Telstra has refused to respond to rumours within the broadband community that its three-gigabyte data download restriction may be lifted, claiming it hasn’t decided what its future plan will be
At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, industry publishers realise that readers aren’t quite ready to toss that paperback, and look to add new technologies
Police have been called in after a hidden camera was found in a womens’ toilet at Cambridge University. The miniature web-cam device was discovered at the department of experimental psychology
Telecommunications cable network operator Southern Cross Cable Network said there has been a downturn in demand for cable capacity in the wake of 11 September events but that it is well placed versus competitors
Centuries ago it was commonly believed that comets carried disease in their tails. Nowadays we know the only disease
you can get from a comet is a cold — if you stay out too long at night watching it! But these old beliefs were not completely wrong: comet tails do contain an extremely poisonous chemical compound — hydrogen cyanide. Now a team of Dutch and German astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Infrared Space Observatory and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Hawaii have discovered that this poison can help them to understand the birth of massive stars. Its presence is a sign that a massive baby star has begun to warm up
David Dunn of Cleveland has become such a powerful warrior in the Internet fantasy game DragonRealms that others would pay thousands of dollars to assume his character, Bloodwrath. But shortly after the 11 September terrorist attacks, a real-world impostor tried to kill him off and steal his online identity. Except, they didn’t
The hijackers who carried out the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon expressed confusion and surprise Monday to find themselves in the lowest plane of Na’ar, Islam’s Hell
2001 has been a bad year for ISP customers in Australia, who have faced seemingly continuous outages and other service problems. A recent survey reveals the full extent of this situation, as the ISP industry watchdog prepares to bite back
Australian Internet Service Providers are split over the decision to disconnect virus-spreading users that have taken insufficient precautions against malicious attacks
Marriages between first cousins in some migrant groups in Sydney are resulting in high rates of infant deaths and an incidence of serious birth defects nearly three times that in the wider community
Trained to kill, the dolphin Diana has found a new vocation — helping autistic children to break out of their shell. Born 28 years ago, Diana was raised by her Soviet masters to serve as a weapon in the Cold War. Families from Russia, Poland and Turkey have brought their troubled children to this southern Ukrainian port to benefit from the strange psychic qualities displayed by Diana and a dozen or so of her fellow aquatic mammals
The Australian Department of Defence confirmed its internal and external data network had been struck down by the nimda worm
When cartoon detective Dick Tracy first appeared 70 years ago, his wristwatch communicator was pure fantasy. This week IBM and Citizen announced they would recruit dozens of Dick Tracys on Japanese and US university campuses to trial a wristwatch computer early next year
Polaroid, which made cameras that developed photos on the spot, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The US firm has been struggling under a debt mountain for some months, and the announcement had been widely rumoured
They’re neighbours on the periodic table of elements, but carbon and silicon are pretty much strangers in the worlds of physics and technology. Carbon is the main building block of life, while silicon is the foundation for semiconductors. But several promising research efforts are under way to combine the two realms, using organic polymers as material for the production of microelectronics, including transistors and displays.
Inflatable loudspeakers light enough for anyone to shift could mean rock stars’ roadies have had their day. Loudspeakers come in heavy, cumbersome boxes that provide an air enclosure to absorb unwanted vibration and give a fuller sound. But now two companies, SoundTube Entertainment of Park City, Utah, and Ellula Sounds of Loughborough in Leicestershire, UK, reckon an inflatable box will do the job
A woman has stunned the medical world by conceiving triplets while already 10 weeks pregnant. She is due to give birth to the boy later this month and deliver the other three babies early in the New Year
Telstra BigPond customers were unable to send large attachments since all day Wednesday following another system glitch
Administrators of the troubled Australian etailer E-Store have revealed the company’s debt to a pool of 80-odd creditors amounts to about AU$2 million — the bastards still owe me a copy of Metal Gear Solid
StarOffice has the interface familiarity and file format compatibility that will enable it to peacefully coexist with Microsoft Office. And its cross-platform support and ingenious use of XML will pay dividends in future, more wide-scale deployments
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