Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, September 11, 2004 Fear drives "Longhorn" When Microsoft's future operating system, code named "Longhorn,'" finally does rear its head, it may be a bit more anti-social than you'd prefer. According to a story on CNET's news.com, Microsoft is building in provisions to block out all those little giggly attachy things (like iPods) that we all seem to so love. The IT side of co..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, September 04, 2004 End of the world is nigh? Okay, it's the beginning of September. How come the October issue of Computer Shopper showed up in my mailbox? No wonder Stan Veit seemed to know the dark and terrible secret this issue contains. (This isn't the cover for that issue. The CS website is a bit behind.) If you're on the advance list, you know by now so feel free to c..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, August 28, 2004 Hybrid car owners fuming over low gas mileage! Hybrid car owners natonwide (yes, all 9 of them) are incensed over the low gas mileage they've been seeing from their super efficient vehicles. It seems that claims of 46 - 70 miles per gallon are falling far short --about 40% short to be more exacting-- of the EPA estimates.Hey, green guy! Welcome to the club...

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, August 20, 2004 More better PC power! If there was one area of your PC that you could change for the better, what would it be? All right, let's cut to the chase --it's the power supply. Why? Because aside from becoming a bit more stable and a bit more powerful over the years, the average PC power supply remains a metal box with a whole bunch of wires sticking out of it. A ple..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, August 14, 2004 Wireless Paint ain't so new If you're amazed and thrilled by Alice's mention of Wireless Radio Wave Blocking Paint below, then you're probably not that old. Back in the Geriatic Age, we had radio blocking paint by the truckload, available for under $3 a gallon. It had lead in it. Not only did it block radio waves, but it did a darn good job as shielding agai..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, August 06, 2004 Lightning Jolts Teen Working on PC Source: AP: "A teenager working on his computer was jolted by a lightning strike that hit his family's home. Mike Bergeron, 15, of Council Bluffs was in the basement of the home about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday when lightning struck the roof of the house, traveled through the electrical lines to the computer and shocked him."Linda..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, July 31, 2004 Sony VAIO Pocket I've been a little slow lately so when Sony introduced its VAIO Pocket mp3 player with a 20GB hard drive in May it slipped under my radar. I admit it, Alice is the gadget freak. When I write a note in my Palm I have to not wash my hand until I've done whatever the note says to do. But back to Sony...This little thingie will hold 26,000 mp3 son..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Dullest Blog in the Universe? If it ever, ever crosses your mind that we could come up with more interesting stories here, may we point your attention to the self-proclaimed Dullest Blog in the World? # Permalink Posted at 8:59 AM 0 comments Email this Link Where'd I Put..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, July 17, 2004 Alice Does Thailand (But not that way!) High Tech Report Department: OK, so riding an elephant may not be the most high tech thing you have ever seen, but consider this. In Bangkok where this is being written and posted live, Alice is enjoying high speed WIRELESS Internet access in her hotel room, and her Blackberry was actually working in the jungles of the M..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, July 09, 2004 Video Toombstones? This must be bizarre technology week, but Robert Barrows has filed a patent application for a hollow headstone sporting a touchscreen LCD panel. Powered by the cemetery's lighting system, the headstone also has a storage device with the departed's final message.We will skip the obvious comments on hard drive failures, the inevitable and especi..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, July 02, 2004 Sign Our Guestbook! Hey Gang!Sign our guestbook and say hello to the whole A&B community: independent tech lovers like you. Take a sec to say hello.Our webhost calls it a "dreambook" which is really lame sounding and can only make us dream of a better name, but it's free and a great way for you to leave word for all. Sign it! # Permalink Posted at..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, June 26, 2004 Pioneer Dies Bob Bemer, inventor of ASCII, the ESC key, and even the man who named the COBOL programing language died this week at the age of 84. According to Reuters: "He worked for several years for IBM Corp. in the late 1950s and 1960s, and it was there that he helped develop the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a format code use..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, June 17, 2004 Teleportation Breakthrough Wow Dept: Just saw this on BBC News and had to share, "Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. "The ability to transfer key properties of one particle to ano..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, June 10, 2004 New York suit against Microsoft can continue.... Yes, ANOTHER lawsuit against Microsoft.... Same old, same old. It alleges deceptive and monopolistic business practices. The suit "contends Microsoft violated section 349 of the state's general business code. That section prohibits 'deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce' a..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, June 05, 2004 Ronald Reagan Born: February 6, 1911Died: June 5, 2004Movie actorFirst movie: "Love is in the air" - 193752 movie credits in his lifetimeSpokesman for the General Electric Company.Hosted and acted on the General Electric Theater television seriesHost of the television series, "Death Valley Days."Five-time president of the Screen Actors Guild.Democrat turned Co..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, May 27, 2004 Using RFID to Find Lost Golf Balls Have a Ball Dept: For those who hate looking for lost golf balls after a particularly bad slice (not us, of course!) there is RadarGolf, the first RFID solution designed to keep players hitting balls and not backing up the course hunting for them. According to the Radar Golf website, "The system is comprised of an electronica..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, May 21, 2004 Panasonic's Radio Tube Car Stereo Retro Tech Dept: Blending the ancient beauty of the radio tube with the high tech look of an analog/digital button-pushing dial-turning mad scientist console, Panasonic's car stereo is definitely not your run of the mill car CD player. But you have to admit, it certainly keeps your attention. # Permalink Posted at 1..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Microsoft Drops Wi-Fi Product Line In an interesting move-- considering that the entire world is jumping on WiFi, Microsoft announced it was dropping its wireless networking products. The company gave no comment on why.Hmmmmm....... # Permalink Posted at 12:03 AM 0 comments &nbs..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, May 06, 2004 Phishing Attacks Skyrocket PC World has a great piece on the devastation being caused by "Phishing" or spoofing commercial websites by creating a site that looks like eBay for example, but is actually just stealing your identity.According to their article, "The results suggest that as many as 30 million adults have experienced a phishing attack and that 1.78 mi..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, April 29, 2004 Question of the day! If you were to buy a Gateway computer today, would you also purchase an extended warranty?This is a trick question. Take your time. Think about it very carefully. Think about all the news you may have heard about Gateway over the last three months, Think about it in terms of everything that is going on in the economic world. Think about w..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, April 23, 2004 Netflix Via Web by 2005 Now that's what we call forward thinking. According to Reuters, "When Netflix launched in 1999, some 'digerati' were surprised to find that while they could select movies they wanted to see on the Internet, they would have to wait for their selections to arrive by mail. Netflix built a good business on the back of postal workers, collect..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, April 17, 2004 Wi-Fi on Steroids Heads for U.S. Wired News has a great piece on a technology developed by Marty Cooper (father of the first cell phone) called iBurst. It is 100 times faster than a cellular connection, and works up to five miles away from a base station. Broadband One Networks is doing a trial in the San Diego area. If it works, the company plans to roll out..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, April 08, 2004 Disturbing Tech: Eyeball Jewellery Dutch surgeons have found a way to embed little hearts, moons, and other charm shapes directly into the mucous membranes of the human eye. If that doesn't make you shield your eyes in horror, what will? # Permalink Posted at 9:47 AM Email this Link RIM Reaches Profit and One Mi..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, April 02, 2004 Yesterday's Best April Fool's Pranks Wired News has a great round-up of the best pranks online, including the PC EZ Bake Oven (see below), the RC Gasteron Hunger Eliminator and many more. # Permalink Posted at 8:44 AM Email this Link THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, April 01, 2004 Gateway to Close Its 188 Retail Stor..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, March 26, 2004 Superman Issue #1 Off the Subject: Take a tech break and enjoy the first-ever appearance of Superman in the comics. You can buy the issue for $75,000 or enjoy it for free online. Tech Angle (you know there had to be one): This is the best scanning I have ever seen online. The cover looks like you are holding it in your hands. # Permalink Posted at..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, March 18, 2004 Microsoft Excited by Portable Video Players Perhaps it is finally conceding the iPod to Apple, but Microsoft is making sure it won't be left out of the "video iPod" market. Now it just has to cram Windows onto a tiny player and see if the code bloat and bugginess will spell sales. Look for portable MediaCenters to be on sale in Europe by the end of the year...

