Source Ireland Online:” Google’s planned free email, set up as a rival to Microsoft’s Hotmail and to Yahoo!, may be facing strong legal opposition after a Calfornian state senator said she was drafting legislation to block the Gmail service. Democratic Senator Liz Figueroa has said that Gmail is ‘an invasion of privacy’, referring to Google’s plan to make revenue from users agreeing to their incoming email being scanned for targeted advertising. Google is being asked to rethink the product, which plans to offer 100 times the storage offered by some rivals.”

Have the waves of love for Google suddenly soured?

Reality TV may not be your thing, but any geek hooked on NBC’s The Apprentice cannot miss the giant PC the gang uses on the show. Wonder about it no longer: it’s the Tek Panel 300 and it boasts an all-in-one design, a 30 inch TFT/LCD panel with built in TV tuner, on board DVD recorder, and a Bose sound system. Drool.

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?

They Don’t Call ‘Em “Crackberries for Nothing Department: Research in Motion Ltd. Annouced that it was profitable and had signed up one million customers. What can we say, we have loved the Blackberry since it launched. To customer number one million, “welcome”, life as you know it has now changed.

Google’s controversial “Gmail” email service is coming under fire from privacy advocates and is facing a potential trademark infringement lawsuit. Bet they wish they could yell “April Fool’s!” now and be done with it.

So you want form and function, huh? Find yourself a microATX motherboard that can be stuffed with the fastest processor in the known universe and then stick that in your Aria. Yes, the odd name series goes on at Antec as it adds yet another case to its line. But this one is cute. Yes, I said cute –at least as cute as a multi-hued cube can be. Now let’s be real. Technically you should be able to carry this thing around, or so they hint. Anyone who’s experienced a Macintosh in a backpack knows better. In the real world, it’s a nice piece of furniture hiding your deepest geek desires. And that’s what you really want, admit it.

NOW you tell me this???
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Here We Go Again Dept: New suggestions that cell phone usage harms red blood cells. Doesn’t a beer kill off millions and a hangover rob red blood cell of water? Can anyone come up with some facts? Call me if you know.