World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc dropped its name on Monday and put down the famous logo. The new name will be World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. The company said that the change was due in part to a losing battle with the World Wildlife Fund over the use of the initials and it more firmly entrenches the entertainment as violent theatre versus actual sport
Compaq Australia may be facing a class action lawsuit from irate customers who feel duped by the hardware manufacturer’s accidental web site promotion of Presario laptop computers costing just one cent
Microsoft planned in 1999 to bundle its media player and operating system in a bid to attack rival RealNetworks, according to a Microsoft email, even as a federal court was about to punish the company for similar efforts in the web browser market
Paul M Herbert Law Centre at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge is giving Douglas Dorhauer, one of its students, an unusually comprehensive legal education. In addition to offering him the standard classes and exams, it is suing him
Some penguins avoid the bends by using a technique almost the same as human divers. The condition, also known as decompression sickness, happens when nitrogen enters the bloodstream. But Adélie and King penguins slow down and surface at an angle which helps with decompression
Sony has begun developing a games console to succeed its popular PlayStation 2 after 2005, according to company sources
Industry sources have named Seiko Epson as the manufacturer that supplied Nokia with faulty components that led to a high screen failure rate amongst its handsets
A new experimental microscopic tungsten lattice can increase the efficiency of an incandescent electric bulb from 5% to greater than 60%. This is done by converting waste heat into visible light
Police in La Crosse, Wisconsin say a naked man drying his clothes in a launderette stormed off when two women laughed at him
Nanotechnology is getting closer with genetically engineered viruses grabbing zinc sulphide and arranging themselves into highly organised structures
Corporations can be found liable for deceptive advertising if they make misleading public statements about their operations and conduct. In its 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court said Nike and other corporations are not protected by the First Amendment when they present as fact statements about their labour policies or company operations in advertisements, press releases, letters to the editor or public statements
Archaeologists have stumbled on a 4,500-year-old pyramid in Egypt containing the tomb of a queen whose identity remains a mystery. The latest discovery was made by a Swiss team excavating the tomb of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Redjedef, son and successor of Cheops who was also known as Khufu
Wherify’s global positioning personal locator is a bracelet that can be locked on to a child’s wrist. It plots the wearer’s precise location and transmits the data to a central database via a mobile phone connection
Software maker Adobe won its lawsuit Thursday claiming that rival Macromedia infringed on the company’s patents. Adobe filed the suit in August 2000, alleging that the user interface of Macromedia’s Flash Web animation tool infringed on Adobe’s patent for tabbed palettes
, a feature that allows users of design software to rearrange the work space on the PC screen
Hundreds of millions of songs may illegally trade hands online every month, but file swapping may actually be causing people to spend more money on music. A study by Jupiter Research reports that about 34% of veteran file swappers say they are spending more on music than they did before they started downloading files. About 14% of heavy file traders say they now spend less on music
Two Virginia congressmen, Jim Moran and Tom Davis, have proposed a $315 million program that would require biometric markers on all states’ driver’s licenses within five years, according to federal legislation the pair filed Wednesday
Woradech Kaimart, a Thai inventor, has come up with throwable fire extinguisher balls. You just toss them into the fire, or place them in high risk areas, and they explode from the heat and spew various fire-retardants all over the place. According to the article, they will soon be on sale in Thailand’s 7-Eleven stores and are being considered by US-based fire and safety supply company Tyco — via Slashdot
Australia’s broadband community is celebrating the Federal Government’s recent decision to separate the accounting practices of Telstra’s wholesale and retail arms, anticipating increased competition
A free version of Sun’s StarOffice business productivity suite is now available for download from OpenOffice.org, an open-source developer community sponsored by Sun. OpenOffice.org 1.0 provides a selection of software nearly identical to Microsoft Office’s. Both suites feature word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is a less expensive alternative, however, and supports more operating systems
When asked why personal video recorders are bad for the industry, Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie Kellner says; Because of the ad skips… It’s theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you’re going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn’t get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you’re actually stealing the programming
— via Slashdot
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