A Sydney public relations firm, led by a former Labor staffer, has taken responsibility for a contentious web site critical of John Howard. But despite howls of protest from the Government, johnhowardlies.com appears to be gathering momentum, with its subscribers now numbering in the thousands
A sophisticated skimming device designed to steal the personal details of ATM users has been uncovered in Sydney
Bitoogle is a front-end for Google that finds BitTorrent files
It seems that multimedia search engines are making a comeback, and Google is likely to add audio and video clips to its search service, according to some plans the co-founders revealed at a conference last week. The idea has led to some speculation within the community that Google would go beyond multimedia clips and enter the online music business
ANZ Banking Group has made changing banks easier with the launch of an online account switching service that allows customers to simply enter all their relevant details once and it automatically generate the necessary written advice to third parties telling them to switch accounts to ANZ
Apple’s 3rd quarter conference call has confirmed that the new iMac line due out in September will have G5 processors.
As for any cosmetic make overs, checkout the pizza box description, and just a plain box. I guess we’ll just have to wait ‘n see. If your lucky I might even do a crude sketch of what I think the new iMac should look like…
New iPod rumors are around too. Yeah NOW they release a purple one!
A group of media and technology companies, including Microsoft, Disney, IBM, Intel, a Warner Bros, have agreed in principle to allow consumers to make legal backup copies of next-generation video discs and share their content on portable devices
Toshiba plans to announce a new laptop model next week that allows users to watch TV on it without having to boot up the computer’s Windows operating system — the first in what analysts say will be a new crop of multimedia notebooks to come
The rights and wrongs of using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on humans have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school. The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids’ movements. The chips will be put onto kids’ schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark’s Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray
Please check out these sites guaranteed to confuse AOL users from the midwest and amuse the rest of us:
Sony are planning to officially reveal the PlayStation 3 at the E3 Expo in May 2005. They’re obviously not wanting to be outdone by Nintendo, who announced the same plans for the GameCube successor, as well as Xbox 2’s rumoured debut around that time
Telstra unit Sensis is to launch a new search engine as part of a move to make the White and Yellow Pages more attractive to advertisers. The search engine will look not only for web sites, but will also rely upon listings in Sensis’ White and Yellow Pages and its online site Whereis and CitySearch. Analysts say it’s a move to prevent advertisers switching from Sensis to rivals such as Google or Yahoo, where advertisers pay for higher listings in searches
Yahoo has acquired Oddpost, a San Francisco startup that provides an innovative, Web-based e-mail service, and plans to use its technology to spruce up Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services
A pilot project in Africa that aims to provide a single computer that can be used by four students simultaneously has stumbled across one of the business world’s basic facts of life. Why make a cheap machine when customers in the developed world will pay good money for a more expensive one?
A Kirkland man arrested last week on allegations that he stole proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago is a Microsoft employee who has been working on the MSN Search initiative
The movie industry, in yet another illustration of just how much damage the Internet is doing to the long-suffering members of the MPAA, has just endured a record breaking $1 billion dollar takings for the single month of June. Clearly there is a desperate need to tighten up copyright laws in the face of this huge mountain of cash that is literally being metaphorically siphoned into the studios’ pockets. How will they survive? — via Slashdot
Developers at the open-source Mozilla Foundation have confirmed that the latest version of their Web browsers have a security flaw that could theoretically allow attackers to crash computers or launch unauthorised programs. The flaw was publicised Wednesday on a security mailing list, along with a link to a fix for the problem. Updated versions of the affected software programs, which include the Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird browsers, have been released
A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft’s latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer’s computer. Download Mozilla now
A federal appellate court on Tuesday said a lower court erred in invalidating two patents for ergonomic computer keyboards, dealing a blow to Microsoft, which fought to have them voided after being sued by the holder of those patents
eBay is taking the unusual step of removing the option of setting a reserve price for users of its Australian site
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