If you’ve ever wondered if UFOs exist, UFO Earth Contact is a new site that will try and sway your beliefs that something is out there
Some domestic companies are apparently considering filing lawsuits against Chinese firms selling DVD players without paying patent licensing fees on technology developed in Japan
A team of Egyptologists from Sydney’s Macquarie University is the toast of the archaeological world after making significant new finds in an ancient burial ground on the outskirts of Cairo. The Australian team, led by Dr Christiana Kohler, has uncovered more than 20 tombs from Egypt’s archaic period, the First Dynasty
Telstra has confessed that a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether the telco’s Internet service provides value for money was rigged by someone within its ranks, just days after its ramped up Net access toll fell under the investigation of the competition watchdog for possible breaches of the Trade Practices Act
California’s attorney general sued Squaw Valley USA on Thursday, demanding that the popular ski resort comply with environmental laws aimed at protecting the Sierra Nevada ecosystem
He survived a king, a coup, Soviet occupation, communist rule, internecine mujahideen battles, the Taliban and a US bombing campaign. But on Saturday, Marjan, the only lion in Afghanistan died of old age in Kabul Zoo
Marijuana advocates Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm sensed the government was out to get them. And then they were dead
Change wireless carriers and your cellular telephone number disappears. Must it be that way? No, says the FCC, and it has given wireless companies until November to let customers take numbers with them when they switch carriers. But the major carriers are balking — much the same as Telstra did before the ACCC rapped them over the knuckles and forced the issue of mobile number portability for the Australian market
Imagine receiving a new e-mail from an old friend that begins, By the time you read this, I will have passed on
. It could happen, as a result of a new internet service called TimelessMail.com. Through this new service, subscribers create and store e-mail messages containing their final adieu to friends and family. After a subscriber has bought the farm, his or her messages are forwarded to the intended recipients following a verification of Social Security Administration death records
Maybe you think NASA should send a probe to Pluto. Or perhaps you think the space agency should invest more in asteroid research to save our planet. Whatever your pet space project, you’ve got until the end of the month to speak your mind
Even die hard Telstra business customers have had enough of more than a week’s worth of ADSL woes in Victoria, which has seen the delivery of an emaciated service, including a seven-hour outage, the shock waves from which are still being felt
Sony has said that 900,000 of its Vaio personal computers, are vulnerable to data security breaches, although the problem could be fixed with a software patch
Telstra has dismissed Federal Opposition claims that it’s secretly planning to outsource its maintenance and services division, shedding up to 10,000 staff in the process, describing the claims as mischievous
Yahoo plans to unveil a pay-per-view search product this week, the latest in a string of premium services aimed at offsetting a sharp decline in its online advertising
The file-swapping heir to the pirate Napster web site, KaZaA, which amassed 30 million followers after Napster was shut down by the courts, has been sold to a Sydney company after being itself threatened with legal action in Europe
Harassing wallabies could be the next big thing in Australia, not as a hobby for mindless thugs, but in order to protecting the species. By showing tammar wallabies a stuffed fox and then chasing them with a net, biologists have taught captive-bred tammars to be more afraid of the predators that helped make them extinct across much of mainland Australia
In the 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram claimed that anyone on the planet could be linked to anyone else by a chain of only six other people — the famous six degrees of separation. Now, Columbia University is recruiting thousands of volunteers to test that theory
Once every 100 minutes, a bargain-basement satellite built from off-the-shelf parts loops around the earth, sending and receiving digital messages over antennae made from a metal tape measure. After four months in space, the US Naval Academy’s bird is proving surprisingly resilient
One of the Howard Government’s most senior advisers on immigration resigned in disgust at the Government’s treatment of asylum seekers.
Neville Roach, appointed by the Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, to chair the Council for Multicultural Australia, said compassion seem[ed] to have been thrown out the door
Security researchers in Holland have found a way to crash some Nokia mobile phones using a malformed text message
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