The Federal Government is to examine the effectiveness of anti-spam counter measures, but the Federal Opposition has lashed out, claiming it has come too late. While consumers may soon gain greater protection from SMS spam, if a new code from industry body Australian Communications Industry Forum is approved
A Sydney man has been arrested for hacking into a database of Australia’s second largest telecommunications carrier, Optus
Telstra has to given its Easymail customers a reprieve, opting to maintain the no-frills platform until May and provide them with an e-mail-forwarding service for 12 months after it is dismantled
Car seats that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your health, socks that let you know when you are about to do a tendon, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you are dying of exposure — that’s what an eclectic mix of researchers spent last Friday discussing as part of an Electronic Textiles workshop in Geelong
A federal judge late Friday told Microsoft it must disclose portions of the Windows source code, including XP and XP Embedded, to nine litigating states and the District of Columbia
Chisholm Institute’s ZOOM Eagle, an electric car built by mechanical engineering students, is undeniably cute. Its designer, teacher Don Elliott, looks on the diminutive, three-wheeled, one-seater, carbon-fibre bubble with pride and great expectation. One day soon, he says, everyone will drive cars like this
The US Department of Justice has begun releasing some of the 30,000 comments it has received on its proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case. The first batch of 47 submissions are the so-called ‘major’ filings. Most are from large corporations, many of them competitors of Microsoft, plus industry groups and think tanks. Only a handful of this group appeared to support the settlement
The DJ-I, Robot Sound System, has come out of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s a box of tricks — a computer spinning vinyl to the beats randomly accessed from its memory
Internode has become the first non-Telstra local ISP to provide residential ADSL service to local web users
In a major about-face, Australia’s largest Web site publisher, the Packer and Microsoft joint venture NineMSN will begin to charge users to access premium Internet content
A computer optics company has developed a robot that can detect and dispose of antipersonnel land mines without detonating them
As the computer industry increasingly focuses on web services, the World Wide Web Consortium, the web’s premier standards body, is weathering vociferous criticism from members and analysts alike that it is dropping the ball on this hot trend
From the about bloody time department — local law enforcement agencies have a vision of Australia being the first country in the world to successfully block stolen mobile phones across carrier networks, and hope to have a more definitive timeframe for when such a ban will be enforced by May this year
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a campaign against spam, upon nearly extinguishing an e-mail scam it was investigating for more than a year
Anyone taking part in the SETI@home rip-off to find the cure for Cancer may unexpectedly find that their processor time has been hijacked by the Anthrax project without their knowledge or permission
British Telecommunications has claimed it owns the patent on hyperlinks and should receive payment for their daily use by millions of people. However, 82 year-old programmer, Bob Bemer, claims his creation of escape invalidates BT’s hyperlink patent
ISP Internode has thrown a lifeline to thousands of Easymail customers who will be stranded when Telstra dumps the service next month, thrusting the telco titan in a somewhat selfish light
The number of mobile phones in Australia is poised to overtake the number of landlines, but there are still far fewer mobile calls made
There is confusion after British Sky Broadcasting first confirmed, and then denied that the company’s digital recorders have built-in support for recording restrictions
The ACCC has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs. If the commission is successful in its bid, the result is likely to have serious global ramifications for several other major companies involved in the DVD games and movie industries
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