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, March 11, 2004 Toshiba's New Ultra Light Data Projector You Can Never be too Slim Dept: Those giant data projectors we used to see sweating, balding IT guys hauling through airports are almost a memory, but even the smallest data projectors are still hefty fare when you add in luggage, laptop and a good airport cavity search. Luckily Toshiba just announced a smaller form fa..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, March 05, 2004 Major Breakdown Department, Part Deux! In a stunning turn of events, NEC's speech to speech translator has stopped translating for tourists at Tokyo's Narita Airport and has begun talking to itself. Witnesses say that the button-eyed translator will first utter a phrase in English and then one in Japanese in response. Children have been ushered out of earshot a..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, February 28, 2004 iPod Mini Pricing Backlash What costs nearly $300 and only holds 1,000 songs? Backlash against the iPod Mini's hefty price tag is mounting. Forrester Research claims that a cheapo iPod is unlrealistic thanks to hard drive prices. To become the next Walkman, the price needs to get to $199. Just not there yet. # Permalink Posted at 5:56 PM&nbsp..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, February 21, 2004 8-Megapixel Digital Cameras Debut According to PC World, "Canon, Konica Minolta, Nikon, and Olympus all announced 8-megapixel cameras aimed at advanced photographers.The new cameras are expected to ship this spring and to be priced around $1000." Hmmm, so 8 million pixels is 3264 x 2448 and a picture size of up to 23MBs. In other words, that's huge. # Per..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, February 12, 2004 Move Over Friendster Who said social networking, (the latest internet buzz in case you missed it) is just for people? Dogster is the place to go for pooches looking for love and friendship. Or in other words, just another place on the Web where scary, half-hinged people gather in odd quirk-laced communities. # Permalink Posted at 12:20 PM&nbs..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, February 07, 2004 Tower Records Declares Bankruptcy Venerable Tower Records announced that it was filing for bankruptcy protection as it gave way to the effects of free downloading. Of course, the name Tower Records was dated 10 years ago when people started buying CDs, but being two jumps behind is simply too much. One has to wonder why they didn't launch Tower Downloads a..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, January 31, 2004 Gateway Buys EMachines Once mighty but now mighty struggling Gateway is planning to buy EMachines for $200 million dollars. That's a lot of green to sell low end machines in very high end stores. Or will Gateway simply kill the stores and use the EMachines brand for a nice mail order comeback? Sounds like an expensive way to kick start the cow boxes again...

