Telstra was held accountable for last month’s rigging of ZDNet Australia’s online survey at Senate Estimates this week, with the opposition calling for the nation’s incumbent carrier to apologise where it has so far failed to do so. And in other Telstra news, the telco has apologised for its treatment of a seriously ill customer in Melbourne, whose mother claims she was told the telco had an unofficial policy to cancel the contracts of seriously ill people, to avoid chasing money from the deceased estates
Astronauts on board the International Space Station could soon spend their spare time learning the elaborate rituals of the Japanese tea ceremony. Officials at Japan’s National Space Development Agency are planning to include a 13 square foot tea-room in Japan’s section of the ISS, possibly in the Kibo laboratory module, scheduled for launch in 2004
The Pentagon is embroiled in an internal debate over the propaganda component of the war on terror
Dogs with cameras mounted on their heads are to be used to help police search collapsed buildings and find missing people. In an Australia-first initiative by Victoria Police, dog cams will be used to aid police in situations too difficult or risky for humans
NSW Premier Bob Carr today ruled out plans to set up a series of cannabis cafes around the state, citing growing evidence of its negative health effects
Australian small businesses are being targeted in the latest software piracy crackdown, with companies which don’t get the message under the threat of court action
The Federal Government is to examine the effectiveness of anti-spam counter measures, but the Federal Opposition has lashed out, claiming it has come too late. While consumers may soon gain greater protection from SMS spam, if a new code from industry body Australian Communications Industry Forum is approved
A Sydney man has been arrested for hacking into a database of Australia’s second largest telecommunications carrier, Optus
Telstra has to given its Easymail customers a reprieve, opting to maintain the no-frills platform until May and provide them with an e-mail-forwarding service for 12 months after it is dismantled
Kenyan game wardens have separated a baby oryx from a lioness that had adopted it to stop the antelope from starving to death
Car seats that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your health, socks that let you know when you are about to do a tendon, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you are dying of exposure — that’s what an eclectic mix of researchers spent last Friday discussing as part of an Electronic Textiles workshop in Geelong
Five market traders — the so-called metric martyrs — have lost their High Court battle for the legal right to trade in pounds and ounces. Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice Crane, rejected their claim that domestic law provided a loophole which meant European Union directives does not apply in England and Wales
Scientists fear they could soon have to ask official permission to publish research papers as the UK Government drafts laws that give it the power to vet their work
A federal judge late Friday told Microsoft it must disclose portions of the Windows source code, including XP and XP Embedded, to nine litigating states and the District of Columbia
Chisholm Institute’s ZOOM Eagle, an electric car built by mechanical engineering students, is undeniably cute. Its designer, teacher Don Elliott, looks on the diminutive, three-wheeled, one-seater, carbon-fibre bubble with pride and great expectation. One day soon, he says, everyone will drive cars like this
The Howard Government’s credibility on the children-overboard affair suffered a further blow last night when it was forced to admit receiving photographs during the election campaign which contradicted its version of events
Sad news for Xena fans at the passing of New Zealand actor Kevin Smith. He died in a Beijing hospital after being critically injured in a fall
A row has broken out in the United States after Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on the music television network MTV and urged sexually active young people to use condoms to protect themselves against disease. Conservative politicians and right-wing religious groups — the moral moronity — were among those who criticised Mr Powell, describing his remarks as irresponsible
The US Department of Justice has begun releasing some of the 30,000 comments it has received on its proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case. The first batch of 47 submissions are the so-called ‘major’ filings. Most are from large corporations, many of them competitors of Microsoft, plus industry groups and think tanks. Only a handful of this group appeared to support the settlement
A randy, drug-fuelled romp in a New York-bound jet’s rest room sparked a mid-air terror scare that sent a pair of F-16 fighter jets scrambling
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