Throughout the 1990s, designers kept putting their company logos on a mind-boggling array of new products. Now the logos have become scarce
UFOEarthContact and, more importantly, my mate Paul Black have managed to get a write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald
Accredited Australian Internet registrar NetRegistry has announced plans to set up an industry-wide legal fund to combat allegedly unscrupulous operators
Sony Australia has revealed its blueprint for the far distant future of its highly successful PlayStation games console. Part of its plan revolves around the use of biotech games controllers
Santa Cruz city leaders plan to join medical marijuana users at a pot give-away at City Hall next week, hoping to send a message to federal authorities that, in this town, medical marijuana is welcome
An innovative, pedal powered, wireless network provides Internet access to off-grid villages in Laos — via Slashdot
Tens of thousands of readers of e-mail newsletters have recently been spammed, and the newsletter publishers are blaming the company that manages and distributes the newsletters for them
Sony has pledged to appeal a Federal Court decision that gave a green light to mod-chipping PlayStation game consoles
Researchers have put together a biological pacemaker in guinea pigs by slipping a gene into their hearts — a first step in what could lead to alternatives to the electronic devices now implanted in hundreds of thousands of people each year
AMD are about to reveal their smallest double-gate transistor to date. The gate of the transistor, across which electrical current flows to turn the switch on, measures 10 nanometers, or 10 billionths of a metre — via Slashdot
Netscape won’t dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling, Mozilla, is aiming at even bigger game: Windows
Industry figures have confirmed that Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies are rapidly overtaking cable as the Australian broadband connection of choice, but corporations are cautious about using broadband Internet services in essential areas of their business
A fox snapped up two balls hit from the seventh tee on to the fairway by players in a tournament at Gronhogen golf course on the island of Oland off Sweden’s south-eastern coast
Zeldman preaches the nightmare of backward compatibility: Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all web sites are obsolete. These sites may look and work all right in mainstream, desktop browsers whose names end in the numbers 4 or 5. But outside these fault-tolerant environments, the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear
Microsoft’s plans to crack down on hackers pirating its Windows XP operating system seem likely to come unstuck, with the internet’s underground already working out ways around its latest security measures
By now, subscription-free Internet service has pretty much proven itself an unprofitable anachronism. Except in Egypt. In this nation beset by creaky Net connections and outdated circuits, where computers remain a luxury for the vast majority, a free Internet strategy is boosting Internet access
Local officials in Britain were reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a highway right over the furry body of a dead badger
Disgruntled customers of PayPal have won an important battle after a US judge ruled its arbitration policy rigid and unfair
Competition in Australia’s Internet ADSL market is heating up just weeks after the ACCC announced plans that will make it easier for service providers to get access to Telstra’s copper network
The Federal Court in Brisbane has banned three men, Robert James Price, Ronald Curtin, William Millar and three related companies, who conned consumers into paying up to AU$12,500 for race-betting software by marketing it as a low risk investment program, from selling the software
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