The Norwegian Government has dropped their contract with Microsoft. Microsoft had an exclusive deal with national and regional government. Administration Secretary Victor Norman states that we feel that our contract with Microsoft in reality has given Microsoft a monopoly in a field where competition would serve us better
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To protect users from malicious code, Yahoo uses an automated filter to swap out a handful of words such as mocha
that pertain to JavaScript. The reason is that e-mail sent in a form known as Web enhanced
can contain JavaScript instructions that can run programs on the recipient’s PC
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Cyber Security Enhancement Act that would allow for life prison sentences for malicious computer hackers
Scotchgard, the water and stain repellent, was a sturdy household name before environmental concerns led 3M to phase out production two years ago. Now the company is relaunching the brand with squeaky-clean replacement products and expanding into new areas, such as paint
The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups
The Navy won approval Monday to deploy two ships that use controversial low-frequency sonar to detect faraway submarines, despite continuing questions about whether the system’s loud blasts will injure whales and other ocean animals
Gigi Sohn hopes that geeks have become so enraged by recent anti-piracy schemes that they’ll finally want to fight back. The 40-year old lawyer, head of the Public Knowledge non-profit group, plans to recruit a ragtag band of technophiles and train them to become a corps of effective political activists on the Internet front
Telcos have called for the Government not to extend the ACCC’s powers in the telecommunications arena
Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock has been accused of having a conflict of interest regarding his responsibilities towards children in Australia’s detention centres
Russian space officials still are looking for the Demonstrator-2 inflatable space vehicle that was launched Friday from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea
The NSW Government will consult with its interstate counterparts before deciding whether to repeal controversial internet censorship legislation
A US state Supreme Court ruled that a Minnesota woman who wrote a message on the internet critical of an Alabama scholar cannot be sued for libel in the scholar’s home state
If your superannuation is with the giant financial multinational ING, don’t complain too loudly about the returns. One Sydney man did, and the company sued him for libel, and silenced him on pain of being put in prison
Canada took a major step toward recognising same-sex couples on Friday when an Ontario court ruled that to do otherwise is unconstitutional
A growing number of Web surfers face a new uncertainty when they hit the send button; Will the e-mail get through? Anti-spam programs are great, but they still occasionally cause collateral damage
New Idea, that bastion of Australian journalism, picked on the wrong man to tell tabloid tales about. Their story about James Packer had Daddy ensuring the issue was pulped
US lawyer John Banzhaf was the first to sue the tobacco companies in the mid-Sixties. But now he wants to prosecute the junk food industry for making Americans obese. Has he bitten off more than he can chew?
McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant company, lost a legal bid to stop a British-based restauranteur from using the name McChina. Frank Yu Kwan Yuen opened the first McChina restaurant in Wimbledon, south-west London in 1991, under the names McChina Stir Fried and McChina Wok Away
The world’s most popular software for scrambling sensitive e-mails — Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP — suffers from a programming flaw that could allow hackers to attack a user’s computer and, in some circumstances, unscramble messages
According to researchers at Syracuse University, Sharp’s Linux-based handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private data off a corporate network
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