Freeplay is about to launch a handheld, windup mobile phone power supply, the Freecharge. Although larger and heavier than several spare batteries, it has two distinct advantages over the former, you don’t have to turn the phone off to connect it and it will never go flat a long as your arms work — via Slashdot
Bird lovers have a new use for their mobile phones — tracking the marathon journey of migrating geese. Anyone sponsoring one of six geese that carry satellite tags will be sent a weekly text message
UMAX US is continuing its full-frontal assault on the intelligence of its American customers. Claiming that its older parallel port scanners don’t work under Windows 2000 or XP
The controversial Sniffer Dog Alert web site is in the process of upgrading to a larger server following high traffic loads which have frequently knocked its services off ai
Amazon.com accepted a cease-and-desist order from the SEC, ordering it not to help anyone else violate securities laws by faking results
In just a few years, the Internet has transformed the world into a huge marketplace for used books, utterly transforming a business that had gone pretty much unobserved for centuries
The WIPO panel considering Jerry Falwell‘s attempt to strip Gary Cohn of his parody web site has ruled that Cohn is entitled to keep his domain names
A fibre optic cable in the Dandenong area has been cut, interrupting BigPond Broadband access to a large section of Melbourne
The once-liberal dishing out of Internet Protocol addresses is coming back to haunt some Australian punters and is pushing a local controversial spamming suit into cloudier waters
Big-O Software’s AIM+ add-on program to AOL’s instant messenger service includes a component that sends back customer information to the main server
Etherlinx uses an inexpensive wireless standard to transmit Internet data. Their ambitious plan threatens to shake the near-monopoly that the cable and phone companies hold on high-speed access
Unless web designers provide a text equivalent, material can often be inaccessible to those relying on Internet screen readers
Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope will transform human existence: teaching a computer common sense
The South African government wants to seize control of the .za domain. However, ICANN owns the domains and under the ICANN rules, they will not relinquish control
The rural Ruby Ranch community fought the phone company for use of their unused lines and installed their own DSL service
The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations
SafeType make a strange vertical keyboard, they also have a study claiming that this is more ergonomic than your usual board
A Washington think tank calling itself the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is preparing to release a study
warning that the widespread use of open-source software will allow international terrorists to have their way with us. Funny how they’re funded by Microsoft
More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse
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