John Ivers got tired of waiting in line to ride a roller coaster so he decided to build his own — the Blue Flash — in his backyard
Rick Boucher, an influential US lawmaker stepped up his criticism Wednesday of record labels’ moves to protect CDs against copying. He approached the record industry’s trade association in January with concerns that blocking consumers from copying their own CDs might violate US copyright law. The response from the Recording Industry Association of America didn’t satisfy him
Software company Compuware is charging IBM with using its intellectual property and engaging in illegal tying of its technologies and anti-competitive practices
A day after the US Federal Trade Commission announced that it shut down an operation that used deceptive e-mails to sell bogus domain names, a representative for the agency said Tuesday that while the FTC will not disclose specific plans, it intends to vigorously and aggressively
go after deceptive spam
Chip announcements galore from the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. Intel has produced prototypes of high-density memory chips — that support nearly eight times as many transistors as today’s Pentium 4 — using an advanced manufacturing process, and will use the technology in faster microprocessors scheduled for introduction in the second half of next year. Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start shipping Athlon processors, code-named Thoroughbred, made using a 0.13-micron process to customers later this month
Telstra White Pages Online temporarily became the gateway to one of cyberspace’s red light districts yesterday. It appears that pranksters conspired to redirect the site’s traffic to a pornography portal
A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion’s share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, sources in the security community have said
Is NSW heading for a brave new world of Internet censorship where, by protecting some, we effectively block access to all?
Sources inside AOL and Red Hat say AOL is making a major internal switch to Linux, and the long-rumoured AOL default browser switch from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to Mozilla — or at least Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine — is well under way, but AOL will probably not offer an AOL client for Linux in the foreseeable future
ComAURegister, a company that misled small businesses into believing it dealt with Internet domain name registrations, will be forced to cough up customer refunds, retract false information and contribute to legal fees, following action in Federal Court, Brisbane
After receiving 35,000 phone calls following 11 September, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has pushed forward plans to implement an online project aimed at tracking Australians living overseas
About 25,000 OzEmail customers were unable to receive email for nearly 13 hours this week because of a software fault. Customers of Australia’s second largest internet service provider complained email was blacked out for most of Tuesday
The US government has approved the creation of a .kids.us domain, containing only material safe for children to view
Microsoft’s plans to launch Xbox in Australia are unchanged despite sales being suspending in two large Japanese electronics retailers
Amazon.com said Wednesday that it has settled its long-running patent-infringement suit against Barnes&Noble.com over its 1-Click checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed
Network computer maker Sun Microsystems is suing software giant Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviour. The company said on Friday that it is seeking more than $1bn in damages from Microsoft for making its Windows XP operating system incompatible with Sun’s Java programming language
Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack. Security company i-sec has demonstrated that a directional antenna made with a Pringles can significantly improves the chances of finding the wireless computer networks being used in London’s financial district
Australia’s top-secret satellite spy agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, has been given sweeping new powers to report on Australians to the Federal Government
A former Optus employee and alleged hacker, bailed to appear before a Sydney court today, has told ZDNet Australia that he will not be making an appearance. He claims the idea that he hacked into an Optus database is a beat-up story aimed at scaring him away from an earlier claim of unfair dismissal against the carrier — the outcome of which is still pending
Delegates to China’s parliament are reproaching Western Internet administrators for blocking e-mails from China in a growing fight over the cross-Pacific flow of junk e-mail. Academics among the 2,987 provincial deputies attending the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress also called for laws punishing the distribution of junk e-mail, or spam
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