I thought those stupid musical greeting cards were bad. But with the advent of ultra thin flexible batteries that can be printed on packages like ink, I’m having nightmares of an all singing, all dancing grocery shopping experience
Google are getting bigger with their recent acquisition of Deja.com’s Usenet archives
Ever get hijacked by a seemingly innocuous site that spawned hundreds of browser windows full of sexually explicit advertising that open faster than you can close them? The US Federal Trade Commission actually managed to prosecute the makers of these annoying web parasites
Virtual Monkeywrench, the hackers who stole confidential data from the rich and powerful attending last month’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, did it to make a point and not to blackmail some of the richest people on the planet. The question now is — did the WEF delegates get the message?
Bored with life? Why not make use of an online auction to sell your soul?
It may not have ground to a halt, but a fishing trawler that snapped a trans Pacific cable has certainly slowed things down for internet users in Asia
What happens when the .gov.au is no longer prestigious enough? Brisbane City Council is taking its fight for the domain name Brisbane.com to the World Intellectual Property Organisation. If they win it could mean that your legally obtained and registered domain may be hijacked by a tin pot council with an inferiority complex
The World Economic Forum are dumbfounded at a breach of security that saw sensitive data leaked to a Swiss newspaper. Really now, who would want to know the ins and outs of the richest and most influential people in the world? Just because you have money doesn’t mean you have a clue
OzEmail’s appalling record of customer service is still going strong to judge by the incompetence it displayed when its e-mail service died for three days last weekend, leaving all of its customers fuming in the dark
Nike iD have no sense of humour when it comes to making your own footprint on the world
The European Commission has estimated that Internet users around the world pay €10 billion a year in connection charges, just to receive junk e-mails — now is anyone really surprised by this figure?
Amazon were planning to make its recently laid off workers sign a non-disparagement agreement preventing them from bad mouthing the corporation, when it finally came to its senses and thought that perhaps it was just giving itself a bad name in the attempt
In yet another case of corporate bullyboy tactics, Absolut Vodka are to accusing an Australian swimwear company, Absolut Beach, of cybersquatting — even though Absolut Beach is a legally registered and trademarked company. How long will it be before some giant multinational tries to steal your domain?
The US Department of Defence is buying information on the surfing habits of school children from N2H2, the makers of the Bess web filter. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre would like to know why
When yet another dotcom goes under and is asset stripped by the vultures, it may well be your personal details that become the big moneyspinner in a sell off
DSL — everyone wants it, but the service is leaving subscribers with more headaches than happiness
The moneyed elitist brain donors currently in session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are scared of the masses actually learning something and taking cash from their pockets through their addiction to the internet
Sticky tape may just prove to be the low cost storage medium you’ve been looking for
SETI have a shiny new toy under construction to help them in their quest for intelligent life
Yet another attempt by a big corporation to bully a small site, this time Nintendo is the company at fault in a ludicrous war over a phantom Pokemon meta tag
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