The music industry fired another strong counterattack, suing four college students at three universities who run file-sharing sites
Google and Amazon have tied the knot in a deal designed to expand Google’s advertising presence and give Amazon users greater access to products not listed on the e-tailer’s site
The Federal Government will create new offences for those who use the Internet to incite or promote suicide
After years of providing the Netscape-branded browser with its Unix operating system, Hewlett-Packard is sidestepping that product for its open-source original, Mozilla
The phrase self-healing server
has an almost spiritual ring to it. Few IT marketing promises sound as appealing as this one, and IBM is spending a lot of money to make sure it sticks in the head of IT administrators
The Australian Defence Force’s $1.23 billion Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network has made its official debut after 40 years of development
NXT has developed an LCD screen that can produce sound as well. They claim that the sound quality is quite good, and compare it to average multimedia computer speakers
Sources close to Microsoft’s legal department claim that the company has purchased the rights to an obscure patent that effectively gives it control of the entire open-source movement
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70% of the world’s e-mail messages
Two incidents of friendly fire in the ongoing war against Iraq have raised concerns about potentially serious glitches in the targeting software of the US Patriot missile
Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton believes spammers may breach Australia’s National Privacy Principles and hopes to join the fight against spam by launching a test case
Clay Shirky has a good essay on wireless networking, contrasting two approaches to building out a network, roughly akin to the cathedral and bazaar methods of building software — via Slashdot
A California anti-spam bill passed the Senate on Wednesday, a first step toward the passage of a law that would give people the right to sue spammers
Instead of the traditional soldering iron, Kenneth Maxon has successfully used a toaster oven to solder surface mount parts
Westpac‘s web site has been replicated across the Pacific, but the bank claims that all customer details are safe
Domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months
The Bush administration has a launched a global PR network to not only disseminate, but also to dominate news of the conflict around the world
The Web sites of Arab news agency Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, with a denial of service attack one possible cause
Computer games and business software could become cheaper under new parallel importation legislation expected to be passed by federal parliament
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