Despite a promise last week to elaborate on its plans, Palm Australia is keeping its shutters closed tightly when it comes to revealing whether Australia will be included in the company’s aggressive push to capture the mass-market
Two red wolf pups born in South Carolina are being moved to a North Carolina refuge in hopes that they’ll mate and raise a family. The male and female pups are between 17 and 18 months old. They’re expected to arrive this afternoon at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. It’s the only mainland site where the endangered species lives in the wild
Citing Microsoft’s own somewhat patchy security record, Australian industry commentators have called into question the software maker’s worthiness to advise the Federal Government on the country’s cyber security policy
The Liberty and Livelihood March was the biggest civil liberty protest in British history as hundreds of thousands of countryside protesters gathered in London and the Prince of Wales became embroiled in the escalating row over the future of rural Britain
Rodent lovers are celebrating a decision by a Queensland court today to fine three people $375 for abandoning a pet rat
Embattled computer giant Sun Microsystems has come up with a new strategy to challenge the dominance of Microsoft. In a plan, dubbed Project Mad Hatter
. It will sell cheap desktop computers running the free Linux operating system and charge companies a small monthly fee for service and support
Free Web-based e-mail services have long used customers as marketing mules, adding an unobtrusive tag line at the end of each message to tout their products. Now MailFrontier, an anti-spam company, is drawing fire for using the same tactic
ADP Pharmaceuticals from Goulburn in New South Wales has won Federal Government backing for a project which aims to use genes from deer to repair human cartilage
A pro-euthanasia group in Australia is planning to distribute exit bags
designed to help people commit suicide
All that was missing was the Wonder Woman costume. Witnesses say a Jordanian woman ripped off her enveloping black cloak and veil — to reveal a traditional long dress that was nearly as enveloping — and punched and kicked into submission three young men who had been verbally harassing her.
Nearly 100 years after the Wright brothers’ first heavier-than-air powered flight, the US Air Force is testing an experimental plane that uses wing warping
, the steering and control technique that kept Orville Wright aloft in 1903. But this time round, it will be at supersonic speeds
An online anarchist scavenger hunt
proposed for next week’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank has raised the ire of police, who fear demonstrators could damage property and wreak havoc. Break a McDonald’s window, get 300 points. Puncture a Washington DC police car tire to win 75 points. Score 400 points for a pie in the face of a corporate executive or World Bank delegate
A shark held with no male counterpart at Detroit’s Belle Isle Aquarium for the past six years has produced three babies in what zoo officials are calling virgin births
California may become the first state requiring computer makers and sellers of television sets to charge buyers to recycle the machines
A leading science magazine is offering readers a prize to die for — cryonics treatment which some hope might give them resurrection after death. The lucky winner of the prize, promoting the revamp of New Scientist magazine, will not be able to collect the award until death, when he or she will be cooled to stop the decay of the body and then suspended in liquid nitrogen
Germans mulling joining the army may think twice now thanks to a new regulation banning soldiers from having sex while in active service
Seven men who bared all in Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade have been cleared of public nudity charges because they were wearing shoes. The men, from a social group calling itself Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity (TNT!MEN), were arrested and charged under Canada’s Criminal Code after they marched in the annual festival wearing only footwear — and sunscreen
Thailand’s answer to Q
, the legendary inventor of gadgets for movie spy James Bond, is busy at work at his warehouse on the edge of the country’s capital. Workmen inside are trying out the latest inventions of retired Major Songphon Eiamboonyarith, who runs defence contracting firm Precipart Co. The range includes umbrellas that shoot rubber bullets, bullet-proof baseball caps and a hand-held device to fire a man-sized net 10m to stop a villain in his tracks — via Slashdot
Australians will soon have another alternative for wireless broadband Internet, with Melbourne startup Azure Wireless set to step into the ring with more establish players
A concept for a colossal cargo aircraft designed to skim a few metres above the surface of the ocean has been revealed by researchers at the aerospace company Boeing. The concept aeroplane, called the Pelican Ultra Large Transport Aircraft (ULTRA), would exploit an aerodynamic phenomenon known as the
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