To almost nobody's surprise, Apple announced a series of new products related to personal music. In the follow on to "Rip, Mix, Burn", Apple is now encouraging people to "Buy, Mix, iPod". Stay tuned for a series of reviews on the music service and the new iPod (ordered today, hopefully …

An article from InfoWorld reports that the new devices from Palm) may finally start to compete with the latest Microsoft PDA products. At the core of the advances are more memory (64MB), integrated WiFi, and a faster CPU. However, the key feature is the battery life, which is supposed to …

The following article contains language inappropriate for pop stars and this web site, so read at your own risk. In an attempt to inspire what can only be believed to have been guilt in her "listeners", Madonna released a series of new tracks to the P2P service KaZaA last week …

Although it is terrible that the artifacts from ancient Iraq have disappeared from view as a consequence of the war in Iraq (and events leading up to it), there is a story in Wired about an attempt to soften the blow by making a virtual exhibit available online.

In order to fight some of the bad press that Intel is getting about the Itanium processor in comparison to the Opteron processor from AMD, Intel has announced that they will be producing a 32-bit "converter" to allow 32-bit code to run on the 64-bit architecture. The article in Information …

In the first manned space flight since the Columbia disaster, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with one Cosmonaut and one Astronaut on board has docked with the International Space Station on a mission to replace the current crew.

Here are some recent updates on the "progress" of MPAA-sponsored Super-DMCA legislation. Once again, the librarians are at the fore on opposing this legislation.

An article on MSNBC (including audio clip), details the scam by one cramming tele-marketer who may have added insult to injury by altering tapes. Cramming is the act of adding unnecessary charges to a telephone bill by calling the customer under a false or misleading pretext.

An article on CNet describes an odd executive order signed at the end of March that makes it possible to reclassify secrets that had previously been released to the public. In particular, critical infrastructure may be covered by this, including technology like the Internet.

An article on CommsDesign (part of EETimes) describes the work going on to implement and make available RDMA over Ethernet (Remote Direct Memory Access over Ethernet). This struck me as mildly amusing in the context of the recent IP over FireWire work because FireWire is basically a DMA protocol and …

Bulletproof Monk is another martial-arts film starring Yun-Fat Chow (also referred to as Chow Yun-Fat), one of the more successful Chinese action stars. Following in the footsteps of Jackie Chan, Yun-Fat has parlayed a couple of cross-over roles into larger-budget films based in the US with more elaborate special effects …

An article on XtremeTek.com recounts confirmation from AMD that using any form of thermal grease (except Shin Estu G 749) will void the warrant on any AMD CPU.

An article on The Register provides information about the 19 -year-old now being charged with Economic Espionage for giving away DirecTV secrets for financial gain of third parties.

An article on SlashDot indicates that Microsoft is the new home for a free, downloadable version of The Unix Hater's Handbook. The manuscript is nearly 10 years old, out of print and the author appears to be working for Microsoft...

An article on SlashDot details the conundrum for one provider of free material who sees the DMCA as his only choice in stopping the misuse of his material.

There are amusing pictures of the Gnome infestation at an MIT computer lab on the venerable MIT Hacks web site.

Apple is listing the demo for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as available for download.

O'Reilly's MacDevCenter has a nice article on free software available under OS X.

In an article that will remind some of the nay-sayers that not all ideas during the "dot- com" boom were bad, BusinessWeek details some of the successful moves by brick-and-mortal grocery stores to provide online grocery delivery services.

CNet reports that federal court Judge Stephen Wilson has handed down a decision that correctly points out that the responsibility for using a file sharing service illegally lies with the user, not with the file sharing service. "Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose …