Sony will put an upgraded version of its PlayStation 2 video game, featuring improved DVD playback and a better remote control, on sale in Japan in mid May
Telstra claims it is disabling an increasing number of BigPond Internet accounts involved in spamming as the nation’s largest ISP adopts a ‘get-tough’ policy on the annoying and expensive practice
In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, we set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. The results offer Internet users insights about what online behaviour results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam — via Slashdot
Starship Dimensions places images of various starships from science fiction settings such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, ID4, Macross/Robotech, Lexx, Freespace and Battlestar Galactica side-by-side, in scale. The author has also conveniently included football fields, humans, King Kong, and buildings for comparison. You can even drag them around the page and stage your own interstellar battle royale — via Slashdot
In Canada, when engineers finish their undergraduate degree, they attend a ceremony referred to as Kipling. Alongside the formal ceremony are the kipling pranks. This year, the Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering — via Slashdot
Sony has taken an extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by patenting the term Shock and Awe
for a computer game. It is among a swarm of companies scrambling to commercially exploit the war in Iraq, which has killed more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in the space of three weeks
Another spam e-mail fraudulently claiming to represent an Australian bank is doing the rounds, this time claiming to be from ANZ
An extreme case mod of a Nissan Sentra, where a car is turned into a go-kart — via Slashdot
Children using Google’s SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to Web sites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended
Standard PC file-compression programs can already be used to detect the language in which a piece of text is written. Now researchers have shown they can distinguish between classical music, jazz and rock — all without playing a single note. And audio fingerprinting can name a tune as it plays, promptly displaying the title and artist on an internet radio or mobile phone
Privacy International announced the results of its competition to find the worlds most pointless, intrusive and egregious security measures
Is your Internet service provider appropriating your intellectual property? The question was bought home to NZ IT columnist Bruce Simpson when he found the ISP he was using claimed rights over his intellectual property in its terms and conditions
A Los Angeles police officer, Kelly Chrisman, used department computers to access confidential law enforcement records of celebrities and sold the information to tabloids
Legislators unanimously passed a bill that would let Washington residents sue illegal spammers in local courts, even if the e-mail is sent from other states
Researchers are developing a computer that helps people cope with the daily deluge of e-mail messages
Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, says that mobile carriers are making big mistakes in releasing Wi-Fi and other advanced data services
Some anti-spam vigilantes are giving spammers a taste of their own medicine, bombarding them with e-mail, signing them up for catalogues and products they did not order and flooding them with phone calls
Radio stations that are 100% digital can’t play certain copy-protected CDs because the copy-protection doesn’t allow them to rip the tracks on to their station’s system. Copy-protection is therefore directly responsible for the lack of airtime in this market by the artists who choose to copy-protect their CDs.
Microsoft gave out copies of .NET Visual Studio Pro to attendees of the Microsoft .NET Student Tour. Despite the discs saying unlicenced software — illegal without separate license from Microsoft
, the freebie didn’t contain any license document, and one guy decided to ask the MS conference rep about it — via Slashdot
Habeas is suing two internet marketers, saying that they’ve included Habeas’ haiku in their mail, thereby lowering their SpamAssassin score by 6 points, but allegedly violating the trademark
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