A defiant Froggy has hit back at OzEmail and iPrimus campaigns to lure the pint-size ISP’s customer base, filing complaints with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Department of Fair Trading
Colins the stowaway cat was finally reunited with her New Zealand master, 18 days after she took a catnap on a South Korea-bound tanker that took to sea
The Jaragua Sphaero or dwarf gecko measures just 16mm in length. The species lives in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic and on Beata Island, off the southern coast of Hispaniola, the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Mail Server hiccups causing a temporary delay in outgoing mail for some OzEmail customers are currently under investigation, and thought to be linked to a sudden surge in traffic thanks to the Bad Trans virus
An Australian deckhand was electrocuted while thumbing the controller of a Sony PlayStation when a wave smashed into the boat’s wheelhouse
A Canberra primary school banned a teacher after she told a class of six year olds that Santa Claus does not exist
Italian archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s best-preserved prehistoric villages, a Bronze Age Pompeii that was buried in volcanic ash near the world-famous Roman city almost 4,000 years ago
The guessing game over Ginger has come to an end as Dean Kamen unveils his engineering marvel under its official name: Segway. Developed at a cost of more than $100 million, Kamen’s vehicle is a complex bundle of hardware and software that mimics the human body’s ability to maintain its balance. Not only does it have no brakes, it also has no engine, no throttle, no gearshift and no steering wheel. And it can carry the average rider for a full day, non-stop, on only five cents’ worth of electricity
Telstra will evade penalties exceeding AU$10 million despite not complying with all of the competition watchdog’s demands by the 30 November deadline
A new study of the Martian atmosphere has added strength to a popular theory of why there is so much carbon dioxide in the red planet’s air. Researchers have detected hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere, which had been predicted but not found for decades
Windows XP helps itself to 20% of your bandwidth, a useful tip at TweakXP reveals. But although this sounds like the sort of thing that could easily fuel paranoia, it’s more just a case of sloppy and wasteful configuration
Mojo Partners is being sued by the Business Software Association of Australia members for alleged copyright infringement in relation to Adobe and Microsoft software
Microsoft offered Germany’s parliament and Interior Ministry access to the source code for its Windows operating system to counter concern that data could be diverted to the CIA
An instrument that allows fast, non-destructive wood testing has won its developers the CSIRO Chairman’s gold Medal for the year 2001. SilviScan allows the rapid analysis of wood samples to determine the optimum and most valuable end use of the wood without destroying trees. It can predict paper properties, or the strength of sawn timber from tree structure
Scientists are recommending a slash and burn method to replenish the world’s mahogany trees. Researchers in Indonesia claim planting seedlings in slash and burn fields imitates what happens in nature when a fire follows a hurricane and is better than other ways used by forestry experts to re-establish mahogany trees
Stung by media reports on the dire conditions in Kabul’s ruined zoo, keepers around the world launched a fund drive to support what is left of the animal park in Afghanistan’s battered capital
Camouflage make-up that can protect troops from the heat of explosions is being developed by British defence researchers. Wearing the cream could mean the difference between a severe burn that needs a skin graft and a far less serious injury
A new system combining a mobile phone and a cryptographic technique will soon allow you to get the name of any music track you hear on the radio — perfect if the DJ babbles on afterwards without naming the tune
Tiny tubes of carbon may conduct electricity without any resistance, at temperatures stretching up past the boiling point of water. The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature
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