A long-awaited review into digital copyright laws has been released, but recommendations for ISPs who may be hosting copyright-breaching material have been clouded by the new Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US
The state of Missouri is using pizza delivery lists to track down people that owe court-imposed fines
Thousands of demonstrators banged pots and pans, blew whistles and beat drums on Saturday in a Latin American-style protest of World Bank and IMF policies in poor countries. Some carried signs reading people over profits
and debt relief now
to underscore their message to international lenders holding their spring meetings
The National Australia Bank is shedding its tarnished image from such IT disasters as the integrated systems implementation, with the aim of becoming a world-class technology leader by 2007. In the midst of major upheavals at the bank following its $360 million foreign exchange scandal, NAB is working to wipe away past disasters, and experimenting with new technologies that for the first time will involve sharing innovation across the group
Sun Microsystems has discontinued development of two planned chips as it retrenches in a difficult era for the company. Santa Clara, California-based Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad flies economy class but has reportedly dislodged Microsoft’s Bill Gates as the world’s richest man
Telstra has caved in to pressure from the ACCC over the wholesale pricing of its broadband Internet service. The competition regulator had accused Telstra of cutting its retail prices to a point where some of its wholesale customers could no longer compete. Telstra announced discounted wholesale packages offering a 40 per cent discount compared to retail prices
Despite President Bush’s pledge that homosexuals ought to have the same rights
as all other people, his Administration this week ruled that homosexuals can now be fired from the federal workforce because of their sexual orientation
An air passenger was stunned to find a handgun in his luggage after a flight with Israel’s national carrier El Al. Security officers sometimes put replica guns in luggage to keep bag checkers on their toes. In theory, the weapon would be discovered during checks and removed, leaving passengers none the wiser. This handgun, however, appears to have slipped through the net — via Darren Barefoot
Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said that the final report from the Unsworth Review of Bus Services in NSW opens the door to privatisation of the public bus network
An Electronics Frontiers Australia board member has critically assessed the proposed Free-Trade Agreement between the United States and Australia released on 1 March, concluding that the document presents absolutely no benefit to Australia in the IP sections
Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s move to raise Haiti’s minimum wage was the last straw for American corporations and elitist US
St George Bank customers can monitor their accounts on their mobile phones, using an SMS facility
Microsoft’s Tokyo office was raided by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the world’s largest software maker violated the country’s anti-monopoly law
The Australian consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has issued Telstra with an advisory notice over concerns that the communications giant has breached competition laws by dropping broadband retail prices below their wholesale charges
Chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto are prepared to risk farmers’ GM-free contracts overseas to ensure a stockpile of GM canola seed is ready for sale after the next growing season
Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch haemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring the Johnny Cash classic Ring of Fire, but Cash’s family said there’s no way they will let it happen
Google has banned the ads of environmental group Oceana protesting Royal Caribbean’s sewage treatment methods, casting a spotlight on the editorial policies that control the popular web site’s lucrative marketing program
Comcast’s hostile bid for Disney this week has created turmoil on three pivotal fronts — and the outcome of each skirmish could have a direct impact on what most Americans see on their television screens and when they use a high-speed cable Internet connection. On the business front, Disney won’t take things lying down. Wall Street aren’t too impressed with the spectre of the AOL-Time Warner deal still in recent memory. And consumer advocates have signaled they’re going to fight the merger
US-based Primus Telecom Group announced its pending acquisition of ISP AOL|7, expanding the group’s customer base to a nearly half-million strong
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