Fleishman-Hillard, a prominent public relations firm based in St Louis, had to apologise last week to the editor of a large e-mail list after one of Fleishman’s computer administrators angered some of the Internet’s most vigilant defenders
Microsoft has blamed confusion over forthcoming changes to its licensing model for sparking a revolt among enterprise customers, who are threatening to throw out Windows operating systems and applications for cheaper alternatives
Peer-to-peer networks are arousing optimism in the fight against spam but according to the Australian Coalition against Unsolicited Bulk Email they may actually contribute to the problem
IBM’s 10,000 Australian staff are in the process of being moved over to Linux for file and print serving, as part of a cost-efficiency drive that has been in the pipeline since last year
IBM and Microsoft have been quietly busy behind the scenes for the last two years building a toll booth that could position the two companies to collect royalties on most if not all Internet traffic
Known as non-volatile memory, a high-speed, high-capacity memory technology could eliminate the need to reboot a computer. It could cut the cost of PCs by allowing makers to replace their current random access memory and hard drive with a single component with no moving parts. It has been patented by a team at the University of Houston and licensed by the Sharp corporation
Windows XP has functionality built-in to the Search Companion module that allows Microsoft to log users internet searches. Information collected includes user IP address, search term and related information. A cookie is also set
Babies are being fitted with electronic tags that warn hospital staff if anyone tries to abduct them. Parents and adults authorised to handle the child wear corresponding tags which don’t trigger alarms. Health officials in the UK are monitoring the success of trials of the invention in a German hospital
In an apparent response to criticism of its handling of a threatening letter from a Church of Scientology lawyer, the popular search engine Google has begun to make so-called takedown
letters public. DMCA-censored pages are now two clicks and a cut-and-paste away from the regular search results
ICANN has received many reports of domain name registrants receiving mailings from an entity calling itself XChange Dispute Resolution and claiming to be an ICANN authorised arbitrator in domain name dispute cases, which it is not. In the mailing, XChange Dispute Resolution states it received a domain dispute-resolution complaint and asks the domain name holder to mail a deposit of between $250 and $1250 to defend ownership of a domain
NetSol have sold Leslie Harpold’s hoopla.com domain out from under her — a domain that wasn’t due to expire until June. The company seems far more interested in buck passing than in fixing their own screw up
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of blocking
as a way of regulating content on the Internet. The vote — 460 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstentions — this morning means that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access to Web sites. Instead, they have been given the green light to continue with self-regulation
Princeton University professor Andrew Appel says Microsoft has the ability to create and release a modular version of the Windows operating system so computer makers can swap out Microsoft functions for competitors’ programs. Microsoft has maintained that it would be impossible to create a stripped-down Windows because so many portions of it are dependent on others
Pioneer has released its first rewritable DVD drive to support a technology that cuts down to one minute from one hour the time take the format a DVD-RW disc
All electrical equipment in Europe must now be recycled. New legislation just passed by the European Parliament will force manufacturers to keep used items off the scrapheap
The settlement that AOL extracted from a pair of Florida men this week may have closed a loophole used by spammers to flood e-mail in-boxes with junk mail
Infraserv has lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Commerce Commission, alleging that recent changes to Microsoft’s product licensing arrangements, encompassed in Software Assurance, are anti-competitive and contravene New Zealand commercial laws
Telstra’s 80,000 Web Personal users are currently unable to update their sites whilst the telco giant conducts ‘essential upgrade work’ on the back of last week’s loss of personal web pages
Gateway is taking to the airwaves in a bid to rally consumers against a copyright-protection bill that would prevent computers from playing pirated movies and music
Cray has announced the availability of the world’s highest-capability expansion memory and data transfer system. The new system, compatible with Cray SV1e and Cray SV1ex supercomputers, includes a 224GB Solid State Disk with a data transfer rate of 80GB/sec — 800 or more times faster than the 10 to 100MB/sec speeds typical with today’s disk servers
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