The UK’s take on the European DMCA
— the European Copyright Directive — will make criminals out of ordinary computer users, according to a new critique by the UK Campaign for Digital Rights. And it will also fail to protect researchers, says Julian Midgley who penned the report
The Federal Government has released a report about its online content co-regulatory scheme. But some industry commentators, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, have asked whether it’s the Government’s place to control what we look at
Staff members with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are considering launching civil proceedings against RSA Security — owner of the dodgy Verisign — and some of its officers, according to a company filing with the regulator
In what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. And in recent weeks, scads of so-called spoof
files — repetitive loops or snippets filled with crackle and hiss — have been anonymously posted to the hugely popular sites where music fans illegally trade songs online, a tactic fully endorsed by the RIAA
The Chinese effort to build a home-grown Win98 is called Yangfan Linux, which means raise the sail
in Chinese, the open source operating system is being pieced together by the Beijing Software Industry Productivity Centre, a group established by the government to organise Linux development in China
Microsoft’s hold on corporate Australia appears to be weakening, with a rise in the number of big companies opting to use Linux software for critical applications
The NSW Government has advanced with plans to make use of state-owned electricity infrastructure for broadband connectivity, with the New England area to be the first testing ground
One of Australia’s most controversial domain name sellers, Internet Name Group, has shut down its web site and disconnected its phones. On Monday the company was placed under the administration of Melbourne-based chartered accountants Brooke Bird
Benefon has eschewed the MMS battle currently being fought by other companies and has instead released a range of mobiles with GPS capabilities
Oracle, which supplies Yahoo! with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product — the free MySQL database
Tens of thousands of US military and government computers containing sensitive information are easily accessible over the Internet, ForensicTec Solutions, a computer security firm that cracked the networks has claimed. The FBI has since raided the offices of the company
Microsoft withdrew its free TrueType Web fonts on the eve of LinuxWorld, leaving some Linux advocates upset about the decision. Microsoft, however, whinged the fonts were being ‘abused’
The world’s largest record companies have filed a lawsuit against major ISPs for not blocking access to Listen4Ever.com, music site located in China. The defendants in the suit include AT&T Broadband, Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint, Advanced Network Services and UUNET Technologies. The RIAA has since dropped the contentious lawsuit
Security researchers say they have found a serious flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser that could expose credit card and other sensitive information of Internet surfers
Wireless mice have been around for a while, but how about deskless ones? Gyration makes a mouse that doesn’t need a surface of any kind and can even be used in the air
Toho — current owner of all things Godzilla — has launched a cease and desist notice on Davezilla
Australia is set to become home to the world’s first Solar Tower, a one kilometre high structure with the potential to generate enough electricity to supply a city of more than 200,000 people
The FBI accidentally pulled the plug on its own web sites. A misconfiguration in the bureau’s domain name set up meant that many visitors to FBI.gov could not get through
Seattle-based HighLift Systems is hosting a conference this week to meet with investors and other parties potentially interested in a device that could open the final frontier to the masses within 15 years because of the space elevator‘s relatively low costs and extremely high traffic volume
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