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Wireless Technology Could Soon Help Farms: Interesting story about wireless penetration in the farming industry. Farms of the not-too-distant future could be managed through wireless computer networks that allow farmers to sit in their pickups with a laptop and drive tractors, monitor soil moisture and even feed the hogs remotely. ...

Wireless AMBER Alerts â„¢ System: Get Amber Alerts sent directly to your cell phone.

I'm in a hotel in Boston right now -- the Airport Holiday Inn, no less. It has high-speed Internet, but wireless only. The ethernet cables no longer work. No wireless card, no Internet.

I Wanna Move to Washington: Two years ago today, I was ga ga about the Spokane Airport going wireless. Man, Washington state is an awfully cool place to be these days. First the Seattle library, now this... How...quaint.

Ford to Debut Pickup With Mobile Office: Fascinating. Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups, an option aimed at building contractors and others who do business on the road. [...] Ford expects to offer the mobile office as a dealer-installed accessory in ...

Cell phones test positive on AA flight: The days of not being able to use wireless devices from airplanes in flight may be coming to an end. Qualcomm is working on making CDMA-powered devices airliner-friendly. Jacobs said San Diego-based Qualcomm would spend the next two years testing whether electronic signals ...

Florida is just getting hammered by hurricanes lately. After Frances rolled through, I saw a small note on the news that 90% of households were without phone service, but only 30% of mobile phone customers were down. I got to thinking about that. The reason, I suppose, is that mobile ...

New rules could rock wireless world: I could obviously not work for any wireless company since this just makes sense to me on its face. Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it ...

Another free MSN service to be payed for: It's now $19.99 per year, apparently. "If you are accessing MSN Hotmail on your wireless device, this free service will expire on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. This only affects access to your Hotmail account from a mobile device..."

Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree With Internet Receiver: This is what happens when you let a dot com sponsor your Christmas tree. Yahoo.com has set up a Christmas tree in Herald Square with a wireless Internet receiver on top. New Yorkers walking by with a laptop can set it down ...

I've been having some trouble with my router at home, so I've been considering the purchase of a new one. I have 802.11b wireless, and I know that 802.11g and 802.11a are out there, and faster, but I hadn't paid much attention to them. Fortunately, Linksys has a helpful guide ...

Martian Technology: "The Martian NetDrive Wireless gives you all the convenience of a local file server without any of the hassles of cables (except for power, of course, but we're working on that). Martian NetDrives are completely silent appliances that you can place next to your stereo or even under ...

Apple introduced today the new AirPort Express wireless doodad. The AirPort Express (can I call it the APE for short?) is a little white wall-wart-sized brick that can be used for several things, most notably streaming your iTunes music -- mp3, CD, or Internet Radio -- wirelessly from your Mac ...

Spokane airport goes wireless: Man, Washington state is an awfully cool place to be these days. First the Seattle library (here, here, and here), now this: Airplanes aren't the only things in the air at Spokane International Airport. On Wednesday, the airport unveiled a wireless system that makes the Internet ...

Time Warner sues apt. complex over Wi-Fi: I knew one of these suits would pop up sooner or later. "Time Warner Cable filed a lawsuit charging a New York apartment complex and its wireless Internet provider with illegally reselling its high-speed Road Runner service over a wireless network. The suit, ...

Customer Poaching: That SForce app that we wrote about a few weeks ago is going to lead the charge to a new industry niche, I think. Boston-based Salesnet will announce Wireless CRM Instant Messaging, adding instant messaging capabilities to its Salesnet Wireless service. Users, mostly field sales representatives, would be ...

Philadelphia mulls wireless society: My head hurts just thinking about it. For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of ...

How wireless changed the work behavior of Intel employees: An interesting look at how having wireless laptops available changed the way Intel employees worked. The study showed that employees gained about two hours per week in productivity because of the migration (Intel says the cost of the upgrades paid for ...

Junxion, Inc.: You can run a WAP off a cell phone card. This means you could sit out in the great wide open somewhere, plug in, and create a wireless network on the fly. Insert a cellular PC Card modem into your Junxion Box Connect to the Junxion Box using ...

I think that we're rapidly approaching the point at which hardware vendors will no longer be able to ignore Linux. My wireless router has been misbehaving badly lately. When using my (wired) desktop or (wireless) laptop, you occasionally get no signal and no response from it. Trudging down to the ...

