A blunt new report by Arab intellectuals commissioned by the United Nations, the Arab Human Development Report 2002, warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the repression of women and an isolation from the world of ideas that stifles creativity
Rumours are rife throughout the local IT industry that multimedia communications company Spike, an arm of Spike Networks, is set to announce its closure. Those rumours have been confirmed, with the company announcing it has gone into voluntary administration
The web sites of some of Australia’s largest organisations have been given a poor report card from Nielsen Norman, the world’s leading online usability think tank
Stephen Crocker is something of an anomaly: an Internet pioneer who still has his cards in the start up game
In United States vs Lucite ball containing lunar material, the Feds are suing to get back a moon rock from an American who brought it back from Honduras. They’re alleging that this rock from the Apollo 17 mission is stolen property; ironic considering that NASA took something that wasn’t under US jurisdiction
Civil liberties groups have warned the public and opposition parties to remain vigilant, despite the Senate’s rejection of a controversial bill to amend the Telecommunications Interception Act
Ford Motor Company has officially and unconditionally conceded its complete and perpetual loss on the merits of the FORD vs 2600 FuckGeneralMotors.com case
Software bugs are not just annoying or inconvenient. They’re expensive. According to a study by the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, the bugs and glitches cost the US economy about US$59.5 billion a year
A former South Australian potato farmer is seeking AU$70 million in damages from Coca Cola Amatil (CCA), company, Apend. Dubbed a David and Goliath battle, Riverland farmer Frank Perre took on CCA and won
A group of web publishers filed suit in federal court this week against the Internet ad network Gator, charging that Gator sells ads on their Web sites without authorisation and pockets the proceeds
Fancy an Athlon-based, dual head laptop, then Xentex Technologies have the toy for you
Providing more proof that the record industry is indeed a oligopoly, two major record companies, Vivendi Universal and Warner Communications, have been convicted of price fixing by the FTC over a recording from 1998 of the Three Tenors
Boeing engineers have designed a super-efficient aircraft that would look like a giant bat and slash the cost of air transport. The Blended Wing Body concept, outlined more than ten years ago but now said to be almost perfected, would have no fuselage or tail. Rather, it would basically be a wing with a belly that would accommodate the passengers and freight
A team of Japanese engineers has come up with a way of blocking mobile phone signals using wood panels containing magnetic material. The panels would be useful in cinemas, theatres, or anywhere where ringing mobile phones cause exasperation
Researchers at Philips have integrated a space-saving optical mouse into a mobile phone for the first time — via Slashdot
The guys at cluelessmailers.org have made a map of spam. It shows the relationships among spammers and other entities — legitimate or not — including organisations that track spam, advertises with, shares addresses, e-mails through, and all sorts of other data
Tschibsi, an Austrian farmer’s faithful dog, saved his life by running for help after a hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old’s left foot
The Who bassist John Entwistle, whose impassive onstage demeanour stood in counterpoint to the manic antics of fellow band members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, died Wednesday night in Las Vegas
Microsoft is warning people that a series of flaws in its Windows Media Player could allow a malicious hacker to hijack people’s computer systems and perform a variety of actions
Australian scientists have launched a new project to galvanise Australia’s property, building and construction industry to embrace sustainability. Evergen is an idea with a tangible outcome — commercial buildings, which are built faster, perform better, sell for more, and which ultimately, are recyclable and have a zero net cost to the environment
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