The Washington Post reports that AOL has lost over one million customers since last fall. The decline marks a move from price-sensitive customers (about 20%) to cheaper services (like NetZero/United Online) and speed-conscious customers (about 50%) to Cable offerings from their local cable companies or DSL offerings from their …

An article from ComputerWorld has an interesting couple of tidbits in it, including comments from analysts who have said they will forego SCO's opportunity to review the offending Linux code because it requires an NDA, and a comment from Linus where he says the whole situation reminds him of a …

SCO, embroiled in a nasty fight with the Linux community, has shut down their German web site, according to this article from CNET. The move comes after a Linux advocacy group, LinuxTag, succeeded in getting a temporary restraining order in Germany due to what it has called unsubstantiated claims being …

CNET reports that Futuremark has dropped their assertion that nVidia cheated on their latest benchmarks. However, the explanation isn't that compelling.

The Globe and Mail reports that NAC Geographic Products is pushing to get its idea of a world-wide postal code used for physical addressing. Using an algorithm based on latitude and longitude, the company's product can be used in varying lengths to get a more specific address. 2 characters will …

Pioneer Press is reporting that Trepia has released an IM client that automatically creates a buddy list of strangers with similar interests or in close proximity.

The latest beta of AOL's client software (as written about in this article from CNET) includes client-side web caching technology licensed from Inktomi (recently acquired by Yahoo!).

An article in the New York Post states that Apple and Amazon have been in discussions over using Apple's technology as the basis for Amazon's proposed new music service.

Intel has officially announced that the Centrino chips are only compatible with five particular pieces of VPN software and only then when you turn off the "Adapter Switching" feature of the chipset, Wired reports. If you don't turn that off or you use another piece of software, be prepared for …

BBC News reports this morning that the controversial Three Gorges dam in China has started to take on water. The dam has been controversial since its initial announcement. Upwards of 600,000 people have been forcibly resettled and hundreds of towns will disappear as the world's largest hydroelectric plant and …

An interesting article from the land of the rising cellphone, er sun. Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun (article in english here) asserts that due to the growing popularity of cellular phones and the commensurate drop in land-line telephone use, a hard line is the best bet in an emergency.

The Independent reports that a team of Russian and British scientists have created a tape that mimics the wall-climbing capabilities of the gecko.In a fitting display, the team demonstrated the success by hanging a spiderman toy (40g) from a ceiling by a 2mm square patch of the "tape".

Nextel is rolling out a coast-to-coast version of its popular Push to Talk (PTT) service, which lets users have their cell phones operate like walkie talkies on a dedicated channel. As described in this article from CNET, the new service will initially be available to customers in Boston, LA, and …

This site describes "teergrubbing" (from a German word akin to tar pit), a process of grabbing a hold of the spammers connection and holding it until their delivery efficiency drops to nearly nothing, thereby making them feel your pain.

An article from the Washington Post refers to an article from the June issue of the magazine Cell that claims to have discovered the gene that makes stem cells so useful. As usual, the work is very preliminary, but interesting. As an aside, those spending this weekend at NANOG will …

A paper from Rice University describes a method and implementation of creating algorithmic DoS attacks that don't require a large amount of bandwidth to saturate servers. The idea is to attack obvious or hidden hash algorithms (relatively compute intensive) and bring the server (or in one of the cases, the …

Sick and tired of Bluetooth adapters that just don't have the range? This review from MacMerc is of a "Class 1" device from Mitsumi that claims 100M range. Further, the review says he's actually been able to confirm 60 feet, which is pretty amazing all by itself.

CNET is reporting that Microsoft has announced they will drop support for a stand-alone version of Internet Explorer after IE6 SP1. Previously, the company had made a stand-alone version to appease its rivals during the anti-trust case.

A German company has announced AQWON, a hydrogen-powered scooter. They have an English web site that has some further information, but production and cost info is not yet available.

A little bit of topical weekend humor. Thanks to Amanda for passing this on.