The EU has fined Nintendo for price discrimination in different countries. The next logical question is whether DVD region coding also runs afoul of the same law
Ken Adelman, founder of TGV and Network Alchemy, is using a digital camera, helicopter, and a Power Book to take a high resolution photograph every 500 feet down the California coast with the aim of busting people putting up illegal sea walls. Also of note: the web site has 44GB of photos so far, runs on solar power, and is Microsoft Free — via Slashdot
Pocketmail plans to shut down its Australian technical support operation in the next two months, but says staff cuts will be minimal
Enmax and Vision Quest Windelectric plan to build Canada’s biggest wind farm in breezy southern Alberta, a CA$100 million project aimed at spinning out enough renewable power to supply more than 32,500 homes
SuSE Linux is developing a desktop Linux distribution that will allow Windows users to continue using (some of) their Windows applications, including Microsoft Office — via Slashdot
Satellite broadband ISP Access 1 suddenly closed down last Friday, leaving its customers less than eight hours to find alternative Internet access
MasterCard International is expecting to make available to Australian banks in the first or second quarter of 2003 new technology designed to minimise credit card skimming
The next wave of weblogs, or blogs as the sites are known, may very well be for knowledge management, or k-logs
Japanese animators Masamune Shiro (Ghost in the Shell) and Hajime Katoki (Gundam) have decided to apply their creative design skills to a new line of limited edition optical mice — via Slashdot
With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favour of the open-source alternative PHP
SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects. They have finally yielded to pressure and announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics
A Russian dancer held captive in the recent stand-off with Chechen rebels uses his mobile phone to post a message to the world. Neither his captors nor government censors can stop him
Anti-World Trade Organisation activists say they have been vindicated by an official investigation into two protest web sites. The Australian Broadcasting Authority has given the Melbourne Indymedia and S11 sites the all-clear after complaints they were inciting violence against police
For hard-core computer gamers, plain beige boxes won’t do. Instead, they go for jazzed-up custom jobs featuring cobalt blue cases and Spider-Man fan grills. Woodinville’s pcToys sees a multimillion-dollar business in selling them the parts they want
Security companies are warning of an e-card company, FriendGreetings.com, that downloads a spamming application onto visitors’ PCs
STMicroelectronics plans to announce a breakthrough on Monday in light-emitting silicon that could lead to a new generation of more powerful computing processors and more efficient automobile components as well as potentially higher-speed optical data-transmission system
With the US national elections just around the corner, Opensecrets.org, a web site focusing on Responsive Politics
recently published lobbying and donations info for the 2002 elections to date. They have a breakdown of Microsoft’s individual dossier, also, looking at the Top Donations by Industry
, Microsoft is, conspicuously, the only entry under Computers/Internet
— via Slashdot
IBM researchers have created a simple computation engine that’s more than 250,000 times smaller than the most advanced silicon circuitry. Called the world’s smallest computer, the system relies on a molecular cascade
that pushes a handful of carbon monoxide molecules across a copper surface to perform digital logic functions
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