Privacy International is questioning the use of fingerprinting technologies by UK schools for library purposes and the role of the Office of the Information Commissioner in reviewing the technology. The practice came to light after a parent discovered that a school had obtained her child’s print without consent
The Federal Government is attempting to change freedom of information legislation to prevent the public discovering that Internet censorship laws have failed, according to civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia
With last week’s resignation of Chief Operating Officer Robert Pittman, the installation of new top-tier management with deep Time Warner ties, and a restructured corporate hierarchy that reduces a humbled AOL to a unit within a division, AOL Time Warner Inc is being genetically reverse-engineered to bear Time Warner markers
While open-source software’s reputation for security has taken a hit lately, Microsoft’s Palladium presents itself as an opportunity to improve security by eliminating entire classes of potential exploits. However, Palladium cannot protect us from most security threats — and its aim may be to eliminate open-source software on commodity hardware
The great transition that is taking place on the Internet — from free to fee — is now gathering speed. And there are no grassroots efforts on the Web to stop it. The Internet army, which is enormous, hasn’t been engaged or conscripted
The PlayStation 3 could conquer the home-entertainment and computing markets — if the chip inside it can deliver 1,000-fold processing improvements
A British couple are laying claim to the best-travelled pet in the world after their cat, Ozzy, hid in the hold of a passenger jet and clocked up 63,000 miles
China is set to develop a Windows clone equivalent to Win 98, with full compatibility with Office 2000 and Word. Apparently, 18 companies and universities have been working on the two initiatives, with a 1.0 version supposedly already released to certain government offices
Hitachi has begun selling a water-cooled notebook computer in Japan. The machine runs a 1.8GHz mobile Pentium 4, and has a flexible tube which carries water over the chips in order to dissipate heat
Roll up, flexible televisions, akin to the melting watches of Salvador Dali’s surreal landscapes, have become possible thanks to a glowing plastic compound perfected in the laboratories of Britain’s Cambridge Display Technology
Telstra ADSL customers across Queensland, ACT and Victoria felt the affects of unexplained technical glitches that saw 400 NSW subscribers knocked off line early Friday
Forgent Networks, a video conferencing company based in Austin, Texas says it’s going to pursue royalties on the transmission of JPEG images. And it’s already found a licensee: Sony Corporation
Like many companies near seismic faults in Silicon Valley, eBay has emergency plans in case an earthquake destroys critical Internet connections. But these days another kind of tremor is a more imminent danger. The costly disruption or slowdown of service because of financially strapped telecommunication providers is the latest major concern for companies
ATS Automation Tooling Systems has developed solar cells that will slash the cost of solar power, holding out the possibility of a revolution in the generation of clean, renewable energy
The RIAA has begun pressing for anti-copying technology in future digital radio standards. While enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting, insisting on their right to debate the entertainment industry over anti-copying technologies
In one of the toughest sentences for online auction fraud, Thomas Houser was sentenced to 12 years in prison for defrauding hundreds of shoppers on eBay and Yahoo auction sites
Mobile phone users in America wishing they could keep their phone number when they switch carriers will have to wait another year for that option to become reality. Seems Australia got it’s finger out on the number portability issue, far quicker than the yanks
Paul Jocelyn, 37, of Albertville, Minnesota approached a bull bison and tried to get the animal to raise its head for a photograph on Saturday near the Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park. For his troubles, he received a puncture wound in his inner right thigh as well as scrapes and bruises. Criminal charges of harassing wildlife are pending against the man, no action will be taken against the bison
Nick Pelis has integrated two of the greatest pieces of hardware into one convenient case. This is the most important innovation in case design since the internal hard drive… The Caffeine Machine
Tom Lyons argues persuasively that the incumbent competitors might be incapable of delivering an utility IP network. Competition in such commodity markets encourages the breaking of connectivity, Connectivity is the fundamental service of the Internet, yet it is connectivity that suffers first when network providers compete for users and services
. Thus he proposes the Institute for the Promotion of the Internet Protocol Utility — via Slashdot
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