An article by Penny Brown from Australian IT, ‘Where have all the telco’s gone?’ ::: http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage

Westpac shuts down internet banking ::: http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage

The annual Australian International Movie Convention is being held in Queensland from August 14-18th, 2001 culminating industry delegates from Australia, New Zealnd, USA, Asia and Europe to discuss the latest trends and developments in the film industry. ::: www.movieconvention.com.au

The PROMAX & BDA Asia 2001 Awards close on the 12 November 2001 and is open for entries part of a promotion or marketing campaign. The competition is open to all in the Asia region excluding Japan, Australia and New Zealand. ::: www.bda.tv/asia/awards.asp

A look at the Cray SV1. The world’s fastest supercomputer. ::: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech

Discovery arrives at ISS. A look at the new mission, as Expedition2 crew members, Yury Usachev, Susan Helms and Jim Voss welcome the Expedition3 and Space Shuttle Discovery onboard the International Space Station at 20:41 GMT Sunday. Discovery docked to the station at 18:32 GMT Sunday. ::: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech and http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle

Design Is Kinky has updated their profiles section which includes new profile of Amy Franceschini from Future Farmers ::: www.designiskinky.net

Here is the Macromedia Director 8.5 Support Centre website. It contains all Director technotes, forums, and lingo syntax library

www.macromedia.com/support/director

3D Studio Max 4.2 has been released by Discreet as a free upgrade for 3ds max 4.x users. The update includes many bugs fixes, new help files, new sdk files, and new tutorial files. It is a 52 MB download for the main update and the smaller files range from 3 MB to 23 MB. ::: ftp://ftp.discreet.com/web/support/3dstudio/3dsmax_42_update.htm and www.maxusers.com