eBay-owned shopping portal Shopping.com believes the Australian e-commerce market is finally ripe for the picking, and will launch its Australian service this week with 200 local retail partners
With regional Australia soon to be the happy recipient of a $1.1 billion communications funding package, the tiny wireless broadband firms that have sprung up around the bush don’t know whether to laugh or cry
Domain name registration company Melbourne IT Ltd has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire hosting group WebCentral in a deal valued at $61.3 million
Telstra says it can’t put a timeline on a deal with the competition watchdog over the rollout of its proposed $5.7 billion fibre broadband network
Telstra has been forced to admit that mobile phone users in the bush could find themselves without an effective service in late 2008
Google has snuck out the much anticipated street mapping data for Australia and New Zealand cities within Google Maps
Apple is suing Creative Technology, raising the stakes in the legal dispute over competing devices. Apple claims Creative Labs, the US division of Creative Technology, infringes four patents in its hand-held digital players — via digg
A new research project at MIT’s Media Lab, entitled RadioActive, aims to turn every mobile phone or PDA carrying member of the public into a podcaster, and every mobile device into a virtual podcasting studio. The project defines a large-scale asynchronous audio messaging system in which voice messages can be threaded like text in a discussion forum as a method of discussion-on-demand
— via Slashdot
Blue Security, a prominent crusader against unsolicited e-mail ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack
Natural allies in the music industry — record labels and a leading satellite service — are on opposing sides in a federal lawsuit over how consumers may legally record songs using next-generation radio devices
Creative Technologies, maker of the Zen media player, has joined the list of companies that have sued Apple for patent infringement. In this case, the technology in question is the interface used to find music on the iPod. Creative has asked a federal judge to issue an injunction blocking the sale of iPods and iPod Nanos in the US
Australia is finally reforming its backwards copyright law, which made it illegal to record shows off the TV and radio, and to rip CDs for personal playback. However, in the process, they proposed a new law that is even more backwards — one that prohibits watching your recorded shows more than once, one that doesn’t allow you to make backups of your CDs, and that doesn’t let you loan them to friends — via Boing Boing
Gmail has crippled its View as HTML
functionality so as to comply with Adobe’s PDF copy-control scheme. In case an email attachment is a DRMed PDF file (a PDF with copying and/or printing restrictions), clicking on the View as HTML
link returns the message displayed in the screenshot — via Boing Boing
Dutch scientists have developed a system for stopping racist chanting
at football matches: they feed back the audio of the chant at a slight delay, and the resulting confusion makes it impossible for mobs of football hooligans to synch up their shouting with one another, leading to chaos — via Boing Boing
Google has opened its new Sydney office with a plan to snap up the top tech graduates from Australia’s universities
Oracle will soon start hosting on-demand software services from data centres in Australia and other places outside the US for the first time
Bonza
, sanga
, and bogan
are just some examples of the Australian vernacular being considered for inclusion in the next version of Microsoft Office 2007
Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit the risk from a dangerous
security hole found in Diebold Election Systems’s ATM-like touch-screen voting machines. Armed with a little basic knowledge of Diebold voting systems and a standard component available at any computer store, someone with a minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen could load virtually any software into the machine and disable it, redistribute votes or alter its performance in myriad ways — via Bruce Schneier
Australians will legally be able to record TV and radio programs and transfer material from CDs to mp3 players, under proposed copyright changes
New Zealand is not for sale, despite somebody in Australia trying to offload the nation of 4 million to the highest online bidder. With a starting offer of just one cent, brisk bidding for the prime chunk of South Pacific real estate quickly boosted the price to AU$3,000 before eBay pulled the plug on the auction this week
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