SafeType make a strange vertical keyboard, they also have a study claiming that this is more ergonomic than your usual board
A Washington think tank calling itself the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is preparing to release a study
warning that the widespread use of open-source software will allow international terrorists to have their way with us. Funny how they’re funded by Microsoft
Wind power is set to become a significant feature of the Australian electricity market with more than 1,600 megawatts to be introduced by 2005. This is in sharp contrast to a decision by John Howard, who has bowed to coal exporters demands by refusing to ratify the Kyoto climate change treaty aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions
Senior figures at the Department of Transport sent a secret email to uncover information on the Paddington rail crash survivor Pam Warren in what has been seen as an attempt to discredit her
More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse
VeriSign will soon be offering its wire tapping services for a monthly fee. NetDiscovery will allow telcos to comply with court ordered wire taps. Meanwhile, the NSA are hard at work trying to wiretap fibre optic cables
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has hit back at the Federal Government’s counter-terrorism package, despite claims agencies won’t allow agencies to read e-mails or SMS at whim
The Securities and Exchange Commission have said that Microsoft violated federal securities law by using improper bookkeeping to understate its earnings by as much as $900 million over a four-year period
US forensic expert Andrew Rosen, the computer scientist who extracted crucial deleted data for the Enron investigation, has donated his company’s Linux-based forensic software, the Storage Media Archival and Recovery Tool — SMART — to NSW Police
The Source, an Australian government web site, has been spamming people multiple times, despite the site’s privacy policy stating it won’t use e-mail addresses without the owner’s consent
E-Store has admitted it has a backlog of unfulfilled orders following a rolling succession of lost telecommunications services during its recent move of premises
Jeanne Heifetz thought she had merely tripped over one of those quirks that occasionally worm their way into standardised tests. Words were missing from a book excerpt she was familiar with on a Regents English exam. But when she discovered a second extensively altered excerpt, she began to wonder, if there was something sinister afoot?
In the wake of OzEmail’s entry into the broadband market, and Telstra’s broadband advertising campaign, iPrimus has dropped the pricing on its Jetstream ADSL offerings by as much as 28 percent, for the second time this year
Newsletter and Internet publisher Paul Trummel, whose February jailing prompted a flood of protests by journalists and others around the US, has now been dispatched to solitary confinement at King County Jail
The Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers. These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen
Project Eden had to visually provide a spectacular theatre high enough to house the towering trees of the rainforests, wide enough for the sun-baked escarpments of the Mediterranean and, oh yes, become the eighth wonder of the world
A hacking contest that promised US$100,000 as first prize appears to have been weighted so heavily against competitors that some decided to hack the competition rather than the target server
When Jakob Nielsen, a well-known online usability expert, conducted a study on how children up to the age of 12 use the Internet, he came across a surprising finding: namely that the vast majority of them couldn’t tell the difference between content and advertising online
Yet another step closer to the universal translator: NEC has announced trials of software for your PDA that listens to spoken English and Japanese phrases, translates them, and re-speaks them in the other language — via Slashdot
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