The Sidney Morning Herald reports that “Internet security provider Marshal has released the findings of its latest Threat Research and Content Engineering report for the second half of 2007, which found that the total volume of spam increased by more than 50 per cent. Spam promoting pharmaceuticals, such as weight [...]
The Sidney Morning Herald reveals that “Canada has joined China and Russia on the US software, music and movie industries' annual list of countries with the worst record of fighting piracy of copyright goods. ‘While there has been a few positive developments in these key markets over the year, the [...]
The Guardian writes that “[t]he founders of 20 of the UK's most promising internet start-ups are to be invited to Silicon Valley in April as part of a joint UK government and technology industry initiative to support upcoming entrepreneurs. Web Mission 2008 aims to encourage partnerships between UK web talent [...]
The Economist blog today has a great post on the benefits of global free trade. The post lauds European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson for his tireless fight for liberalism and openness, pointing out that most European “free market liberals are so scared of being thought mean or uncaring that [...]
According to the Sidney Morning Herald, “[a] British travel company has paid $US1.1 million ($A1.2m) for the domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively $1 million just for the letter ‘S’ since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk. The sum shatters the previous record for a .co.uk domain of [...]