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, January 23, 2004 Martian rover Spirit MIA NASA has lost contact with the Spirit rover on Mars. Although receiving an acknowledgement signal, NASA has been unable to initiate full communications with the Spirit rover. Experts hope that the problem lies in software which can be remedied by a system reboot and software reload.Unofficially, some believe that NASA's problem occurr..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, January 16, 2004 Mars Lander Records Low Temperature The Spirit Rover recorded a ground temperature of 11 degrees on Mars today giving the Bush administration the perfect argument for further Mars exploration: The folk in Boston need a warmer winter vacation spot. # Permalink Posted at 4:08 PM Email this Link THE LATEST NEWS..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, January 09, 2004 Pranksters Jam Burger King Drive Through Speaker Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. The pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead." # Pe..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, January 03, 2004 Al Gore to sue British Queen...? After hearing that Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web -- or at least better access to it -- was awarded a knighthood in London, ex-Vice President and one-time Presidential candidate Al Gore is rumored to be considering a lawsuit against the English monarchy. Unnamed sources report Mr. Gore saying, "Why, everyon..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Tuesday, December 23, 2003 The Snow Globe Mouse Just in Time for Christmas Dept.: For those who truly have everything (like Bill) comes the Snow Globe USB mouse. Santa can surf the web and fight the snow as your wrist shakes rattles and rolls the snow to a festive flurry. Yule! # Permalink Posted at 5:48 PM Email this Link Citrix buys G..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, December 18, 2003 Intel Inside (Your TV) Best known for dominance in computers and servers, Intel is preparing its chips for digital televisions, internetnews.com has learned. # Permalink Posted at 12:08 PM Email this Link THE LATEST NEWS Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Oh No - the FREE PC is also Back Nothing spelled failure m..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, December 11, 2003 AT&T Joins VoIP Fray NY Times (Free Subscription Required): "AT&T announced that it plans to offer unlimited long-distance and local calling using Internet technology at a lower cost than conventional phone service." I just got Vonage and love it. Let the VoIP wars begin. # Permalink Posted at 11:02 AM Email thi..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, December 05, 2003 Disappearing Ink to Save Paper Toshiba has developed an erasable ink that may someday allow all paper to have a seond or third round in your printer. Consisting of three ink compounds, two combine to create color while the thrid if activated reverses the other two. Translation: the page is wiped clean. Paper waste accounts for over 40 percent of all office w..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Thursday, November 27, 2003 What's so important about the BFG Technologies Sniper Boomslang 2100 mouse? Trying to say the name three times fast is one thing. The other is that it is a mechanical roller with a 2100 dpi resolution. Say what?? Yup. That makes it a SUPER mouse for gaming --but wait, there's more... Hey you left- or right-handed accountants and analysts! Trying to naviga..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, November 21, 2003 For Sale Soon: A Wal-Mart Notebook? Wal-Mart may considering its own line of notebooks according to PC World. The retailing behemoth has approached a Taiwanese notebook maker about whipping up a product line. We'll be waiting for the Safeway File Server. # Permalink Posted at 1:18 PM Email this Link THE LATE..

Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Friday, November 14, 2003 More Environmentally Friendly Autos Not content with hydrogen fuel cells (Doesn't anyone remember the Hindenberg and the Pinto?), it appears that the latest LEV device is an outboard motor for pickup trucks. Oh, wait... At second glance it looks more like a hitch-mounted salt spreader from J.C. Whitney. Just as well. Why would anyone want to putter about in..

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Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWSNovember 30, 2003 You have bail… AOL filed a lawsuit against two of its former employees for allegedly channeling money through real and fake accounts and eventually into their own pockets.One wonders how anyone could think they could get away with such shenanigans until one remembers that Time Warner is under investigation for the way AOL did its books. # Permalink Posted at 6:46 pm No comments &nbs..

Feeling stressed? Try being an air traffic controller for the Los Angeles airport. (Ok, now that deadline doesn't seem so bad.) Here's a cool website and program that monitors LAX air traffic live. You can click on a plane and see the flight number and airline, zoom to 80 miles away or in as close as 5 miles and even replay certain days. Very cool use of Java.

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