The Mozilla Foundation has published its Mozilla Application Suite transition plan, confirming that there will be no official Mozilla 1.8 release. There will be a 1.7.6 release to be maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. All future suite versions from the Foundation will be minor updates only. There is already a community effort underway to continue development
Irish comic and satirist Dave Allen, famed for his TV shows, dies in his sleep at his London home aged 68. I, for one, will miss him greatly
A Pentagon report into the interrogation of detained prisoners found senior officials and US military policy hasn’t led to abuse, despite failing to interview any of the detainees who claim they were abused. They vehemently deny the report is a whitewash and I have a bridge I’d like to sell them
AMD has officially unveiled Turion, its latest chip for mobile computing, a 64-bit processor aimed squarely Intel’s Centrino product, which currently dominates the notebook PC market
The Google News home page is now customisable, allowing you to add or delete main news categories, as well as increasing or decreasing the number of headlines within a section. They’ve also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you
A Brisbane rugby union team is facing legal action from a fast food chain because it has put McBrat
across the back of players’ shorts. McDonald’s claims the Brisbane Irish team sponsor’s nickname contravenes its intellectual property. But sponsor Malcolm McBratney, who is, ironically, an intellectual property lawyer, says the McBrats tag simply comes from his name. Mr McBratney says he is stunned that the fast good giant took exception when he tried to register the name in the Australian Trademarks Office
Current Testra PR hype has it that nearly all ADSL-enabled exchanges will have ADSL2+ capabilities by mid-2006 under an AU$210 million program being undertaken by the telco
Intel has introduced a new wireless networking standard called 802.11s. This standard utilises a mesh topology, allowing for fully self-configuring networks where each node can relay messages on behalf of others, thus increasing the range and available bandwidth with the number of nodes active within the system, versus the point-to-point structure of existing WiFi networks. This will radically transform WiFi hotspots, allowing the geographical area and available bandwidth on the network to scale with the number of participants
Yet another wonderful collection of machinery, that I should never be allowed near, are the industrial shredders made by SSI. Admittedly the people who work for the company appear to be just as irresponsible as me, as their videos of shredders eating concrete, washing machines, tyres and fridges can attest — via Dan’s Horrendous Waste of Bandwidth
A restaurant in New Zealand has been fined NZ$3,000 for failing to keep its web site up to date. By having out-of-date menus and prices on its web site, it has breached the Fair Trading Act, according to the New Zealand Commerce Commission
The russian site Allofmp3.com, which had been reported as being under investigation recently, has been let off the hook by the Russian DA, becuase of a loophole in russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request. Basically, even though the courts have found their site operator’s behavior to be illegal — they can’t prosecute because the user dynamically creates copies of songs to be downloaded themselves
Google’s desktop search tool officially has left the realm of beta testing and is in full release. The company announced version 1.0 on Monday, along with several additional features. Google Desktop Search now supports the Firefox and Netscape Web browsers in addition to Internet Explorer
Apparently looking for new and exciting ways to draw lawsuits from parents with no sense of responsibility, the lads at Carnegie Mellon have created a souped-up high-soaring Pogo Stick, that appropriates design elements from a composite bow — via boingboing
While a traditional pogo stick allows hopping 3-6 inches (foot clearance) off the ground with great effort, the BOWGO (patented) carries the rider to 10-20 inches or more almost effortlessly, allowing new patterns of play and sport… We find it easy to hop in place 15-20 inches high for periods of a few minutes… We routinely jump 24-inch-high (foam-core) hurdles, and Illah has cleared a bar 42 inches above ground
Anonymous Internet access is now a thing of the past. A doctoral student at the University of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware remotely, allowing it to be tracked wherever it is on the Internet
Threadless is a site that solicits user-generated t-shirt designs and puts them out to vote, producing the most popular.
My current favs are My Pet Rhino, Squeaked and Corporate Zombie
Don’t have the .Net framework on your PC to utilise Broadcastpc.tv’s spamming adware technology? No problem, they’ll download it for you without you knowing. The problem is that it’s a 23MB download and a 65MB install but, with the service packs and other extras, could end up eating 100MB of your disk space once installed
If certain state officials have their way, cities in Texas will no longer be able to offer free WiFi to their citizens. This could set a dangerous precedent if passed, as broadband providers could start lobbying officials in the other 49 states to ban free WiFi as well. Pennsylvania has already fallen victim to such a law but it excluded Philedelphia due to the city’s existing efforts
. One of the members of the FCC is far from impressed at the move
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been freed by her captors in Iraq but US forces mistakenly opened fire on the convoy taking her to safety, wounding her and killing an Italian secret service agent. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had immediately summoned the US ambassador, declaring someone had to take responsibility for US soldiers opening fire. The US military has confirmed its forces fired on and wounded Ms Sgrena and killed a fellow passenger when their car sped up near a checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport
Perth-based ISP iiNet plans to expand its ADSL network to reach 90% of Sydney customers over the next 9 months as it spends $9.6 million to increase its presence on the east coast
Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say no
, ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick told a full house at Toshiba’s MobileXchange conference in Melbourne
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