Connect Internet Solutions has launched a new broadband service targeting medium to large businesses with the claim its portfolio of offerings can reduce customer bills by 25%
An Indiana judge refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit against Vectren that accuses the utility of failing to install costly anti-pollution equipment at its ageing coal-fired plants
Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s leading cosmetic companies, planned to side-step an EU animal-testing ban by conducting the experiments outside Europe
Telecommunications companies are coming under intense pressure from the industry’s watchdog to give rebates to customers deprived of mobile telephony services due to faulty handsets
Optus has claimed that Telstra is using its market power to stop rivals in rural Australia offering fast-speed internet services
Throughout the 1990s, designers kept putting their company logos on a mind-boggling array of new products. Now the logos have become scarce
The middle-class entrepreneurs of the Victorian era were so successful because they invested their own money and were ruthless
VeriSign could lose its right to sell dot-com
domain names if it fails to address accusations that it violated its contract with global Internet addressing authorities
Rape crisis centres and women’s refuges have joined merchants in expressing concern regarding recent moves to limit calls made to 1800 numbers to 60 seconds
Hackers have attacked the Recording Industry Association of America’s web site for the second time in a month, dramatically altering several pages of content in a humorous protest against the industry group’s position on file sharing
Scottish Hydro-Electric have started a trial of broadband internet access via power lines. Just plug the modem into any power point in your house, with no need for additional lines into the house, and reasonably priced too
A coalition of green groups distributed dubious honours in their version of an Oscars ceremony to companies they say are guilty of greenwash
— using an environmental veneer to disguise continued poor practice
In American and Russian laboratories, millions of years of immense pressure and heat are being telescoped into just a few minutes to produce synthetic diamonds that even expert dealers can’t distinguish from the real thing. The only difference is the price… man-made diamonds could sell for less than $100 a gem. And that is disastrous news for De Beers, whose $9 billion a year monopoly on the diamond trade keeps prices sky high
In what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. And in recent weeks, scads of so-called spoof
files — repetitive loops or snippets filled with crackle and hiss — have been anonymously posted to the hugely popular sites where music fans illegally trade songs online, a tactic fully endorsed by the RIAA
Alcatel has prevailed in a suit against former employee Evan Brown, who claimed that he — rather than the company — owned rights to a software idea that he asserts had long existed in his head. Maybe they should team up with NASA, who have told Northwest Airlines security specialists that they are developing brain-monitoring devices in co-operation with an unnamed commercial firm
In Australia, pharmaceutical companies are barred from advertising drugs directly to the public. But they don’t need to. The media does the job for them. The recipe is simple. All the companies have to do is use phrases such as independent study
and medical breakthrough
, and journalists queue up to be manipulated. Then take an expert to talk up the product, add a victim who needs it, stir in some research findings commissioned by the drug company, and you have an advertisement dressed up as a legitimate news story
Toho — current owner of all things Godzilla — has launched a cease and desist notice on Davezilla
The FCC issued a record fine of nearly US$5.4 million against a company for sending junk faxes to businesses and consumers
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the marketing practices of VeriSign. In recent months, the company has been hit with a spate of lawsuits accusing it of deceptive marketing practices related to its efforts to persuade rivals’ customers to shift suppliers of domain names
In a scene somewhat reminiscent of the DVD format’s tumultuous adoption by content providers in the mid-90s, top executives at the major studios met quietly last week in Los Angeles to discuss the opportunities and challenges for a high-definition version of DVD
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