Fourteen staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Wales have been sacked and 101 disciplined after they swapped so many pornographic e-mails that it affected the organisation’s mainframe computer
MacBook Pro batteries are apparently swelling, then failing. MacFixIt has pictures of their own swollen MacBook Pro battery, which looks like it has suffered an internal explosion. Apple is replacing batteries on a case-by-case basis, but hasn’t yet admitted any wide-scale issues
Monash University researchers are $100,000 richer after their technology, which enables speedier internet downloads, was named as an outstanding commercialisation opportunity
Police are using a network of amateur investigators as bounty hunters to deal with online fraud
A new mobile phone scam is sending missed call messages to unsuspecting users, urging them to dial premium rate phone lines, an industry watchdog has warned
The US Government is set to transition to IPv6 in June 2008. The CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee has provided a list of best practices and transition elements that agencies should use as they work to meet the deadline. The latest additions, released in May, are a compilation of existing recommendations and best practices gathered from the Defense Department, which has been testing and preparing for the transition for years, the private sector, and the Internet research and development community
The 25 European Commission member states and nine accession countries have all signed up for a plan that could make e-accessibility mandatory — via digg
Google is now taking on that part of the Internet that has been notoriously difficult to navigate: US Government sites
On top of the tales of the appalling finish on the black Macbooks and discolouration of the white Macbooks that have been doing the rounds, here’s a remarkable thing that the Macworld team has turned up in its lab tests. The black Macbooks, when compared to the top-end white versions (the latter, you’ll recall, are AU$300 cheaper but have no other noticeable configuration differences), are actually slower at a number of tasks than the mid-config white ones. That is, if you leave the disk on the white model at 60GB, rather than upgrading to 80GB — via The Guardian
Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company. Gates announced on Thursday that he will gradually relinquish his current role, ceding the title of chief software architect immediately, while remaining a full-time employee for the next two years. In July 2008, he will become a part-time employee and chairman
Mac users can check off another box in the plus column for owning Intel-based Apple hardware. A start-up company that goes by the name of Parallels has just introduced software that lets Macs run Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously
AOL is breathing new life into Netscape.com with a revamped design — still in beta — that takes a page from the strategy playbook of user-driven sites such as digg.com and del.icio.us
Several Australian newspapers are gearing up to follow the lead of British counterparts in putting exclusive breaking news online before it appears in print and devoting more newsroom resources to the internet
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Amazon.com has started selling groceries, a cautious step into a business that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com collapse
Google added a new online photo sharing feature to Picasa, the free software that lets users organise digital photos on their computers. The test Picasa Web Albums offering is available by invitation only and appears similar to popular photo sharing Web site Flickr
Millions of Windows users may unwittingly be test subjects for an unfinished Microsoft antipiracy tool. The software maker has been delivering a prerelease version of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications software to PCs as a high priority
item in the built-in update feature in Windows. The tool, also known as WGA Notifications, is used to validate the authenticity of Windows software installed on a PC
Apple’s iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as £27 per month, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday. The report claims Longhua’s workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hours a day to make the iconic music player and the iPod nano is made in a five-storey factory (E3) that is secured by police officers. Apple is currently investigating the sweatshop allegations. [Update: Apple has published their findings]
Small wireless broadband carriers in the bush are being forced to partner or perish as a bizarre consequence of a billion-dollar program aimed at improving regional phone services
Google has unveiled an enhanced version of its popular online mapping program
Windows Vista will be better equipped to protect itself from malicious rootkits than its predecessor, Windows XP, but because so many legitimate
applications use rootkit techniques, Microsoft has decided to implement two crucial anti-rootkit technologies only in 64-bit versions of its new operating system
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