While the events of 11 September have focussed the attention of CIOs on catastrophic outside threats to operations, they should keep their attention closer to home. Australian CIOs and IT managers are being put on alert after a survey found that computer crime here has been higher than in the US
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has upheld Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana’s right to use InternetNews.info, rejecting a challenge from media giant INT Media Group
IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing
Honda is investing more cash into hydrogen powered cars. It is helping to develop home-based generators which produce the fuel so drivers don’t have to fill up at stations
The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F Hollings. Legislation introduced in March 2002, by the South Carolina Democrat to require that copyright-protection software be embedded in PCs, handheld computers, CD players — and anything else that can play, record, or manipulate data — could make open-source software such as the Linux operating system illegal
What do a 17th-century Swedish warship, an opulent Chicago theatre and a Kansas City hotel skyway
have in common? All met catastrophic ends — and they have important lessons to teach today’s innovators
Lindows has announced that a Seattle Judge has denied Microsoft’s appeal to shut them down, citing that Microsoft’s own use of evidence helped determined Windows
is a generic word
Hackers posing as Ford employees have managed to steal some 13,000 credit reports which include, not only credit card numbers, but also such useful information as address, SSN, bank account details and credit ratings
In an effort to preserve and expose scholars around the world to rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint project between the University of California and the Max Planck Institute have photographed and digitised around 60,000 tablets. Ironically enough, the digitised versions will probably not go anywhere near to outlasting the original clay tablets — via Slashdot
NORAD is considering deploying zeppelins along the west coast and Canadian border to keep an eye out for terrorists. Larger than jumbo jets, easier to repair and upgrade than satellites, this may be an idea whose time has come. Again
Hotmail, the free email service which was purchased by Microsoft some years back and is now part of the MSN Internet Service, has changed its users’ personal profile
settings by adding and pre-checking a new set of option boxes
The creep towards paid-for online content continues with news that access to the NYTimes.com’s archives is now available at a price on Yahoo. The archives date back to 1 January 2000 and individual stories can be bought for $2.50 each — the same price as charged by the NYTimes.com’s own archive service
Music CD copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape
With all the excitement over fingerprint scanners, it comes as no surprise that they can be easily fooled with the use of gelatine
A new change has appeared in Sun’s strategy. Instead of dismissing Linux as inferior, it is now trying to integrate elements of Linux into Solaris for easier porting of applications. This looks like a step in the right direction for Linux acceptance in the professional server market
As Telstra’s market dominance continues to be scrutinised by the government, regulators and competitors, momentum is building in an ambitious project to construct a viable alternate national broadband infrastructure. A groundswell of interest has emerged from a powerful group of Australia’s electricity utilities, which are uniting in a bid to seize the potential synergies and opportunities in using their combined existing infrastructure as a platform for a residential and business broadband network
The full report, from Business2WWW and Interactive Bureau/Porter Research, isn’t due out until later this year. But some pre-released material warns that companies are spending large amounts of money on web sites that don’t work and are difficult to use
Engineers at Advanced Micro Devices say they have developed a process to make wireless devices more powerful without increasing their cost. The breakthrough is called MirrorBit technology and involves flash memory chips. Flash memory stores data such as phone numbers and programming code in mobiles and handheld computers when the devices are turned off
Speculation is rife that WorldCom, the Telecommunications giant that owns OzEmail, could soon declare bankruptcy
Booksellers in the UK hope to use Radio Frequency ID chips to report on the entire life cycle of a book, including ownership and second-hand sales
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