Members of the Toledo police computer crimes task force and FBI agents served search warrants at 13 residences, including an apartment, a condominium, and single-family houses. Investigators believe cable modems that connect Buckeye Express customers to the Internet were altered, allowing computer users unauthorised access to excessive amounts of bandwidth
A new technique being developed by GE and IBM to further decrease the size needed to magnetically store data. This new technique could produce 150 gigabits per square centimetre — that’s a terabyte on a laptop size hard drive
An e-mail gateway start-up, IronPort Systems, is pushing marketers to back a plan that would let spam recipients charge companies for unwanted messages
David Kirsch, a University of Maryland professor, needs the disastrous business plans, pointless PowerPoints and tales of failure to create a digital archive of Internet failures
AMSAT-OSCAR 7 was launched in 1974 for radio hobbyists to use. In 1981 the onboard batteries died and the satellite went silent. Then on 21 June 2002, 20 years later, a hobbyist testing some new equipment made an amazing discovery — AMSAT-OSCAR 7 is live once more, both broadcasting and accepting signals — via Slashdot
According to a recent survey, information technology professionals think a major attack on US government computer systems is coming and that the government is not adequately prepared for it
Australia plans to endorse CD-copying kiosks in a controversial world-first plan that legalises music piracy. The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society will allow an Adelaide-based business to operate CD-pirating kiosks nation-wide for a modest royalty payment
NSW Central Coast fleet supplier, Cellular One, has identified a malfunction that occurs when Nokia’s 6310 is used with a hands-free accessory supplied by Beyond Holdings
An Alaskan chicken-hypnotist who cycles around the world with a travelling circus has ground to a halt after a charity clothes shop in Scotland sold her bicycle by mistake while she was in the fitting-room
Companies planning on moving old programs to the Microsoft’s .Net software plan may get a dose of sticker shock: Making the conversion could cost roughly half of the original development cost
Moves are afoot to block Australian ISPs from charging customers who complain about service provider conduct to the industry watchdog
ISPs are pressing Telstra to provide another weapon in the war against spam by activating caller line identification for all dial-up internet connections
Space Data says its plan to create America’s first floating wireless network — by putting disposable transmitters on government weather balloons — has already undergone successful testing and is economically viable
Hundreds of housing estate residents in Melbourne will be given a free computer and cheap internet access as part of an initiative to help low-income families into the IT age
The Canadian government has given the military and RCMP permission to jam radio signals during the G8 summit and the Pope’s visit in July — via Slashdot
DaisyMan at ArsWare has come up with a software based Dead Man’s Switch that will, if you don’t check in
every so often, post a message — presumably about your demise, but whatever you wish — to various message boards, send e-mail — maybe that incriminating evidence? — to your friends, and encrypt specified files on your computer so that they
can’t have them
From Doomsday Devices to Robotic Tigers and Randroids, VillainSupply.com have got it all. Don’t forget the convenient, accessible self-destruct device
The Internet’s potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium’s long-standing culture of openness, some leading Internet thinkers warned
The Civilian Space Exploration Team, a collection of rocket jocks, engineers and space enthusiasts around the country, are set to launch their rocket, dubbed Primera Spaceshot 2002, by the end of June from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada
Circuit City, America’s second-largest electronics retailer, is phasing out sales of videotape movies as the chain makes way for the inevitability of DVD
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