In a move sure to shake up the cell phone industry, Intel announced that it was going to begin moving seriously into the world of cell phones. Conviced that cell phones have the same properties that PCs do - meaning you buy a new one all the time - the company plans to flood the market with chips that will get more powerful and cheaper. Intel is also backing the new WiMax standard that works up to 30 miles.

According to Newsfactor: “In compliance with court orders in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Lindows has changed its name to Lin—s — pronounced ‘Lindash.’” Microsoft has been fighting the Windows/lindows battle for three years now and actually was dealt a blow when a judge ruled that the term Windows was generic enough to be the “kleenex” of the 90’s, but recent rulings have forced the new name change. Or as we like to say, Lindows, you’re scr—d.

Prince Albert in a Can Dept: What happens when your last name traggers spam filters or worse, strict corporate firewalls? Siliconvalley.com has a great story (true) on the plight of poor Craig Cockburn and his struggle to literally get the word out.

Hopefully you haven’t just finished a meal. Doctors in England have completed a study that makes them very hopeful about maggot therapy. No, it’s not putting a bunch of little squirmy whites on a couch. As we have all been told, antibiotics are becoming less effective as we take more of them. The solution? If you get a cut, clamp on a few maggots and they eat the dead skin and bacteria in the wound. I’m starting to hurl just writing this.

“It’s got global appeal. It’s ludicrously cost-effective and low-tech,” says Dr. John Church, an orthopedic surgeon. He, along with Dr. Rogers and fellow entomologist Dr. Paul Embden, aim to launch magot therapy in Oxford. It is already up and running in one U.S. hospital. “We just have to get past what I call the Yuck Factor,” says Dr. Church. “It’s this immediate reaction of disgust.”

And you thought they were only good for catching carp….

PalmSource Inc. just announed that it was dropping support for Macintosh computers in all future handhelds. They company did say that third party software would be able to provide this support, but it was another sign that the Mac is becming even more of a niche product. “We believe the Mac community will be well serviced by the Mac developers we have out there already,” PalmSource chief products officer Larry Slotnick said.

Great article on Slate, “Thanks to the blistering growth of VoIP services, which have been adopted by approximately 10 million people worldwide so far, law enforcement officials now worry that wiretapping may one day become technically obsolete.” It appreas that the feds are having problems with Vonage and Skype and it many cases tapping a VoIP line is tricky business.

Found this guy who has screenshots of a possible re-design at Google. It’s not very dirfferent, abd even cleaner and more compact, but always fun to see where a familiair UI is going next.

According to this website, MacMerc, all you have to do to snare free iTunes is to tilt the Pepsi bottle and read the cap. Pepsi printed “try again” so clearly that picking a winner is a cinch. This makes it almost comical when you consider the offline piracy aspect in what is noramlly an online problem.