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Neighbour pleads not guilty in MySpace fake boyfriend suicideA woman pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court to charges in an internet hoax blamed for a 13-year-old girl's suicide.
Forty-nine-year-old Lori Drew stood quietly beside her attorney Monday. She pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorisation to get information used to inflict emotional distress. She is free on bond.
June 17, 2008
MySpace gets global redesignMySpace has announced it is to redesign its site.
In what it said would be the largest scale relaunch of a website of its size, MySpace will change its home page, navigation, profile editing, search, and MySpaceTV player facilities.
June 17, 2008
Japan arrests three over copycat web threatsJapanese police have arrested three people for threatening to commit crimes in messages posted to the internet, apparently imitating a killer who fatally stabbed seven people this month after sending similar messages to a website, according to news reports.
"I'm sick of it all. I'm going to do it too," wrote a 29-year-old on one site, vowing to kill 100 people in a popular Tokyo shopping district, according to reports on major newspaper websites and national broadcaster NHK.
June 17, 2008
$38m research fund to boost creative mindsA paper-thin motor and a device allowing power to be transferred to electric cars without having to plug them in may be the first inventions to benefit from a new $38 million research fund being made available to creative minds at Auckland University.
The university has teamed up with four Australian universities to tap into a transtasman research fund provided by Australian superannuation specialist Westscheme in a bid to help boost early stage commercialisation of intellectual property.
June 17, 2008
Online auction cheat to kicked out of NZAn online auction cheat will be leaving New Zealand soon - after he has paid $9083 back to his six victims.
Youngwu Jin, a young student from Korea doing tertiary studies in Christchurch, will be sent home after admitting charges of accessing a computer system for a dishonest purpose.
June 17, 2008
Trade Me founder in video software dealTrade Me founder Sam Morgan has teamed up with the original angel investors in his auction site to back an Auckland-based film and television production software company with its sights on Asia.
The company, ebus, develops editing software that allows production teams and their clients to access and collaborate on the same piece of video footage at the same time, regardless of their location. The system allows for footage to be sent around the world instantaneously and securely, eliminating the need for tapes or couriers.
June 17, 2008
'Superhacker' tries to stop extraditionA man accused of the "biggest military computer hack of all time" will make a last desperate plea today to try to stop his extradition to the US.
Briton Gary McKinnon, 42, will tell the House of Lords that he is the victim of an oppressive prosecution and has been made the scapegoat for a catastrophic failure in US military security.
June 16, 2008
MP3-killers line up against the king of digital music formatsMuch like the Dvorak keyboard, new digital music formats pose a challenge even as they offer solutions.
The Dvorak is an alternative to the standard QWERTY keyboard that rearranges the keys so that typing on it is much quicker and more efficient. Yet few outside of hardcore computer programmers use it because replacing the existing QWERTY standard would be too costly and difficult. For much the same reasons, alternative digital music formats face an uphill battle replacing the tried-and-true MP3.
June 16, 2008
Manners still matter when you're poking on FacebookShould you reject a friend on MySpace? How do you ward off an old lover on Facebook?
Have no fear. Britain's etiquette bible has come to the rescue for social networkers who are at a loss about how to behave with online decorum.
June 16, 2008
Anthony Doesburg: Way too cool for school? Try virtual learningResearch suggests distance education can outperform traditional classroom study
For a growing number of students, going off to class doesn't mean sitting down at a desk in a schoolroom or lecture theatre. It takes place in the virtual world of Second Life, where school's in at an hour that suits you - and you can fly to class.
June 16, 2008
Play fair, Uefa tells YouTubeUefa, European football's governing body, has attacked file-sharing websites YouTube and Flickr for failing to prevent fans from uploading footage of games.
Alexandre Fourtoy, chief executive of Uefa Media Technologies, compared football's piracy problem to that of the film and music industries, warning that it could harm the game.
June 16, 2008
Bigger definitely not better on the netTwo of NZ's biggest broadband providers are the worst performers, says the Commerce Commission. A report issued yesterday ranked Telecom, Vodafone and smaller company Slingshot the worst performers.
The three companies scored average to below average in tests, including time taken to connect to the internet, download speeds and the time taken to send and receive emails.
June 16, 2008
Facebook etiquette - how to ward off unwanted pokesHave no fear. Britain's etiquette bible has come to the rescue for social networkers who are at a loss about how to behave with online decorum.
Debrett's have helped to compile a new set of "golden rules" for devotees of sites like Facebook and Bebo.
June 15, 2008
Networking online breaks new groundAn entrepreneur is targeting his new website to impact Kiwi business networking as Facebook has social networking.
"It's Facebook for professionals," says West Australian John Wall, founder of recently launched www.howgood.co.nz.
June 15, 2008
NYSE to sell market data to websitesThe New York Stock Exchange, a unit of NYSE Euronext, has asked the U.S. Securities Exchanges Commission for permission to start selling real-time market data to media and Internet organizations. Photo / Reuters
NYSE plans to launch the new product, called NYSE Realtime Reference Prices, on July 1 for a four-month pilot, contingent on SEC approval of the trial project.
June 13, 2008
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