Online auction giant eBay has been convicted of selling counterfeit goods and ordered to pay 20,000 euro ($32,497) in damages to French luxury group Hermes, Hermes’ lawyer said.
The ruling, which marks a first in France, found eBay directly responsible for the sale on its website of three Hermes bags including two fakes, for a total of 3000 euro.
“We are satisfied that they should be considered counterfeiters”, said lawyer Emmanuel Colomes, who had been seeking 30,000 euro in damages for complicity in the sale of counterfeit goods.
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This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate (RC2) is a preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is now available for download.
Preview releases are published to collect feedback from Web developers and the testing community before advancing to the next stage in the release process. The final version of Firefox 3 will be released when Mozilla qualify the product as fully ready.
More information about the new features and improvements in Firefox 3 can be found here.
You can download Firefox 3 RC2 by clicking here.
Microsoft said on Tuesday it plans to test-release a feature-complete version of its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser in August.
Microsoft released a first test version of IE 8 in March, providing developers and Web designers a preview of the latest update to the world’s most widely-used browser.
The next test release, IE 8 Beta 2, will be targeted more at ordinary Web users. It will come with all the features that the browser will have when it is officially launched — although it may still contain bugs, since it is a test version.
Microsoft has not set an official release date for IE 8.
Open source advocates will have something to smile about as Internode today launches a high-speed Australian mirror site to SourceForge.net, providing its customers with unmetered access to the the world’s largest Open Source software development website.
SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralised resource for managing projects, issues, communications and code.
By opening a mirror to the development website, Internode has extended the available unmetered downloadable content for its customers to more than 32 terabytes (TB).
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The open source version of AtMail provides you with a lightweight, yet powerful webmail client. The software can be installed on a variety of platforms with ease and without the hassles that most webmail platforms impart.
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- Live Spell Check
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The number of successful attacks on .au domain names has increased over the past 12 months, according to the latest Cyber Hack Update 2008 report from TippingPoint.
The report, released at the AusCERT conference revealed that Australia is second in APAC in terms of the number of successful cyber attacks annually; up one position from last year’s third ranking.
Korea Republic domain names which were previously most attacked in 2006-2007 fell below Australia and are now in third place. China is now leading the pack in APAC with 32,128 successful hacks in 2007-2008.
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Google has pledged to adopt a more open approach with the formula for its hitherto fiercely guarded search algorithms.
Udi Manber, Google’s vice president of engineering, made the announcement on a corporate blog as part of a “renewed effort” to open up the company’s secrets.
Manber claimed that competition and attempts to prevent abuse have been the main reasons for Google’s historic secretive stance.
Google has kept its search ranking formulas a closely guarded secret to make it more difficult for people to “game the system”, he wrote.
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The organisation behind .pro has received approval to make the top-level domain available to users “anywhere in the world”.
On Tuesday, RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the top-level domain (TLD), said it had achieved ICANN approval for its plan to make .pro available to “any professional or professional entity holding credentials from a certifying governmental authority anywhere in the world”.
The TLD has until now only been available to accountants, engineers, lawyers and medical professionals in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US.
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Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers.
The software is called Ono, and has been deployed for the Azureus BitTorrent P2P file-sharing client.
Ono is open source and does not demand the deployment of additional infrastructure. Since it was made freely and publicly available in March 2007, the software has been downloaded by more than 150,000 users.
It joins a range of recently launched applications aimed at addressing the growing conflict between ISPs and P2P traffic. Unlike others like Verizon’s P4P technology, however, Ono operates without the need for cooperation between ISPs and P2P users.
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National broadband IP carrier Internode is set to expand its Naked ADSL2+ offering by converting existing phone services to naked ADSL.
Naked ADSL2+ does not require a dial-tone enabled copper phone line, which means that customers can avoid paying for traditional line rental purely to support an Internet connection.
While a naked line does not support traditional telephony functionality such as faxes and security alarms, Internode hopes their product will appeal to customers in apartments and those who do not wish to take time off work to allow technicians to connect wiring in their homes.
