Hoping not to follow in the footsteps of Intel's announcement of the 800MHz FSB Pentiums last week, AMD is set to release it's new 64-bit chip on Tuesday. An article on CNet lays out the stakes for Intel's competitor.

For those of you who recognize the name, it probably comes as no surprise that Burt Rutan, creator of the VariEze, a pioneering kit aircraft, has set his sites on the X Prize (a . His new endeavor, Space Ship One, is described in an article on Space Today, with links …

A story in Asia Times goes into some detail about the current state of online news reading and readership. Of particular interest are comments about a number of publications that are starting to see their businesses turn profitable (including the NY Times). The article attributes some of this change to …

The Register is reporting in an article that Microsoft has a problem with it's Office 2000 products that is causing people who have site-licensed version of the product to register or be cut off from using the product. To add insult to injury, it appears that after the grace period …

The BBC News has a fun and timely article about "Easter Eggs" in software and on DVDs.

Networking products and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) manufacturer, Cisco is preparing to release a VoIP wireless phone that uses 802.11b (WaveLan) technology to communicate with the internet. According to an article from InfoWorld, the new phone (called the 7920) will be intended for LAN use in corporations, but there are talks …

A report by Wired from the 2003 New York International Auto Show discusses upcoming hybrid cars from various manufacturers, including an SUV from Ford. The Ford Escape Hybrid, to be sold to consumers in Summer of 2004, will reportedly get nearly 40 miles to the gallon, almost double the fuel …

At the RSA conference this week, leading network and computer security participants are meeting to discuss issues of importance from privacy to security. Among the discussions is a proposal to create the Generally Accepted Information Security Principles (GAISP) which would be the computer security equivalent of the Generally Accepted Accounting …

CNet is reporting in this article that the Consumers Union (non-profit publishers of Consumer Reports) and the Consumer Federation of America are up in arms over recent moves by cable companies to bundle their internet and cable services. At the heart of the matter is whether the companies are unfairly …

I'm tempted to agree with the analyst quoted in the article on CNet who commented about UPS's new Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) that "It reminded me of 'shock and awe. There are just so many different kinds of weapons, tools and technologies." The device connects to 6 networks, including …

For those of you who can't get enough cooling for your wicked-fast PC's, OCTools has released information about a "Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Fluorinert" cooling system for a PC they recently built. They've pasted warnings all over the site due to the dangerous nature of the substances used in the experiment …

According to this story on MacRumors, Apple's much-rumored music service is nearly ready to go. Reports indicate that 5 major labels have signed up to provide their tunes for a fee to Apple for use in the service. This accompanies recent stories that Apple may be buying Universal Records from …

Adding to their existing Borders and Starbucks locations, T-Mobile has signed an agreement with Kinkos to provide HotSpot access points inside of their stores. This agreement will provide an additional 1500 locations for T-Mobile's HotSpot system, bringing its total to nearly 4,000.

The CDC has extensive information online about SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), including a press release announcing that they have completed sequencing the coronavirus that is at the heart of the disease. There is actually a PDF of the nucleotide sequence and more detailed information of the other universities and …

According to reports from CNet, the new P4 (talked about on this site this morning) has been delayed due to a "glitch" in its production or design.

From the "deeply cool, but questionably usable" file, comes a report from Brighthand.com about virtual keyboards to be released later this year. The devices use lasers to project the keyboard onto "any" flat surface and then pick up your "keystrokes" from that surface and feed them into the computer …

A new review on Tom's Hardware gives the once-over to the new chips from Intel that have an 200MHz (quad-pumped to 800MHz) bus. The article's conclusion is that you see some substantial gains for data-heavy apps, but many others see only marginal gains from the new FSB. I found the …

An article on SlashDot describes an emulator for HP calculators that is actually being supported by HP with ROMs. However, the site that it points to has been slashdotted, so we won't be able to fill in more info for a little while.

Lucent Technologies (formerly Bell Labs) is the object of a lawsuit by Microsoft to nullify some of its patents for audio and video conferencing technologies. The dispute apparently started when Lucent sued Dell and Gateway over infringement of these patents. The two companies asked Microsoft for cover, since the technologies …

There is a new site (on the UIUC campus) that details the $97.8B cases against 4 college students filed in the last few weeks.