The Australian Communications and Media Authority has
announced that it recently executed a search warrant on a residential premises in relation to an allegation that an Australian resident was sending billions of unsolicited commercial electronic messages.

Siliconvalley.com says that the investigation relates to the sending of more than 2 billion junk e-mails in one year to promote Viagra.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority began investigating the man, whose identity was not immediately released, after receiving a tip from Dutch authorities last year.

55 Ways to Have Fun with Google (pdf): from Egogoogling to Googledromes

My interests of technology, people and processes have converged in a web seminar on online financial services on 14 March.

Financial service providers have been wrestling for years with the management of large scale IT projects across their whole organisation which will bring the cost reductions and company benefits that the software providers and consultants have promised. In some cases, banks have scrapped projects and written off hundreds of millions of dollars.

Add to that problem the difficulty of managing the IT aspects of regular changes to the law, consumers who are worried about security and new competitors who have taken a fresh look at the industry and come up with low-cost solutions and you have an industry that is going through a lot of competition and change.

Is there a theory of singularity that can provide a solution?

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has called for public submissions as part
of a review of the Spam Act 2003.

Feedback received will contribute to a report to
be tabled in Parliament in 2006.

Industry and members of the public are invited to make submissions to the Spam Act 2003 review by Wednesday 1 February 2006.

An issues paper is available