Electric signals can be transmitted at least four times faster than the speed of light using only basic equipment that would be found in virtually any college science department
LindowsOS Version 2.0 offers networking features for connecting with Windows-based PCs, support for more printers and a streamlined interface similar to the Windows desktop
Billionaire engineer Charles Simonyi, who left Microsoft to co-found a company called Intentional Software, says his new firm’s software-development tools will reduce annoying or even dangerous bugs to one in a million
Microsoft has signed up Brightmail to tackle the junk mail bombarding Hotmail accounts. It is to install Brightmail Solution Suite at the SMTP gateway, to hoover up junk mail before it reaches the user
New research has revealed that Australia’s Big Four banks’ poor Web account services are threatening to drive customers to rivals with more user-friendly facilities
Controversial Australian domain name reseller Internet Registrations Australia is being taken to court by the ACCC amidst allegations of misleading conduct
AOL7 will begin trial of its new broadband service in a matter of weeks, with a view to providing the service commercially by 2003. But it’s worth studying the fine print before signing up for any broadband service, because tiny download limits are tripping the unwary
Speculation is growing that Optus is about to launch a high-speed data wireless network
Karin Spaink has had her house raided by police based on an unsubstantiated claim by the dodgy Church of Scientology
According to Shane Hird, a research scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre at the University of Queensland, unwary Windows XP users can have entire directories emptied of files simply by clicking on a hyperlink
While Sony’s online gaming experiment is only a few weeks old, PlayStation 2 gamers are already finding it helps to have a tolerance for foul play
A robot will be sent to explore Cheops, Egypt’s largest pyramid, to investigate a mystery behind a stone door
A Digital television set that learns its owner’s tastes and a dancing baby-sized robot are among new gadgets being displayed by Sony at a futuristic exhibition in Japan
IBM has expanded a deal with software maker Red Hat to sell Linux software across the entire range of IBM’s computer servers
Police are being given authority to tap telephone conversations at such an unprecedented rate that Australians are 20 times more likely to be bugged than Americans
The widespread use of anti-personnel land mines by nations such as India and Pakistan is hampering efforts to eliminate a weapon that kills or maims thousands of people every year
California Assembly candidate Dan Dow has an official Web site: Dandow.com. But he’s also registered the URLs JohnDutra.com, JohnDutra.net and JohnDutra.org. And incumbent Assemblyman John Dutra — Dan Dow’s opponent in the upcoming election for California’s 20th District — is none too pleased that his name is being used against him in the campaign
A newly publicised flaw in Mozilla-based Web browsers allows servers to discover where visitors go after they leave the site
M&M2000 has decided to power his AthlonXP via a Tesla Coil. Pretty pictures, shame about the troll
Washington, the first state to take a legal stand against sending misleading, unwanted e-mail, won its first case yesterday, against a prolific spammer who flooded the state’s computers with advertising several years ago
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