If you think the crashing telecommunications industry is in chaos now, just wait until it all flips around and the world is choking on Web traffic and too many phone calls squeezing through too few fibre-optic lines. It will happen sooner than conventional wisdom dictates
When Channel Islands National Park officials needed an estimated about 300 rats exterminated on the east side of environmentally sensitive Anacapa Island, Aspen Ag Helicopters got the call. The kill was necessary because the rodents, descendants of rats that reached the island by way of a shipwreck a century or more ago, were decimating the populations of two rare seabirds. And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job — via Slashdot
AOL is the world’s most successful ISP — except, apparently, in its own house. Among the problems cited: The e-mail software frequently crashed, staffers weren’t able to send messages with large attachments, they were often kicked offline without warning, and if they tried to send messages to large groups of users they were labelled as spammers and locked out of the system. Sometimes, e-mails were just plain lost in the AOL etherworld and never found. And if there was an out-of-office reply function, most people couldn’t find it
Surgeons have carried out a ground-breaking operation on Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics, so that his nervous system can be wired up to a computer
Can space aliens zap Web pages? Does Mr T have a grudge against Web surfers? And has the Internet’s missing link finally been found? Welcome to the far-out and far-flung world of 404Error File Not Found messages
Telstra’s failure to comply with a Competition Notice demanding it play a fairer game in the wholesale arena will see the Notice come into effect today — leaving the telco heavyweight possibly facing legal action from disgruntled customers and the competition watchdog, which could chase penalties exceeding AU$10 million
A campaign by the shadow minister for information technology, Senator Kate Lundy, to expose Telstra’s use of line-splitting technology that degrades residential Internet speeds has left the telco facing a barrage of complaints from customers
While talking computers have long featured US and UK voices, the Aussie-accent was launched today by speech technology company Appen at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney
A full-size virtual keyboard projected by light on to any surface has been invented. Beams of light, which detect the user’s movements, make up the keyboard
Fledgling telco COMindico has been restructured under a new chief and has launched direct broadband services to compete with the troubled Telstra, which has admitted that it is unable to determine a restoration date for a software problem that has left 1,300 customers unable to log on to their broadband service
Less than a week after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told visitors at the massive CeBit exhibition in Hannover, Germany, that he wanted to see a warmer, friendlier Microsoft, his company has become embroiled in a row with Sony over gaming consoles. Microsoft complained to the show organisers, Hannover Messe AG, that Sony was breaching show rules by letting people play on Sony PlayStation 2 consoles. Technically, Microsoft was right, and the Messe was forced to act on the complaint
The Internet Industry Association’s is asking its members to commit to a revised version of the industry’s online content regulation code that will remove their discretion to set prices for content filtering software
European Union leaders have approved a controversial multi-billion-dollar satellite network that is designed to end reliance on United States technology and space-bound military systems
As part of the Lindows lawsuit, the judge has preliminarily ruled that there are serious questions regarding whether ‘Windows’ is a non-generic name and thus eligible for the protections of federal trademark law
Geodesic Systems, a maker of memory management and debugging software, has a live demo of their Linux product running on the Mozilla nightly builds. It detects memory leaks and can show where in the code the leaked memory was allocated and actually recover the leaked memory — via Slashdot
Across Australia, people will soon receive phone calls from Telstra explaining why they cannot access their email on their BigPond broadband connections
With customer complaints repeatedly unanswered and lack of co-operation with telecommunications regulatory watchdogs, two local ISPs — Australis Internet Pty Ltd and Internet TV Australia — have been given 14 days to explain their lack of action
It may be more famous for making typewriters, but Olympia has just revealed what some observers are calling one of the sexiest gadgets of this year’s CeBIT — the Soundbug is a small device that can turn pretty much any flat surface into a soundboard
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