Back from a triumphant Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco where he publicised Amiga Anywhere, Amiga CEO Bill McEwen has posted an update on progress with Amiga hardware and AmigaOS 4 and 5
Internet-filtering software will block only about 80 per cent of pornographic images — much less than parents had hoped — highlighting the need to supervise young surfers, according to a CSIRO report
At the game developers conference, Sun is releasing a white paper on their new Java Games Profile
. Their ultimate goal is to have one CD you could pop into an XBox, a PS2, a Windows machine or a Linux machine, and play the same game on them all — via Slashdot
Laws are made to be broken. Or so the National Aeronautics and Space Administration seems to think. After an almost two-year wait, the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, is poised to take delivery of a machine that proponents hope will counteract the laws of gravity
Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home via optical fibre
Telstra have concluded that a manual solution is the best way to fix the problems faced by more than 1,300 broadband users
Thousands of pages of historically valuable documents that served as the basis for published research concerning intelligence in the early Cold War years have been withdrawn from public access over the past several years, to the dismay of intelligence historians and scholars who found them missing from the National Archives in College Park, Maryland
A recent study suggests that the domestication of dogs mutually led to profound changes in the biological and behavioural evolution of both species
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped in and used new powers to set standard Internet access charges for ISPs
Verisign is sending out deceptive domain registration bills in an attempt to poach business — at a highly inflated price, of course
Florida, a state run by another corrupt shrub, has implemented restrictions on gay parenting. This doesn’t just mean that if you’re gay you can’t adopt, it also means that children in happy, stable homes can be legally removed by the state because of their parents sexuality. Welcome to the land of the free
The New Zealand government now wants network operators and ISPs to ensure they can spy on customers using their services on behalf of police and secret service groups
Use of hand-held technologies, such as mobile phones, GameBoys and computers, has caused a physical mutation in the under-25s, according to new research. The study, carried out in nine cities around the world, shows that the thumbs of the younger generation have overtaken their fingers as the hand’s most muscled and dexterous digit
A single glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behaviour suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk
Scientists warn the melting Arctic ice cap could lead to polar bears becoming extinct. Studies show the decline in the thickness and extent of the ice cap is causing hundreds of bears to die each year. Many of the estimated 25,000 bears spend long periods trapped on land rather than ice, where they find it hard to feed
It’s no surprise to anyone that this year’s best actor and actress Oscars were rebadged prettiest, black American. Denzel Washington is a great actor, but his performance is barely worth a nomination, let alone an award, when compared to his peers competing against him in the category. As for adorable Halle Berry, her acting is best done with her mouth firmly shut, handing her an acting award is as ludicrous as handing one to Meg Ryan. This is supposed to be an award for outstanding talent, it is neither a politically correct campaign tool or the you’re-nearly-dead-have-an-Oscar award that Henry Fonda received for On Golden Pond. Unfortunately, the Oscars have been a laughable award for so many years that no one will raise an eyebrow. Just seems a shame that Wil Smith was apparently deemed not poster boy cute enough to have beaten Washington to an award that he had out-acted him for
If you think the crashing telecommunications industry is in chaos now, just wait until it all flips around and the world is choking on Web traffic and too many phone calls squeezing through too few fibre-optic lines. It will happen sooner than conventional wisdom dictates
When Channel Islands National Park officials needed an estimated about 300 rats exterminated on the east side of environmentally sensitive Anacapa Island, Aspen Ag Helicopters got the call. The kill was necessary because the rodents, descendants of rats that reached the island by way of a shipwreck a century or more ago, were decimating the populations of two rare seabirds. And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job — via Slashdot
AOL is the world’s most successful ISP — except, apparently, in its own house. Among the problems cited: The e-mail software frequently crashed, staffers weren’t able to send messages with large attachments, they were often kicked offline without warning, and if they tried to send messages to large groups of users they were labelled as spammers and locked out of the system. Sometimes, e-mails were just plain lost in the AOL etherworld and never found. And if there was an out-of-office reply function, most people couldn’t find it
Sydney’s bats can’t take a hint — you’d think the smell of python excrement would send them packing, but no. Smearing branches with chilli and shrimp paste didn’t work either
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