A new luxury fibre industry could soon open up in Australia using fibres not from sheep but from rabbits. CSIRO’s Livestock Industries is investigating the establishment of a potential new angora rabbit industry in Australia
The drive to improve the lives of laboratory animals is having an unforeseen effect. Enriching the living conditions of rats, mice and other animals changes both their behaviour and their physiology, new studies show. This will have an increasingly important effect on the outcome of scientific experiments, including drugs trial
Britain’s hemp producers feel that after years of battling bureaucracy they may finally be on the brink of a boom — and can count Queen Elizabeth II among their customers
A former Optus employee and alleged hacker, bailed to appear before a Sydney court today, has told ZDNet Australia that he will not be making an appearance. He claims the idea that he hacked into an Optus database is a beat-up story aimed at scaring him away from an earlier claim of unfair dismissal against the carrier — the outcome of which is still pending
Delegates to China’s parliament are reproaching Western Internet administrators for blocking e-mails from China in a growing fight over the cross-Pacific flow of junk e-mail. Academics among the 2,987 provincial deputies attending the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress also called for laws punishing the distribution of junk e-mail, or spam
Disease-causing microbes can effectively be eliminated from recycled water by storing it underground, new research by CSIRO scientists has found
Science fiction fans know that many seemingly impossible technologies materialise years later — mobile phones, personal computers and of course, human spaceflight, being three examples. However this may not to be the case for warp drive, the idea of travelling through space faster than the speed of light
UK Government plans to archive all internet traffic and e-mail has been singled out for a controversial award at this year’s Big Brother Award ceremony
The Federal Minister for Communications and Information Technology, troglodyte Richard Alston, used his key note address at the opening of ATUG’s 2002 conference to describe those concerned that Australia is falling behind in broadband take up as baying dogs
Microsoft, whose Xbox game machine debuted in Japan 10 days ago, has said that several Xbox users had reported that the console was scratching game discs, but there was no need to recall the hardware or software
Both Windows XP and Windows 2000 will be rendered inoperable, and Microsoft will be unable to develop future new operating systems, if it is forced to separate IE from the operating system, according to court filings the company made on Friday. The US States still fighting Microsoft argue, on the contrary, that separation of this and other matters now ‘integrated’ into the OS is both feasible and necessary
Australia’s 1.5 million pay TV subscribers will have access to more channels under a landmark agreement struck yesterday between rivals Foxtel and Optus to share their content
The Nokia 8210 mobile phone has become a source of embarrassment for the Finnish manufacturer at WCIT 2002. When Nokia’s chief technical officer, Yjro Neuvo, was confronted with allegations that some of Nokia’s handsets carry inherent design faults during a press conference at the event this morning, he repeatedly said that he was unaware of the of the controversy surrounding phones
Joining Internode in the troubled residential broadband market, Pacific Internet‘s big selling point, flexibility, is based on users’ ability to customise their own plan, and the option of not having a contract
An electronic version of the Domesday Book compiled in 1986 is now unreadable. The computers needed to read the discs of the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project are now obsolete. While the original Domesday Book compiled in 1086 is in fine condition in the Public Record Office, Kew
Lawyers who squared off in a trademark dispute between the operators of a tourism portal and Barcelona, Spain, disagree on whether a US District Court judge made the right call this month when he awarded the Internet address Barcelona.com to the city. But they agree that the judge broke new ground in US anti-cybersquatting law
The United States will this week choose a private contractor to develop the technology that will replace soldiers with robots on the battlefields of the future. The new battle network, known as Future Combat Systems, will enable sophisticated weapons to be deployed close to enemy lines with a minimum risk of casualties
Operating system maker Be has filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant’s anti-competitive practices stunted the growth of the Be operating system
AOL’s sales tactics have landed it in federal court, where it stands accused of billing customers for unordered merchandise hawked in aggressive pop-up advertisements on its Internet service
From the fun-things-to-do-with-magnets department comes the Home-made Gauss Rifle. It requires a wooden ruler with a groove down the middle to serve as the rail, steel balls that can roll down the groove to use as projectiles, and magnets to store and redirect energy
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