Any gay British minister taking their male partner to Malaysia would be thrown out of the country, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has warned
Microsoft’s blockage of competing Web browsers from MSN.com has been good news for some plucky rivals: They are experiencing record traffic and downloads, and a leading Internet authority is heaping scorn on the software giant
Google has been quietly testing a new feature that offers snapshots of Web pages alongside ordinary search results
Some people trying to access Microsoft’s MSN.com with a non-Microsoft browser are finding themselves locked out. Although the software leviathan’s Internet Explorer easily reaches MSN, other browsers — such as Opera, Mozilla and some versions of Netscape — run into trouble
The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission
The theft of props from the set of the Harry Potter film is being investigated by police after items were put up for sale on the internet
Opponents of junk e-mail are claiming victory in a high-profile spam case this week, saying recent action in the US Supreme Court effectively grants states the right to rein in spammers in the absence of federal anti-spam laws
Online retailer Amazon.com shaved millions of dollars from its technology costs last quarter by switching to the Linux operating system, a disclosure that could provide some guidance for other companies seeking to cut expenses in a stagnant economy
Case studies presented in this year’s Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman annual report could serve as warning of the potential hazards online banking creates for consumers
The administrator of embattled etailer E-Store, Ian Purchase, has revealed the company is in deliberations with two parties that have expressed interest in assisting it out of debt
Hackers in Hong Kong are routinely breaking Microsoft’s digital media copyright protection system and helping themselves to broadband encrypted content, including games, films and music videos, according to a report in the South China Morning Post
A beer advertising campaign in the American state of Utah has offended members of the Mormon faith. The furore surrounds the promotion of a new beer called Polygamy Porter, after the authorities decided against banning any advertising which played on religious themes
A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate — at least temporarily — the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Charlie Northrup, the chief executive of software developer Global Technologies, holds one of the earliest patents that describe how diverse computer systems can talk to servers connected to the Web and run software on multiple platforms. Sound familiar? That’s just the kind of service Microsoft is pushing with its .Net strategy, a wide-ranging plan for moving business computing applications such as calendars, word processors and e-mail onto the Web
When trouble walked inside a Capitol Hill bank Friday, John Spates didn’t think. He acted. He chased down a robbery suspect and, with dozens of people watching, held onto the woman until police officers arrived
Telstra’s search engine GOeureka is falling behind the times with search information last modified in July this year
A new Backyard Bugs Guide will familiarise young Australians with the insects in their backyard
BitArts Labs, a British company, has claimed that crackers have already circumvented Microsoft’s registration process for Windows XP
Australian scientists, led by Dr Allan Paull from the University of Queensland’s centre for hypersonics, will attempt to fire a rocket at hypersonic speeds this week. If successful their scramjet will be the fastest air breathing engine ever built, capable of pushing aircraft along at more than 10 times the speed of sound
Peter Fromherz and Gunther Zeck, from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, have succeeded in melding together living nerve cells and silicon to create the world’s first neuronal chip
Red and green lights dance in the sky above the North and South poles. The two lights — the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis — appear to be a mirror image of each other. This picture was taken by a spacecraft during a recent space weather storm. It is the first time Northern and Southern Lights brightening at the same time at opposite ends of the Earth have been captured on film
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