The administrator of embattled etailer E-Store, Ian Purchase, has revealed the company is in deliberations with two parties that have expressed interest in assisting it out of debt
Hackers in Hong Kong are routinely breaking Microsoft’s digital media copyright protection system and helping themselves to broadband encrypted content, including games, films and music videos, according to a report in the South China Morning Post
A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate — at least temporarily — the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Charlie Northrup, the chief executive of software developer Global Technologies, holds one of the earliest patents that describe how diverse computer systems can talk to servers connected to the Web and run software on multiple platforms. Sound familiar? That’s just the kind of service Microsoft is pushing with its .Net strategy, a wide-ranging plan for moving business computing applications such as calendars, word processors and e-mail onto the Web
Telstra’s search engine GOeureka is falling behind the times with search information last modified in July this year
BitArts Labs, a British company, has claimed that crackers have already circumvented Microsoft’s registration process for Windows XP
Peter Fromherz and Gunther Zeck, from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, have succeeded in melding together living nerve cells and silicon to create the world’s first neuronal chip
Telstra broadband and online services executive director Greg Willis said the $1 billion plus of broadband development would be over a number of technologies including satellite, ADSL and its hybrid fibre coaxial cable
ICANN has fiddled its own rules to protect existing members. It claims unjustified delays in processing an application by New.net meant the bid was rejected, causing a ruckus
Check out the University of Virginia’s Plagiarism Resource Centre — a complete one-stop shop to stop plagiarism, a growing problem since students discovered the net
State, Territory and Commonwealth Government consumer authorities have launched a combined Web site designed to protect consumers from online scams
Software developer Multelink yesterday announced it would spend $10 million trialling a wireless phone and e-mail device in Ballarat over six months
SafeSurf was one of the earliest advocates of Internet filtering. Their Online Co-operative Publishing Act is probably the only time that an Internet filtering company proposed that web site operators could be sued by parents for not rating their web site — regardless of what type of content was on it. But now the SafeSurf web site is being blocked by TeleGlobe, a company with their own take on filtering
Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people’s skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But critics are not convinced the system is safe. Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology, which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at relatively long range — possibly from low-flying aircraft
An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a rousing success according to its organisers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system
A piece of software being distributed anonymously online has successfully cracked part of Microsoft’s anti-piracy technology, the centrepiece of much of the giant’s recent forays into the audio and video world
A future where you can remotely switch on your garden sprinkler, receive a call from your mobile telling you you’re home has been broken into or where vending machines phone for a refill aren’t too far off, with a group of Australian scientists developing Web-based infrastructure to pull off multiple stunts of this kind
Me and all of my work mates, have found ourselves back on the streets thanks to the underhanded dealings of the New Zealand-based Advantage Group. About a year ago Whitewolf was purchased by Advantage Group, now we find that out new parent company has asset-stripped our office and retrenched all of us — although they have put a very warm and fuzzy spin on the process in the news release of the decision. So if you have buyers sniffing around your company, it’s well worth checking out their intentions thoroughly before signing a deal
Australia’s top Internet domain name regulator auDA has terminated a year-old hosting relationship with NetRegistry on the advice of lawyers, following a security breach
Rob Rosenberger, editor of the V-Myths web site and a critic of fire engine-chasing anti-virus companies, claims he was treated to an early morning visit by the FBI last weekend. He says he was forced to pull a column he was planning to run that would have caused embarrassment to one of the anti-virus vendors
Software-maker Macromedia is claiming it owns the patent to Adobe Systems’ popular Photoshop program, according to a suit filed in a US federal court
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