IBM has wowed the semiconductor industry with a new chip design under development. Compared to silicon-germanium bipolar chip technology, now considered state of the art, the new semiconductor design could vastly improve performance of wireless devices
CSS can do pretty much anything in a decent browser. Check out this site in Safari or Firebird and be amazed.
The array of plans and options facing new broadband users will become more transparent with the launch of a free online tool for comparing fast internet services. Both Whirlpool and its sister site, Broadband Choice, have been relaunched with a set of tools to allow users to dynamically compare the broadband plans and prices of the large number of providers that have sprung up over the past two years
Storage specialist Optima Technology has filed a lawsuit against Network Solutions, alleging that the registrar gave away its domain name without its permission and so caused damage to its business. Verisign have a long history of this practice, usually against people who can’t afford to fight back
Adobe will soon be attaching their own acronym to the newest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and InDesign. The new releases will get CS (Creative Suite), whacked on the end. At least CS makes some sort of sense I guess, not like Macromedia and the whole MX thing. What the fuck does that stand for? Does anyone know? Macromedia Xtreme? Making Xylophonics? Monkey Xex? Marketing Xuberence? And what is it now that it’s MX 2004?
Adobe have obviously overlooked the X factor while racking their brains. For instance, Macromedia Studio MX, Windows XP and Mac OSX all use X’s. Either that or they just wanted to make sense… Mac OSX does make sense, with whole X as the roman numeral for 10.
Adobe’s CS range will be shipping at the end of November.
Australia will soon have a new federal Communications and IT Minister, with Attorney-General Darryl Williams set to over the job as Senator Richard Alston prepares to retire amidst a major Cabinet reshuffle. Former Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock will take over the Attorney-General’s department
The Commonwealth Bank has introduced Australia’s first lite Eftpos terminal. The PayLite terminal is designed for smaller businesses that process less than $100,000 in card transactions per year, and do not require the extra functionality found on traditional Eftpos terminals
In an attempt to show that primitive communications can still function in modern networks, a student at Algoma University took up a challenge from Professor George Townsend to replace the lowest layer of the OSI networking model with a set of bongo drums
The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios. The development could complicate the RIAA’s efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography
Cyberspace users in India are up in arms against the government. For the first time since the Information Technology Act, 2000, was introduced, the government has banned a site, Yahoo Groups, for publishing anti-government material. Many netizens believe the government is trying to gag the Internet, a medium for free flow of information
Daniel Geer, one of the primary authors of a report Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security, was fired from @stake Thursday morning. @stake said that; The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @stake’s views and that Geer’s participation was not sanctioned. Microsoft, who has worked closely with @stake in the past, denied that it was involved in @stake’s decision to fire Dan
After suffering through a catastrophic Win2K crash — trapped in a reboot loop with no way out other than to reformat and reinstall — I needed to find a player for my Invader Zim vids. Unfortunately that meant having to reinstall the evil of Real Player or one of it’s equally icky siblings.
Hoping to avoid polluting my PC with even more crappy software, I had a look around and found the imaginatively named Real Alternative. It’s ugly, Windows Media Player ugly, and a little clunky. But it does the job and keeps me both Real Player free and happily basking in the warmth of Zim.
Dr Bob has a handy how-to on combining 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hacking together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive
A panel of leading security experts blasted Microsoft for vulnerabilities in its software, and warned that reliance on the developer’s software is a danger to both enterprises and national security. Having just spent a week getting everything reinstalled after a Win2K crash so bad that it required a complete reformat, I’m not at all surprised
The Australian Communications Authority has convened a working group to study the privacy and security implications of mapping telephone numbers to Internet Protocol numbers ahead of a trial next year
A controversial Pentagon big brother program, Total ‘Terrorism’ Information Awareness, that called for monitoring databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity is set to be killed off by a stop on funding
Sanyo has announced that the world’s first environment-friendly optical discs made from corn will hit the market from December this year
Interline Wireless Technology, a Polish company has reportedly set a world record in stretching the range of a Wi-Fi network for an amazing 110km at 2.4GHz. They achieved this using an antenna developed by them and an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011 Access Point
The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music — possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders
California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: It is about to ban spam. While spammers in Australia who repeatedly send unsolicited bulk e-mail could be fined up to $1 million a day under new anti-spam laws shortly to be introduced into Federal Parliament. But the Government, political parties, charities and religious organisations, which are understood to be exempt, would still be able to send as much spam as they like
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