CNet is reporting that the UK's Civil Aviation Authority has released a report detailing the ways in which cellular phone use interferes with airplanes. According to the report summary, the issues are: False notification of unsafe conditions, e.g. incorrect baggage compartment smoke alarm warnings Malfunction of aircraft systems Interrupted …

My brother, Derek (that's Dr. Derek to you), has discovered that there is a problem when using the Ericsson Clicker and trying to do a GPRS connection at the same time. The solution is to "unpublish" the menu to the phone.

Definitely qualifying for the silly, but cute, product contest, the computer here that has a stained glass case made of individual pieces of glass leaded together.

A document on Apple's site details how to set up notes on an iPod, otherwise known as "museum mode". Creators of notes can make an iPod "Notes Only", which provides the user with access only to the iPod's notes (and whatever soundtrack the author of the notes has prescribed …

OK, crash that Internet Explorer! According to this article on Secunia, you can crash IE with only 5 lines of otherwise well-formed HTML. Ouch!

Just in time for the summer concert and party season, CNet reports that Microsoft has rolled out plans for the WWW.C, an MSN kiosk of ass-tronomical proportions (ok, I just couldn't resist, I'm going to rot in hell for that one). CNet has pictures.

I don't have mine yet, but from this link on iPoding, there are recording features built in to the newest Pod. Bonus!

CNet reports that analysts believe that the transition to Windows 2003 server from NT and 2000 may take quite a while. The Gartner Group, an IT research firm, projects that around 60-70% of all Windows servers are still running Windows NT, the predecessor of Windows 2000, the progenitor of the …

In a move intended to push a pet project of O'Reilly, the company has announced that they will adopt the Founder's Copyright, a voluntary program by which authors give up whatever remaining rights exist after the 28-year term originally granted by US law at the time of the founding of …

Got an iPod? Lusting after a new one? MacCentral reports that PowerMax is offering a trade-in program for existing iPod users who want to upgrade.

An article on MobileMag.com gives a snapshot of a new phone from Samsung to be released later this year for use on GSM/GPRS networks. Not a lot of details, but it looks very cool.

For the programmers out there who care about such things, an article on MacOS X Hints shows how to watch an application's Apple Event stream from the console. % setenv AEDebug 1 % setenv AEDebugSend 1 % setenv AEDebugReceives 1 and then open the application from the command line.

An article in Wired captures some of what the industry is saying about Apple's new service. Here are the highlights: Inside sources claim 200,000 purchases in the first day (close to Billboard's 250,000 in 18 hours claim) If true, that would be half of the annual downloads …

With a growing number of competitive providers with similar features, quality, and coverage the consumer is starting to see the benefits of competition in the cellular telephone space. Wired has an article describing some tactics that have succeeded for negotiating with your current provider to get better rates and features …

An article on Space Today confirms that the Hubble is back in business after shutting down yesterday due to a gyro failure. Upon failure, the telescope went in to "safe mode" while scientists and engineers attempted to revive the gyro. Unable to do that, they activated one of the two …

Looking for that technological excuse to drag your old Lionel out of mothballs? Locopalm has a Palm-based controller for your model railroad.

I had the sincere pleasure of attending my first (but definitely not my last) John McCutcheon concert last night at Wolf Trap's Barns of Wolf Trap venue. It turns out that it was also my first time at the Barns, which didn't disappoint either. Holding about 345 people, it …

CNet has an article online about a meeting of bulk mailers and email abuse advocates with the FTC to discuss anti-spam techniques. The article spends most of its time (and apparently the discussion spent much of its time) discussing the legal basis for blacklists (lists of IP addresses on the …

According to an article in the UK's Digit magazine, the European Commission is set to levy fines of up to $3B on Microsoft if a settlement is not reached on anti-trust claims by the pan- European organization.

According to an article on MacCentral, a service called File-Cash is going to debut on June 1 that will use P-2-P technology to sell legitimate copies of music from 100 indy record companies to end users. The system supposedly makes use of encrypted Digital Rights Management technology to ensure appropriate …