Nokia won’t match compensation given to Australian owners of faulty 8210 handsets for neighbouring consumers in Asia
Telstra has signed up as a service partner for Iridium Satellite LLC, which owns and operates a global wireless communications system via satellite that covers all oceans, air space and landmasses, even the north and south poles
Tom Murphy, author of embed, a tool that alters the embedding level of TrueType fonts, has been getting some nasty cease and desist letters from the lawyers of Agfa Monotype. Fortunately Tom is not one to rollover to the illegal demands of a large corporation
And on more cease and desist lunacy; Avi Adelman, proprietor of BarkingDogs.org, a proactive
news web site that unearths political malfeasance in and around Dallas, Texas, is locked in a battle against the Belo media corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, which sent him a legalistic letter this week demanding that BarkingDogs.org remove all ‘deep links’ to the DallasNews.com site
And if you don’t show an interest in science and technology, you miss out on learning about RatBots. By implanting electrodes in rats’ brains, scientists have created remote-controlled rodents they can command to turn left or right, climb trees and navigate piles of rubble — and maybe someday, with the rats outfitted with tiny video cameras, use to search for disaster survivors
While the war between heavyweight Web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to fester, the final version of Mozilla, an open-source program that users say could trump both big-brand browsers, is set to make its debut. But while the upstart browser has unique features and devoted fans, it still has relatively few users
Bad software-buying decisions are costing Australian businesses millions of dollars a year. The losses are greater when the deployment of software fails to deliver the expected benefits
Internet Name Group has been implicated in a mass mail-out marketing scheme that has come under the scrutiny of domain registry authorities in New Zealand
Entrepreneur Ken Belanger lost his small claims court battle with Microsoft over the rights to the term ‘Pocket PC‘. But he said he might prevail by using another legal trick, suing Microsoft under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Australian Information Industry Association is keeping quiet about plans to conduct an industry-wide PC collection and recycling pilot program
The West Seattle Thriftway will be the first supermarket in the state to let customers pay for purchases with a fingerprint
For the past several weeks Dr Damn, who says he’s a male college student and declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out
A train derailment in Ohio cut two fibre optic cables Thursday morning, forcing Internet traffic to find other routes. The cut cable caused sporadic traffic problems throughout the day. At least one Internet peering partner with WorldCom reported traffic problems from the Clinton, Mississippi, long-distance carrier
Amazon.com is expanding its brick-and-mortar presence in a deal that will allow shoppers to pick up online book and music orders at their neighbourhood Borders Book Shops. The new online capabilities be ready at more than 365 Borders stores in November, just before the holiday shopping season
Researchers at IBM are creating a prototype for a vast data-storage system built Lego-style with storage-array bricks that can be stacked into a cube-shaped server
Australia may have new second-level domain names if interested parties can provide auDA with a sufficiently convincing argument for establishing them
A lawyer acting for the US states suing Microsoft for damaging competition has presented a document showing the company wanted to bind
Internet Explorer to Windows in order to gain market share
Munich-based Smart Fuel Mobile GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts of power and intended to provide electrical energy for laptop, printer and mobile phone at the same time
It may seem ironic, but privacy functionality in IE6 makes it possible to launch several attacks against the browser, and against Outlook and Outlook Express, security researcher Thor Larholm has discovered
It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two colour video-camera eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java application
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