Six thousand police are camped in the Tuscan city of Florence in readiness for possible violence when up to 200,000 anti-globalisation protesters pour into the city tomorrow for a huge demonstration
A rogue squirrel is spreading terror in a Cheshire town where it keeps attacking people. Children have been attacked, grown men chased and residents of Knutsford, central England, are fearful of letting their kids out to play
John Halderman, a computer scientist from Princeton University in New Jersey, plans to show delegates at a digital copyright conference in Washington DC next week that the idea of CD copy-prevention is fundamentally misguided
Two of the internet’s 13 root name servers have been separated to improve the stability and security of the web’s address system, following a major attack two weeks ago
Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a cancer
to Pac-Man-like
. But those messages have failed to diminish the popularity of open-source programs such as Linux among developers and customers, according to a Microsoft memo distributed at a strategy meeting in Berlin in September
Clare Milne, whose grandfather AA Milne gave the world Winnie the Pooh, is seeking to claw back US commercial control of the honey-loving bear who has enchanted children across the globe for three-quarters of a century
The Federal Government has given its blessing to Commonwealth departments and agencies to investigate and adopt open-source software
The American Open Technology Consortium, a non-profit organisation of technologists who have joined together to educate lawmakers and regulators about technology — especially in regards to the Internet has compiled a list of the lawmakers responsible for eight bad internet laws. These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined — via Slashdot
One local small town chocolate company, DeBrand’s, is planning to fight back against San Diego based PanIP’s claim that they hold the patent over any automated commerce done by text and graphics on a video monitor. The owner of DeBrand’s has even set up a web site to organise the different e-merchants, www.youmaybenext.com — via Slashdot
Connect Internet Solutions has launched a new broadband service targeting medium to large businesses with the claim its portfolio of offerings can reduce customer bills by 25%
A start-up company, MagiQ Technologies, plans to introduce a cryptography system that uses quantum key distribution
to thwart eavesdropping on fibre optic communication channels
A bacterium that thrives by feeding on a common pollutant may provide a means to help clean up contaminated soil and ground water
An Indiana judge refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit against Vectren that accuses the utility of failing to install costly anti-pollution equipment at its ageing coal-fired plants
Open-source software gave Microsoft a one-two punch this week, with the European Union and an African non-profit educational organisation showing preference for Linux systems
Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s leading cosmetic companies, planned to side-step an EU animal-testing ban by conducting the experiments outside Europe
At least 60,000 Telstra customers have been hit by a billing bungle, with subscribers to high-speed internet facing higher charges after the company misread their use of the service
Blueprint for a Living Continent, a submission on the sustainable use of water resources, claims that Australia cannot be drought-proofed. It suggests managing drought better with an immediate end to broadscale land clearing, paying farmers to maintain environmental services like clean water and healthy soils, and extra costs on food and water to pay farmers to farm sustainably
The Federal Government has asked the telecommunications watchdog to investigate claims that Telstra provided misleading information to a Senate inquiry and the Victorian Supreme Court. The allegation has been made by a group of small business owners who have been involved in a long-running dispute with Telstra over telephone faults
Joe Wagner, a Stanford doctoral student and founder of Hypertouch, sues a bulk e-mailer, seeking $50 per unwanted message — which he plans to donate to charity if he wins
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