St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network to lure business and residents downtown "The city of St. Louis is setting up what could be the nation's largest, free, wireless Internet network in hopes of drawing techno-savvy businesses, tourists and residents to the downtown business district. The city has teamed ...

McDonald's Wireless: McDonald's has a site to promote wi-fi access in their restaurants. Select McDonald's restaurants in the greater metropolitan areas of Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle proudly offer wireless Internet access. (BTW, the site is 100% Flash, so I had to type that in by hand. ...

Wheels of Zeus: This is from Steve Wozniak (Wheels of Zeus...W-O-Z...get it?): "The heart of the wOz Platform is the wOzNet network, a unique local wireless network that provides long range and long battery life at a low cost. wOzNet enables businesses and consumers to locate, monitor and communicate with ...

I'm a pretty forgiving person when it comes to customer service, and it takes a lot to piss me off, but Buy.com managed to do it today. My friend wanted to go wireless in his home, so I ordered a bunch of gear for him. I ordered the wireless cards ...

Upside-Down-Ternet: This is one of the funniest, most inventive things I've ever seen. Can you imagine the tech support calls this will generate? My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. The one at the bottom -- the "blur" effect ...

Monet Mobile seeks bankruptcy protection, will unplug net: Sadly, we were one of the 3,000 subscribers. Monet Mobile Networks, a provider of high-speed wireless Internet access in eight Midwestern cities, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to turn off the service in early April. The company, which ...

Carnegie Mellon Wi-Fi Data: Carnegie-Mellon University has a page which shows a map on on-campus Wi-Fi activity in real time. There's a dot for the location of every connected wireless card. This reminds me of those campuses a decade ago that had Internet-enabled soda machines that would report their temperatures ...

JetBlue wins air-ground wireless license: JetBlue is my new favorite airline. JetBlue Airways Corp. won a government auction Friday for wireless spectrum that could be used to provide in-flight telephone, Internet, or entertainment services. On a related note, I used an airline phone a couple of weeks ago, for the ...

USATODAY.com - As wireless hot spots proliferate, commercial windfall in doubt: Turns out there are too many free Wi-Fi spots for anyone to make any money off it. "Then there are colleges, geeks and city officials who are making Wi-Fi as free as the foliage in public plazas. And now ...

Would You Like Wi-Fi With That?: "If you want to see the right way to serve wireless access, find a Schlotzsky's Deli. The Austin, Texas-based sandwich chain figured out the secret of making money from Wi-Fi: Give it away. Schlotzsky's lets anyone sign up and use its network free, even ...

Welcome to Google TiSP: Google's on a roll this morning. Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. TiSP ...

Cell phone directory gets hoots, hollers: This seems like a no-brainer to me. The days of searching in vain for someone's cell phone number are almost over. Starting early next year, you'll be able to call directory assistance to get a mobile number. However, some people object: "These devices are ...

Making cell phones simple is hard: Here's an interesting article about cell phone usability. Apparently there's a big class of people who are shunning complicated phones for simpler ones. [...] the wireless industry needs [users] to be comfortable with advanced features and actively use them. As the universe of people ...

Could Google kill the cell phone industry?: This is a very interesting picture of why one guy thinks Google wants to lease the 700Mhz spectrum from the U.S. government. He makes a good case and an exciting one. With full leasing ownership of the 700MHz spectrum, Google will try to effectively ...

Wireless Internet access about to go extra 5 miles: We had WiMax-like service here in Sioux Falls as a test market for Monet Mobile. You could surf the Web from a laptop in the back seat of your car driving down the interstate. Sadly, it looks like Monet was a ...

I was browsing a Linux site when I saw an ad for this event: What is Penguicon? To those of you familiar with the Linux and Open Source community, think of a weekend long Linux Users Group meeting with hundreds of other geeks which also just happens to have nationally ...

Telecoms lobby against public wireless networks: While we love hearing about community wi-fi projects like those in St. Louis and Taipei, telecommunications companies don't. Providing this service is what they make money doing, and they're actively opposing many community wi-fi projects across the country. A chief complaint: a city can ...

