Consumers could be unwittingly consenting to being spied upon when they opt to accept online agreements associated with software downloads, legal experts warn, following alarming new research into the practice
A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer
MI5 has told some of Britain’s biggest companies that it may be prepared to provide intelligence on their business partners and rivals abroad. For the first time, the security service this week openly invited representatives from industry and finance to its headquarters in Millbank, London, for a seminar called Secret Work in an Open Society
Wind-up mobile phones could soon be the answer to fading batteries after scientists announced they had invented a clockwork charger
A Queensland university has developed a computer hard drive that holds 1000 times more data than current hard drives
Charles Connell, president of CHC-3 Consulting, who also teaches computer science at Boston University, says most software design is lousy
. In fact, he says most is so bad that if it were a bridge, no one would walk over it. The only reason software engineers get away with it is the general public can’t see inside software systems to observe the poor design, the bottlenecks and bugs, the impenetrable code
NEC and two Japanese government-affiliated research institutes have developed a fuel cell for use in mobile devices that could allow notebook computer battery life times of several days to become commonplace within the next few years
The web’s once common page not found errors are themselves going missing, stripped from recent versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in favour of a search tool provided by — you guessed it — Microsoft. The software behemoth quietly introduced the change two weeks ago, updating Internet Explorer’s autosearch function to launch whenever someone types a misspelled or non-existent domain name into the browser’s address bar
The reclusive programmer Robert Elz has lost control of Australia’s domain name system to a private sector body after the Federal Government rejected his request for the Government to take over the custodianship instead
Telstra has backtracked on its intentions to introduce three-gigabyte capping
and additional usage
options for broadband Internet users, but refuses to say whether it’s canned the idea completely
An electronic circuit, grown from silicon and nerve cells, brings brain-repair chips, advanced biosensors and biological computers a small step towards reality
The IDEO Dilbert cubicle. A comic design breakthrough that simply had to happen. Or something
When it comes to technological arrogance, nature has a nasty sense of humour
The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to reject Microsoft’s request that it consider throwing out the findings that the company abused its software monopoly
A programmer claims to have developed software that defeats the most advanced encryption features of Microsoft’s e-book Reader — one day after Dmitry Sklyarov was indicted
Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry — Software libre!
— and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option
According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings — disguised as mice — are using us to compute The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything. Now earthling scientists have roped unsuspecting web servers into a similar — albeit slightly less ambitious — exercise in parasitic computing
Regional Altavista search sites have not added any new listings for more than four months
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance
The United States government agencies that once tried to breach the Iron Curtain with radio broadcasts are taking the information war to the Internet, hoping to finance an American-based computer network designed to thwart attempts by the Chinese government to censor the web for users in China
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