A message on the Linux Kernel mailing list accuses Castle Technology Ltd, UK of incorporating portions of the Linux Kernel into their product RiscOS. Now the Linux Kernel folks are going to have to decide if they want to sue or take some other legal action.

The Wall Street Journal reports in an article that a local Great Falls, VA research firm found that most employees spend more time online at home doing work that at work doing personal things. The snippet is about a third of the way down the page and states that the …

According to an article from CNet, the Chinese company Huawai Technologies that was accused by Cisco of creating illegal clones of their equipment has now stopped shipping them to the U.S. for now.

According to an article reported today in the Washington Post, President Bush has signed National Security Presidential Directive 16, calling for the creation of a national strategy for when and how to deploy cyber-warfare. The directive was apparently signed in July, but was only disclosed recently. Perhaps it is a …

General Electric has started shipping materials with Sollx, it's newest plastic that has a glossy sheen when applied with other plastics. An article in Business 2.0 describes recent successes with the plastic in products such as the Segway. GE Plastic's plan is to approach automobile manufacturers who could use …

Boeing announced late last year that its Connexion service would be delivering high-speed internet access to plane travelers in 2003. So far, the trials (mostly with Lufthansa have been going well, with 30%+ of the customers signing up for the service on flights where it is available. The reporter in …

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and co-creator of UNIX, gives his opinions on a variety of issues in this interview from Unix.SE. He comments on things like GNU, the BSD variants and Linux, and tells what kind of things he's up to.

An article on CNET is detailing some more "fun" with patents out there. This time, it is Acacia Media Technologies shaking down companies for the "process of transmitting compressed audio or video online". Once again, the thing that I find most disturbing about this is that the patent claims are …

An article on the BBC site describes experiments in New York and Britain to create messages that "linger in the air." Basically, the idea is that the system sends you an alert via SMS when you approach a location that has messages connected with it.

Tom's Hardware now has a review of the new Intel Centino or Pentium-M technology. The new CPU & chipset architecture is actually a platform for building laptops and incorporates most of the functionality into its base feature set. It may not be the fastest, but Tom's says that Intel is off …

Despite the Challenger disaster this past weekend, NASA is continuing to move forward on some more nuclear propulsion research. According to an article on Wired, NASA is earmarking $3 Billion over the next few years to do research into creating a nuclear-powered electric engine to lift a package into orbit …

Microsoft appears to be having yet more fun with patches to their software. According to an article today on CNET, the software giant is release a new critical patch for Internet Explorer, right on he heels of pulling a patch for Windows NT, and the major patch fiasco that was …

Researchers at AT&T Research Labs have published a paper (PDF) about counting hosts behind NAT devices. The short version is that they take advantage of the poor use of monotonically increasing packet ID numbers in IP packets sent by different hosts to track the number of hosts that are …

In an interesting cross between "research" and marketing, you just have to wonder whether the folks at PC World really thought about their sources before quoting a report from Symantec as being "research" proving that despite the decrease in "cyber-attacks", the net is still a "dangerous" place because of the …

According to the BBC, some recent political debate over Sexual Offences laws in the UK have been censored because of new anti- spam software that has been installed in systems at the Parliament there. The article raises concern over whether the new system is diverting otherwise-appropriate email because it may …

PC Magazine has an article comparing the two common high-speed desktop buses, USB 2.0 and FirewWire. Not surprising, they found that USB 2.0 seldom lives up to the 480Mbps that it advertises and that FirewWire is better for use with consumer electronics devices.

In the ever-growing world of open source projects that are just wrong... comes iPod Linux, a microLinux port to the iPod. Apparently, they now have it booting and playing sound...

An article at Silicon Valley.com includes a good-sized list of evidence for prior art against the frame and link patents that SBC has filed.

The long-rumored demise of dial-up internet may well be underway. According to an article in the New York Times, the big three ISPs (AOL, EarthLink, and MSN) are all reporting slowing subscriber growth or loss of subscribers in the most recent reporting periods. Meanwhile, broadband operators are seeing increases in …

CNet is reporting that the Pentagon and WiFi technology companies have reached an agreement intended to protect military radar frequencies while expanding the availability of WiFi. This agreement will dovetail into the proposed additions to the 5GHz spectrum. Those familiar with the spectrum will note that the 5GHz spectrum (used …