Brazilian authorities have given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over user information from web sites that promote criminal activity, threatening the company with $US23,000 in daily fines if it does not comply
After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle. But the young man behind the counter had other ideas. He said she was barred — because she was too old
The iPod manufacturer at the heart of a recent sweat shop
allegation has been ordered by the Chinese government to allow workers to set up a union. This is not necessarily a wonderful thing for the workers, as the unions have a nasty habit of allying themselves with the managers
Apple Computer’s announcement that Google CEO Eric Schmidt would be joining its board of directors has thrown new light on a longstanding partnership
Remember Hymn? You should, back in the day (like, um, 2004) it allowed you to strip the FairPlay DRM right off iTunes Music Store bought files just like that; well, it’s been a long time in coming, but a new app called QTFairUse6 looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 – 6.0.5 files of their chastely protection
You can now geotag your photos on Flickr through a reasonably simple to use drag and drop interface. Nifty!
Japanese authorites reported yesterday the first case in Japan of an Apple laptop catching fire and ordered the US company to investigate the trouble involving the faulty Sony batteries and report back within a week
StopBadware.org is accusing AOL of bundling malicious software into its latest free Web browser upgrade, version 9.0, citing a lack of proper disclosure and the inability for users to opt out
LibriVox is the largest of several emerging collectives that offer free or inexpensive audiobooks of works whose copyrights have expired, from Plato to The Wind in the Willows
Google Books has just started offering downloads of their public domain books as PDF files. You can search for free view
books to find other ones
In a deal between Internet giants that are competitors in some markets, Google and eBay announced that Google would begin selling advertising for eBay outside the United States and help eBay shoppers worldwide place calls quickly to online merchants to do business
Known geek and comedy singer/songwriter Weird Al Yankovic has released the first song from his new album Straight Outta Lynwood
for free on his MySpace page. The track is entitled Don’t Download This Song
and tells of the dangers of illegally downloading music from filesharing sites — via Slashdot
Analyst group Gartner believes that virtualisation will allow Microsoft to create a more flexible operating system platform in the future based around modularity
A Turkish hacker seeding usenet groups with trojan horses has made it a habit to hunt down pedophiles trolling the groups. The cases go back to 2000, with the mysterious good samaritan responsible for several arrests. The man now has tacit approval from the FBI for his actions
Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista
Microsoft released the latest test version of its Web browser, Release Candidate 1 (RC1), as it prepares to officially launch Internet Explorer 7 later this year
Mozilla has accepted Microsoft’s offer of help toward ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system
Because of a risk of fire, Apple is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony’s battery cell technology, which also was at the root of Dell’s historic recall last week
Apple will pay $US100 million to license Creative Technology’s patents for its iPod music player and settle all legal dispute between the two companies
A new security column at Engadget details the new old
threat of bumping locks. An 11-year-old girl bypassed a standard 5-pin lock at a recent DefCon Hacker Convention. The girl had no prior experience and didn’t even understand the theory she was applying — via Slashdot
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