Nancy Carter, a Toronto-based freelance TV producer, has been battling US-based Inter.net Group for the past 16 months over a billing dispute she says may have cost her a lucrative job opportunity. Now she wants $110,000 in damages over a policy that led Inter.net’s Canadian subsidiary to keep her ISP account open for incoming e-mail even while denying her access to the account
The EU has fined Nintendo for price discrimination in different countries. The next logical question is whether DVD region coding also runs afoul of the same law
Ken Adelman, founder of TGV and Network Alchemy, is using a digital camera, helicopter, and a Power Book to take a high resolution photograph every 500 feet down the California coast with the aim of busting people putting up illegal sea walls. Also of note: the web site has 44GB of photos so far, runs on solar power, and is Microsoft Free — via Slashdot
Pocketmail plans to shut down its Australian technical support operation in the next two months, but says staff cuts will be minimal
In ten years with the Boy Scouts, Darrell Lambert has held almost every leadership position in his Port Orchard troop. He’s earned 37 merit badges and the coveted Eagle award. He exemplifies the Scouts’ standards in every way but one: He doesn’t believe in a god
Enmax and Vision Quest Windelectric plan to build Canada’s biggest wind farm in breezy southern Alberta, a CA$100 million project aimed at spinning out enough renewable power to supply more than 32,500 homes
SuSE Linux is developing a desktop Linux distribution that will allow Windows users to continue using (some of) their Windows applications, including Microsoft Office — via Slashdot
Satellite broadband ISP Access 1 suddenly closed down last Friday, leaving its customers less than eight hours to find alternative Internet access
European scientists have carried out the first experiments on antimatter. Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, have been able to trap and control anti-hydrogen atoms in a chamber at a sufficiently low temperature to begin studying their physics in detail
MasterCard International is expecting to make available to Australian banks in the first or second quarter of 2003 new technology designed to minimise credit card skimming
The next wave of weblogs, or blogs as the sites are known, may very well be for knowledge management, or k-logs
Japanese animators Masamune Shiro (Ghost in the Shell) and Hajime Katoki (Gundam) have decided to apply their creative design skills to a new line of limited edition optical mice — via Slashdot
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the government cannot revoke doctors’ prescription licenses for recommending marijuana to sick patients
Jackie Ballard, the new director general of Britain’s leading animal welfare charity — the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — wants the World Trade Organisation to start taking animal rights seriously
With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favour of the open-source alternative PHP
SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects. They have finally yielded to pressure and announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics
A Russian dancer held captive in the recent stand-off with Chechen rebels uses his mobile phone to post a message to the world. Neither his captors nor government censors can stop him
Anti-World Trade Organisation activists say they have been vindicated by an official investigation into two protest web sites. The Australian Broadcasting Authority has given the Melbourne Indymedia and S11 sites the all-clear after complaints they were inciting violence against police
The British Army has appealed for anyone hiding one if its borrowed inflatable tanks — which blew away in a weekend gale — to kindly return it
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