Nokia won’t match compensation given to Australian owners of faulty 8210 handsets for neighbouring consumers in Asia
Telstra has signed up as a service partner for Iridium Satellite LLC, which owns and operates a global wireless communications system via satellite that covers all oceans, air space and landmasses, even the north and south poles
It’s claimed hundreds of Taliban prisoners could be buried in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan and that the US is reluctant to investigate it. A US human rights group says the mass grave they believe is near Mazar-e-Sharif could contain men killed by the Northern Alliance
Dirk Broer’s Dutch team has developed spray-on liquid crystal paint
which changes colour at the touch of a button. The new design could be used to make giant TV screens, digital billboards and walls which change colour
Waste from sewage plants could be transformed into clean hydrogen fuel with high efficiency using new processing technology devised in Europe
Tom Murphy, author of embed, a tool that alters the embedding level of TrueType fonts, has been getting some nasty cease and desist letters from the lawyers of Agfa Monotype. Fortunately Tom is not one to rollover to the illegal demands of a large corporation
And on more cease and desist lunacy; Avi Adelman, proprietor of BarkingDogs.org, a proactive
news web site that unearths political malfeasance in and around Dallas, Texas, is locked in a battle against the Belo media corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, which sent him a legalistic letter this week demanding that BarkingDogs.org remove all ‘deep links’ to the DallasNews.com site
According to the National Science Foundation‘s biennial report on the state of science understanding in the US, sixty percent of those surveyed believe in ESP, psychic power, and alien abduction. Americans… scientifically proven to be dumber than the average bear — via Slashdot
And if you don’t show an interest in science and technology, you miss out on learning about RatBots. By implanting electrodes in rats’ brains, scientists have created remote-controlled rodents they can command to turn left or right, climb trees and navigate piles of rubble — and maybe someday, with the rats outfitted with tiny video cameras, use to search for disaster survivors
While the war between heavyweight Web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to fester, the final version of Mozilla, an open-source program that users say could trump both big-brand browsers, is set to make its debut. But while the upstart browser has unique features and devoted fans, it still has relatively few users
Bad software-buying decisions are costing Australian businesses millions of dollars a year. The losses are greater when the deployment of software fails to deliver the expected benefits
NASA scientists have developed a computer model that can detect where rain or snow originates. By tracing where water evaporates from and where it falls, the model demonstrates how water vapour moves through the atmosphere
Paul McCartney has won a court order preventing auction house Christie’s from selling his hand-written lyrics to Hey Jude
Internet Name Group has been implicated in a mass mail-out marketing scheme that has come under the scrutiny of domain registry authorities in New Zealand
Entrepreneur Ken Belanger lost his small claims court battle with Microsoft over the rights to the term ‘Pocket PC‘. But he said he might prevail by using another legal trick, suing Microsoft under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
A group of artists have created a field of Wombles to show their support for May Day protestors. The anonymous group have used hundreds of soft toys originally given out with McDonald’s Happy Meals. The piece called Auto-Destructive Art will be dismantled on 1 May and the toys given to anti-globalisation campaigners
SETI@Home, the largest distributed computing project in the world, is on the verge of receiving its 500 millionth result. This is a major milestone for both the project and distributed computing as a whole. And if you still need some added incentive to get involved, there’s a $500 reward for the user who returns the milestone result
The Australian Information Industry Association is keeping quiet about plans to conduct an industry-wide PC collection and recycling pilot program
The World Society for the Protection of Animals says thousands of greyhounds are hanged each year in Spain after the hare coursing season. This type of thing has always been a problem within greyhound sports throughout the world. Fortunately there are many groups, such as Greyhound Adoption Program and The Greyhound Project, who are actively retraining greyhounds as pets and offering them for adoption
The West Seattle Thriftway will be the first supermarket in the state to let customers pay for purchases with a fingerprint
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