Filmmaker John Downer turned a bunch o elephants into walking cameras and used them to capture scenes of the jungle:
He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.
Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor.
The high-definition cameras were created by inventor Geoff Bell for a documentary in the remote Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh in the heart of India.
EMI is suing MP3tunes because the online backup service lets you keep your music in your own locker -- EMI says that it's a violation of copyright to use online backup services:
As you may be aware, the major record label EMI has sued MP3tunes, claiming our service is illegal. You can read about the case here. Much is at stake — if you don't have the right to store your own music online then you won't have the right to store ebooks, videos and other digital products as well. The notion of ownership in the 21st century will evaporate. The idea of ownership is important to me and I want to make sure I have that right and my kids do too.
This video is of a man filming a cop who parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. He follows her, asking questions, and she mostly ignores him. Then something truly disturbing happens.
A retired police woman comes by and informs the first cop, and the man filming that citizens aren't allowed to film anybody who works for the police department "'cause of the terrorism."
The language afterwards gets a little less than pretty.
Spotted on Yanko Design, jeans with an embedded keyboard. Hopefully it would be good for sending text messages too. Designer: Erik De Nijs Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:08 pm
Lucas123 writes "Seagate's first drive, shipped in 1979 was the ST506, which had a capacity of 5MB and cost a cool $1,500 — or $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate holds 1TB and cost just 1/5000th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte. Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
Three-dimensional (3D) packaging is expected to emerge as a dominant performing solution in the electronic/chip packaging industry. Its performance promises to drive efforts across the entire supply chain to successfully deploy it. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:01 pm
By Jim Stafford, The Oklahoman Apr. 23--Breath-analysis lasers made with nanotechnology components would make the technology smaller, simpler and more cost effective, said Patrick McCann, chief executive officer of Norman-based Ekips Technologies Inc. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:01 pm
MIDLAND, Mich., April 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Chemical Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:CHFC) announced that on April 22, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Company declared a second quarter 2008 cash dividend of $0.295 per share of common stock. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:01 pm
By Steve Connor Coccolithophores are microscopic marine plants that convert carbon dioxide into chalk. It was thought that rising C02 and more acid oceans would curb their activity. Instead they are booming - and fighting global warming. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:01 pm
Johnson Matthey is a speciality chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysts, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology. Johnson Matthey is a British company with a long history, and a strong heritage in the process chemicals industry on Teesside. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:01 pm
Aurora Organic Dairy and Colorado State University have announced a multi-year master research agreement with the university's College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Greeley Tribune, Colo. Apr. 23--BOULDER -- Aurora Organic Dairy and Colorado State University have announced a multi-year, $500,000 master research agreement. Aurora, a leading U.S. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Carlos Santos, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Apr. 23--Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, Botetourt County has backed off an ordinance that limits when political campaign signs can be displayed on private property. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Crash course in logic RE "CHALLENGES FOR the Navy" (Sunday Forum, April 20): Yet another letter writer suggests the "smart solution" for an outlying landing field for NAS Oceana is to use a retired carrier? If that's so smart, how about driver's training on I-264 at rush hour, in the rain with bald tires? Jack Cox Virginia Beach Working toward an 'A' The controversy over comments by Barack Obama reminds me of the perilous condition of our politics. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Andrew Villegas, Greeley Tribune, Colo. Apr. 23--Denver-based Leprino Foods is closer to locating its newest cheese manufacturing plant in Greeley after the city's planning commission approved the cheese producer's plans for the site Tuesday afternoon. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Mike Cherney, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Apr. 23--Horry County Council decided unanimously Tuesday to delay paying for a state-required study that would calculate an appropriate amount for an impact fee. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Barry Shlachter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Apr. 23--Some Wall Street traders are betting on an unusual combination: Dell and RadioShack. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Natasha Smith, The Macon Telegraph, Ga. Apr. 23--FORT VALLEY -- At the age of 92, Enola Dozier grew tired of receiving mailings to go on the Internet for much-needed information and being unable to do anything about it. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Cisco has announced that Sonaecom, Portugal based telecommunications services provider, is implementing its IP next-generation network technology to transform its network into a platform for growth. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Cisco has unveiled its plans to open its first office in Tunisia. As part of its new office plans, the company has now finalized arrangements to move to new permanent premises in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Dell, in a bid to step up the revenues of its services division, is planning to increase the number of for-pay services it offers, reported Dow Jones. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Sarah Clough Damian Rodriguez, president of Computer Dealers and Recyclers Global Inc., has seen his computer recycling business expand from a 5,000- to a 12,000-square-foot warehouse. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
AT&T has entered into a partnership with network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems to deliver TelePresence, a high-end video conferencing equipment, in the second half of 2008 in 23 countries. Cisco has launched its video conferencing system, TelPresence, in 2006. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
CHICAGO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America, both pursuing major acquisitions in the troubled financial services market, rapidly rose to number two and eight respectively in the Cision Index, a quarterly assessment of how news coverage reflects and helps shape the corporate reputation of the 100 largest U.S. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Synergy Research Group (SRG) announces the availability of the Synergy 2007 IPTV Market Share report, which shows the overall IPTV equipment revenue, from the core of the network to the set-top box, growing aggressively at 47 percent year over year. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Ian Lamont writes "Sony is buying Gracenote for $260 million. Sony will use Gracenote's online music database in its own digital content and devices, but Gracenote will operate separately and keep its own management. It's an interesting move, because many other entertainment companies and services depend on the Gracenote database, including iTunes, Yahoo, Winamp, and even the onboard stereo system used in some new Cadillacs. Gracenote has been criticized for turning the once open CDDB project into a 'quagmire of heavy contracts, licensing fees, forced user registration and anti-competition clauses.'"