I Spot ACCESS is an Iowa company that is currently working with the state of Iowa to set up free wireless hotspots at all of the states highway rest areas. An article in today's Des Moines Register points to increased tourism and spending in local communities as a benefit of ...

One Unwired Day "Join Intel on Thursday, September 25 your day to try public wireless Internet access for free at thousands of locations including coffee shops, airports, and hotels nationwide." Via Anil Dash.

These people are driving to a conference somewhere, and are going to have wireless access points in vehicles strategically placed in their convoy, thus creating a rolling Wi-Fi network. So long as you stay in the convoy, you stay connected. Cool.

I'll let you in on a little secret behind-the-scenes process that generates about 20% of my Gadgetopia posts. Here's how it goes, step by step: Deane calls me up and says, "Hey Joe, how would you go about accomplishing . I respond with something to the effect ...

Search engine Google plans own WiFi service: Can someone explain why on Earth Google feels the need to do this? Internet search leader Google is preparing to launch its own wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's Web site on Tuesday.

Very useful indeed: Google Inc. said on Wednesday movie showtimes are now available on its leading Web search engine and can be accessed via personal computers or mobile phones and other wireless devices that use short-message service. I'm planning on checking out Constantine, so I ran a test using my ...

An ISP in Southern England has set up a wireless network so people are able to surf on the beach. It does seem to have a few drawbacks though: "The real problem apart from the salt, apart from the sand, apart from the water is that the screens ...

Bonus FTP server for the PSP - PlayStation Portable -: Just in case VNC for the PSP isn't enough. Here is a simple but working FTP server for the PSP. With it, you can send/retrieve files to your PSP without any cables, in Wireless (WIFI). This one via FTPPlanet (which ...

Apple just announced a new wireless keyboard and mouse that use Bluetooth technology. They use adaptive frequency hopping to avoid interference with other like devices. "A robust 128-bit over-the-air encryption keeps sensitive information safe as it is being typed." $69 a piece, and the mouse still lacks a second button ...

OS Shootout 2003: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP vs. Linux: Great article comparing these three OSs in a matrix with rows for UI, wireless support, CD burning, etc. Good place to see what the different OSs are better at. I only read halfway down the list, but it looked ...

An Apple iPod Gadget, the iTrip, has been banned in the UK since it violates the country's Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949. "There are no restrictions on its use in the US, where people can use it to listen to songs stored on the iPod on a home or car ...

Gateway talks business at CeBit: Gateway has plans for a new handheld: Gateway's new PDA will begin shipping in mid- to late July. The company fitted it with a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel, along with a 3.5-inch screen and dual Compact Flash and Secure Digital slots for adding modules ...

Intel helps fingers type faster highlights a new product, Fastap, which has been developed by Digit Wireless that helps speed up text messaging on mobile phones. "Fastap was developed by former Apple ergonomic design boss David Levy as a way to make it easier to enter text using the tiny ...

Melding of cell phones and Wi-Fi will be cosmic, man: New buzzword alert. Over the next few years, companies will start selling dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi phones. The phones will be able to make voice calls either on a cellular network, or by connecting via Wi-Fi wireless Internet to make calls using ...

Chess player caught cheating with wireless device: Bringing even more excitement to the thrilling world of competitive chess. Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears. He communicated to ...

Rhode Island wants statewide Wi-Fi: The true testament to how small Rhode Island is: $20 million gets you wi-fi across the entire state. America's smallest state is seeking to become its first to offer a wireless broadband network from border to border. Backers of Rhode Island's $20 million project say ...

How to make spam unstoppable: A researcher has found the magic words that will allow spam to slip through Bayesian filters. "The actual words it found were a total surprise," said Mr Graham-Cumming. The list included words such as "Berkshire", "Marriott", "wireless", "touch" and "comment". Including just one of these ...

Taipei gets world's largest Wi-Fi grid: This makes that St. Louis plan look almost quaint by comparison. It's the love of this kind of connectivity that is driving Taipei city planners to build what they say will be the world's biggest "Wi-Fi" network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost ...

WiFi Against Bush: Interesting concept. Set the name of your wireless access point to "WiFi Against Bush". Now, when anyone in your immediate area, such as in your dorm or apartment complex, checks to see what networks are available, they will see your little "bumper sticker." It'll piss off ...

