Mirroring a move by rival Overture Services, Google experiments with search results tailored to a person’s geographic location
Compaq has finally provided a FAQ to the world to ask that long standing question where is the any key? I can only hope that this was added as a joke, and not in response to legitimate need
Microsoft Windows Update is offering a download for their 1.0 version of the Microsoft Windows Rights Management client, if you care to download it. Although it’s not required or a critical update, this just paves the road for all of Microsoft’s software to require DRM technology on your computer
The founders of AC Propulsion seem to think that lithium-ion batteries have led them to the holy grail of electric motoring
The UK has introduced legislation banning British firms from spamming personal e-mail and mobile phone accounts from the end of this year, although business addresses will remain unprotected
BBCi and Vodafone have new projects that reflect a broad mission to build digital interactivity into public spaces
A widespread belief among physicists nowadays is that modern science requires squadrons of scientists and wildly expensive equipment. Craig Wallace, fresh out of Spanish Fork High School, had almost the entire physics faculty of Utah State University hovering (and arguing) over an apparatus he had cobbled together from parts salvaged from junk yards and charity drops. The apparatus is nothing less than the sine qua non of modern science: a nuclear fusion reactor, based on the plans of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television
A permanent ban on taxes unique to the Internet has taken another step toward reality, with House approval of legislation that next goes to the Senate
Criticism is growing over VeriSign’s surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that’s wreaking havoc on some filtering tools
Lindows promises free goods for California residents who qualify for benefits from a settlement in Microsoft’s antitrust case
Telstra BigPond, which is Australia’s leading ISP with 1.43 million dial-up and broadband customers, has launched a new user-pays anti-virus and spam protection service for customers. If they’re making you pay for this, they are condoning, if not actively encouraging, spam
A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago… in Canada
A large number of people who walk into libraries don’t borrow a thing; they come in to use the space and read the newspapers or sit there. So what would a library of the future look like to cater for all of the people in the community? Julie Rae, Chief Executive of the Central Highlands Regional Library, thinks that parts of it would look like your lounge room, parts of it would look like the Qantas club… and that would include a bar as well, parts of it would look like a library with shelves of books and parts of it would look like a café… there might be virtual reality rooms
John Gruber, gracious host of Daring Fireball, shares his thoughts/observations on the new G5, IBM and Apple.
Apple has just released their new G4 powerbook range.
Nice little sub menu to navigate through the powerbook area, when you roll over each silver beast to the right, the screen flips up.
I guess this means we will have to wait a little while longer for G5 powerbooks…
In a move aimed squarely at rival Microsoft, Sun Microsystems has unveiled a suite of desktop software aimed at businesses that want to dump — or just can’t afford — the Windows operating system on their companies’ personal computers. The Sun Java Desktop system, which was previously code-named Mad Hatter, runs on the open-source Linux operating system and includes a variety of programs that replace Microsoft’s internet browser, productivity suite, and other parts of the Windows package
Lost or stolen mobile phones will be useless to anyone who tries to make calls on them, as a result of new federal regulations. They will be blocked on all mobile phone networks, rendering them virtually worthless because they can no longer be used
Westpac customers had millions of dollars removed from their accounts during the weekend because of a computer glitch
Remember the fad for Care Bears? Adorable little teddy bears that came in a multitude of colours, a clever marketing gimmick that manipulated children into bullying their parents into buying them the whole set.
Here’s a chance to go back to your childhood and kill the little bastards: Liquid Generations’ Evil Care Bears.
After you’ve finished happily slaughtering Care Bears with guns, you can have a shot at the quiz: Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?
I seem to be Gay Bear — comfortable with myself, although the regular
Care Bears think I’m a deviant. And I have a crush on Grumpy.
Scientists’ efforts to realise the space elevator, as first described by Arthur C Clarke in his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise. Advances in materials science mean that a cable reaching up as far as 100,000km from the surface of the Earth is no longer an impossibility and 70 scientists and engineers are discussing the idea at a conference in Santa Fe
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