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has launched an investigation into why a manned space capsule returned to earth hundreds of kilometers (miles) off course, a space industry official said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
Europe's long-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system passed its final legal hurdle on Wednesday after the European Parliament gave the flag-ship project its green light. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:04 pm
Mobile application service provider Lightpole has introduced a beta version of software that expands on its application’s geolocation capabilities using Yahoo’s Fire Eagle. Lightpole provides... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
Bungee Labs announced today at Web 2.0 Expo that it is expanding its hosting options, and also looking into open source as a way to connect with the developer community. Bungee Labs' main product is Bungee... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
By Andrew Liszewski It would take a truly unique and mind-blowing building toy to topple the LEGO empire, but instead of trying to replace those famous plastic bricks, the makers of UberStix have decided... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:54 pm
In 2005, I suggested that an old-style publisher’s response to the crowdsourced publishing of Wikipedia should be to create a vetted version of it, to add value and publish the thing. Fred Wilson... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:52 pm
TomTom NV, Europe's largest maker of navigation devices, said Wednesday its first quarter earnings fell sharply due to a decline in average selling prices and because retailers stocked... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:48 pm
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's just bought a chip company, P.A. Semi that could make chips for iPhones and maybe iPods. Apple wouldn't reveal the exact plans, but Dan Dobberpuhl, lead designer of Alpha's chips, is known for making super efficient processors, like a 64-bit dual core last year that was supposedly about 300% more efficient than the nearest competition, using only 5 to 13 watts at 2GHz. Apple's quarterly results are later today, so we might hear more about the deal. This is something of a blow to ARM, especially with the mobile chip market heating up recently, with forays by Intel and Nvidia adding to competition from established players like VIA."
The most fun I had Twittering the election last night was immediately seeing the three Abercrombie & Fitch guys dudes standing behind Obama. Coinicidence? Conspiracy? Product placement. Either there... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:40 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber-criminals are behind a dramatic rise in stealthy programs called "trojans" that infect computers to sell rogue software, send unwanted email or steal personal data, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:39 pm
captcha_fun writes "Researchers at Penn State have developed a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA technology for next-generation computer authentication. A user is asked to pass two tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite image, and (2) annotate an image using a word selected from a list. These images shown to the users have fake colors, textures, and edges, based on a sequence of randomly-generated parameters. Computer vision and recognition algorithms, such as alipr, rely on original colors, textures, and shapes in order to interpret the semantic content of an image. Because of the endowed power of imagination, even without the correct color, texture, and shape information, humans can still pass the tests with ease. Until computers can 'imagine' what is missing from an image, robotic programs will be unable to pass these tests. The system is called IMAGINATION and you can try it out." This sounds promising given how broken current CAPTCHA technology is.
Google is being sued by an American private investigator over claims a glitch in the search giant's auction-based advertising programme. By Jemima Kiss Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 11:59 am
This month there have been more than a few noteworthy new and updated Treo and Centro software titles for both Palm OS and Windows Mobile which I wanted to share with you. Also, as part of our April Software... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
Data storage vendor EMC Corp. says its first-quarter profit dipped 14 percent on acquisition-related charges. But it posted a double-digit revenue gain that beat Wall Street forecasts. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG on Wednesday reported a wider second-quarter loss because of a weak performance from memory-chip unit Qimonda AG. It was Infineon's fifth consecutive quarterly... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:53 am
Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - all of her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream (and were... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - all of her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream. Friends... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
Hulu.com's approach may be counterintuitive but it gets its content - and its advertising - shown all over the web as a result Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:47 am
Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has put together a list of thousands of .com domain names owned by Google, based on an analysis of root zone file. They then verified the most interesting ones with WHOIS... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:39 am
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Wednesday reported a 48 percent drop in first-quarter net profits, citing slower sales growth in some of its markets. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:35 am
Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter performance was a little like Goldilocks' favorite soup _ not too hot and not too cold, and that has set the table for a bitter battle over Microsoft Corp.'s... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:33 am
SAN DONATO MILANESE, Italy (Reuters) - Microsoft's chief executive reiterated on Wednesday that the software giant stood by its bid for Yahoo and would "move forward" if the Internet... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:45 am
Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree. One down, thousands more to go. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:42 am
The world risks losing new medical treatments for osteoporosis, cancer and other human ailments if it does not act quickly to conserve the planet's biodiversity, a senior United Nations... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:40 am
WiglyWorm writes "MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson sent out an email to all users of the online music backup and place-shifting service MP3tunes.com, asking them to help publicize EMI's ridiculous and ignorant lawsuit against the company. EMI believes that consumers aren't allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service."