Wi-Fi Sails the High Seas "....Wheat Wireless Services of Reston, Virginia, has begun selling a tweaked version of Wi-Fi Internet access that can broadcast signals 30 miles out to sea. The service piggybacks off T1 lines in data centers along the coast and requires radio towers up to 300 feet ...

USATODAY.com - BlackBerry sales injunction ruling may be soon: If you want a Blackberry email pager, get one quick. A ruling is expected any day that may prevent anyone from buying one until RIM licenses several patents. "The legal battle between RIM and NTP began in November 2001 when a ...

Pop Goes the Cell Phone: Between this and the electrifying Wi-Fi patch, gadgets are getting dangerous. "Nokia on Thursday pointed the finger at counterfeit batteries after another of its phones exploded and burned its user, the third such case in two months, and said that original batteries sold with its ...

CollectiveGood, cell mobile phone recycling: Do the world a favor, recycle your cell phone. CollectiveGood is the mobile devices recycling resource. If you have spare mobile phones, pagers or PDAs sitting on a shelf or in a drawer, you can recycle them here in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. ...

MERL - iGlassware: Never sit with an empty glass again. "Since restaurants often make much of their profits on drinks, it is critical for servers to offer refills in a timely fashion. We propose wireless liquid level sensing glassware to aid in this task. Specially instrumented glassware detects fluid levels ...

March For Web Standards | Washington, DC: These guys claim they're going to march on Washington to protest the lack of Web standards. I can't see a date, but I'm willing to bet it was posted on April 1. Be at the National Mall, Washington, DC, in front of the ...

Wired News: BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets: Never sell anything... "The eBay ad read 'BlackBerry RIM sold AS IS!' So Eugene Sacks (not his real name), a Seattle computer consultant who always wanted one of the pager-size devices to check his e-mail, sent in a bid. For just $15.50, he bought ...

I'm generally a PC guy, but this is really cool: "You walked into a room bearing a laptop running Jaguar (the latest version of the OS X operating system) with a wireless networking (Wi-Fi) card, and you could instantly see the iTunes music files of everyone else in the room ...

Take My Data Center, Please: Myself and some other people had thrown around the idea of building a data center, as there's currently no co-location facility in Sioux Falls. ...in the last couple of weeks, even Cousteau himself might have been impressed by the depths that were plumbed, as two ...

RadioShack putting Skype on U.S. map: Skype is about to go nuts. Skype, the Internet-calling phenomenon that eBay acquired for $4.1 billion, is set to break into the U.S. consumer mainstream by selling its telephone kits in RadioShack stores. [...] Beginning Monday, RadioShack, based in Fort Worth, Texas, will feature ...

Just in time for back-to-school shopping, Walmart puts out an ultra-cheap laptop for under $600. It's an ECS A535, and comes with an Athlon 1.6GHz processor, 14" screen, wireless networking, and XP Home Edition. As expected, Walmart continues its push of cheap imports with little regard for anything but its ...

Bloomsday Virus Inflicts James Joyce on Mobile Phone Users: Well, isn't this nice? Anyone get hit with this? The first ever computer virus that can infect mobile phones has been discovered, anti-virus software developers said today, adding that it has the potential to render many phones virtually useless. [...] It ...

Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system: Microsoft helped the Philadelphia school system modernize in a pilot program. Students -- who are called "learners" -- use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has ...

Parents Sue School Over Wi-Fi: One more thing for lawyers to get rich with. "A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children. According to the complaint, filed last ...

Video, interactivity could nab Web users by 10: This sounds awesome. Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can. The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business ...

Sadly, the Wi-Fi Caravan didn't quite pan out like expected: "The first mistake I made was underestimating the problem of powering computer equipment in a vehicle. ... It was quickly discovered that under the load of nexus, the main wireless server, the inverted would just barely support the load. If ...

How To Reset A Verizon Wireless PDA: Probably the most targeted, focused site ever. This is one page under the domain name "reset-verizonpda.com" that gives you instructions for doing hard and soft resets on every Verizon PDA, like, ever. I assume the guy is hoping to making money off the ...

E-Mailing Around an Open Fire: Campgrounds Go Wireless: "Getting away from it all" just isn't the same anymore. KOA campgrounds are installing wi-fi access. "'Grandma and Grandpa will not leave home without their e-mail anymore,' Mr. Gast [spokesman for KOA] said. The company surveyed its customers last year and found ...

