its admission of Blair Hornstine, the prospective member of the Class of 2007 who made national headlines when she sued her school system to ensure she would be her high school’s sole valedictorian, following a widely-publicised report that Hornstine had plagiarised material in articles she wrote for her local paper
Russia’s only sniffer cat, hailed for its successes in the campaign against the bloody and lucrative world of caviar smuggling, has been run over and killed in a suspected contract killing
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Western Australia have created a robot that uses the neural impulses of rat brain cells to draw pictures
Daring Fireball is running an interesting article linking men’s wigs and web design, the problem being that the client can’t understand the concept of less is more
Who would ever, in this time of the greatest interconnectivity in human history, go back to shipping bytes around via snail mail as a preferred means of data transfer? Jim Gray would do it, that’s who. And not just Zip disks, this guy ships entire hard drives, or even complete computer systems, packed full of disks
A flotilla of rubber ducks about to beach on the shores of Nova Scotia after travelling the world for more than a decade is being hailed as more than just flotsam and jetsam by oceanographers
Finally remembered to bring a camera when taking the beasties for a run in the local off-leash area.
After several rainy weekends, last Sunday dawned very bright, but still bloody cold. The pods are far more interested in their Buster Cube than in the camera. The malamute, as usual, commandeers the Cube and noses it about the leave a trail of dog food — that the husky happily devours.
The run is a fair sized area and gives the dogs a lot of room to run about like mad creatures.
One of the problems with photographing dogs — either they won’t look at the camera or they get so close you have to clean dog saliva off the lens. Fun was had by all.
The last production line for the original Volkswagen Beetle is to close in Puebla, Mexico
If you thought mobiles couldn’t get more annoying, think again. Ringback tones personalise the ring, ring
sound that traditionally has covered the silence between the time that people enter digits and when the call is answered. I have to wonder at the thought that’s gone into this idea, because people have come to associate music with being put on hold and are likely to hang up on you
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