Microsoft has filed 15 lawsuits accusing the defendants of collectively flooding its systems and customers with more than 2 billion spam messages. While Telstra has terminated a BigPond account after a two-day spam campaign by the Queensland Computer Company — who was previously booted from iExec for the same offence
A hydrodemolition robot is going to restore seven bridges in Georgia. It’s a robot that destroys everything in its path with a crushing stream of water 15 times more powerful than a jackhammer and it looks like a street cleaner machine on steroids — via Slashdot
Australia has slipped behind Estonia in world-wide broadband league tables, falling to 23rd behind the likes of Taiwan, Belgium and Austria, due to a lack of competition and ridiculous download limits
Linux father Linus Torvalds is leaving microprocessor company Transmeta to work exclusively on Linux kernel development
An emerging type of chip architecture from QuickSilver Technology, known as adaptive, or reconfigurable, computing, could transform technology
Chip designer ARM introduced a new instruction set for its ARM architecture, saying it will give consumers longer battery life, better performance, and lower memory costs from their mobile devices
South Australia has caused eyebrows at the Initiative for Software Choice to be raised in concern, with the organisation writing to Premier Mike Rann to demand that a proposed open-source software bill be dropped
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a smart brick which can monitor a building’s health and report its conditions wirelessly — via Slashdot
According to Dr Suelette Dreyfus, an expert in online sabotage, hackers are electronic graffiti artists, not terrorists, and even though some make political attacks on the net, they still should not be confused with terrorists
It’s official, microsoft will not be making any more versions of internet explorer for mac. But as an OSX user myself I couldn’t care less. Good riddance I say! Safari has taken IEs place as my default browser ever since it’s first public beta release, and I’ve never looked back! It’s faster, lighter, manages my bookmarks beautifully and of course offers tabbed browsing, all in a sleek brushed metal interface like iTunes and Quicktime. Mind you the overall interface design for IE was nice. It was all aquafied and you could change the colour of the icons to match your mac, (unless of course your mac’s beige).
The only reason for me to keep IE on my machine now is for testing!
This move by microsoft will however not be terribly welcome by OS9.2 and below users though I’m sure. For those on OS9.2 and below, I suggest checking out the fine free browsers on offer from mozilla as a way of quietly sticking it to Microsoft.
More thoughts on the subject can be read at Zeldman.com and What do I know.org.
Los Angeles officially becomes the world’s first city to have its own Internet domain. An interesting attempt to cash in on the unwary by reselling the .la TLD that belongs to Laos
A pair of unusual political allies, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, a left-wing Democrat and a conservative religious group, teamed up on in Washington’s latest bid to rid the Internet of spam to announce support for a new bill that would create a national Do Not Spam
registry of e-mail addresses and, unlike other federal proposals to date, give individuals the right to sue spammers for $1,000 per unlawful message
IEEE has officially ratified the much-anticipated 802.11g high-speed wireless standard
Privacy advocates say a shift by Microsoft could effectively marginalise a particularly intrusive use of Web bugs, the tracking and profiling devices used by online marketers and spammers. Last month Microsoft retooled its Hotmail service, adding a feature that allows users to block Web bugs placed inside e-mail messages
Phone companies which allow SMS spam messages to be sent across their networks face fines of up to $10 million under a new industry code, which requires carriers and service providers to only send bulk SMS messages to users who have opted in
, and to allow them to opt out
of receiving the messages. Don’t get too excited, the ADMA have already challenged the proposal
A consortium of the world’s top consumer electronics firms, mobile networks and broadcasters are funding the development of mobile phones that will spend money on your behalf. The consortium, called Mobile VCE, includes Nokia, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC
The long-awaited $500 million Optus/Department of Defence C1 satellite was launched from French Guiana in South America, opening the skies for the $600 million deployment of digital pay-TV in Australia
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has warned broadband users on the dangers of P2P programs, after a jump in complaints about hefty bills resulting from excess download charges
Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, who just recently topped the American Film Institute’s list of all-time cinematic heroes for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, died overnight of undisclosed causes at his home in Los Angeles; he was 87
Spammers are hijacking IP addresses in the search for new ways to send mail, and Australia’s ISPs are being told to beware of customers who bring their own addresses
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