Sharp is bringing out a 3D monitor next year that requires no special glasses. It took them one day to convert Quake to work with the monitor. They are already selling mobile phones in Japan for the NTT DoCoMo network with scaled-down versions of the screen
Rich Clark claims he was involved in a car chase and received threatening phone calls after taking photos of the house belonging to mega-wealthy bulk e-mailer, Alan Ralsky — via The Register
Julian Haight appears to be blocking Spamex, a competitor to SpamCop that provides disposable e-mail addresses as a spam-proofing technique. He has also periodically blocked Despammed.com, another free-service competitor
AOL Time Warner has released Netscape 7.01 that allows users to suppress pop-up ads, one of the most hated ad formats
Linux is making inroads into the nation’s universities, pushing Windows, Unix and Apple operating systems off the desktops of first-year IT students
Music and film producers have been slammed as rip-off merchants in a scathing industry review by Forrester Research chairman and chief executive George Colony. And according to Gartner analyst Daniel McHugh, attempts to block copying of music CDs will spark an arms race between record labels and hackers
A US court has granted AOL almost US$7 million in damages from CN Productions that sent its users nearly 1 billion spam messages touting adult web sites
The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business
ICANN plans to approve a host of new address suffixes to join the likes of .com and .org over the coming year
The so-called Group Five set of customers, including the ACCC and top government departments, is considering opting out of a servicing contract with Telstra
Search engine company Google is testing an online shopping price comparison service, Froogle, and has introduced beta versions of two other search tools, Google Webquotes and Google Viewer
Lurking in the heart of the Melbourne Museum is the 50 year old CSIRAC computer, and it’s still functional. Sporting a whopping 2K of RAM and screaming along at a blistering 300kHz it proves the adage that they really don’t make ’em like they used to
DSL roll-outs are galloping ahead around the world, with more than 30 million subscribers now using the technology, but Australia continues to lag behind its Asia-Pacific neighbours
Federal authorities are pursuing fugitive crime boss James Whitey
Bulger in cyber space under a first-of-its kind agreement announced Wednesday between the FBI and Web portal Terra-Lycos. With a presence in 42 countries and in 19 languages, Terra Lycos is known for the world-wide scope of its Web presence
A future high school history teacher, Jason Eric Smith, sold an 867MHz PowerBook G4 on eBay right before finals. He found out the hard way that people are out there to rip you off, and he went to great lengths to catch this guy with the help of Mac heads everywhere
A group of techie activists equips tree-sitters in Northern California’s Headwaters Forest with laptops and wireless gear in hopes that protestors’ in-tree blogs will draw attention to old-growth logging
Frank Polifka has a patent on his tornado in a can device — officially known as Windhexe — that creates a tornado force wind. Besides pulverising concrete, it can pulverise small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don’t like it
An innovative solution to curb both spam e-mail and telemarketing. In short, the potential recipient of a message/call advertises the potential cost of contacting him uninvited. If the sender agrees to pay that cost, it acquires a token that it includes in the message/call and the message/call is accepted. The recipient decides to collect the fee or not, while recipients in a white list are not required to carry a token. The author, Scott Fahlman, also provides for a more detailed description — via Slashdot
Software meant to protect young people from the seamier side of the Internet may also be blocking important health information
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