2002 July

Programmers at a small software company say they have the answer and that it can help millions of workers cope with the growing spam menace. The software categorizes e-mail on a scale from one to 100, then sorts messages according to the recipient’s behavior and preferences. Important notes with high scores float to the top […]

We got a new sheriff in town and his name is Sen. Joseph Biden. This info nazi, along with his Barney Fife deputy Senator Fritz “Hollywood” Hollings (Democrat, South Carolina), is pushing for reform to help big busines stay big. The new bill would make it a felony to try and trick certain […]

A potential Darwin Award Winner (if he lives).
Over a stretch of desolate prairie in Saskatchewan, Canada, Fournier will take 2.5 hours to ascend to 40,000 meters (131,200 feet) in a 95-meter-high, helium-filled balloon that has been specially designed for the attempt. Here at the very edge of space, at an altitude four times the height […]

Storage and data protection software maker Veritas has expanded its Linux software line, releasing new products and announcing partnerships Monday with Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Red Hat.
Veritas in January released its first Linux products for storage operations, such as backing up data. Now the company has released “clustering” software, which lets IT […]

I used to sell long-term care insurance and for the most part it was a scam, as is most of the insurance industry. Yet another “product” is being offered that looks to be a billion dollar market in the world of pyramid schemes, oh, I mean insurance.

I never ask for directions. It is a genetic defect in us males and now there is help on the horizon! Now, thanks to voice recognition technology, I don’t have to be proud, or lost. IBM said Monday that it will provide a voice recognition system for selected 2003 Honda Accords. The voice-enabled Hondas should […]

The Robin Hoods of hacking have seemed to have burrowed underground for good, unable to use information obtained from Akamai. The attack would have marshaled the global network of 12,000 high-bandwidth systems operated by Akamai. These systems are designed to speed up Web surfers’ access to content at high-traffic sites, including Yahoo, MSNBC, Microsoft […]

Although the Archbishop of Canterbury might disagree (from yesterday’s issue), a new study finds that video games might actually lead to deeper thinking in kids, athletes, and Budhist monks.

A Slashdot reader writes “It looks like Console Classix is trying introduce a new old concept to the world of P2P file sharing, at least as it applies to NES and SNES ROM images. You download their client program, and then you can “borrow” one ROM image at a time from their site, play it, […]

Two Silicon Valley software rivals decided to settle their outstanding patent lawsuits Monday after several years of backbiting accusations.
In a joint statement, San Francisco-based Macromedia (Quote, Company Info) and San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe Systems (Quote, Company Info) said they have put aside their legal differences on “all litigation.” Terms of the settlement were kept […]

We have many surprizes in store for Gnomedex this year - this event alone, brought to you by Clever Media, is a reason to sign up for Gnomedex!
Don’t miss out on the Friday night’s social event featuring the vocal stylings of the one and only, Chris Pirillo! There will fantastic prizes given out for […]

No longer will we be able to hide behind our cell phones. With technology on the way that can pinpoint our precise location, the invisble shield of mobility could be a thing of the past. 140 million cell phone users might not embrace the new advances that will help millions of angry significant others […]

Watch as they rifle through your files, dismantle your network, and delete all those songs and movies you can’t prove have a legal right to exist on your hard drive. Hope the special effects don’t include the accidental destruction of your data when your computer becomes a stunt double in Hollywood’s latest blockbuster attempt to […]

The idea behind the Software Assurance program was relatively straightforward: Microsoft would scrap its outdated hodgepodge system of licensing agreements that consists of five different ways to buy upgrades in favor of a unified program that charges customers 25 percent of the license fee for server software and 29 percent for desktop software on an […]

The way your child writes messages could be a key in deciding which career is right for them. Punctuation, use of slang and spelling are all taken into consideration. My analysis indicated I might be well suited for a writer of spam or a professional assassin.

The chipmaker shaved up to 20 percent off prices for Athlon XP chips in an effort to make AMD-based PCs more attractive to buyers, a company representative said. AMD’s last price cut was in late May.

Microsoft Corp. has halted hardware driver support for users of Windows 98 and Windows NT in a bid to push users to the company’s new operating systems. The push also means that the latest hardware will not support PCs with operating systems as “old” as Windows 98. ATI’s recent Radeon 9000 and 9700 series of […]

This will go into my “Who Gives a ….” file. He’s a big fan of ‘The Simpsons’, but doesn’t like what going on in the gaming industry and his Holiness believes kids are becoming a demographic for advertising. (duh, welcome to the 21st century)

Less than a year after scrapping its Sprint ION and Broadband Direct high-speed Internet services, Sprint has inked a wholesale third-party deal with Covad Communications to jump into the enterprise DSL business.

Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic grapples […]