A consortium led by the CSIRO is designing a super-speed Internet for Australia to service high-end users in medicine and the film industry. It has received AU$14 million from the Australian Government to establish a Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy
Web site Jump The Shark tries to pinpoint that defining moment when hit TV shows overreach, when a new character, guest star or plot device signals a loss of innocence — for me it was the incredibly lame Scrappy Doo
Telstra has won another domain name dispute, wresting control of the telsra.com domain from a Melbourne typosquatter
The EMI music group today signed with Roxio to add copy protection to its CD-authoring software, thus stopping people from copying illegal MP3 files onto blank CDs. There must be a lot of it going around — 5 billion blank discs will be sold in the US this year
It used to be the stuff of locker rooms, bathroom walls and little black books, but sexual gossip among teenagers has been showing up lately in what some educators and others call a disturbingly powerful forum: Internet sites
Fans of the X-Men may not realise that the character Kitty Pryde was named after a real person that was a fellow student with John Byrne at art school in Calgary. And it gave the real Kitty Pryde, an artist, some difficulty in being taken seriously
Researchers in Australia and England are working on developing materials from plants like hemp and elephant grass to replace plastic and metal-based car components. Scientists say the materials are biodegradable and can increase fuel efficiency since they weigh about 30 percent less than currently used materials
Half the Earth’s people now live in cities, and the existing administration structures can’t cope, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements warned today during the launch of its first report on The State of the World’s Cities. The report was released two days before a special session of the UN General Assembly to appraise progress in building sustainable settlements and providing adequate shelter for all
Microsoft and America Online are negotiating a range of licensing and legal issues so contentious that the two sides disagreed over the weekend whether they were even still talking
Seems David Manning, the reviewer from the Ridgefield Press, is not another Ebert after all, but a character created to pump up Sony movies by the studio’s marketing machine. Sony studio executives are shocked after learning that Manning is a fake
The air pollution from cutting grass for an hour with a gasoline-powered lawn mower is about the same as that from a 100-mile automobile ride, according to a new study from Sweden, which recommends using catalytic converters on mowers. The report is the first to compare lawn mower pollution with auto mileage, according to the researchers
Many Californians are enduring pricey electric bills and rolling power outages during the current energy crunch. But some residents have avoided such headaches by getting themselves off the electrical grid and on alternative energy
Tristan Kading, a 15-year-old vegetarian and seasoned protester, saw the necessity to speak his conscience when McDonald’s showed up at his school recently looking for summer employees for its restaurants. Administrators at Stonington High School instead saw a disrespectful and disruptive student unwilling to co-operate in a special assembly on job interview skills that the McDonald’s Corporation had agreed to host — they forced him to read an apology to the entire school
The next time a serious press seminar is held on just why so many readers are so sceptical, so disbelieving and so hostile about who we in the press are and what we write, I have an answer: the Nationally Circulated Hoax in the mainstream press that Clinton staffers had vandalised the White House and Air Force One
A black bear with a sweet tooth has three times smashed down the doors of a small bakery in rural Ontario to satisfy his craving for cakes and doughnuts
A Swedish scientist investigating the most environmentally friendly form of burial has found a way of quickly recycling corpses into soil enricher
A simulation that helped lead an independent inquiry to conclude that FBI agents did not fire their guns in their siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco eight years ago never tested the type of assault rifle that the agents had there, an official who helped run the test says
Nepal’s new regent has tried to pass off the slaying of almost the entire royal family as a bizarre accident
, as public discontent grows over sanitised official versions of the tragedy
Gay and lesbian Catholics were denied Holy Communion at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in their annual action for church recognition on Pentecost Sunday
A Microsoft executive’s recent quip about the purportedly un-American characteristics of non-proprietary software did more than send open-source fans into a tizzy. It also sent companies supporting the Linux operating system a clear signal: You’ve become important enough for Microsoft to attack directly
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