Like a scene from a TV crime show, Victorian police have used an iPhone GPS app and a helicopter to track down a thief.
His crime? Stealing the mobile phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The trend towards online shopping will be examined in a Federal Government inquiry into the retail industry.
The Productivity Commission will examine the structure of the industry, including the $1,000 tax-free threshold that applies to goods bought from overseas — via ABC News
If you were going to compose a list of the ten greatest technology products ever, it would be a plausible contender. If you were compiling a list of the ten greatest Web services and didn’t include it, I’d tell you your list was wrong.
It’s AltaVista-the first great search engine. Probably still the second greatest one ever, after you know who. And as Liz Gannes of All Things Digital is reporting, it’s apparently going away due to downsizing at its current owner, Yahoo. (Other victims of Yahoo’s death panel include the once-great Delicious and AllTheWeb, the bland Digg clone Yahoo Buzz, the could-have-been-neat MyBlogLog, and stuff I can’t identify, such as Yahoo Picks) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
That enormous sigh of relief you heard yesterday was likely from 5,400 unidentified porn downloaders reacting to a West Virginia judge’s ruling that an adult-film producer cannot force their unmasking in an effort to sue them for copyright infringement.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling the judge’s decision a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watch out, TSA: Google’s getting into the game of exploring the human body.
Hang on, though — there’s no groping going on here. Google’s approach is a new educational tool called Google Body Browser. Launched on the Google Labs website today, Google Body Browser uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It was their first ever autopsy, but students at one of Sweden’s top medical schools were faced with a familiar sight in the classroom: the body on the table belonged to their late teacher — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Foss Patents reports that a joint venture company involving Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and EMC has acquired 882 patents from Novell for a sum of $450 million. Novell is undergoing a transition as it has been acquired by software company Attachmate, and the patent sale is part of the acquisition deal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Alexandra of Moonstitches put up a pattern for making this cute little owl. I think I’d like to have a parliament of owls lined up on the windowsill over my kitchen sink — via CRAFT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he fears the US is preparing to indict him, as he spends his first day on bail on an English country estate — via The Independent
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