South Dakota Cellular Service Information and Reviews: Those of you living in big metro areas generally have no problems with cell phone coverage. However, those of us out here in the sticks of South Dakota aren't so lucky. It can be a hit-or-miss affair. Here's a good example of a ...

Photo Gallery (Pensonal Computer): Snopes reports on something almost impossibly cool. It's a computer broken apart into pieces, each the size of a pen. The screen and keyboard are projected onto surfaces. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, ...

Queen Mary 2 to sail with onboard help desk - Computerworld">Cunard's Queen Mary 2 to sail with onboard help desk: I worked in a help desk once. Sadly, it wasn't onboard a cruise ship. I'd have to say, given a choice, I'd much prefer to debug issues from a wireless ...

Aureole HP: Despite the annoying Flash, this is an interesting bit at HP about a 42-foot wine tower at the Aureole restuarant at the Mandalay Bay casino in Vegas. With 10,000 bottles of wine, the list got a little long, so the hotel implemented it using Tablet PCs to help ...

Busy week 'round these parts. Deane is off in Colorado, unwired and climbing Horn Peak. We can start laying odds if he'll make it, succumb to the elements, or go feral and start preying on camp sites in the night. I'm somewhat at the opposite end of the tech spectrum ...

Engadget's 20-year BBS Flashback post is chock-full of utter nerd deliciousness. All done-up BBS style, with relevant stories from August 22nd, 1985. They're probably best known for their tires, but lately Finnish industrial conglomerate Nokia's been making a big push into the wireless biz with its Mobira subsidiary (best of ...

Companies lining up for state's huge laptop order: And they're all going to be wireless-capable, too. "Michigan is getting ready to place a technology order that just may be the biggest single purchase of computers ever ‐ 130,000 laptops, enough to give one to every sixth-grade student in the state. ...

Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software: Is this really what we ve been reduced to? Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to ...

Direct Link to Amazon.com for Book Price Shoppers...: How long before camera phones are banned in Barnes and Noble? "'Now, shoppers can take out their Nokia 3650 camera phone at Barnes & Noble, Border's, or just about any other book store, and just take a picture of the ISBN on ...

Living in the Blog-osphere (BAD LINK: this link has gone bad as of July 2003): Another good, general article on blogging from NewsWeek. Covers all the basics, and has an interesting story... "The blog format lends itself to a new kind of reporting: on-the-spot recording of events, instantly beamed to ...

Hardware maker Belkin has sunk to new lows in marketing strategies; a firmware upgrade on its wireless routers adds the ability for the router to grab a random HTTP connection every eight hours and redirect it an ad for Belkin's parental control option. The Register has an article on it, ...

How fun would this be? From ComputerWorld: BNSF has started to deploy Wi-Fi wireless LAN systems extensively in rail yards to allow crews to remotely control engines used to make up trains. These Wi-Fi systems are connected to a control panel that mimics the control panel of a diesel locomotive ...

WiFi - SM: feel the global pain: Like I said, stop surfing all the blogs or someone will tape this to your neck without you knowing about it. "WiFi-SM is an Internet connected wireless device that you can fix on any part of your body. It automatically detects the information ...

Teens' wireless feat could be world record: Quite a feat took place at DefCon. In the end, their 55-mile amplified connection exceeded last year's winner by 20 miles. Then they turned off their amplifiers and broke the record for an unamplified connection at the same distance. While not yet confirmed, ...

Microchip turns electric outlet into wireless link: I remember the stress I put myself under when I built my house to ensure I had data lines in every room. Between this and wifi, I don't know why I worried. Products are still being developed, but gadgets embedded with the chip ...

I'm writing this from the lobby of the Holiday Inn Chicago City Centre on Ohio Street, which is a very geek-friendly hotel. Broadband is available in every room for $9.95 for the duration of your stay. And it's a true T-1 line; extremely fast. The lobby has free wireless throughout. ...

Teen unlocks iPhone from AT&T: Apple is scrambling its lawyers as we speak, I m sure. Call this, How to Get Sued 101. A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple s iPhone to AT&T s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cellphone ever for use on the networks ...

