IBM has announced that it is using just a few atoms of pixie dust to push back the data storage industry’s most formidable barrier
UK Police are to get a new weapon in the fight against the menace of mobile phone thieves: bombardment by text. They will send stolen mobile phones a text message every hour reminding the new owners of the error of their ways — but following the Dutch scheme of messaging stolen phones every 10 minutes might be more appropriate
Ronald Mallett, professor of theoretical physics at Connecticut University, has worked out how to build a time machine, using slowly circulating beams of light which distort time and space. And he says the technology is in our grasp now
According to George F Colony, CEO and chairman of Forrester, The problem with today’s Internet is that it’s dumb, boring, and isolated. But he claims the new wave of innovation — which Forrester defines as the X Internet — will eclipse the Web: an executable Net that greatly improves the online experience, and an extended Net that connects the real world
I have a birthday coming up and I’m putting in my request for a Gekkomat — who hasn’t always wanted a suction device that lets you climb walls.
Astronaut Bill Shepherd was stunned — and frustrated — when he moved into the international space station last fall and discovered the kitchen table would not be arriving any time soon. Shepherd did what any self-respecting home mechanic would do. He built his own table, out of space station scraps
If you’re the kind of person who is always fiddling around with your computer then you’re probably sick of crawling behind it to reach the rear ports. FrontX Multimedia Ports are designed to relocate the user’s choice of computer ports from the rear to the front of the machine
The United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organisation has ruled the City of Brisbane in Queensland does not have rights to BrisbaneCity.com, currently held by a private individual
I don’t know if it’s the pneumatic swoosh
and thunk
sounds they make or the wonderful shininess, but, damn, I want one. While I was delighted to see capsule pipeline systems make a return to local supermarkets, plastic just isn’t the same as great networks of shiny brass tubing
Australian companies will face penalties if they send spam e-mail under laws that may come into affect later this year. But Australian companies that try to send e-mails to without consent will be forced to make restitution — which could be simply removing the name from the list, but could involve monetary compensation if a breach was serious enough. This includes companies with any commercial links in Australia
The Computer Emergency Response Team warned companies this week of security problems caused by a fundamental flaw in the way PCs and servers talk to each other across the Internet
A weapon built out of parts from any electronics store can deliver radio frequency radiation that can burn out electronic circuits within seconds, which could make the electromagnetic spectrum the terrorist weapon of choice
The Victorian State Government’s banning of crikey.com.au journalist and editor Stephen Mayne from a recent media conference was a worrying trend for press freedom — well you wouldn’t actually want an independent angle on a story from a non-corporate journalist, the truth may get out
Microsoft may have infected up to 26 of its top support customers with a tenacious virus that infected a key server late last week. Known as FunLove, the virus was first discovered in November 1999 and is known for its ability to infect Windows NT servers — in addition to computers running Windows 95, Window 98 and Windows Millennium Edition — by posing as a system program
AOL Time Warner is quietly testing software — code-named Komodo — that could end exclusive support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser in future versions of its online services, signalling a growing fissure in an already strained relationship
What if you could take all the haters and the perverts and the spammers and stick them on their own private Internet? That way, they could do whatever they want without bothering the rest of us, and we wouldn’t have to spend our money or time regulating them. I think Clyde Wayne Crews, the new director of technology studies at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think-tank, may have been reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A computer server aboard the International Space Station Alpha went down Wednesday, disrupting communications and forcing NASA to postpone for at least one day a planned ‘handshake’ between the station’s new robot arm and its space shuttle counterpart — if you insist on using Windows, you should know to expect these little technical glitches
British intelligence officers have developed a rather worrying tendency of forgetting that they are carrying a computer, leaving a trail littered with lost laptops. The British Defence Ministry has reported 205 laptops missing since 1997 — most of which contained classified information
Technology companies might be tanking, but that hasn’t dulled the spirit of the people who are building the new economy. Geeks from around the country are signing up to compete for the title of Sexiest Geek Alive
The ramifications of a new US law forcing public libraries to filter Internet content against their will or risk losing federal funds may impact Australia. But free-speech advocates are fighting back.
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