The cut-throat battle between Microsoft’s Xbox games machine and Sony’s PlayStation 2 has put Microsoft’s Home and Entertainment division US$348 million in the red
Only a couple of weeks after its networks became infected with the ExploreZip virus, the BBC has managed to mail a copy of the Sobig worm to fans of the long-running Radio 4 show, The Archers
Electronic security experts have warned that face recognition and other biometric systems are categorically not
an answer for airport security and identity checking
The next time your computer crashes or your surfing flounders, try appealing to a higher power. The Internet is going to receive its very own patron saint. Saint Isidore of Seville, who died more than 1400 years ago, is the most popular candidate
Computer security experts say the recent SQL Slammer
worm, the worst in more than a year, is evidence that Microsoft’s year-old security push is not working
Some of the biggest failures in console gaming were the Halcyon, a US$2500 laserdisc system with only two games and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, a stereoptic system that had red-on-black simulated 3D graphics — via Slashdot
If you think your prized collection of DVD movies will last a lifetime, think again — some are already starting to DVD rot while others are falling apart. Unofficial estimates put the number of affected discs at between one and 10 per cent. Yet some of the largest distributors for Hollywood Studios are accused of refusing to accept the problem exists and replace faulty products
Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor who gave us the World Wide Web, a system built on languages
largely created by Berners-Lee. He’s now working on a sequel, called the Semantic Web
US trade negotiators are pushing for Australia to sign up to a tough new copyright regime that could hold ISPs liable for breaches. The EFA are less than impressed
Gibson is planning to roll out their Magic this year with the delivery of guitars using Cat 5 instead of analogue cables to connect instruments and amplifiers. The debate over the quality of digital vs analogue signal processing is not new, but using a Magic
Les Paul would force you entirely into the digital domain
Nineteen Australian universities are on the way to creating a seamless virtual national research library
Anyone can contribute an article to the Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopædia that relies solely on volunteers for its content. All that’s needed is a little initiative
A 32-year-old Boulder man who had opened his apartment’s patio door to enjoy the unusually warm weather was later overheard screaming threats and seen waving what appeared to be a handgun, prompting a maintenance worker to call police. It turned out that the man was simply upset at his computer — which he had called a bitch
he wanted to kill
— and the gun was a plastic pellet gun, not the .45-caliber automatic handgun it was made to resemble
Linux’s popularity with programmers has already managed to make a huge dent on the market share of rival software Unix and now it’s gradually threatening to do the same with Microsoft’s dominance of the business software market
If you’ve ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, you’re what prosecutors like to think of as an unindicted federal felon
The Australian Consumers Association claim that a levy on the sale of blank CDs and DVDs may benefit buyers if it locks in a right to copy for personal use
Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial trusted
computing platform from Palladium
to next-generation secure computing base
Traffic on the many parts of the internet has slowed dramatically, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection interfering with web browsing and delivery of e-mail through dodgy Microsoft servers
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