One of Alcatel’s most senior executives is back in town as the vendor continues to push for a deal that would see Telstra construct a new AU$3 billion fibre broadband network
Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc, is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry. The conditions of the settlement were agreed to by the P2P company to avoid further copyright infringement litigation
14 Pakistan International Airlines passengers awarded themselves an upgrade to the empty first class cabin of a flight from Islamabad to Manchester that was stuck, sweltering on the Islamabad tarmac for four hours. They switched to first class mid-flight and refused to go back to cattle-class. When the flight landed in the UK, they were arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft
— via Boing Boing
Ron Patrick has decided to go that little bit further by souping up his VW beetle with a jet engine. Serious planning went into the project. Patrick said, We did (computerised) structural analysis and we did stability analysis. And by god, you know what happens? It works!
Rockbox isn’t one of the many applications that run on the iPod software platform; rather, it’s firmware that completely replaces the iPod’s, with the goal of expanding the possibilities and the limits of the existing hardware
Tracing the lineage of Babel Fish [Yahoo portal], an online language translation service, to its beginnings is an instructive history lesson for those whose Internet experience begins and ends with Google
The Reporters Without Borders internet annual report 2006 details and decries the rising tide of net censorship and lays the blame squarely on the west as the source for the technology that allows repressive regimes to stifle freedom on the web. China’s success at censorship means it has effectively produced a sanitised
version of the internet for its 130 million citizens that regularly go online. The wide-ranging scrutiny also means that it is the biggest jailer of so-called cyber dissidents. RSF estimates that 62 people in China have been jailed for what they said online — via Slashdot
Ben Edelman, a Massachusetts lawyer and spyware researcher, is one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit this week against Yahoo on behalf of advertiser Crafts By Veronica, as well as other advertisers. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in New Jersey, accuses Yahoo and its ad sales subsidiary Overture Services Inof charging higher rates for ads promised premium
placement, but then placing those ads on spyware-vendor sites and on Web pages with URLs that are misspellings of popular sites
Warner Music Group rejected a $4.23 billion takeover offer from EMI Group, the world’s third-largest music company, thwarting another effort by the two companies to merge
Reports have emerged that those who have signed up for an antispam service from Blue Security have been targeted by spammers with a campaign of intimidation
. Six Apart, which runs the popular LiveJournal and TypePad blogging services, became a collateral victim of the very big, very sophisticated denial of service attack mounted by a Russian spammer against Blue Security
OpenStreetMap, an organisation that is using consumer technology to create copyright-free maps, is meeting this weekend (5-7 May) on the Isle of Wight — to map the whole island and give the data away under a Creative Commons license — via Boing Boing
Property investment and management group Investa is the latest Australian enterprise to implement an Internet Protocol telephony system
The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, claim mathematicians Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton
ABC’s web site crashed twice as internet users flocked to watch streaming versions of its most popular shows, including Lost
and Desperate Housewives
. It was the first time the shows were available online directly from the network, and the first time the advertising community had gotten a look at what ad products would be offered. It was also the first opportunity for the industry to gauge how popular such an ad-supported offering might be with consumers
Optus is preparing to release details of a $3 billion fibre network plan proposed by Telstra rivals within the next six to eight weeks
Lakeshore GO Transit rail authority apologised after a mischievous rider hacked into the electronic message board to announce that Stephen Harper Eats Babies
— via Warren Ellis
Two acquaintances of Jeremy Allan Steinke, a man accused of murdering his pre-teen girlfriend’s family, say he professed to be a 300-year-old werewolf who liked the taste of blood — via Warren Ellis
Polar bears and hippos are among more than 16,000 species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction
Apple has renewed contracts with the world’s four largest music companies to sell songs through its iTunes Music Store, after blocking their attempts to end iTunes’ flat-rate pricing scheme
The federal health and welfare smartcard project may be heading for big problems, according to experts concerned by a lack of detailed planning and apparent Government willingness to work outside the business case
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