Internet Attack, Recycling, PlayStation 2 & Sharp
According to officials at key online backbone organisations, starting late Monday the heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever. Had it lasted longer, could have taken the Internet down.
With customers methodically switching mobile services and upgrading to newer models, discarded mobile phones are hitting incinerators and landfills in record numbers, contaminating the environment. But now users have the option of donating unwanted phones to non profit groups, developing nations, or for recycling the components in environmentally safe ways.
A world first scheme to underwrite the cost of PlayStation 2 development kits for local developers will boost Australia's games development industry. Meanwhile Microsoft intends Xbox to be a closed system and to stay that way, and will use both technical and legal avenues to protect it.
Sharp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. It uses Sharp's continuous grain silicon technology and should be used on some products in 2005.
With customers methodically switching mobile services and upgrading to newer models, discarded mobile phones are hitting incinerators and landfills in record numbers, contaminating the environment. But now users have the option of donating unwanted phones to non profit groups, developing nations, or for recycling the components in environmentally safe ways.
A world first scheme to underwrite the cost of PlayStation 2 development kits for local developers will boost Australia's games development industry. Meanwhile Microsoft intends Xbox to be a closed system and to stay that way, and will use both technical and legal avenues to protect it.
Sharp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. It uses Sharp's continuous grain silicon technology and should be used on some products in 2005.