As part of the Lindows lawsuit, the judge has preliminarily ruled that there are serious questions regarding whether ‘Windows’ is a non-generic name and thus eligible for the protections of federal trademark law
Acclaim Entertainment, a computer games firm, has been accused of pushing back the frontiers of bad taste after it announced that it was seeking to advertise its latest title on gravestones
A pre-trial decision by a judge in a dispute over a multimillion-dollar home in Marion could end up making real estate deals outlined in email as binding as those put on paper
It’s the stuff of science fantasy, but Dr Joe Rosen, from the acclaimed Dartmouth Medical Centre, says that, within five years, he will be able to graft wings and tails on to human beings
Geodesic Systems, a maker of memory management and debugging software, has a live demo of their Linux product running on the Mozilla nightly builds. It detects memory leaks and can show where in the code the leaked memory was allocated and actually recover the leaked memory — via Slashdot
In a perfect world, a list of the the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is catalogue the absurdities
Across Australia, people will soon receive phone calls from Telstra explaining why they cannot access their email on their BigPond broadband connections
With customer complaints repeatedly unanswered and lack of co-operation with telecommunications regulatory watchdogs, two local ISPs — Australis Internet Pty Ltd and Internet TV Australia — have been given 14 days to explain their lack of action
It may be more famous for making typewriters, but Olympia has just revealed what some observers are calling one of the sexiest gadgets of this year’s CeBIT — the Soundbug is a small device that can turn pretty much any flat surface into a soundboard
John Ivers got tired of waiting in line to ride a roller coaster so he decided to build his own — the Blue Flash — in his backyard
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to create anime-based military uniforms that can block out biological weapons and even heal their wearers as part of a five-year contract to develop nanotechnology applications for soldiers
Speed kills. But it is not only the speed at which people drive that is the problem: the speed of the music they are listening to also has a hand in their fate. An Israeli researcher says drivers who listen to fast music in their cars may have more than twice as many accidents as those listening to slower tracks
Rick Boucher, an influential US lawmaker stepped up his criticism Wednesday of record labels’ moves to protect CDs against copying. He approached the record industry’s trade association in January with concerns that blocking consumers from copying their own CDs might violate US copyright law. The response from the Recording Industry Association of America didn’t satisfy him
Former NASA engineer Homer Hickam — one of the legendary Rocket Boys — advocates that the US revive its nuclear rocket program of the 50s and 60s, arguing that nuclear-powered rockets are the only realistic way of opening up the rest of the solar system — particularly Mars — to human exploration
The Rubber Band Machine Gun is a fully functional gatling gun with twelve rotating barrels and a live action trigger. It loads twelve bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands that shoot off as fast as you can turn the handle — fun for all the family
Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. Now, after 17 years, the mystery of who the Afghan girl is has been solved
Software company Compuware is charging IBM with using its intellectual property and engaging in illegal tying of its technologies and anti-competitive practices
A day after the US Federal Trade Commission announced that it shut down an operation that used deceptive e-mails to sell bogus domain names, a representative for the agency said Tuesday that while the FTC will not disclose specific plans, it intends to vigorously and aggressively
go after deceptive spam
Chip announcements galore from the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. Intel has produced prototypes of high-density memory chips — that support nearly eight times as many transistors as today’s Pentium 4 — using an advanced manufacturing process, and will use the technology in faster microprocessors scheduled for introduction in the second half of next year. Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start shipping Athlon processors, code-named Thoroughbred, made using a 0.13-micron process to customers later this month
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