A long-awaited computer program that can circumvent government censorship of the internet has debuted at a computer conference in the US. The program — Peekabooty — promises to give people in countries such as China and Saudi Arabia safe access to the whole of the internet. In these countries, internet access is controlled by government-operated ISPs, which blacklist certain web sites. This may include news sites that are deemed unsympathetic to government policy
John Howard has officially opened the World Congress on IT, using the address to foreshadow a major announcement regarding Australia’s broadband infrastructure — a move which has been met with criticism and claims of copycat politics
A shiny white pod that began road tests this month may well be the taxi of the future. The pod, known as ULTra — Urban Light Transport — could make driver-free transport a reality and not just the stuff of futuristic fantasy
Problems with Internet Explorer, XML handling, SQL Server and Commerce Server could allow hackers to read files off your PC, or crash your server
The president of ICANN has proposed a sweeping series of structural reforms for the corporation designated with running the Internet
Plans for a web site instigated by a group of doctors could see details of ties with pharmaceutical companies made public. Dr Jim Hazel, an endocrinologist who works as a consultant at Westmead Hospital, said the aim of the Web site was to make transparent the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry
As of May, Sun will only be offering StarOffice 6.0 free to users of its Solaris platform
Intel servers are starting to gain some valuable features of higher-end Unix systems and mainframes with improvements to software that lets a single machine act like several computers. SWsoft announced this week that in a test the forthcoming version 2.1 of its Virtuozzo software was able to support more than 2000 copies of the Linux operating system on a single eight-processor Intel-based server, the Dell 8450. The different Linux partitions were housing Web sites and running software such as databases, Web shopping carts and Web-based e-mail
Internet access, e-mail accounts and personal Web pages will be progressively rolled out to 1.2 million NSW public school students by June 2003, in what is being touted as one of the largest projects of its kind in the southern hemisphere. And to go with it are strict filtering and censoring guidelines, which will undoubtedly end up censoring legitimate sites required for research rather than the terrifying spectre of porn that they claim to target
The European Commission has called for more efforts to expand the Internet’s real estate because the current one is running out of space
IBM’s security update will offer several new security measures when it comes out in Australia, including support of a fingerprint reader and proximity badge
Authors of e-mails and Internet postings that contain racist or xenophobic material may face criminal charges under a proposed European treaty that is dividing the Internet and law enforcement communities. The proposal, drafted by the Council of Europe, would essentially outlaw the publishing of hate speech on the Internet. Welcomed by law enforcement agencies, it has been slammed by Internet firms as impossible to enforce
Advanced Micro Devices will make the first chipset for its upcoming Hammer processor available during the fourth quarter. Hammer is AMD’s first family of 64-bit processors
The competition watchdog has said there is the potential for both a contractual and consumer protection issue surrounding early termination fees, following its inquiry into Telstra’s recent mobile price hike which will see users slugged with AU$150 for cancelling contracts
If you are spending too much time on the internet and are concerned that it is affecting your concentration, you are not alone. The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds, the same as a goldfish
A new great wall is being built, this time across the internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West
Researchers in the US think they have solved a puzzle dating back to the days of the 17th century Dutch scientist, astronomer and inventor Christiaan Huygens
Telstra was held accountable for last month’s rigging of ZDNet Australia’s online survey at Senate Estimates this week, with the opposition calling for the nation’s incumbent carrier to apologise where it has so far failed to do so. And in other Telstra news, the telco has apologised for its treatment of a seriously ill customer in Melbourne, whose mother claims she was told the telco had an unofficial policy to cancel the contracts of seriously ill people, to avoid chasing money from the deceased estates
Dogs with cameras mounted on their heads are to be used to help police search collapsed buildings and find missing people. In an Australia-first initiative by Victoria Police, dog cams will be used to aid police in situations too difficult or risky for humans
Australian small businesses are being targeted in the latest software piracy crackdown, with companies which don’t get the message under the threat of court action
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