Apple’s latest promotion is a gimmick with Madonna, Tony Hawk or Beck‘s signature, or a No Doubt logo on an iPod. It seems Apple’s really pushing the iPod as a too-cool fashion accessory as much as a too-cooler MP3 player — via Slashdot
The NSW Government has backed off repealing controversial internet censorship laws, putting the legislation in the deep freeze while it waits for a federal review
Customs is targeting terrorists with technology that allows officers to track passenger data and travel patterns
CNN owned the story of the first Gulf War — blogs and the Internet may carry the day if there is a sequel
Consumer Reports magazine’s vintage photo gallery is a fun site in which you can see photos from when the magazine reviewed electric toasters in 1956, in-car record players in 1961, radio sunglasses in 1966, and other good stuff. Don’t forget about the flaming Nerf ball — via Slashdot
Phil Lelyveld, a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer‘s comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs — under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood’s permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC — who are taking comments on the proposal — without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a two dot.com millionaires
working to create a world where we are all artist/waiters
— via Slashdot
The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away. Japanese consumers who purchased the Spirited Away DVD were very disappointed when they discovered a red tint to the film. A hundred thousand consumers complained, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan, a subsidiary of Walt Disney, pretended nothing was wrong with the disc
West Bloomfield spammer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world’s biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine. Ever since an article was written on him a couple of weeks ago, he says he’s been inundated with ads, catalogues and brochures delivered by the US Postal Service to his brand-new US$740,000 home
The release of the Internet Industry Association’s cybercrime code has been delayed because of concerns raised by the Privacy Commissioner
NASA is threatening to mothball the International Space Station unless Russia coughs up its share of the money for maintenance and support missions — via Slashdot
The PlayStation 2 continues to dominate hardware sales in the UK, with over 90,000 units of the console sold in the last week of November — three times the sales of Xbox and GameCube combined
According to recommendations of an Internet task force, the standards body for Internet domain names should ratchet up efforts to ensure the accuracy of domain-name owner data and eliminate bulk marketing that uses domain-name information
If you’re tired of your television set looking like a lump of black plastic, then Predicta have the telly for you. Or maybe a Hellraiser puzzle box PC is more to your liking
Power surges and sags caused by bush fires in the Sydney basin have done untold damage to computing infrastructure, and highlighted the need for business continuity protection
Praemium Portfolio Services, a Melbourne-based online investment company, has savaged what it claims to be a lax response from the Australian Federal Police to a series of denial-of-service attacks on the company’s site
Antivirus companies are warning of a damaging new e-mail worm, which, when activated, deletes all files on drives labeled D, E, F and G
Advocates of royalty-free policies in standards are slowly but surely turning the tide against intellectual property owners. But the battle isn’t over. While the World Wide Web Consortium will no longer allow its process to be manipulated in a way that turns royalty-encumbered technology patents into standards and patent holders into jackpot winners, other standards bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force are not following the W3C’s lead just yet
The Digital Domesday project which had become unusable has now been revived thanks to the successful emulation of a 1980’s era Acorn computer. Folks at Leeds University and University of Michigan did the emulation work. This is just one early indication of how difficult it will be to maintain our digital heritage. Note that the printed Domesday Book, on which the digital project was modelled, is still quite accessible after almost 1000 year
A British woman may have discovered the ultimate in car security when she started her vehicle with a hi-tech electronic key — lodged inside the belly of her one-year-old son
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