Tired of that old, cluttered and really horrible coding on your MySpace page? Well, you may be in luck, as a new design is coming.

The new design is part of a global redesign, in an attempt to widen its demographics and boost user engagement -following Facebook. As well, in what is called the largest scale relaunch of its size, it will change its homepage, navigation, profile editing, search and its MySpaceTV player.

Other changes will come in the summer, but we do not know what they are. The main phase is set for June 18.

Reuters is also reporting that it will be working with Lucene Open-Source engine and community, marking the first time that MySpace will contribute to the open-source community.

From the screenshots we have seen, it looks really well. But we will get our editors’ opinions on it - as James and Stewart really do love MySpace.

eBay Australia has delayed its plans to force its customers to use its PayPal service, after the ACCC rejected its application for immunity.

Its plan to make it mandatory for local sellers to use PayPal or Cash on Delivery (COD) saw many users complaining, and as we reported, 700 people complained to the ACCC. The new plan would see the use of direct deposits, personal cheques and money orders to settle trades on the site.

While PayPal does allow payments by credit cards, you will not be able to transfer that money back to your bank account - as we know of.

Adam Internet customers have been suffering serious technical issues with their ADSL2 connections for almost two days, according to Whirlpool.

The issues began on Wednesday afternoon, with Adam informing its customers that it was impacting many of its exchanges. These have been blamed on its backhaul provider.

The backhaul provider (thought to be ETSA/Silk Telecom) attempted to fix the issues by restarting one of their core networking devices, only to create more havoc and Adam was forced to replace many of its equipment at multiple exchanges.

Internode, a fellow Adelaide based ISP, faced similar problems, but these were fixed within a few hours.

Customers are still experiencing some online packet loss and slow speeds but Adam has told customers it is still working to restore the service.

The ACCC has rejected the plans for immunity from eBay Australia to reduce the payment options to either its PayPal service or Cash on Delivery, arguing that forcing users to use the eBay-owned service will reduce competition.

The ACCC asked the Australian public to give submissions on their thought of eBay’s new plan. It received over 700 individuals submissions, arguing that eBay was ‘double-dipping’ with eBay’s fees on auctions and the PayPal transaction fee.

One of the submissions that was noted by the ACCC was made by BPAY, and showed that eBay would raise its fees by 45.7%. Other submissions noted by the report was from the Australian Payments Clearing Association.

The ACCC’s conclusion state that : "The ACCC considers that the notified conduct has, or is likely to have, the effect of substantially lessening competition in the market in which PayPal operates. The ACCC also considers that the notified conduct is likely to result in reduced choice for consumers, higher transactions costs and reduced innovation in online payment systems. Therefore, the ACCC concludes that the substantial anti-competitive detriments outweigh any public benefits resulting from the notified conduct. Accordingly, the ACCC proposes to issue a notice to revoke notification N93365 lodged by eBay International A.G. on 11 April 2008."

In translation: This means that eBay cannot start its plans for reducing the payment options unless it finds evidence that would exonerate itself before the deadline of the 26th June. Also, if they decide to push ahead with the plans, they would be prosecuted for anticompetitive conduct.

We want to hear on what you think about the plans made by eBay and your thoughts of the ACCC’s response.

NBC Universal’s and News Corporation’s rival Viacom has now seen the light - sort of. Viacom is lending two popular shows on its Comedy Central television channel to the joint venture, which is gaining popularity, and I think it is a major coup, since it only has shows from NBC Universal and News Corporation among the other video content from The Onion and CNET.

Since launching in October 2007, and gone public in March; it has been getting praise, content providers, and traffic. Ars Technica is also boasting that more than 63 million videos have been stream to date.

It has also expanded to Movies, from Sony Pictures, Universal, Warner Bros. and Fox’s movie catalogue.

Competing US networks like ABC and CBS, however, have yet to jump on the bandwagon - likely due to the control and revenue NBC demands for being on Hulu. According to Silicon Ally Insider, CBS has 191 partners who are distributing its content, including on AOL and MSN - the same sites that has to give up 30 percent of its ad revenue to get Hulu content.

While Viacom is giving Hulu a try, its offering consists of 15 episodes from both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. However, Viacom is also launching full episodes for both of them at their respective sites at thedailyshow.com and Comedy Central’s site - and I could actually view it from Australia.

