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11th March 2012 Archive

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  • Walking through MIME fields: Snubbing Steve Jobs to Star Trek tech

    Interview Email daddy Borenstein talks rejection and attachments

    Dr Nathaniel Borenstein didn't just reject Steve Jobs once - Borenstein twice defied the man accorded god-like status for conquering whole industries and cowing hardened executives into kneeling before him. Borenstein is the inventor of modern email, or more specifically he created the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension ( …

    Developer 11 Mar 10:01

  • ANZ bid for super telescope down to the wire

    SKA decision public on April 4

    The West Australian government has refused to give up on its ambitions to host the world’s largest radio telescope, the the Square Kilometre Array, despite a scientific panel’s reported recommendation that the bid go to the rival South African consortium. The €1.5 billion construction project is slated to start as early as …

    Space 11 Mar 21:33

  • iiNet turns brand into global domain

    $US200k starter bid for GTLD

    ISP iiNet is pursuing the costly application process for a coveted new generic top-level domain (gTLD), for the .iiNet moniker. Under the procedure applicants invest an initial fee of around $US200,000 for the pleasure, which includes a non-refundable evaluation fee of $US185,000 and $US5,000 deposit fee per requested …

    Business 11 Mar 21:45

  • US withdraws IANA RFP, ‘no suitable responses’

    ICANN manages to lose a one-horse race

    The Internet’s rent-seeking domain name toll-collector ICANN is red-faced following the cancellation of an IANA (Internet Assigned Names and Numbers) RFP from the Department of Commerce. The RFP (request for proposals) cancellation, reported on CircleID, happened because, according to the National Telecommunications and …

    Government 11 Mar 22:00

  • The challenges of hot rocks and big data

    Interview: NICTA CEO, Hugh Durrant-Whyte

    Of all the alternative energy proposals suggested for Australia, geothermal is probably the least-understood in the public mind. Australia’s problem is this: most places that adopt geothermal power do so because the heat is right there at the surface. Australia’s “hot rocks”, on the other hand, are a long way underground. To …

    Science 11 Mar 23:00

  • Greenland melt threshold lower than thought

    Ice could disappear with half as much warming: study

    Spanish and German scientists have have alarmed the international environmental community with modeling suggesting that Greenland’s ice sheets could disappear at lower temperatures than previously thought. The study was conducted by Spain’s Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research …

    Energy 11 Mar 23:30