An article on The Mortuary Portal. The article has a bit of information about the phone versions of Everquest:Hero's Call (pun intended, no doubt), Ultima Online, and Wizardry, all set to debut soon. It also mentions an upcoming phone version of Neverwinter Nights, including an article from Intel on …

Is your iPod starting to run out of juice faster? If so, you might be interested in checking out the battery[1] from Laptops for Less. They have complete installation instructions for the replacement batteries as well. Link no longer available. ↩︎

An article from Infoworld details the moves by a Boston company, 321 Studios to sue nine movie companies in order to prevent them from suing them later over potential DMCA violations.

If you are a current DirecTV customer with an account in good standing, the company wants you to beta test new systems. Click here[1] for the information from Beta News. Original link (http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1051091353) no longer available as of 2025-12-22. No reliable archive …

An article[1] in eWeek details many of the upcoming features in Apple's just-announced Panther version of its operating system. Many rumors see additional light in this description, but we'll really get our best view of it in late June when Apple unveils the OS at the annual WWDC conference …

CNet is reporting that the Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone provider Vonage customers will soon be getting a service that most local telephone customers expect to have everywhere these days, 911 routing services. Because of the way that VoIP calls are handled, there is no direct interaction with the local …

One must wonder if Napster's VC, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, had any idea that backing the company would end up producing a lawsuit from EMI and Universal Records for "provided a safe haven for the rampant piracy of copyrighted works on an epic and unprecedented scale...Hummer Winblad knowingly facilitated …

A report from Wired describes some of the geeky features of the 2004 Audio A8 sedan. Audi's flagship vehicle will contain 2 LCD displays and a potpourri of various toys and gadgets, including: solar-powered air conditioning that acts while you are away from the car, heated door locks (to keep …

After the big "Oops!" last week, InfoWorld reports that Intel has resumed shipment of its new 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processor.

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.

Those who travel to San Francisco will be pleased to hear that BART has announced[1] that they will begin providing service to SFO by June 22. Just in time for Apple's WWDC in June. Original link (http://www.bart.gov/news/features/news_8466.asp) no longer available as …

With the theories about Apple's upcoming music offerings garnering more momentum every day, the company has now sent out invitations for a special event on April 28. It appears, from an article on MacCentral that invitations have been sent out and we will all know next week.

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 …

An interesting note on OSNews points at a story coming out of Korea that some of the newer multiprocessor Macintoshes actually have a functioning USB 2.0 subsystem. The theory is that they are only lacking a driver for it.

I will admit to having started in to Holes with almost no knowledge of the film. I had seen part of the preview once and had read no reviews or synopsis prior to entering the theater. This, by the way, is the way I like it. I'm one of those …

I'm not sure what credibility to give this, because it is self-sourced by Black Box Voting, which is a self-admitted critic of electronic voting systems, but there is an interesting Interview on the site.

For those Macintosh OS X aficionados who are interested in putting more Unix- like services on their machines, this weblog entry on MacDevCenter (courtesy of O'reilly) has a good comparison of the current state of the art of the two big competitors in this area, Darwin Ports and Fink.

Another dark day in what is becoming a dark year for privacy advocates. An article on CNet reports that the US Government has once again sided with the Recording Industry Association of America in yet another example of dissolving rights to privacy in this country. At issue is the appeal …

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 …