John Pinnock, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, says he needs the power to investigate customer complaints over content issues as well as carriage services. Pinnock said the fact he was prohibited from investigating complaints about content was one of the key limitations of his office
I found this while trying to find some reference photos of a doctor’s medical bag.
Marvel® image licensing available through Corbis. That’s kinda weird/cool and I’m not sure why or which one it is yet. But hey, one of the 2 companies saw an opportunity and are taking it.
More on this when I have far less work to do and feel as though I can construct coherent sentences later.
Ok you mac freaks, Tiger is coming!
Sony’s rolling out their new line of flash-based music players to the market these days. More stylish than ever, they surely look like a serious attempt to regain territory lost to the iPod, and perhaps even to create the Walkman of the 21st century. And it looks like Sony has finally given in to consumer pressure: these new MP3 players
can finally play MP3 natively, not just Sony’s proprietary ATRAC format. But wait — you cannot just put your MP3s onto the device, you have to run them through Sony’s obfuscation software first. The obfuscated files, when installed properly on the device, can be played. But you can’t just move them around, share them with your friends, whatever. Well, of course the obfuscation scheme has already been broken by a brave hacker — via Slashdot
With new features in the latest version of MySQL, like subqueries and a new binary format, the company has become a stronger competitor against much larger companies, and seems poised to bite into their revenues. Even more importantly MySQL might actually spark some fundamental changes in the market
Australia’s peak communications industry body has cleared the way for the launch of broadband services several times quicker than existing ADSL offerings
Telstra BigPond is temporarily disconnecting compromised computers from its network to stem a tide of malware swamping its servers and delaying e-mail and Web site requests
One of the fathers of the internet has warned that a surge in demand for new online addresses from devices such as mobile phones could stress the capacity of the world’s computer communications system. Vint Cerf, chairman of ICANN, said the current version of the internet had space for more than 4 billion addresses, enough to last until 2020
Australians are driven to pirated music because just 65% of the country’s top music tracks are available from the three legitimate online music sites, according to a study on the digital downloads industry
Online retail giant Amazon has acquired US-based print-on-demand company BookSurge. The privately owned inventory-free book printing and fulfilment company based in South Carolina already provides a print-on-demand service for out-of-print or hard-to-find books, available for sale on Amazon.com or as a service to other publishers and authors. And other retailers, wholesalers and distributors use its wholesale platform, called BookSurge Direct. But Amazon hopes the deal will primarily allow it to offer a wider range of more rare titles, including foreign language translations, to its readers
Grrrr!
I’m working on some print styles for a site, which invovles hiding or showing a version of the header for print or screen. Not a problem, I says. I’ll just use the handy media=print and show the correct header. Gecko family, IE and Opera all pass with flying colours. Okay, now it’s your turn Safari. No header.
Huh?
After trying everything I could possibly think of, I turn to Google and find this: Re: CSS (display: none;)
Noooo!
Further googling came up with this: Print media oddity.
It basically involves positioning what you don’t want to show on screen waaaaaayyyy off screen until you print. It’s not how I’d like to get around it, but I don’t have time right now to find a better remedy.
You have been warned.
Notoriously crap ISP, BigPond, has taken exception to a recent Whirlpool survey in which most respondents rated Bigpond’s customer service as awful
or average
. Perhaps, instead of unleasing its PR flunkies, it should be fixing its appalling service
ICANN, the internet’s authority for web addresses, has officially designated .jobs and .travel to be used the internet, with discussions continuing on other extensions including .asia
The Wikimedia Foundation hopes to sell an English version of Wikipedia on CD-ROM and DVD before the end of the year. A boxed set of the German language version of Wikipedia has been available since last year
A 21-year-old man, Charles Stergios, was sentenced in US District Court in Maine to more than six years in prison for perpetrating an extensive Internet fraud scheme. He was ordered to pay nearly $118,000 in restitution to his victims. It seems that the federal prosecutor had tried to score Stergio a shorter amount of jail time, but Judge George Singal, who was not bound by the plea bargain agreement, decided on a harsher sentence on the grounds that he did not think that the defendant had sufficiently accepted responsibility
Primus Telecom will enter the local phone market using exchange equipment being installed for DSL broadband. Primus said it was upgrading 200 exchanges around Australia, with 100 more due to have equipment installed over the next year
Foxtel has given rival Optus the unprecedented ability to compete for its entire customer base after inking a deal that ensures Optus upgrades its pay-TV service to digital signals. After months of fighting over the issue, Foxtel’s board yesterday unanimously agreed to changes to the companies’ content-sharing deal, which are expected to boost Foxtel’s pay-TV customer numbers
The United States remains the largest source of spam, but other countries are catching up, with Australia also named in security firm Sophos’ dirty dozen
PC World’s Andrew Brandt went to work tracking down a comment spammer, following a link from a single piece of comment spam blocked from their Movable Type-powered blog, and discovering a wanted criminal — Six Apart :: ProNet
For the first time ever, those who have been blind since birth will have a chance to see the world. It’s still in the early stages, but this is a giant leap forward in medical science. The bionic eye comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual’s eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear. Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret
Impatient TV viewers have discovered BitTorrent in Australia mainly because the local networks are so slow to broadcast content. Programs are at times behind by months and, in some cases, years. According to an independent study, it takes an average of four months to watch the latest episodes of top-rated shows like Lost
and Desperate Housewives
. There are now calls for TV networks to consider offering episodes for download at a small cost
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