After spending the past six months perfecting the technology, Apostolos Gerasoulis and his development team on Monday evening will roll out a souped-up search engine called Teoma that will take dead aim at Google, widely regarded as the best way to find something on the Web
India’s Police Pigeon Service — which for more than half a century has provided a lifeline during frequent floods and cyclones in eastern Orissa state — is to be scrapped, according to a government proposal that believes that the service has become redundant with the advent of e-mail and electronic communication. Google’s patented PigeonRank system will, no doubt, be happy to take on a few new recruits
Hoping to break down one the biggest barriers to acceptance of Linux on the desktop, CodeWeavers unveiled software that allows corporate users to run Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes without a Windows operating system
If you go down to the woods today, you are likely to come across a cleared path, a neatly manicured glen and a strategically placed water feature. Everything will be signposted and there will be few, if any, surprises. The British public’s fear of dark, imposing forests in which ghouls and goblins lurk has led the Forestry Commission to order a series of woodland makeovers
Bioengineer Morris Benjaminson is figuring out how to create fish on demand, to develop a device that would grow fresh flesh aboard a space ship to feed astronauts. One day, this hyper-bioengineered food could even reach your dinner table
Australian consumers will soon be able to buy broadband-in-a-box straight off the shelves of Harvey Norman, thanks to a deal between the retail giant, ISP iPrimus and xDSL distributor Quadtel
Hop-On.com’s new disposable mobile phone, touted everywhere from Time Magazine to CNNfn as a landmark innovation, may be less original than it seems. After cracking open several samples with Hop-On’s name and kangaroo logo, the revolutionary
device appeared to be little more than a jury-rigged Nokia in a new plastic shell
Stephens, founder of the Yoga Inside Foundation in Venice, CA, has been duking it out with Santa Clara’s Intel Corp for more than a year over whether his do-gooding non-profit violates the chipmaker’s Intel Inside
trademark
Kamuniak, the broody lioness, has adopted a third baby oryx in Kenya. She was spotted by tourists nuzzling a three-day-old oryx under a tree
Custom-tailored molecules and spray-on plastic could someday create the next generation of solar cells — more flexible, more efficient and much less expensive than existing sources of solar power. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a partly organic, partly inorganic solar cell that spits out a tiny bit of electricity but has the potential to be made far more powerful — via Slashdot
NeuHausPlatz Computer Systems assembled a pile of computer parts, hooked them up without a case and covered the lot with quick-dry spray foam, resulting in an extremely light weight, if ugly, computer
Nominet has warned Scottish businesses against accepting offers to register their names with the supposedly Scottish .sc domain. This top-level domain country code is actually for the Seychelles
Some insurance companies recognise certain breeds of dogs as threatening, which causes homeowners problems in buying policies
Microsoft is using its dominant market power to target Palm organisers and other handheld digital devices powered by Palm software because they threaten the Windows monopoly. And, while they’re at it, Unisys and Microsoft plan to launch a marketing campaign that seeks to undermine Unix, the operating system at the heart of powerful server lines from rivals Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard — oddly enough, the web site is itself powered by Unix software
Long-suffering spam recipients have acquired a new ally in their ongoing struggle to stem the ever-rising tide of unsolicited e-mail: the Federal Trade Commission. While the California Supreme Court is to review an appeals court decision that likened sending mass-mailing e-mails to trespassing
Wherify Wireless has created a US$400 Personal Locator that is a watch with a built-in pager, GPS unit and wireless data connectivity. It’s targeted at families with kids
An Intel-funded report accuses AMD of confusing consumers with its beyond megahertz
campaign to downplay clock speed as a marketing tool
The Nigerian government is tired of being known as the spam/scam capital of the world and setup a web site to combat the common e-mail scam
It may look like an overgrown ornamental bamboo, but elephant grass is seen by Britain’s government and agricultural bodies as a key to helping embattled farmers and generating green power
In any rogues’ gallery of astronomical evildoers, black holes would have to be the number 1 nightmare. But are the nightmares real? A few doubters are beginning to emerge. If they’re right, then black holes may be just the latest grand illusion of cosmology
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