Watchmaker Fossil has licensed the Palm OS for a Wrist PDA that features a touch screen, a stylus integrated into the band, 2MB of memory, an infrared port, and standard Palm applications including address book, date book, and memo pad
Asia-Pacific will host more domain name root servers following a deal between a current root server host and a regional organisation that handles Internet registration and resource allocation
A new class of PC displays, called Smart Displays, that will use Wi-Fi to effectively decouple themselves from the PC will be unveiled next week at Comdex — via Slashdot
According to Telstra, mobile phone theft had dropped in the three months since the company began blocking stolen or lost phones from its network
When Kathleen Bannon and Joseph Bannon, unrepentant spammers, struck the Film Threat e-mail list last week they picked the wrong man to piss off. Chris Gore does not take spam lying down
The Japanese government is considering abandoning Windows in a plan to boost computer security within the government. The government is very interested in alternatives, especially Linux — via Slashdot
Siletz tribal elder Donna Kessinger had never touched a computer. Now, she’s an old hat at e-mail and instant messaging — courtesy of a tribal council plan to help far-flung members stay in better touch
Lucas discovered a bug in his wife’s iBook after she left it to charge overnight — well more that one. It had become the new home for a colony of ants
The Federal Trade Commission said that it had sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail filters that actually attracted more spam
Technology that renders optical media useless after a short lifespan will soon find its way into stores in the form of perishable DVDs
Still trying to decide whether your enterprise development architecture should be based around Sun’s Java or Microsoft’s .NET? Perhaps you should be more worried about whether either of them is going to work at all
In a bout of self importance, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum told a Melbourne audience that the fight against P2P swapping of films was as important as the war on terrorism
Cray announced a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust. The maker of supercomputers, based in Seattle, says its X1 will offer up to 52.4 teraflops, or trillion mathematical calculations per second. Reaching that level requires 4,098 custom-designed 800MHz Cray processors
Laura Betterly of Data Resource Consulting, a self-described spam queen
, talks about not just the millions of e-mails she spews, but what it costs per mailing, what the response rates are and what she actually makes
The .au domain name administrator has confirmed plans to initiate second level domain names for states and territories, a move touted as allowing state or local groups to promote their interests online
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is putting together a supercomputer that will boast nearly the same performance as the ASCI White system from IBM that the lab now uses but it promises to be 10 times cheaper. Called Evolocity, the system will be the fastest clustered supercomputer in the world. But it will be far easier on the wallet, thanks to the use of off-the-shelf components and the open-source Linux operating system
In addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Bill Gates has donated to India’s fight against HIV, he’s funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million
Best practices and step-by-step guidance on how to build a working Linux system on older hardware or on modern hardware with limited memory and storage
The ACCC has filed proceedings against the New York based operator of a web site it alleges posed as the official site for the Sydney Opera House
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