OzEmail has announced plans to launch its OzEdsl service, following a small-scale trial of its new broadband service which has been running since 20 May
The religious zealots who photograph women entering abortion clinics and posts their photos on web sites have privacy advocates interested in their moronic tactics. Apparently, the group is run by some of the people involved in the Nuremberg Files
A mobile phone made of paper, which is sent as a letter
, has won a competition sponsored by Sony
I found an odd little French search engine called KartOO, which presents its results in Flash, allowing you to refine your query interactively
Users of the TiVo digital video recorder have reacted angrily to a new sponsorship feature that automatically records certain programmes, adverts and other promotional material
A British man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its activity to his ISP
National Party Senate leader Ron Boswell has said, a legislated right of country people to the latest technology must be a part of any further sale of Telstra
Japanese computer giant NEC will close its plants in Britain and Malaysia as part of a plan to move production to China
Telstra expects to have to pay up on its decision to offer rebates to ADSL customers for loss of service
John Zuccarini, a scam artist, who trapped surfers mistyping their URLs, including those for children’s web sites, and barraged them with popup ads for porn and gambling has been fined almost US$2 million. The FTC has a sense of humour: the case name is Cupcake Party
Internet addresses packing the famous labels of Ralph Lauren and Polo fashions and an alleged cybersquatter who didn’t even bother to respond to the accusation would normally add up to a slam-dunk decision for a trademark holder under a fast-track system to resolve disputes over domain names
Touted as the first Internet-enabled, completely autonomous consumer robot, it is the first product from Evolution Robotics of Pasadena, California. With the company’s US$499 build-it-yourself kit, you essentially construct a mobile robot around your own notebook PC. Included software permits novice robotics hobbyists to program complex behaviours with relative ease
Echelon has been surrounded by controversy since rumours of it first popped up on the net. The US Government has never admitted to it, although various other governments have. Now Bruce McIndoe, a lead architect for Echelon and its big brother
, Echelon II, has been discovered and interviewed
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems
Microsoft has warned Windows NT and 2000 users of a new flaw in its debugger tools that could let attackers give themselves complete control of a system once they’ve gained basic access to that system
Netscape 7.0 is the latest browser version developed around a technology called Gecko, which was created by an open-source browser movement known as Mozilla and funded by AOL
Microsoft is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant
An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc’s contents across more than 12,272 km of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem
Take a tour of campus an shoot some monsters. The Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia has developed a prototype wearable Quake suit
It’s a well-known mark of Google’s success that its name has become a verb. The company is launching the future tense of that verb in the form of two sites for experimental search and browsing technologies. The first experiment page, Google Labs, lets Google users try out technologies fresh from Google’s research and development team
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