The supermarket supremos Woolworths and Coles are exerting enormous influence even beyond the farm gate, they have helped drive thousands of fruit and vegetable sellers to the wall and is forcing many farmers to get bigger or get out
The Simputer is a handheld computer running GNU/Linux starting at around $214 and is aiming to be an affordable computer for the third world that can be used even by the illiterate with its text-to-speech features, it will roll out next month
Anti-virus vendor Sophos this week released its summary for the first six months of this year. All the viruses in its top 10 list were mass mailing Windows 32 viruses
A fun project if you have a pile of Lego and a long weekend handy — a model trebuchet. Using coins for counterweights, it is able to throw a marble 16m or more
Chinese Harry Potter fans have been blessed with the fifth book early — only it’s not the real one. The title translates to Harry Potter And Leopard Walk Up To Dragon
. The story has Harry getting turned into a fat hairy dwarf and being void of his powers
Dodgy Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct has more than doubled its claim for damages against an anti-spam activist and may escalate the matter to a higher court
Sudden interest in wireless computing could result in two new players, Air Portal and Unwired, taking on SkyNetGlobal in providing internet access to hotels and airport lounges
When you get sick of putting an aluminium case on your PC, and lighting up the keyboard, here’s something you can do with your optical mouse
According to a new survey; the man who wrecked his sports car by towing a boat, the fisherman who left his car infested with maggots and the overweight couple whose amorous engagements broke the suspension of their Mini — are all examples of how Britons mistreat their cars
Alanis Morissette, her attorneys and management, have been accused of engaging in a Cyber Piracy scheme, also known as Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, to steal the domain name alanis.net from Consumer.net
Camera/Shy, a browser-based steganography application from Hacktivismo, will be released at the H2K2 Convention in New York City on 13 July. Camera/Shy was developed for democracy activists operating from behind national firewalls. It allows users to trade in banned content across the Internet
Light can be turned into a glowing stream of liquid that splits into droplets and splatters off surfaces just like water. The researchers who’ve worked out how to do this say liquid light would be the ideal lifeblood for optical computing, where chips send light around optical circuits to process data
The Sierra Railroad is planning to use diesel train locomotives to produce power for California. Each of the 48 engines are expected to produce 2.1 megawatts of power for a thousand hours each year. A key advantage to this plan is that since the PowerTrains are mobile, they can be taken to the areas that need power the most, so it doesn’t have to be routed across the state through the power grid
Telstra has slapped a higher price tag on Bigpond Broadband ADSL installations, ahead of a self-installation option that the telco giant plans to introduce this week
Record labels hell-bent on strangling unauthorised music copying on the Internet are considering widening their legal efforts to include lawsuits against individuals. Perhaps they should consider a revolutionary new recording format in a bid to help win the war on illegal file sharing
Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared
The newest candidate challenging Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid for Congress is truly an underdog: a border collie mix. According to his owner and campaign manager, Wayne Genthner, Percy the dog is running as a write-in candidate in the Republican primary
The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of several major Internet search engines to make it clearer to their users when companies have paid to be included in Web search results
Bored with making the same old food or plasma in your microwave? David Reid has discovered that there is a potential foundry in every kitchen. He’s using his domestic microwave oven to melt iron, silver and bronze
People across the Bay Area are committing random acts of literary kindness, leaving books in public places for strangers to find and then tracking the book’s fate online at BookCrossing
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