Australian-developed software for managing university research administration is making inroads, with the University of Sydney the latest to sign up for the program
In a unique crackdown on illegal file-sharing, a Danish anti-piracy group mailed invoices to alleged pirates demanding compensation for downloading copyrighted materials off the Internet
Online identity theft is nothing new, but recently there’s been a growing number of scams aimed at commandeering eBay accounts
AOL is testing a standalone email client that could set the stage for a features battle with Microsoft in the market for Internet-based communications software
Melbourne-based Keypoint has joined the ranks of Australia’s largest ISPs after finalising its acquisition of 20 smaller regional service provider
Connecticut-based TopCoder awarded US$50,000 to John Dethridge, a University of Melbourne PhD candidate, for winning the Division 1 programming tournament
The microphone-shaped Karaoke TV Star, from IVL Technologies, answers the impossible dream of enthusiastic shower singers everywhere: Being able to belt out a song without scaring the pets or small children
Tom Martin, a professor at Virginia Tech’s electrical and computer engineering department, is working to prevent new types of denial-of-service attacks aimed at battery-powered mobile devices
It’s official: using browsing the web while blocking pop-up ads and other such exciting web site enhancements is theft. Anti-leech.com are offering to protect your site from browsers blocking pop-ups — or theft tools
as they call them — just try stealing from them with your favourite pop-up free browser — via Slashdot
Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage Wednesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelising a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences. Wolfram believes the universe is composed not of particles and waves, but of simple tiny programs. He believes these myriad programs, or algorithms, give rise to physical phenomena as fundamental as space and as complicated as human beings
The Australian travel industry is set for a shake-up next year with the entry of global online travel leader Expedia into the local market, tapping Sydney as its Asia Pacific headquarters
The increasing use of the internet by political activists could provide valuable lessons for the UK Government
After many years, support has finally been added to MAME for the Bradley Trainer. The Bradley Trainer is a conversion of Atari’s Battlezone arcade game that Atari created for the US Army as a training simulator for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Only two of these units were supposedly created, and only one of them is known to exist today. The Bradley Trainer is more of a simulator than arcade game, and the cabinet has many additional controls and buttons over its arcade counterpart
The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has opted to switch to Linux from Microsoft for its Gyandooth programme — via Slashdot
Up until now, there’s been fixed wing, or there’s been rotating wing, and that’s it. But now thanks to Patrick Peebles, there’s an entirely new principle of flight called the FanWing — via Slashdot
Australian Universities are coming under heavy fire from the hacking community, with a serious breach overseas last weekend providing a timely reminder of the consequences of a successful attack
According to the Australian Consumers’ Association, selling music CDs that cannot be copied digitally is a bad move by an industry that seems to be intent on self-destruction
Like magnetic keycards, which have been in the news because of fraudulent skimming
attacks, smart cards are also vulnerable
A software bug in a common component of Microsoft Web servers and Internet Explorer could leave millions of servers and home PCs open to attack
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