Telstra‘s ADSL service in Queensland is flaking out on users who are enduring connection problems and timeout errors when logging on
Forrester analyst John McCarthy, currently visiting Australia, exposes the flaws in ten common myths about the Internet, including suggestions that the dot-com era is all washed-up
Nokia is allegedly aware that it has been selling mobile phones with inherent design faults, according to a former employee of the company. The allegation has been supported by an independent mobile phone repair service, Melbourne-based Phone Medic
Microsoft Security Manager Scott Culp revealed unilateral steps the company has taken to throttle the exchange of vulnerability information relevant to their famously buggy products, clearly in hopes that patches and fixes can be fed to consumers discreetly, without ever realising they’ve been at risk to attack
Pirates have hijacked Harry Potter just hours before his big-screen debut and turned him into a counterfeit DVD
Despite dramatically tighter security at US buildings since the terrorist attacks, a House panel is giving the US Government failing marks for lax protection of federal computer networks
A conservative council said private companies could not provide internet service in Iran, but some lawmakers and technology experts disputed its right to rule on the matter. An estimated 1000 ISPs throughout Iran could be affected if the ban is enforced, one expert said. Iranians currently have unrestricted internet access
The ion propulsion engine is the first non-chemical propulsion to be used as the primary means of propelling a spacecraft. The first flight in NASA’s New Millennium Program, Deep Space 1 is designed to validate 12 new technologies for scientific space missions of the next century. Ion propulsion was first proposed in the 1950s and NASA performed experiments on this highly efficient propulsion system in the 1960s, but it was not used aboard an American spacecraft until the 1990s
A newly reported vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer allows hackers to steal or corrupt cookie information on a user’s desktop through a malformed URL at a Web site or in an HTML e-mail
Gates has taken credit for the genesis of open-source software. He has said that Microsoft made it possible by standardising computers: Really, the reason you see open-source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that’s identical with millions and millions of machines
— an interesting spin on things indeed
Two British PhD students have designed a computer program to crack bank security codes which potentially gives them access to hundreds of thousands of PIN numbers
When two Bell Labs scientists invented the transistor in 1947, it was as tall as the face of a wristwatch. Now, another Bell team has made a transistor from a single molecule, small enough to fit about 10 million on the head of a pin
AllTheWeb offers near real time indexing, allowing users to search more than 3000 online news sources for stories updated less than an hour earlier
It used to be pretty tough to find out your security vulnerabilities, but that’s changed. The prestigious SANS Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, working with the FBI, has developed a top 20 list of common vulnerabilities that leave Internet sites open to attacks — it comes as no surprise that Microsoft IIS is the most vulnerable
Sweeping proposals to give law enforcement agencies access to the communications records of every UK telephone and internet user will not be restricted to anti-terrorist investigations, despite assurances to the contrary from the home secretary
A web site called the Wayback Machine last week opened a gateway to more than 10 billion archived web pages. But it also opened a can of worms. The site has been using software robots to record web pages since 1996. But these include pages that were later removed by site owners because they contained material that was pirated, illegal, or deemed too sensitive. Now where’s my pet boy Sherman
In an e-mail sent to media and the Government, Net pioneer, Robert Elz, drew the battle lines for yet another stoush with the newly installed Internet naming body, auDomain Australia (auDA) over their plans for org.au. Last month Elz found himself officially supplanted by auDA as the top dog in the Australian domain space
The liquid crystal display of the Nokia 8210 mobile phone model is defective, according to several users, with evidence supplied to ZDNet Australia seemingly giving support to the claims — no great surprise there. The 3210 was a lemon and instead of recalling the worthless piece of junk, Nokia instead withdrew them from sale
A small Australian company, InterSect Alliance, has released an innovative Linux-based security tool, in an attempt to set the open-source darling on the path towards acceptance within organisations
Farhad Azad is hoping to bring back Afghanistan’s cultural history. With his web site, he wants to archive what he believes to be a vital piece of Afghanistan’s history
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