TechCrunch is also saying that PBS will be adding shows to Hulu later this month, including its flagship shows - like NOVA and Wired Science (which got the axe! BOO!)

Now, can you focus on your ‘international expansion’ in Canada and Australia - because frankly, you are worst than Apple on not giving us things.

Microsoft has finally announced a second beta version of its next version of its internet browser, Internet Explorer 8.

IE Beta 2 will target ordinary web users, and will come out will all the features that will be there when the full, completed version is out - though some may contain bugs.

It has also pledged to deliver more updates to versions of Internet Explorer, after the Firefox browser (owned by Mozilla) has been slowly chipping away Microsoft’s share. Mozilla is also testing out a new version of its Firefox browser, Firefox 3.

While Microsoft has the backing of its Windows XP/Vista to support its browser, Mozilla has gain some market share after being affiliated with Google - who provided around 85 percent of revenue to the Mozilla Foundation, according to filings published last October.

No release date has been set for Internet Explorer 8. Its predecessor, Internet Explorer 8, was released in October 2006.

A group in New Mexico wants the state authorities to remove all Wi-Fi hotspots from all public buildings, according to VNUNet. They claim that the technology causes allergic reactions.

The want the Wi-Fi to be removed from libraries and then from all other buildings.

The group claims to be "electro-sensitive" and deserve to be able to live without Wi-Fi and they believe that they are being discriminated against the Americans with Disabilities Act. He also claims that the telecommunications industry has "suppressed damaging evidence about the technology since 1927".

One of the Group’s members is Arthur Firstenberg, who wrote a book titled Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution.

To Me, this sounds stupid. No offense at all, but everyone is wired and this would cause a floodgates of lawsuits by the group to many other buildings who have Wi-Fi. Why should we take down the Wi-Fi for a small minority.

Government officials have dismissed the fears as groundless, but they are checking the legal situation.

aaNet, which is known for its cut-price broadband service, has launched a new set of plans using its parent company EFTel’s new ADSL2+ network.

The plans excel from $24.90/month for 2GB, and $34.90 for 10GB - but that is bundled with other products offered by aaNet. Higher end plans include a 100GB plan (the highest) for $124.90. Whirlpool’s Phi Sweeney also says that it will continue with its unusual system of counting the downloads during its offpeak hours (2AM to 10AM) at 50%.

As well, it will offer a “launch special” plan with 200GB with 50GB onpeak and 150GB offpeak, with bundling, for $69.90. Offpeak times have been reduced to 3AM to 9AM.

It coincides with iPrimus’ announcement of its new 200GB plan, but Whirlpool has revealed that it will only have 40GB onpeak and 160GB used during its offpeak times - which are the same as aaNet. The plan will cost $79.95/month, and you will need to have an iPrimus phone service to be able to get it.

It’s parent company still continues to say that its network is VDSL2 capable, but the standard has not been approved for use in Australia yet. It has 47 exchanged, with another 32 planned - dubbed “phase 1″.

Trading Post, owned by the Telstra’s Sensis division, rolled out some new capabilities that is seen to compete with eBay, with the CEO Bruce Akhusrt telling APC that it is “an Australian alternative to eBay.”

He wants to grab a large amount of users that have been angry with the planned switch to only have PayPal or Cash on Delivery as the only options as payment.

As well, to quickly populate the site, they have actively courting the “power sellers” of eBay and is expected to make up 80% of the online inventory of the site.

The Trading Post will offer Cash on Delivery, cheques, postal orders, bank deposits, PayPal and PayMate as some of the payment options. It would also launch a “verified trader” initiative with Australia Post, which it has a standing relationship with them, and it would see a standard 100 point check for all Australian-based buyers.

The site is being promoted as a simpler alternative than eBay, with the Trading Post having 524 categories versus eBay’s 11,000+ categories. The site will use technologies from Intershop and FAST.

IN BRIEF: Macquarie Telecom has extended its ADSL2+ network to over 250 exchanges.

Out of the exchanges, 100 will be based in Western Australia and Queensland - which Macquarie Telecom has said that they have been neglected by other telcos.

Macquarie operates exclusively in business and government markets, and the new service will have a theoretical download speed of 24Mbps and upload speeds of 1Mbps.