India’s Police Pigeon Service — which for more than half a century has provided a lifeline during frequent floods and cyclones in eastern Orissa state — is to be scrapped, according to a government proposal that believes that the service has become redundant with the advent of e-mail and electronic communication. Google’s patented PigeonRank system will, no doubt, be happy to take on a few new recruits
Hoping to break down one the biggest barriers to acceptance of Linux on the desktop, CodeWeavers unveiled software that allows corporate users to run Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes without a Windows operating system
Australian consumers will soon be able to buy broadband-in-a-box straight off the shelves of Harvey Norman, thanks to a deal between the retail giant, ISP iPrimus and xDSL distributor Quadtel
Hop-On.com’s new disposable mobile phone, touted everywhere from Time Magazine to CNNfn as a landmark innovation, may be less original than it seems. After cracking open several samples with Hop-On’s name and kangaroo logo, the revolutionary
device appeared to be little more than a jury-rigged Nokia in a new plastic shell
Stephens, founder of the Yoga Inside Foundation in Venice, CA, has been duking it out with Santa Clara’s Intel Corp for more than a year over whether his do-gooding non-profit violates the chipmaker’s Intel Inside
trademark
NeuHausPlatz Computer Systems assembled a pile of computer parts, hooked them up without a case and covered the lot with quick-dry spray foam, resulting in an extremely light weight, if ugly, computer
Nominet has warned Scottish businesses against accepting offers to register their names with the supposedly Scottish .sc domain. This top-level domain country code is actually for the Seychelles
Microsoft is using its dominant market power to target Palm organisers and other handheld digital devices powered by Palm software because they threaten the Windows monopoly. And, while they’re at it, Unisys and Microsoft plan to launch a marketing campaign that seeks to undermine Unix, the operating system at the heart of powerful server lines from rivals Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard — oddly enough, the web site is itself powered by Unix software
Long-suffering spam recipients have acquired a new ally in their ongoing struggle to stem the ever-rising tide of unsolicited e-mail: the Federal Trade Commission. While the California Supreme Court is to review an appeals court decision that likened sending mass-mailing e-mails to trespassing
Wherify Wireless has created a US$400 Personal Locator that is a watch with a built-in pager, GPS unit and wireless data connectivity. It’s targeted at families with kids
An Intel-funded report accuses AMD of confusing consumers with its beyond megahertz
campaign to downplay clock speed as a marketing tool
The Nigerian government is tired of being known as the spam/scam capital of the world and setup a web site to combat the common e-mail scam
Back from a triumphant Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco where he publicised Amiga Anywhere, Amiga CEO Bill McEwen has posted an update on progress with Amiga hardware and AmigaOS 4 and 5
Internet-filtering software will block only about 80 per cent of pornographic images — much less than parents had hoped — highlighting the need to supervise young surfers, according to a CSIRO report
At the game developers conference, Sun is releasing a white paper on their new Java Games Profile
. Their ultimate goal is to have one CD you could pop into an XBox, a PS2, a Windows machine or a Linux machine, and play the same game on them all — via Slashdot
Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home via optical fibre
Telstra have concluded that a manual solution is the best way to fix the problems faced by more than 1,300 broadband users
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped in and used new powers to set standard Internet access charges for ISPs
Verisign is sending out deceptive domain registration bills in an attempt to poach business — at a highly inflated price, of course
The New Zealand government now wants network operators and ISPs to ensure they can spy on customers using their services on behalf of police and secret service groups
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