The Internet’s potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium’s long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers warned
Circuit City, America’s second-largest electronics retailer, is phasing out sales of videotape movies as the chain makes way for the inevitability of DVD
Telstra is in hot water again over revelations it has been double-billing some mobile phone customers, resulting in refunds reportedly totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars
Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with living robots
which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it lives
Minerals explorer Michelago and ANZ plan to pursue Australian and international wind power projects through a trust which could list within two years
In a new suit that echoes earlier charges from Netscape, Sun Microsystems and others, Microsoft is accused of bullying companies out of using Burst.com products and stealing the streaming company’s technology
The tooth phone
consists of a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver implanted into a tooth during routine dental surgery. The phone was designed by Royal College of Art graduates James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau
A consortium of industry heavyweights will offer wireless broadband in Australia next year, a move which will allow broadband access anywhere and offer a viable alternative to DSL technology
Industry groups have welcomed the recommendations in a recent report that legislation dealing with Internet censorship be repealed, which would return Internet law enforcement to the Crimes Act of 1900
In an about-face, Microsoft said that it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP. Microsoft said it would include its own Java software in the Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP due late this summer. In the long term, though, the company plans to remove Java from Windows altogether
There is intense competition surrounding control of the .org domain, which Verisign coughed up in order to keep .com and .net from going to the highest bidder. Open-source and Internet pioneers Paul Vixie and Carl Malamud have entered the fray; central to their bid is their announced intent to place all the software necessary to manage a TLD in the public domain
Australian organisations have had input in a range of new Web standards from the World Wide Web Consortium, designed to increased interoperability of the Internet
Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net that carried the virus, the software company has acknowledged
In an end-run around the South African government’s plans to seize control of the .za domain, administrator Mike Lawrie took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore — via Slashdot
Of the $130 million Unwired Australia raised from the likes of Credit Suisse First Boston, Bruckman Rosser Sherrill and The Invus Group, $110 million was spent on licensing space on the 3.4Ghz spectrum. It recently launched its first trial of the technology at no cost to the people of Paddington — via Slashdot
With the recent ruling in the Blacksnow/Mythic case, it seems the EULA — End User Licence Agreement, that thing that you never read — might affect the rest of the software industry, not just with game companies. From now on, you might just want to read the EULA before you click accept
— via Slashdot
Antivirus companies have warned of a new virus that communicates through digital images, but security experts aren’t sure how much of a threat this latest evolutionary branch of malicious code poses
British intelligence service MI5 may be well-known for leaving top-secret laptops on trains, in taxis and at other public locations, but Britons have also found a variety of innovative ways to destroy their portable computers — from running them over to dropping them off bridges
Researchers at IBM’s laboratories in Zurich report that they have achieved a storage density of one trillion bits of data per square inch, about 25 times as great as current hard disks
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