Computer manufacturers have been press-ganged into the hunt for customers in the broadband internet market, with industry heavyweights Telstra and Optus planning to offer services bundled with PCs in time for Christmas
The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail. But a member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming
Though Google has become synonymous with searching, it does have a few pitfalls, including a tendency to skew results toward shopping, a lack of diversity for searches containing synonyms and its impact on research
According to Gartner, seven million US adults, were victims of identity theft in the 12 months ending June 2003. The analyst group is calling on banks to make it tougher for crooks to obtain credit in false names
Google unveiled refinements to technology for searching daily news, its latest effort to become the Web’s go-to hub for headlines. The new service, called Advanced News Search, allows visitors to scour headlines by date, location, exact phrases or publication
Dog-E-Data is Australia’s largest independent provider of free pet information — including Pet Talk Radio which is both broadcast via local community stations and streamed online — as well as being home of the unique Dog-E-Data ID service for dogs
Amazon are aiming become the Google of books with their plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of non-fiction. Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book, but it sounds promising nonetheless
Evgenij Vasiljev, a Russian software developer, has developed the Pskov 1100 — a home-made Gauss pistol
The Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular weblog tool. The Berkman Centre took over ownership of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 specification this week after UserLand, a company owned by RSS 2.0 author David Winer, transferred the copyright to the centre
Intel is pushing development of the 802.16 wireless networking standard. Designed to operate over a number of bands from 2GHz to 66GHz, 802.16 can work over 30 miles and pump data at speeds of up to 70Mbps. 802.16 is to 802.11 what the M25 motorway is to the Basingstoke one way system
If you’ve ever had the overwhelming desire to add a rocket pack to your bicycle or build a 2 million volt tesla coil, United Nuclear scientific supply offers a dangerous products category where you can purchase the parts and plans that will have you well on your way to becoming an embarrassing headline in your local paper in no time
New technology that can recover information from shredded documents. Not only can companies scan strip-shredded paper and recover the information, they can do the same with cross-shredded paper. The shreds are glued onto a piece of paper and then scanned. Software then looks for matches and suggests possible combinations to the operator that can be accepted or rejected. It comes at a price though — one company charges US$8-10,000 to reconstruct the information in a cubic foot of cross-shredded material
Useability guru Jakob Nielsen lambasts PDF files as a form of online presentation: PDF is great for one thing and one thing only: printing documents. Paper is superior to computer screens in many ways, and users often prefer to print documents that are too long to easily read online. For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon. It puts its clammy hands all over people with a cruel grip that doesn’t let go
Up to one-fifth of Telstra’s $250 million in broadband revenue comes from a small percentage of its customer base who exceed their download limits
The European Commission mapped out the world’s toughest ban on spam in an attempt to stop the blizzard of junk email clogging up the internet. Under the new rules, it will be illegal to send unsolicited emails anywhere in the European Union after October. Advertisers will have to secure the ‘opt-in’ consent of consumers before they can invade email privacy. Internet service companies will be obliged to filter out much of the obvious spam
Microsoft has acknowledged a critical vulnerability in nearly all versions of its flagship Windows operating system, including its recently launched Windows Server 2003 software
Telstra will sign up to a series of strict performance hurdles when it
inks a long-awaited wholesale DSL deal with Optus, now in the final stages of negotiation. Optus has indicated it will seek to extend its popular bundling strategy when it begins offering the wider-reaching DSL broadband service
Takara, Japan’s number two toy maker, is set to launch a device in November that translates cats’ meows into human speech, following the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter Bowlingual
AOL has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid a reorganisation of its Mozilla open-source browser team. Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organisation, will continue mozilla.org’s work of co-ordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase
Researchers at MIT are developing a search engine for people using the web on slower net connections. The software will e-mail queries to a central server and receive the most relevant web pages from the search results by e-mail in a compressed form
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