Australia’s skilled migration program is failing IT professionals and needs urgent reform
Richard Wool, a chemical engineer from the University of Delaware, filed a patent that described a new generation of microchips. The patent proposes to replace silicon — which has long served as the basis for microchips — with another material. And what might this mystery component be? Chicken feathers
In a sign that the internet sector may be nearing the end of its brutal shakeout, the number of shutdowns and bankruptcies by dotcom companies in the first half of this year fell 73% from the same period last year
It’s happened to American cities from Baltimore to Detroit. Now city officials in Stockholm fear the Swedish capital is about to have its name associated with a pornographic web site. The city is looking for ways to stop an adult entertainment company in Spain from launching a web site on a domain that uses the city’s name
The Simputer is a handheld computer running GNU/Linux starting at around $214 and is aiming to be an affordable computer for the third world that can be used even by the illiterate with its text-to-speech features, it will roll out next month
Anti-virus vendor Sophos this week released its summary for the first six months of this year. All the viruses in its top 10 list were mass mailing Windows 32 viruses
Dodgy Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct has more than doubled its claim for damages against an anti-spam activist and may escalate the matter to a higher court
Sudden interest in wireless computing could result in two new players, Air Portal and Unwired, taking on SkyNetGlobal in providing internet access to hotels and airport lounges
When you get sick of putting an aluminium case on your PC, and lighting up the keyboard, here’s something you can do with your optical mouse
Alanis Morissette, her attorneys and management, have been accused of engaging in a Cyber Piracy scheme, also known as Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, to steal the domain name alanis.net from Consumer.net
Camera/Shy, a browser-based steganography application from Hacktivismo, will be released at the H2K2 Convention in New York City on 13 July. Camera/Shy was developed for democracy activists operating from behind national firewalls. It allows users to trade in banned content across the Internet
The Sierra Railroad is planning to use diesel train locomotives to produce power for California. Each of the 48 engines are expected to produce 2.1 megawatts of power for a thousand hours each year. A key advantage to this plan is that since the PowerTrains are mobile, they can be taken to the areas that need power the most, so it doesn’t have to be routed across the state through the power grid
Telstra has slapped a higher price tag on Bigpond Broadband ADSL installations, ahead of a self-installation option that the telco giant plans to introduce this week
Record labels hell-bent on strangling unauthorised music copying on the Internet are considering widening their legal efforts to include lawsuits against individuals. Perhaps they should consider a revolutionary new recording format in a bid to help win the war on illegal file sharing
The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of several major Internet search engines to make it clearer to their users when companies have paid to be included in Web search results
Rumours are rife throughout the local IT industry that multimedia communications company Spike, an arm of Spike Networks, is set to announce its closure. Those rumours have been confirmed, with the company announcing it has gone into voluntary administration
The web sites of some of Australia’s largest organisations have been given a poor report card from Nielsen Norman, the world’s leading online usability think tank
Stephen Crocker is something of an anomaly: an Internet pioneer who still has his cards in the start up game
Civil liberties groups have warned the public and opposition parties to remain vigilant, despite the Senate’s rejection of a controversial bill to amend the Telecommunications Interception Act
Software bugs are not just annoying or inconvenient. They’re expensive. According to a study by the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, the bugs and glitches cost the US economy about US$59.5 billion a year
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