Bird lovers have a new use for their mobile phones — tracking the marathon journey of migrating geese. Anyone sponsoring one of six geese that carry satellite tags will be sent a weekly text message
UMAX US is continuing its full-frontal assault on the intelligence of its American customers. Claiming that its older parallel port scanners don’t work under Windows 2000 or XP
The controversial Sniffer Dog Alert web site is in the process of upgrading to a larger server following high traffic loads which have frequently knocked its services off ai
Amazon.com accepted a cease-and-desist order from the SEC, ordering it not to help anyone else violate securities laws by faking results
In just a few years, the Internet has transformed the world into a huge marketplace for used books, utterly transforming a business that had gone pretty much unobserved for centuries
The WIPO panel considering Jerry Falwell‘s attempt to strip Gary Cohn of his parody web site has ruled that Cohn is entitled to keep his domain names
A fibre optic cable in the Dandenong area has been cut, interrupting BigPond Broadband access to a large section of Melbourne
The once-liberal dishing out of Internet Protocol addresses is coming back to haunt some Australian punters and is pushing a local controversial spamming suit into cloudier waters
David Bowie is confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing
Big-O Software’s AIM+ add-on program to AOL’s instant messenger service includes a component that sends back customer information to the main server
Etherlinx uses an inexpensive wireless standard to transmit Internet data. Their ambitious plan threatens to shake the near-monopoly that the cable and phone companies hold on high-speed access
Unless web designers provide a text equivalent, material can often be inaccessible to those relying on Internet screen readers
The truth about Ruby Bryant, the woman who received secret payments from TE Lawrence, prompting suggestions that the pair had enjoyed a clandestine love affair, can now be revealed. Far from being the First World War hero’s lover, she was instead a timid orphan who was saved from destitution by his simple act of philanthropy
Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope will transform human existence: teaching a computer common sense
The South African government wants to seize control of the .za domain. However, ICANN owns the domains and under the ICANN rules, they will not relinquish control
Beijing’s most popular newspaper, the Beijing Evening News, has unwittingly republished a bogus story about US Congress threats to skip town for Memphis or Charlotte unless Washington builds them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. The source? America’s celebrated spoof tabloid, The Onion
The UK Government has admitted that it failed to investigate the hardcore pornographic web sites run by Richard Desmond, the adult magazine publisher, when it decided that he was a fit and proper
person to acquire the Daily Express and Sunday Express
Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of the pioneer punk band the Ramones, was found dead of a possible drug overdose in his Hollywood home. He was 50
The rural Ruby Ranch community fought the phone company for use of their unused lines and installed their own DSL service
The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations
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