Australia’s telecommunications complaints authority has welcomed federal government moves to cut off a practice whereby consumers are unknowingly lured into copping excessive telephone bills for Internet usage, but industry groups are less than happy with the proposed legislative changes
Kaspersky Labs, a Russian anti-virus company, has apologised for an e-mailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against
Mobile phones, electronic organisers and portable DVD players would be so much less cumbersome if they were surgically implanted under your skin. Science fiction? Not any more
Telstra is offering sweetheart deals to municipal councils in an attempt to cripple competition for telecommunications services in regional Australia
The Federal Privacy Commissioner is expected to get tough with business over privacy breaches in response to a record quadrupling of formal complaints in the past year
While you’re working your way up to that case mod of your dreams, why not start small and modify your optical mouse by changing that red LED to a nice blue one
After a wait of almost ten years and passing through a series of owners’ hands, new Amiga hardware is on sale. G4 processors at up to 800 MHz. Development of AmigaOS 4.0 has been continuing at a steady pace by Hyperion and will be ready for release early 2003 — via Slashdot
John Halderman, a computer scientist from Princeton University in New Jersey, plans to show delegates at a digital copyright conference in Washington DC next week that the idea of CD copy-prevention is fundamentally misguided
Two of the internet’s 13 root name servers have been separated to improve the stability and security of the web’s address system, following a major attack two weeks ago
Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a cancer
to Pac-Man-like
. But those messages have failed to diminish the popularity of open-source programs such as Linux among developers and customers, according to a Microsoft memo distributed at a strategy meeting in Berlin in September
The Federal Government has given its blessing to Commonwealth departments and agencies to investigate and adopt open-source software
The American Open Technology Consortium, a non-profit organisation of technologists who have joined together to educate lawmakers and regulators about technology — especially in regards to the Internet has compiled a list of the lawmakers responsible for eight bad internet laws. These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined — via Slashdot
Connect Internet Solutions has launched a new broadband service targeting medium to large businesses with the claim its portfolio of offerings can reduce customer bills by 25%
A start-up company, MagiQ Technologies, plans to introduce a cryptography system that uses quantum key distribution
to thwart eavesdropping on fibre optic communication channels
Open-source software gave Microsoft a one-two punch this week, with the European Union and an African non-profit educational organisation showing preference for Linux systems
At least 60,000 Telstra customers have been hit by a billing bungle, with subscribers to high-speed internet facing higher charges after the company misread their use of the service
The Federal Government has asked the telecommunications watchdog to investigate claims that Telstra provided misleading information to a Senate inquiry and the Victorian Supreme Court. The allegation has been made by a group of small business owners who have been involved in a long-running dispute with Telstra over telephone faults
Joe Wagner, a Stanford doctoral student and founder of Hypertouch, sues a bulk e-mailer, seeking $50 per unwanted message — which he plans to donate to charity if he wins
Nancy Carter, a Toronto-based freelance TV producer, has been battling US-based Inter.net Group for the past 16 months over a billing dispute she says may have cost her a lucrative job opportunity. Now she wants $110,000 in damages over a policy that led Inter.net’s Canadian subsidiary to keep her ISP account open for incoming e-mail even while denying her access to the account
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