Technonerds go to movies strictly for entertainment, and of course, the most entertaining part comes after the movie when they can dissect, criticise, and argue the merits of every detail
Australian organisations have had input in a range of new Web standards from the World Wide Web Consortium, designed to increased interoperability of the Internet
Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net that carried the virus, the software company has acknowledged
The World Trade Organisation next week is likely to permit the European Union to levy tariffs of at least US$956 million on US exports because of illegal tax breaks given to US exporters such as Microsoft and Boeing
Teleportation is usually found in science fiction programs like Star Trek, but a team of researchers from the Australian National University has carried out a successful teleportation experiment in a gravitational wave lab
In an end-run around the South African government’s plans to seize control of the .za domain, administrator Mike Lawrie took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore — via Slashdot
Of the $130 million Unwired Australia raised from the likes of Credit Suisse First Boston, Bruckman Rosser Sherrill and The Invus Group, $110 million was spent on licensing space on the 3.4Ghz spectrum. It recently launched its first trial of the technology at no cost to the people of Paddington — via Slashdot
Warner Home Video has chosen not to copy-protect the home versions of its blockbuster movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in major markets, including the US and UK. This means people can go out and buy a DVD or VHS, connect the analogue output of their player to a recorder — either analogue or digital — and make free copies for friends
The Australian Consumers Association says the insurance industry has hoodwinked governments and the community into thinking there has been a blow-out in public liability claims
With the recent ruling in the Blacksnow/Mythic case, it seems the EULA — End User Licence Agreement, that thing that you never read — might affect the rest of the software industry, not just with game companies. From now on, you might just want to read the EULA before you click accept
— via Slashdot
Antivirus companies have warned of a new virus that communicates through digital images, but security experts aren’t sure how much of a threat this latest evolutionary branch of malicious code poses
Both PADI and NAUI, the two largest scuba diving certification agencies in the world, have turned over student information from the past 3 years to the FBI. If you’re a diver, you likely now have a little file at the FBI
Australian scientists have developed a permanent contact lens to improve poor vision. The synthetic lens can be surgically implanted to provide permanent, but reversible, correction of refractive error
Just when you thought it wasn’t possible for McDonald’s to get any worse… the 78 McDonald’s restaurants in Hawaii are adding a new menu item — spam
British ethical investment funds have largely steered clear of the developing world, where working conditions are often poor and economic growth needed most. Fund managers say that although they would like to invest in poor nations and force change for the better, companies are too opaque to even allow them to get started.
The jury in the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney federal civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers awarded plaintiffs $4.4 million for violation of the activists’ constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favour of Earth First! activists Cherney and the late Judi Bari
British intelligence service MI5 may be well-known for leaving top-secret laptops on trains, in taxis and at other public locations, but Britons have also found a variety of innovative ways to destroy their portable computers — from running them over to dropping them off bridges
Researchers at IBM’s laboratories in Zurich report that they have achieved a storage density of one trillion bits of data per square inch, about 25 times as great as current hard disks
Freeplay is about to launch a handheld, windup mobile phone power supply, the Freecharge. Although larger and heavier than several spare batteries, it has two distinct advantages over the former, you don’t have to turn the phone off to connect it and it will never go flat a long as your arms work — via Slashdot
Raymond Chiao, of the University of California at Berkeley, believes that superconductors can convert electromagnetic radiation into gravitational radiation
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