NORAD is considering deploying zeppelins along the west coast and Canadian border to keep an eye out for terrorists. Larger than jumbo jets, easier to repair and upgrade than satellites, this may be an idea whose time has come. Again
Mireille Breitwieser, the mother of an art thief, was imprisoned after admitting she shredded up to 60 masterpieces by leading artists, such as Bruegel and Watteau, stolen in broad daylight from museums in five countries. French police also dragged the Rhône-Rhine canal in eastern France looking for priceless objects, such as weapons, vases and musical instruments, dumped there last November
Hotmail, the free email service which was purchased by Microsoft some years back and is now part of the MSN Internet Service, has changed its users’ personal profile
settings by adding and pre-checking a new set of option boxes
The creep towards paid-for online content continues with news that access to the NYTimes.com’s archives is now available at a price on Yahoo. The archives date back to 1 January 2000 and individual stories can be bought for $2.50 each — the same price as charged by the NYTimes.com’s own archive service
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla hope to wash away the problem of land mines with technology that harnesses — and focuses — the power of water, as a child’s plastic water pistol does
Two of the recent litter of six red wolf puppies born at the North Carolina Zoological Park have been placed with a female already raising her own pups in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. This is the first time that captive-born red wolves have been placed with a wild mother
Music CD copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape
With all the excitement over fingerprint scanners, it comes as no surprise that they can be easily fooled with the use of gelatine
Greenpeace is accusing Japan of buying votes from new members of the International Whaling Commission in a bid to lift a global ban on commercial whaling
A new change has appeared in Sun’s strategy. Instead of dismissing Linux as inferior, it is now trying to integrate elements of Linux into Solaris for easier porting of applications. This looks like a step in the right direction for Linux acceptance in the professional server market
In contrast to general public perception, women are generally in the vanguard when it comes to fighting sexual censorship. The civil rights lawyers, activists, sex workers, media pundits, and professors who fight for your right to have dirty pictures are by and large female. Many call themselves feminists. And the people fighting to stamp out pornography today are most decidedly male
Australian scientists have given the green light to using waste glass in concrete construction. This means local council, recyclers, municipal engineers, and private contractors can look at using glass concrete for a range of construction applications including bike paths, footpaths, kerbs, gutters and similar work
An Arlington couple has sued the District, saying an archaic rule requiring babies to have their married father’s surname discriminates against women
As Telstra’s market dominance continues to be scrutinised by the government, regulators and competitors, momentum is building in an ambitious project to construct a viable alternate national broadband infrastructure. A groundswell of interest has emerged from a powerful group of Australia’s electricity utilities, which are uniting in a bid to seize the potential synergies and opportunities in using their combined existing infrastructure as a platform for a residential and business broadband network
For more than 15 years, Pamela Samuelson, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has been fighting what she sees as overzealous and innovation-stifling expansion of copyright laws in the high-tech arena. She has written influential scholarly articles for academic publications, filed friend-of-the-court briefs in landmark cases and organised academic conferences where ideas can be refined and disseminated
The full report, from Business2WWW and Interactive Bureau/Porter Research, isn’t due out until later this year. But some pre-released material warns that companies are spending large amounts of money on web sites that don’t work and are difficult to use
Both Bob Kolody’s Coca-Karma case and Uzi Nissan‘s fight with Nissan Motors have recent updates to report
Engineers at Advanced Micro Devices say they have developed a process to make wireless devices more powerful without increasing their cost. The breakthrough is called MirrorBit technology and involves flash memory chips. Flash memory stores data such as phone numbers and programming code in mobiles and handheld computers when the devices are turned off
Speculation is rife that WorldCom, the Telecommunications giant that owns OzEmail, could soon declare bankruptcy
Booksellers in the UK hope to use Radio Frequency ID chips to report on the entire life cycle of a book, including ownership and second-hand sales
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