Customers opting to go naked will still be able to make calls as Internode’s ADSL2+ broadband plan includes the NodePhone1 voice-over-broadband phone service.
Jim Kellet, Internode’s product manager, said that demand for the product far exceeded the company’s expectations when it was launched last month. “Our Naked ADSL2+ service is proving extremely popular, with more than 1000 signups since we launched a few weeks ago,†he said.
Naked ADSL2+ is currently available at 350 telephone exchanges across Australia with the conversion taking approximately three weeks. Kellet said that unfortunately for customers without a continuous copper path to the exchange or with a spectrum shared ADSL service rather than unbundled local loop, the naked service will be unavailable because of a lack of transition processes from Telstra.
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While browsing the internet, there are many status messages you may come across. Anyone who has been browsing the internet for longer then 10 minutes is bound to come across one, or even two!
Here is an example of what a 404 status messages looks like:
In Firefox
In Internet Explorer 7
Most status messages will look very similar but provide different information depending on the status/error.
Below is a list along with a brief description of what they all mean.
1xx: Information
100 Continue – Only a part of the request has been received by the server, but as long as it has not been rejected, the client should continue with the request
101 Switching Protocols – The server switches protocol
2xx: Successful
200 OK – The request is OK
201 Created – The request is complete, and a new resource is created.
202 Accepted – The request is accepted for processing, but the processing is not complete.
203 Non-authoritative Information – Request probably completed successfully but can’t tell from original server.
204 No Content – The requested completed successfully but the resource requested is empty (has zero length).
205 Reset Content – The requested completed successfully but the client should clear down any cached information as it may now be invalid.
206 Partial Content – The request was cancelled before it could be fulfilled. Typically the user gave up waiting for data and went to another page. Some download accelerator programs produce this error as they submit multiple requests to download a file at the same time.
3xx: Redirection
300 Multiple Choices – A link list. The user can select a link and go to that location. Maximum five addresses.
301 Moved Permanently – The requested page has moved to a new url.
302 Found – The requested page has moved temporarily to a new url.
303 See Other – The requested page can be found under a different url.
304 Not Modified – The server has identified from the request information that the client’s copy of the information is up-to-date and the requested information does not need to be sent again.
305 Use Proxy – The request must be sent through the indicated proxy server.
306 Unused – This code was used in a previous version. It is no longer used, but the code is reserved.
307 Temporary Redirect – The requested page has moved temporarily to a new url.
4xx: Client Error
400 Bad Request – The server did not understand the request.
401 Unauthorised – The requested page needs a username and a password.
402 Payment Required – You can not use this code yet.
403 Forbidden – Access is forbidden to the requested page.
404 Not Found – The server can not find the requested page.
405 Method Not Allowed – The method specified in the request is not allowed.
406 Not Acceptable – The server can only generate a response that is not accepted by the client.
407 Proxy Authentication Required – You must authenticate with a proxy server before this request can be served.
408 Request Timeout – The request took longer than the server was prepared to wait.
409 Conflict – The request could not be completed because of a conflict.
410 Gone – The requested page is no longer available.
411 Length Required – The “Content-Length” is not defined. The server will not accept the request without it.
412 Precondition Failed – The precondition given in the request evaluated to false by the server.
413 Request Entity Too Large – The server will not accept the request, because the request entity is too large.
414 Request-url Too Long – The server will not accept the request, because the url is too long. Occurs when you convert a “post” request to a “get” request with a long query information.
415 Unsupported Media Type – The server will not accept the request, because the media type is not supported.
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable – The portion of the resource requested is not available or out of range.
417 Expectation Failed – The Expect specifier in the HTTP request header can not be met.
5xx: Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – The request was not completed. The server met an unexpected condition.
501 Not Implemented – The request was not completed. The server did not support the functionality required.
502 Bad Gateway – The request was not completed. The server received an invalid response from the upstream server.
503 Service Unavailable – The request was not completed. The server is temporarily overloading or down.
504 Gateway Timeout – The gateway has timed out.
505 HTTP Version Not Supported – The server does not support the “http protocol” version.
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