BONSALL, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- nGAP Incorporated, an innovative supplier of procurement solutions to the Federal Government, announces its unique low cost... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
Narrative Fallacy writes "Relatives and friends will use a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones in Australia's eco-burial site on bushland attached to Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery, in New South Wales. Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, the deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary. 'It's an ideal way of utilizing land and helping wildlife and vegetation,' said Kris Whitney, Lismore Council coordinator of cemeteries. 'A family can walk around the bushland and pick a site. The body can be oriented in any direction. We promise there will be no internments within five meters. We'll record accurate GPS co-ordinates.' Families visiting graves would be lent a satellite navigation device. This will be Australia's fourth 'natural burial site' with existing sites in Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia."
Taliban fighters are blowing up telecom towers, hoping to foil NATO-led forces who from hunt them down via cellphone signals. Afghans are fuming. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The last F-117A Night Hawks in the U.S. arsenal get a low-profile send-off before being decommissioned. Not everyone... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The Internet and the TV show have long had a symbiotic relationship. Just ask 'South Park's' creators. O N last week's episode of "South... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Analysts say the results and projections are not strong enough to force Microsoft to raise its takeover offer. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
However, the federal proposal bars California from regulating auto greenhouse-gas emissions. Proposed federal... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
A U.S. appeals court overturns an FTC order accusing the chip maker of violations with its technologies. A U.S... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
At the 2008 Bent Festival for experimental electronic music, Xeni encounters Krach der Roboter ("Noise Robot"), who brings a message of peace, crackers, and chaotic tonal algorithms for all mankind.
"Why do humans love robots so much?," Xeni asks him. "Actually, people love animals, babies, and robots," Krach replied. "But animals make turds and babies cry, while robots do none of those things."
Today's episode includes gratuitous references to the spectacularly crappy 1979 movie "Starcrash," starring David Hasselhoff and Christopher Plummer. Special thanks to Make, which sponsored the event, and to Andreas Stoiber and Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom.
MORE circuit bending video goodness: filmmaker John Fox attended the 2007 Bent Festival in Los Angeles, and shot this fun mini-documentary about the instruments, the technology, and the participants: Video Link.
An anonymous reader writes "This may be an interesting take on creating long-term storage technologies. A team of researchers at UCSC claims to have come up with a power-efficient, scalable way to reliably store data for a theoretical 1,400 years with regular hard drives. TG Daily has an article describing this technology and it sounds intriguing as it uses self-contained but networked storage units. It looks like a complicated solution, but the approach is manageable and may be an effective solution to preserve your data for decades and possibly centuries." Nice to see research on this using the kinds of real-world figures for disk lifetimes that recent studies have been turning up.
One of the best songs ever combined with one of the most whimsical roadside advertising gimmicks equals a video of pure joy. Created by Lex10, who says:
I drive a 12 year old Pontiac convertible to my place of work, so I get quite the panoramic view. I was waiting for the light to change across from a storage complex, when I noticed how the end of Cream's "Glad" matched so beautifully with the tube man on top of the storage complex's roof as he waved his pneumatic arms and whipped his pneumatic head back in an unbridled expression of glee and air-filled pride.
Trip hop stalwarts Portishead return with their first full-length in more than ten years. Also, Beauty & the Geek pairs nerds with bombshells, and the butt-shaking sounds of Santogold.
Studies show that caffeine drinkers on this side of the pond are doing it wrong, and that it's more effective to sip in small doses than to gulp it all down in one shot.
A Danish company called Agroplast has figured out how to turn pig-piss into plastic and into a cigarette "flavor enhancer":
Transforming farm waste into plastic precursors is potentially attractive over other bioplastic ideas because the feedstock effectively has no value. In fact, it has negative value because animal waste must be disposed, which costs money. Some other bioplastic companies make their resins out of corn starch.
Tøttrup claims that the process could, conceivably, result in plastics that cost a third less than conventional plastics made from fossil fuels. That's a big conceivably. Traditionally, bioplastics made of vegetable matter have cost more than fossil fuel plastics. Evaluation of the pricing will have to wait until large volumes of this stuff are made. Agroplast is going into a pilot study now, Tøttrup said.
