Yahoo is planning to acquire search engine specialist Inktomi in a deal worth $235 million as it aims to strengthen its search services
British mobile phone maker Sendo filed a suit in a US federal court against its former partner Microsoft, accusing it of stealing its technology and customers
While the volume of e-mail has kept growing, the tools most people use for mail have barely evolved in the past two years
The Denver police have gathered information on unsuspecting local activists since the 1950s, secretly storing what they learned on simple index cards in a huge cabinet at police headquarters. Among those the police spied on were nuns, advocates for American Indians and church organisations.
A new Amnesty International report reveals that China’s Internet police force is brutally efficient — and becoming more so every day.
Chinese and French scientists say they have developed a new approach to treating the equivalent of HIV in monkeys
Forbes just put out a list of 85 breakthroughs since 1917 (sneakers) that have revolutionised the way we live. This is interesting on a number of levels, a reminder of the past (modem: 1962), and a frightening realisation that not much of interest has come out of the last 10 years (only 4 of the 85 ideas) — via Slashdot
The South Australian control team in charge of a new satellite hopes experiments to be conducted on the FedSat will pave the way for new mobile phone technology
A poll of BBC World Service listeners attracted 150,000 votes from 153 countries and revealed the diversity of the world’s musical tastes, after A Nation Once Again
, an Irish republican rallying cry, was named the world’s favourite song. Australians and New Zealanders voted for both Crowded House’s Don’t Dream it’s Over
and Highway to Hell
by AC/DC. Disturbingly enough, the United States went for Girl from Ipanema
Germany is being flooded by cheap beer, selling for as little as five cents a can, as shops rush to clear stocks ahead of new charges from January to discourage throw-away containers
Slaughter, and then worse, came to Butare, a sleepy, sun-bleached Rwandan town, in the spring of 1994. Hutu death squads armed with machetes and nail-studded clubs had deployed throughout the countryside, killing, looting and burning
Barry Shein is president of The World, a small ISP in Boston. Founded in 1989, The World was the first dial-up Internet service provider in the world. It has survived competition from the telecoms and weathered the dot-com meltdown, but Shein is worried that it won’t survive spam
The multinational creation, KaZaA, has become the most popular online file-swapping system in the world that a coalition of entertainment companies has filed suit to shut it down
Sharp is bringing out a 3D monitor next year that requires no special glasses. It took them one day to convert Quake to work with the monitor. They are already selling mobile phones in Japan for the NTT DoCoMo network with scaled-down versions of the screen
A handful of US municipalities are refusing to let their employees collaborate with federal officials seeking to spy on residents under the Patriot Act. Meanwhile, librarians are launching their own protests
Determined to repel an invasion of the English language, a local authority has proposed a ban on home building by non-Irish speakers in a 60-mile stretch of Connemara coastline from Barna to Carna, near the booming city of Galway
Canadian thieves calling themselves Grinch Enterprises kidnapped a Santa Claus figure off an Ontario family’s front lawn and are holding the jolly icon for a ransom of canned goods for a food bank
Ahsan Azamtullah, a Pakistani man, has been sentenced to life in prison under the country’s blasphemy laws for being a follower of Sardar Ahmed, a self-proclaimed prophet
Rich Clark claims he was involved in a car chase and received threatening phone calls after taking photos of the house belonging to mega-wealthy bulk e-mailer, Alan Ralsky — via The Register
It took an airport metal detector to give a Canadian woman a clue to why she was suffering from persistent stomach aches four months after having abdominal surgery
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