Telstra has won another domain name dispute, wresting control of the telsra.com domain from a Melbourne typosquatter
The EMI music group today signed with Roxio to add copy protection to its CD-authoring software, thus stopping people from copying illegal MP3 files onto blank CDs. There must be a lot of it going around — 5 billion blank discs will be sold in the US this year
It used to be the stuff of locker rooms, bathroom walls and little black books, but sexual gossip among teenagers has been showing up lately in what some educators and others call a disturbingly powerful forum: Internet sites
Microsoft and America Online are negotiating a range of licensing and legal issues so contentious that the two sides disagreed over the weekend whether they were even still talking
Many Californians are enduring pricey electric bills and rolling power outages during the current energy crunch. But some residents have avoided such headaches by getting themselves off the electrical grid and on alternative energy
A Microsoft executive’s recent quip about the purportedly un-American characteristics of non-proprietary software did more than send open-source fans into a tizzy. It also sent companies supporting the Linux operating system a clear signal: You’ve become important enough for Microsoft to attack directly
Glacial deposits in the tropics 600 million years ago are proof that the Earth at one stage was a giant snowball, with the oceans entirely covered by ice.The cause: carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reduced by weathering of silicate rocks
The G8 Group of the world’s leading industrial nations are making progress — albeit slowly — on plans to combat cybercrime. At a meeting in Tokyo, the G8 Government/Private Sector High Level Meeting on High-tech Crime workshsopped five themes — data retention, data preservation, threat assessment and prevention, protection of e-commerce, and user authentication
If the retarded monkey boy‘s first budget is any indication, the business of America today is big business. Small companies, it seems, are somebody else’s business
Against the background of the recent ‘deaths’ of Nowheremom and Kaycee, beloved but fictional members of online communities Anandtech and MetaFilter, respectively, FEED itself got to play a walk-on role in a case of a fictional identity with global reach
Thousands of faithful Web fans were duped into believing the tragic tale of Kaycee Nicole, a young, beautiful Kansas teen dying of leukaemia. Until the truth emerged: Kaycee Nicole was a fabrication, a figment of Debbie Swenson’s imagination, and the star player in an intricate, detailed, and extended hoax
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers needs to move quickly to broaden public participation in its decision-making process, according to a report released today by public-interest groups. If it doesn’t, its legitimacy is at stake
Telstra is assessing the implementation of a backup system that could have prevented yesterday’s full day nation-wide BigPond outage — nothing like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted
China has agreed to let the United States take apart its stranded spy plane and take it home — in pieces
Weighing 142gm and closely resembling the ubiquitous black pocket pager, it might be overlooked on the overstuffed gun belts of police officers on foot patrol. But the device, a $3500 minicomputer, will let the officers check whether a car has been stolen or someone they stop on the street is trying to conceal an arrest record
Some serious tweaking of code has resulted in XHTML changes for parts of my site. I ripped out the table formatting and used DIVs and CSS positioning instead, surprisingly enough, the damn thing is actually valid code too. I’ve even added a printer friendly format. Unless you’re a geek you probably won’t care, but the change will affect readers with older, non-compliant browsers — you’ll still see the updated pages, but not in all their XHTML and CSS glory
Matt Wolf, a 32 year old former game producer in Los Angeles, hopes to claw back market share, with video games for cats. CyberPounce is a collection of online toys and games intended to amuse felines and their owners
A congressional committee has yanked the teeth out of The Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001, a bill designed to curb spam, leaving it with few consumer protection provisions. Instead of allowing consumers and ISPs sue spammers and apply fines, it only requires that spammers use a legitimate return e-mail address — easy to see the big money pushing those changes through
Microsoft ends its piracy snitch program. The plan was widely seen as an attempt to single out customers who wanted to install Linux on their PCs and not pay for a Microsoft operating system they would not use. Despite early indications that the information collected would be shared with law enforcement agencies, no such sharing ever took place
A draft proposal was released this week for an interplanetary Internet. The proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force — the group that sets standards for the Net — calls for terrestrial testing of interplanetary Internet protocols later this year, with a live test onboard the NASA Mars mission in 2003
The US’s much-vaunted National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the key anti-cybercrime outfit, was so short of staff it couldn’t alert the public to computer viruses until the damage was already done. The watchdog General Accounting Office said most warnings were about attacks already under way
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