Inspired by Emil Stenström’s Levels of CSS knowledge, Roger Johansson started thinking about the extreme difference in HTML knowledge among people working in the web industry. It spans all the way from people who know next to nothing about it to those who know it well enough to write the actual HTML specifications — via digg
ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Their servers have been seized by the Swedish police
A takeover battle looms for iiNet after fellow Perth telco Amcom snapped up a 19.9 per cent stake for $18 million, taking advantage of a plunge in the market value of the struggling No3 internet provider
The technology that helped make black-light posters and concert T-shirts a cultural mainstay is now being used to make fuel cells, chip packages and PC components
The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected 19 of the 47 claims in a patent held by Forgent Networks, which the company has been using to assert licensing rights related to the JPEG digital image standard
After much bluster and several false starts, high-definition DVD products for home and PC have arrived — but in two incompatible formats, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. That means buyers will have to carefully weigh their options as we wait to see which — if either — technology will inherit DVD’s crown
China has launched a case against American chipmaker Intel’s near-monopoly on encryption standards for wireless local area network equipment
Amnesty International has a new online campaign against governments which censor websites, monitor online communications, and persecute citizens who express dissent in blogs, emails, or chat-rooms. The website, Irrepressible.info contains a web-based petition (to be presented at a UN conference in November 2006) and also a downloadable web gadget which displays random excerpts of censored material on your own web site
Optus has removed line rental fees from new home phone offering as internet telephony and low-cost mobile services continue to place pressure carriers’ fixed-line revenue — via Australian IT
Apple has lost a legal bid to force two internet web sites to reveal sources behind two reports they published containing the technology company’s commercial secrets
France is contemplating legislation designed to to force compatibility between digital songs and the different machines that play them
. Known colloquially as the iPod bill, it is opposed by Apple, the Business Software Alliance, and others who refer to it as state-sponsored piracy
. Two versions of the bill have already passed France’s Senate and National Assembly. Under the proposed law companies could have to reveal trade secrets of their software so that their songs can play on competitors’ devices
Two exceedingly dim New York teenagers have been arrested after trying to extort $150,000 from the makers of MySpace, the popular online community site. MySpace discovered the intrusion earlier this year and blocked it. The Los Angeles-based company also reported the incident to authorities. During the course of the investigation, threats were made that unless $150,000 was paid, new exploit code would be released, according to the statement. By this time, the sting operation had been set up, so instead of meeting with MySpace late last week, the pair from New York met with undercover officers from the US Secret Service and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation
A new Spam defence mechanism called BlackFrog has appeared in response to the demise of Blue Security’s BlueFrog. The new service is based on a P2P network of clients, called the Frognet
, which allows the opt-out service to continue functioning even after a server has gone down, making a DDoS attack like that which crippled BlueFrog ineffective against the new service
A new chapter in the story of computing has been written. Samsung has announced the world’s first commercial PCs sporting flash memory instead of traditional hard drives
Yahoo and eBay are joining hands in a broad-ranging partnership that combines the strengths of both companies and promises to provide users of the popular Web sites with better services
Scientists are recreating the human body on a microchip — using clumps of cells from different organs linked by fluid-filled channels — to reduce the amount of animal testing for drugs. The human-on-a-chip
mimics the body’s physiology on a miniature scale, including how each organ reacts to drugs and other chemicals
ISPs are in the perfect position to kill vast armies of compromised computers — or bots — that are being used by cyber-criminals to launch the majority of spam and phishing attacks, according security specialists at the AusCERT 2006 conference
In the wake of high-profile lawsuits involving BlackBerry and eBay, Congress is once again talking about fixing what the technology industry says is a thoroughly broken patent system
As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security
Researchers at Stanford have developed a robot that mimics the extraordinary climbing skills of the Gecko. These creatures can climb sheer surfaces thanks to the intermolecular forces exerted by millions of tiny hairs their feet, called setae. The robot, Stickybot, has polymer pads on its feed with synthetic setae
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