Regional player SP Telemedia has bolstered its presence in the city with the acquisition of failed telco Comindico
The broadband battle is intensifying as dial-up Internet dies in Australia. The past few weeks has seen Internet providers deliver a raft of intensely competitive broadband deals — albeit conditional — as research compiled on behalf of Ericsson reveals that the number of broadband subscribers in Australia is likely to overtake dial-up by mid-2006
Step-by-step instructions for making your own light-up, buzzing, working Batphone with its own cake-dome — via boingboing
You know you want one
You think your new car is festooned with information-seeking sensors? Imagine this: sensor modules, each the size of a speck of dust, that are networked together wirelessly to relay information. In this array, the tiny Smart Dust devices can sense your presence when you enter your office, for example, and will adjust the light, heat, and other comforts to your preferences. Kris Pister, founder and CTO of Dust Networks, has already shown working sensors in an academic lab
Earlier this year Microsoft released a major security update for Windows XP, which was designed to strengthen the operating system’s defences against attack from viruses and hackers. One major part of the update was an improved version of its firewall software, which the latest Bagle variants are designed to attack and disable
The colour LCD screens on mobile phones and PDAs can get badly scratched in pockets stuffed with loose change and keys. And CDs and DVDs become unplayable in no time when children use them as indoor frisbees. Now a tough, transparent polymer coating developed by chemists from TDK in Japan is set to make scratched phone screens and scuffed discs a thing of the past
Bob Cringley was a great write up on Ken Schaffer‘s TV2ME, an amazing piece of technology that has managed to pull off streaming television via the internet where so many have failed
Google has acquired 3D mapping company Keyhole for an undisclosed sum, and announced that it’s cutting the price of the consumer edition from US$69.95 to US$29.95. Keyhole’s EarthViewer mapping service is a technical tour de force, making use of the 3D capabilities of modern PC graphics cards to do the heavy lifting, or rendering in this case
Firefox, the much-anticipated open-source browser, reaches a major development milestone, as an official test version debuts
The retarded monkey boy‘s web site [via anonymous IP] now blocks all non-US traffic. I’m sure the US citizens who live or work abroad are thrilled — via BoingBoing
Two Google site vulnerabilities that could be used to mount phishing attacks have been reported, says the Internet search giant. It already has fixed one, and expects to patch the second shortly
Canadian company, iFire Technology, is near to commercialising a flat-panel TV technology that will provide TVs with pictures comparable in quality to those of LCD TVs, but at a lower cost
Ran across an article on highlighting comments made by particular authors at Dan’s site the other day.
All you need is a set class to add to the lump of comment code and you turn it on via your specified parameters using a nifty little MovableType plugin called Switch.
Members of the Bits of Freedom group conducted a test to see how much it would take for a service provider to take down a web site hosting public domain material and have published their results.
They signed up with ten providers and put online a work by Dutch author Multatuli, who died over 100 years ago. They stated that the work was in the public domain, and that it was written in 1871. They then set up a fake society to claim to be the copyright holders of the work.
From a Hotmail address, they sent out complaints to all ten of the providers. Seven out of ten complied and removed the site, one within just three hours.
Only one ISP actually pointed out that the copyright on the work expired many years ago.
The conclusion of the investigation is worth reading, it starts It only takes a Hotmail account to bring a web site down, and freedom of speech stands no chance in front of the Texan-style private ISP justice
— via boingboing
A US federal judge has ordered Stanford Wallace, otherwise known as the Spam King, to disable spyware programs that infiltrate computers, track internet use and flood users with pop-up advertising
A federal appeals court this week struck a blow against Lexmark‘s attempt to protect its share of the lucrative market for refill printer cartridges. The court vacated a preliminary injunction that barred Static Control Components from selling computer chips enabling third-party manufacturers to clone Lexmark’s cartridges
FAQs, or frequently asked questions for those scratching their heads at the acronym, are one of those things that can make or break a site.
They should be concise and to the point rather than another grandstanding opportunity for the company CEO who suffers from verbal diarrhoea. We’ve all seen examples that got it wrong, but 400 Monkeys has the best FAQ ever written — via Pagan Prattle
It has been a while since I have blogged due to work loads. So here’s a quickie.
It’s black with a red click wheel and it’s gorgeous and I want one.
It’s in colour, you can browse your photos. It even comes with an AV cable to connect it to a tv and bore every one to death with a happy snap slide show, just like Patty and Selma. And I want one of these too.
This is a nice Little App for pod owners. Link thieved from The Slippery Truffle. More specifically, this entry, with some entertaining and informative pod stuff.
A phone that lets you see through clothes is the stuff of teenage boys’ dreams — and now a Japanese developer claims it’s a reality
Flash drives are handy little units and cheap enough to be indispensible. They also come in a wide array of variants.
From the silliness of light up chunks of plastic sushi — via boingboing
To the seriously cool functionality of the FlashPoint, which is a US$99, 512MB USB flash drive, with a twist.
It has a female USB jack, and if you plug any other USB drive into it, any files in your share
directory on the drive will be automatically copied over to the other flash drive. So you can copy all your files even if you don’t have a laptop handy — via boingboing
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