Oscar sez, "Amnesty International waterboarding ad, where they actually filmed someone really getting waterboarded. The ad will play in movie theaters starting on May 12th. This is part of their 'Unsubscribe Me' campaign. They had released another video a couple of months ago of a guy getting put into a stress position."
Amnesty's 90-second film, called Stuff of Life, opens in slow motion with stylish shots of crystal-clear water and an upbeat soundtrack in the style of a typical mineral-water TV ad.
However, after lulling viewers the ad transforms into an interrogation room where a man is strapped to a table being subjected to waterboarding. Waterboarding involves first tying detainees to a board face-up and tilted backwards, then pouring water over the face and into breathing passages to simulate drowning.
"For a few seconds our film-makers did this for real, they poured water up the nose and into the mouth of someone who was pinned down with his head tilted back," said Sara McNeice, campaign manager at Amnesty International UK.
"Even for those few seconds it is horrifying to watch. The reality, in a secret prison with no one to stop it, is much, much worse."
People who bought music from the MSN music store have been royally hosed by Microsoft: as of today, if you buy a new computer, or refresh your hard-drive, you have to kiss all your music goodbye. Microsoft has shut down its DRM "license server" and left people who bought music -- instead of downloading it from a P2P site -- out in the cold. All those years the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM attached managed to totally discredit the idea of buying music at all:
MSN Entertainment and Video Services general manager Rob Bennett sent out an e-mail this afternoon to customers, advising them to make any and all authorizations or deauthorizations before August 31. "As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers," reads the e-mail seen by Ars. "You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play."
This doesn't just apply to the five different computers that PlaysForSure allows users to authorize, it also applies to operating systems on the same machine (users need to reauthorize a machine after they upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, for example). Once September rolls around, users are committed to whatever five machines they may have authorized—along with whatever OS they are running.
Here's a neat trick: drip food coloring into a pan of milk, then add some dish-soap to set off a psychedelic, animated chemical reaction that'll have 'em agog with delight!
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(via Neatorama)
Stephen sez, "From its first story published free to the web August 1st, 2005, the flash fiction website 365tomorrows.com has posted a new piece of short science fiction to the web every day since and will post its 1000th story Apr 26th, 2008.
The site continues to publish daily from a combination of staff writing and select submissions from amateur writers from around the world.
A reader commented, 'An idea while stuck at a traffic light has spawned 500,000 words... of course that only counts the stories you've accepted. It's also interesting to think that you've gotten a thousand unique futures from a bunch of amateur writers. Pretty neat.'"
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(Thanks, Stephen!)
David Gerard writes "Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. It will cost 20 Euros, and 1 Euro from each copy will go to Wikimedia. They're editing down the most popular 50,000 articles for the 1,000-page book, to be released in September. Because of the open-source origin of the material, the publisher cannot claim copyright in the book." The German-language Wikipedia is second in size only to the English version, which has 2.3 million articles.
Nothing satisfies the geek's need for electrolytes, caffeine, B-12 and a wicked sugar high all at once like a can of neon green goo. Learn to determine which energy drinks are most worthy of your buzz -- and which ones to avoid -- in Wired's How-To Wiki.
PDQ Back writes to tell us about an email Microsoft sent to former customers of MSN Music today. The company said it would be turning off the DRM servers used to authorize playback of music purchased from the now-defunct MSN Music store. "'As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers,' reads the e-mail. This doesn't just apply to the five different computers that PlaysForSure allows users to authorize, it also applies to operating systems on the same machine (users need to reauthorize a machine after they upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, for example). Once September rolls around, users are committed to whatever five machines they may have authorized — along with whatever OS they are running."
Google teams up with National Journal to map and decode Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary with real-time results by race, religion and age.
bfwebster writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal to remove class-action status for the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit that has already resulted in some embarrassing internal e-mails being released publicly. As Computerworld reports, in its appeal to the US Ninth Circuit Court, Microsoft argued (among other things) that 'continuing the lawsuit might mean new disclosures of insider e-mails, which could "jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill" and "disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners."' Given what's been released so far (158-page PDF), not to mention Microsoft's history of rather frank internal e-mails, that's probably putting it mildly. There could be some interesting reading ahead."
From the joystick to the QWERTY keyboard, there have been countless controls invented to interface with gadgets over the years. Here are the finest five of those interfaces ever created.
French Horn Hero? Well, maybe not, but the ridiculously popular Guitar Hero is going to include other instruments and even vocals. So says CEO Bobby Kotick.
With new reports that there's a 99 percent chance of "The Big One" hitting the Bay area within 30 years scientists are hoping to crowdsource earthquake detection by turning your accelerometer-enabled MacBook into a seismometer.
