By now, subscription-free Internet service has pretty much proven itself an unprofitable anachronism. Except in Egypt. In this nation beset by creaky Net connections and outdated circuits, where computers remain a luxury for the vast majority, a free Internet strategy is boosting Internet access
Disgruntled customers of PayPal have won an important battle after a US judge ruled its arbitration policy rigid and unfair
Competition in Australia’s Internet ADSL market is heating up just weeks after the ACCC announced plans that will make it easier for service providers to get access to Telstra’s copper network
The Federal Court in Brisbane has banned three men, Robert James Price, Ronald Curtin, William Millar and three related companies, who conned consumers into paying up to AU$12,500 for race-betting software by marketing it as a low risk investment program, from selling the software
Sony is dropping some hints about PlayStation 3‘s likely lack of shape — it’s looking into installing an OS that could run game programs in various home appliances
The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov — via Slashdot
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have created atomic scale
memory using individual atoms of silicon
There is a method of extracting audio from scanned images of vinyl records. While this method creates exceptionally noisy samples, you can definitely hear the underlying music
Net venture business Planet Co has developed a PDA that enables customers to listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor recognise the bar code attached to CD’s plastic cover
Inspired by NASA’s planetary exploration program, this miniature caterpillar drive
ROVer (Remote Operated Vehicle), belongs in the way too cool category
The tyranny of distance that has ruled over Australia’s inland and remote regions for two centuries is nearing the end of its oppressive reign. Dramatic advances in communications and information technology will start to transform life in the Outback within five years
eBay, one of the biggest success stories on the Web, is being threatened with a patent infringement lawsuit that could force it to modify its winning auction format. MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site’s offer to purchase his patents
Advances in optical-fibre making at the Australian Photonics research centre could bring communications at the speed of light into Australian homes and businesses in the next few years. The centre holds patents over a new way to make optical fibres using plastic polymers instead of the traditional silicon-based glass
Governments around the world, afraid that Microsoft has become too powerful in critical software markets, have begun working to ensure an open-source
alternative
On track for its full commercial launch next year, wireless broadband i-Burst technology is starting commercial engineering trials in Sydney
A flat-pack furniture kit whose parts are fitted with cheap microprocessors that monitor what you are doing during assembly has been developed in Switzerland. The kit will warn you if you are doing something wrong or dangerous
At the recent O’Reilly Open-Source Convention, writer Bruce Sterling held court with A Contrarian View of Open-Source
Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to staunch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups — Telecommunications Research and Action Centre, National Consumers League and Consumer Action — have announced
Walt Anderson, the financier behind such non-traditional space ventures as MirCorp and Rotary Rocket, is bankrolling a new company that intends to change the economics of the commercial satellite business
The government of Greece is making heroic efforts to humiliate the nation in front of the entire world, by banning all electronic games
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