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 that they will begin providing service to SFO by June 22. Just in time for Apple's WWDC in June.

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 …

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

Check out the article from CNN about a new set of dolls, including one of the Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.

According to a report I just heard on CNN, the movement from to a medium terror threat has relaxed flight restrictions in Chicago and New York, but not in DC or at the Disney theme parks. Question: What do the three have in common?

For the weird news of the day, here's a great article from Yahoo. Apparently this guy parleyed $800 into $350M with a series for 126 high-risk trades over the period of 2 weeks. When arrested, he claimed to be a time traveler from 2256

The US Federal Trade Commission has begun the process of going after a porn spammer who has amassed about 50,000 complaints (while apparently making about $1M in commissions) by sending spam with misleading subject lines. This is the latest in a series of spam-related actions taken by the FTC …

Industrial Light and Magic(ILM), George Lucas's special effects house, is reportedly using real-time preview capabilities to show the integration between CGI characters and the actors within seconds of the original take. An article from the Sydney Morning Herald gives some interesting details.