Microsoft’s path to expand the Windows empire with a new search program called MSNBot is leading directly to search king Google
TechTV, a United States-based cable television channel, is in talks with Foxtel about bringing its geeky content to Australia. Foxtel will need about 50 new channels for the network after it converts to digital transmission next year
Web users will soon be surfing video and audio content as easily as text and images thanks to some innovative Web tools — Continuous Media Web — being developed by CSIRO
Allegations that Telstra sells email addresses of BigPond customers have been denied by the telco
Vint Cerf, in his foreword to the latest Reporters Without Borders report on the state of Internet censorship, The Internet Under Surveillance — Obstacles to the Free Flow of Information Online, decried Internet censorship by governments, and put the onus on citizens of the world to not only keep that censorship in check, but ensure the information that is on the Internet is truthful
Because of the debate about ever-more centralised mass media and changing FCC regulations in the United States, the question of whether the Web is also becoming centralised has become a hot potato. However, the Web is not a mass medium. It’s not broadcast. The Web is on-demand, driven by each customer’s specialised need in each moment
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos wants the Internet retailer to offer its customers anything, with a capital A
. Add to that list the technology for building a mini-Amazon.com of one’s own
The protest against music discs with copy-control technology has now reached the corridors of political power, with a resident of Manly writing to the Federal Member for the area, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott
The WWDC has delivered! Apple has officially released the new PowerMac G5’s. The G5’s are the result of Apple and IBM working together on the processors with the top model running dual 2Ghz processors. And because it’s designed by Apple, this baby has the looks to match! The G5’s sport a gorgeous sleek brushed metal finish while still keeping the handles and removable side door for easy access to the guts.
Apple also released iSight a web cam for their iChat AV application, and the gold master
of Safari 1.0 is now available.
Panther was also previewed at the conference, with updates to Mail, the finder and Preview. Panther will also incorporate other features such as Exposé for managing your open windows and Font Book for managing your fonts. Panther is expected to ship later this year for US$130.
Serial spammers Queensland Computer Company have been disconnected from the iPrimus, as the retailer continues to frustrate ISPs by spamming — a practice that has not yet been outlawed
Western Power, a West Australian power company, said its infrastructure had provided a viable option for piping commercial fibre-optic broadband to customer premises
GeoVector has come up with a system that lets you point out a location. They say it could be used to get info on buildings and objects, such as pointing your mobile device at a movie theatre could tell you what’s on. They’ve also developed a real world
version of Doom. So don’t be surprised if you’re in Japan early next year and see people running holding their mobile phone or PDA like a gun — via Slashdot
Lunatic fringe Senator Orrin Hatch has suggested that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official web site, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes
Researchers at the Solid State Electronics Laboratory at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed the world’s smallest pinball game. And researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a micro-engine that will allow people to charge mobile phones using lighter fluid — via Slashdot
Less than two years after berating its rivals for over-charging customers, mobile phone company Vodafone has added a 25c connection charge — known as a flagfall — to its so-called No Plans service
The countdown is on for Apple’s WWDC 2003 (Worldwide Developer’s Conference) on 23-27 June, and the mac faithful are absolutely wetting themselves. Mac rumour sites are rampant with posts and photos on what new hardware and software delights awaits us. One thing we know for sure is that Panther, the code name for OSX.3 will be revealed. Yayyy! But at what price though? Some weren’t terribly impressed with having to fork out for OSX and then an additional 240-ish bucks for OSX.2. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
On to the rumours!
Safari 1.0 to be released. I don’t think this is that far fetched, or at least I’m sure it’s just around the corner. Apple certainly have more motivation now that Microsoft are no longer developing Explorer for Mac, and what better way to stick it to Microsoft than to whack it on new machines as the default browser with Panther? Ooohhh! I just realised the relation between the names Safari and Panther! Coincidence? More than likely.
PowerMac G5s. This has been popping up for quite some years. Someone has even posted a link to an allegdged apple store graphic for the new specs on Apple’s servers. I mean how easy is it for somone to mock up one of these as a joke though? And some kid did a rendition of the possibly existing G5 in his art class after taken nuggets of information overheard from his father’s phone conversations about the Power Mac G5
.
PowerPC 970. There have been reports that mystery boxes
have been arriving at Apple retail stores with security seals and marked don’t open until June 23
or something to that effect. Other posts are saying that the PowerPC 970s won’t be available on 23 June but will be previewed at WWDC 2003. I don’t know what to think of this. I guess we shall see.
Here is a general round up post for you to ponder. The PowerPC 970 notebooks rumour is intriguing, and ever since the release of the iPod, everyone’s been hanging out for either an Apple camera or phone. This post has some speculation on a communication device
, but surely it’s only a matter of time before Apple try their hand at this. These sorts of devices would also fit into the whole iLife / digital hub strategy, so it makes sense.
All will be revealed next week, and for those sceptics who think it’ll be a dud, think again (different). The eMacs have already received a hardware upgrade, this is a sign of big things to come. Remember what happened at the last keynote? Apple released iCal and Safari public release 1 and something else, BEFORE the keynote/macworld and went for the jugular at the keynote / macworld releasing the new range of Powerbooks, iLife, iSync and airport extreme. I think there was more but I can’t remember. But you get the idea. Apple is up to big things mark my hazy words.
Online reseller City Software has bought the remains of failed competitor E-Store, broadening its own customer lists and product range in the SMB space. E-Store is the second online retail brand to be acquired by City Software, which acquired International Software Warehouse in March 2001
When computers become too small to be operated by buttons, how will we control them? The only option will be to gently bend them, according to engineers at Sony’s Interaction Lab in Tokyo. They are developing ultra-small information gadgets such as map browsers for tourists, controlled not by a mouse or keypad but by a bit of deft deformation
Shattered bones could soon be replaced by segments of artificial bone that can be printed
within hours. The artificial bone is strong enough to bear weight, and would slowly be replaced by new bone
During a discussion of methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Senator Orrin Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Like that law would ever be used legitimately
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