Technology > Circuits > For Some, the Blogging Never Stops" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/technology/circuits/27blog.html?pagewanted=print&position=">For Some, the Blogging Never Stops: Please don't let me become like this. Interesting story about blogging addiction. To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West, Fla. ...

Skype: Locked phones unfair: Skype s all up in the FCC s business this morning. Good for them. Next up, fix cell phone application pricing. Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal ...

Thumbs up for new library's technology: A great article on the technology behind the new Seattle Public Library. Yeah, I think I'm moving to Seattle in the next couple of days. [...]as far as the library's technology is concerned, it's thumbs up. Wi-Fi access is available nearly everywhere and, with ...

Staples Easy Rebates: I bought a wireless router at Staples today which came with a $20 "Easy Rebate." It's a nice concept: Instead of sending a little piece of paper in, they have a Web site where you just enter some information off the receipt, and a rebate check gets ...

Control video games with your mind: It s interesting to see something like this actually hit the market. It s like something out of a sci-fi movie. I can t help but thinking that this is a big step forward for people with disabilities as well if this gets traction in the ...

PhotoVu recently announced the PV1910 wireless picture frame to display your latest and greatest digital creations. The PV1910 is the industry's first Wi-Fi®, 19" LCD digital picture frame. Recognizing that most digital camera users store, organize, edit, and share their pictures with the computer, the PV1910 compliments the way you ...

Interesting story from the BBC about giant service provider Savvis internal debate over whether to expunge spammers from their network. The article details their angst over hosting spammers vs their love of that sweet green cash. Alif Terranson, a former Savvis employee who was responsible for keeping the network clean, ...

A nice little war is brewing between the big players in the console market. Last week, Microsoft introduced the XBox 360, to go on sale during the 2005 holiday season: The 360 will pack a powerful technological punch, with an advanced IBM Power-PC processor and next generation ATI graphics chip. ...

The Web, According to Google: An interesting look at what effect Google has on information retrieval. I will admit to checking Google and little else at times. "Were Google less influential that probably wouldn't matter. But as Americans, especially young ones, come to regard the leading search site as the ...

I was watching Alias last night, and I realized just what a hacker/geek-fest this show is becoming. Here are some details from the plot last night: A computer worm is spreading across the globe, specifically targeting hospitals. It turns out that it's searching databases of DNA (do these exist?) for ...

If I can be so bold, here's a tip for my fellow geeks to make your life easier: label your power supplies. When you get a new toy that comes with a power cable that has a converter in (either in the middle or built into the plug) slap a ...

If the details in a CNet article are correct, Microsoft's Longhorn will include tools needed(?) by IT managers to put the clamps on people using various gadgets to their work PC's. Flash drives, iPods, and other doodads both wired and wireless that are able to store large amounts ...

The OQO (pronounced oh-queue-oh) is such a spiffy little unit, I'm surprised that Apple didn't build something like it first! In handtop mode, the screen slides up to reveal a QWERTY-style thumbpad, mouse buttons and a TrackStik. The 800 x 480 W-VGA 5" transflective display is readable indoors and out, ...

I went to a concert at the Washington Pavillion last night, and during a break my 7 year old needed to use the rest room. In the men's room they had just installed an LCD panel above each urinal that displayed animated ads. These may not be new, but it's ...

I know this is late, and you've probably already heard, but today Apple cut loose the new Mac Pro the successor to the G5 Power Macintosh. Prices start at $2,199 for a dual-processor, dual-core 2GHz machine. An extra $1,100 will replace the 2GHz Xeons with 3GHz processors. The exterior ...

I have the need for a new office router. We only have a couple of people, so a normal home router would be fine, except that we're geeks, so we need more than one external IP. Most home routers don't handle that. You can snag yourself a fancy Cisco PIX, ...

While we re waiting for the first round of iMac G5 reviews to hit the net, MacMinute found Apple s Developer Note on the new system. I found a few interesting tidbits amidst the technical stuff. Available as a fully-integrated, build-to-order option, Bluetooth is an open specification that enables short-range wireless connections ...

Web developers want one thing: control. HTML is such an imprecise language that building Web pages has continually been a struggle between what we want to do and what the language is capable of. As a result, the short history of the Web has been an exercise in perverting HTML ...