Computer programmer Daniel Bernstein says he just wants to make the Internet more secure. But he says the US government is still standing in his way
Britain will be the world’s first country to use the Internet for voting as part of radical changes to the political system, according to Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons
A pedal that works as both an accelerator and a brake will save lives if car makers adopt the design, according to Swedish inventor Sven Gustafsson. The idea sounds bizarre, but officials at the Swedish National Road Administration have already done extensive road tests and approved the device for use
Development of Sharp’s Twin LCD dual-sided display was completed in December and mass production will start in May. The company expects to see high demand for the panel from the makers of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs
About a month away from scheduled meetings with mobile telecommunications industry representatives, NSW Police has said it would like to see carriers become more co-operative in the fight against mobile phone theft
Web sites that use animation software to create flashing graphics have become the latest target of virus writers. The Flash virus is thought to be the first of its kind
In December, Java was more popular than .Net for building Web services, according to an online poll, but weeks later the position had dramatically reversed; investigation revealed just what lengths Microsoft will go to to promote its product
A panel assembled by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences has stated that Congress should make it easier to punish companies that produce insecure software that puts business and consumers at risk
Most consumers are not aware of their right to financial compensation if time frames for phone connections and fault repairs aren’t met by telco players, according to an Australian Communications Authority survey
Chip Rosenthal has an interesting fight on his hands. He has registered and has been using the domain name unicom.com since 1990, but now a California company — also doing business as Unicom — wants the domain name and attempting to commandeer it by alleging that Chip is engaging in cybersquatting
Verisign is proposing to set up a waiting list for domain names, including .com addresses, which are not renewed
Record companies’ efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law
Brushing aside criticism, a 19-year-old US college student said that he revealed a security flaw in AOL’s popular instant messaging service because he was ignored when he tried to tell the media giant privately
Hundreds of people who bought Microsoft’s hot new Xbox gaming console over the holidays received defective systems, and some said they had to wait weeks and endure shoddy customer service before their systems were fixed
The redial button proved an inconvenient mobile phone feature for three Canadian robbery suspects, providing police with a recording of the crime and an argument over how the loot should be split
Lawrence Lessig’s passionate new book, The Future of Ideas, argues that America’s concern with protecting intellectual property has become an oppressive obsession
Microsoft is being accused of infringing on six patents for a process that improves the quality of images seen on a computer screen
The number of vandalised web sites recorded by defacement archive Alldas.de jumped in 2001 to 22,379, over five times more than the 4,393 defacements logged in 2000. Mostly Brazilian cybervandals are responsible for the surge in defacements, according to Fredrik Ostergren, a Sweden-based security analyst and spokesperson for Alldas.de. He also said that more Internet users in general are trying out tools to hack into web sites
AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm
Though able to restore exchanges crippled during New South Wales bushfires last week, Telstra technicians are still unable to repair around 1000 fire-related faults adequately, as emergency services seal access to 17 of 91 exchange regions
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