Two privacy organisations are slated to unveil Trusted Sender, a new e-mail certification program, Thursday designed to quash Spam by bringing consumer trust to commercial e-mail
Fears are growing once more that companies operating on the internet may not be equipped to ward off electronic sabotage after anonymous hackers forced a small British firm out of business
Innovative precision lenses, designed and built in Australia for focusing beams of high-energy ions, form the core of a new breed of high-energy ion beam microscope recently commissioned in Melbourne
A man with a partial spinal-cord injury gained impressive walking ability with treadmill training plus an implanted device that stimulates his spinal cord, suggesting the combined therapy might help such patients, researchers report
It may seem like science fiction, but scientists say they have developed a technology that enables a monkey to move a cursor on a computer screen simply by thinking about it
Stephen King, one of the world’s most successful and imitated authors, may finally be putting down his pen. King has no desire to keep on writing for writing’s sake
A year after Rhys Weatherley, Australia’s one-man army, started pounding out code for GNU/Linux’s version of .Net, he’s looking to double the quarter of a million lines of code already written and convince some new code demons to sign up to the cause
Sony will start selling Linux operating system kits for Linux programmers in coming months to allow Linux applications to run on its PlayStation 2 game console
Telstra’s internet price hikes have angered the Queensland Government and may have taken it out of the running for a major Internet service contract in northern Queensland
If a collision with an asteroid is going to finish us off, it will have to be a lot larger than anyone thought, according to a controversial new study of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs
Caught in the act of rigging ZDNet Australia online user surveys last week, Telstra has refused to issue a formal apology, saying it can’t control the actions of its employees
Laws that outlaw men kissing in public and criminalise homosexual behaviour in private homes will be repealed by the Government in a revamp of legislation against sexual offences. Ministers are preparing to announce that the Victorian criminal offence of gross indecency, which singles out gay men and which was used to prosecute Oscar Wilde, will be scrapped. They will also repeal the offence of buggery, as well as the crime of soliciting for an immoral purpose
, which only applies to men
America’s puritanical Attorney-General, John Ashcroft, has had a half-naked statue of the Spirit of Justice covered up because he does not like being photographed in front of its exposed right breast
Australia’s security and investment watchdog is claiming a world first in ordering an individual who is not a licensed investment adviser to stop providing investment advice via internet chat rooms
A rat boutique where researchers can browse for rare breeds and special genetically engineered rodents has opened for scientific shopping
Two years after a complaint against SOCOG’s official Olympic Games web site hit the headlines, Australian businesses still have a long way to go in making their web sites accessible to people with disabilities
The Australian Communications Authority has ruled out the possibility of SMS-based emergency services, despite calls from hearing impaired community groups that such a service be provided by the likes of the police
More cyberattacks originate in the United States than in any other country, but the number of attacks that appear to come from Israel is nearly double that of any other nation based on the number of Internet users
The NSW Labour Council may have a tough time convincing Australian IT workers to carry union cards despite a recent surge of job losses through the industry
Transport Minister Carl Scully admitted using his ministerial car to chauffeur his dog, Belle, from house to house
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