Toward the end of last year, a hosting provider involved in sending 75% of spam emails
Microsoft has announced that it plans to shut down its Encarta encyclopedia web sites by October and dump its CD-based…
Telstra-owned BigPond is Australia’s largest ISP, which means that its glitches tend to affect more people than anyone else. Suzanne…
Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that…
Good news for sporting types planning on hitting a few events at the Melbourne Cricket Ground: the MCG is now…
There are plenty of sites that will let you check the weather, but the domain ‘thef**ingweather.com’ is one you’re unlikely…
YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred US…
Long, rambling emails certainly have their place among friends, but wouldn’t it be nice if there was some sort of…
Netbooks are an obvious candidate for mobile broadband, but often require a little tweaking before you can get them to…
Web site Academic Earth is like Hulu for academic lectures, pulling free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and…
Further details on the Internode/Tivo unmetered downloads arrangement, which we first reported on
Linux only: It will only ever truly support Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk, but Synapse, a new alpha-level IM app, is a pretty—and…
Political campaigns utilising online media have proved relatively effective in recent years, so NSW motorists’ organisation the NRMA is jumping…
Between Flickr, Facebook and any number of blogging platforms, it’s not hard to get your life story out there —…
Useful news for expats craving some Aussie TV culture: Channel Ten seems to have bucked the trend of making its…
Do you want to be sure that your final messages and missives are heard? Death Switch is a service which…
Apple announced an iPhone event today where they’ll be giving “a sneak peek at the iPhone OS 3.0 software.” Gizmodo…
Windows/Mac/Linux: Previously mentioned Thunderbird extension Send Later rolls some time-saving buttons into a neck-saving extension. Now you can pre-set delays—30…
Author, actor, presenter and brainbox Stephen Fry is a technophile of long standing (reputedly, he was the second ever owner…
It’s not surprising, but it’s interesting to see it backed up by a study: people are no longer bothering to…
Windows/Mac/Linux: Love yourself a little Thunderbird? Mozilla’s desktop email client has released an update for early adopters in the form…
Optus has a sneaky calling card policies and
There’s thousands of kilometres of optical fibre running around Australia, but generally precious little chance of using it for high-speed…
If we had to guess, we’d say that Gmail’s latest Labs feature, putting an unread message count first in the…
According to the BBC, the Official Google Blog, and a handful of upset tipsters, Gmail went offline for roughly two…
Twitter may have acquired search provider Summize back in July 2008, but for most Twitter users there’s still no obvious…
