Jim McKenna and John Lieberman from California are trying to give AOL a taste of its own medicine. They’re asking people to send them AOL CDs, and they’re going to drop them off at the company’s doorstep once they collect one million CDs
Britain sought to live up to its reputation as a nation of animal lovers this week with a plan to overhaul almost 100 years of laws covering the welfare of all animals kept by humans
Toshiba has announced that it plans to market a fuel cell powered notebook computer by 2004. This unit will have an operation time of about 10 hours, three or more times longer than conventional batteries, without charging
The future of SETI@home director David Anderson has spoken out to calm fears sparked by the project’s chief scientist, Dan Werthimer, that the project is under threat of closing
A 33-year-old has been charged with breach of the peace after police received reports that the man was engaging in a sexual act with a traffic cone at the bottom of Calton Hill, Edinburgh
Two years from now the world’s smallest optical disc will let your mobile phone store five two hour movies, squirrel away 25,000 digital photos or hoard 48 hours of MP3 music
In the same way that the home computer gave users the ability to create documents that looked good, even if they didn’t necessarily read well, print-on-demand services now enable people to publish a book with ease, regardless of whether anyone else would want to read it
Canada’s Bombardier will roll out a jet engine-powered locomotive it has been quietly developing for years in partnership with the US Federal Railroad Administration
Conservative peers and bishops joined forces in the Lords last night to block Government plans to allow unmarried, homosexual and lesbian couples to adopt children
A new coalition — the Pacific Alliance for Wild Wolves — is forming to fight an anticipated reduction in federal protections for wolves that could migrate back into California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington from a population reintroduced in northern Idaho
auDA’s New Names Advisory Panel has recommended new second level domain names based on Australia’s states and territories
There are indications that Nokia Australia’s customer care line may be operating under a policy that defies its agreements with the NSW Department of Fair Trading to repair Nokia 8210s carrying display faults
The next time you’re in need of a wart remover, forget combing the aisles of the local pharmacy and head over to the hardware store for a roll of duct tape instead
Microsoft has yanked another of its fraudulent user testimonials, in this case a fictitious twelve-year-old boy raving about a fictional homework assignment and the indispensable insights he received from MS Encarta Reference Library in preparing it
The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis
Broadband download limits are coming under scrutiny as the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman questions the capping policies of major telcos
Government worker Ian Jarman is unhappy that he has to wear a tie to work — so he is accusing his management of sex discrimination
The Alaska Board of Game added 55 square miles of protection for wolves around Denali National Park and Preserve on Friday. The vote was unanimous. The board also extended a ban on wolf hunting and trapping in a 72-square-mile buffer established in November 2000. That protection was scheduled to end 31 March
Universities in metropolitan Sydney will now be linked via a fibre optic network following the signing of a $2.1 million contract. The Australian Academic and Research Network signed the 10 year agreement with telecommunications carrier Uecomm
Telstra has spent $500 million weatherproofing its national telephone network, only to discover that the sealant used is a time bomb
causing widespread corrosion and could potentially disrupt millions of lines around the country
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