Microsoft has announced that its final update of the current beta Internet Explorer 8 browser will be released in next year’s first quarter — after which it will launch the final release
An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers
BT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its WebWise
targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February
Foxtel has expanded its online Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to fourteen days in advance. The online EPG has the full 14 days, along with some extra search functions. For its 450,000 iQ and iQ2 subscribers it means extra use of the Remote Record function
McColo, a network provider that was yanked offline following reports it enabled more than half the world’s spam, briefly returned from the dead over the weekend so it could hand-off command and control channels to a new source. The rogue network provider regained connectivity for about 12 hours on Saturday by making use of a backup arrangement it had with Swedish internet service provider TeliaSonera. During that time, McColo was observed pushing as much as 15MB of data per second to servers located in Russia, according to Paul Ferguson, a security researcher for anti-virus software maker Trend Micro
NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet,
said Adrian Hooke, team lead and manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards at NASA Headquarters in Washington
The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download pirated movies and TV shows. The action against iiNet was filed in the Federal Court today by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network. Mark White, iiNet’s chief operating officer, said the company did not support piracy in any form but it could not disconnect customers just because the movie industry claimed they engaged in illegal downloading
The Sci Fi Channel has its second birthday on 1 December and will celebrate by switching from 4:3 to 16:9 ratio across the channel. Around half the shows on the channel will be broadcast in true 16:9 detail. Those programmes that are only available in 4:3 will be pillar-boxed with black stripes down the side
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you’ll see in Google Image Search today. Google have announced the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This collection of newly-digitised images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s
Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma jet
. This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts
High Definition Content Protection (HDCP) — you can’t live with it, but you practically can’t buy an HD-capable device anymore without it. While HDCP is typically used in devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, HDMI-enabled notebooks, and even the Apple TV in order to keep DRMed content encrypted between points A and B, it appears that Apple’s new aluminum MacBook (and presumably the MacBook Pro) are using it to protect iTunes Store media as well
Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, will step down from his role as soon as the board finds a replacement for the internet company
Axia Netmedia has put down in black and white its intention to lodge a bid for the government’s $4.7 billion national broadband network. Although it was believed to have paid the $5 million bond and had put together a regulatory submission on the network, until now there was no certainty around whether the Canadian company actually intended on bidding
Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for just £80, according to an online safety group. The details packaged and sold online include names, addresses, passport numbers and confidential financial data such as credit card numbers. With six out of 10 people now managing finances online, experts say the public needs to do more to prevent e-crime
The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong
Materials under development at MIT could lead to coatings that repel both water and oil. A group of MIT researchers have created an improved set of design rules for making any surface impervious to any liquid, be it water or gasoline. Such materials could eventually have promise as fingerprint-repelling coatings, fuel filters, self-washing car paints, and stain-resistant clothing
A relatively new approach to data centre cooling known as a heat wheel is gaining momentum, and likely to gain a higher profile from an upcoming demonstration of the technology. The heat wheel — also known as a rotary heat exchanger or Kyoto Cooling — is a refinement of existing approaches that take advantage of outside air to improve cooling efficiency and reduce data centre power bills
Duke University has joined the growing list of schools balking at following Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA sue ’em all instructions. Put up or shut up, Duke University for VP for student affairs Larry Moneta (right) has told Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA, in effect. And the same goes for Hollywood’s MPAA
Obviously, there were no satellites to snap pictures of Rome two millennia ago. But that hasn’t stopped experts from giving Web surfers a bird’s eye view of the ancient city. Google Earth has added to its software a 3-D simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum and the Circus Maximus. The program, which gives users access to maps and global satellite imagery, now hosts a new layer that allows surfers to see how Rome might have looked in AD 320, a bustling city of about 1 million people under Emperor Constantine
Plastic Logic, a spin-off company from the Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, has recently released its design of a future electronic newspaper reader. This lightweight plastic screen copies the appearance, but not the feel, of a printed newspaper. This electronic paper technology was pioneered by the E-Ink Corporation and is used in the current generation Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle. Plastic Logic’s device, yet to be named, has a highly legible black-and-white display and a screen more than twice as large compared to current versions available on the market
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