Wireless Gadgets

Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has taken the wraps off a thinner, faster version of its Touch smartphone.
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gihan_ripper writes “Perhaps the ultimate nerd acquisition, the flying car, is to go on sale in a few months. Speaking to the BBC, the inventor Dr Paul Moller described his creation, dubbed the Flying Saucer, as a VTOL aircraft designed to hover at 10 ft. above the ground. The flying saucer has eight engines and […]

Many readers sent in word of Microsoft’s announcement of the schedule for Vista SP1. The Beskerming blog has a good summary. Up to 15,000 people will get access to a beta of SP1 by the end of September; general release is targeted (not promised in stone) for early 2008. The service pack is said to […]

umStefa notes a CBC story reporting that the largest music retailer in Canada, HMV, has slashed prices on CDs and is attributing the move to demand by customers for lower prices. The back catalog of popular artists will see price cuts of up to 33%; the cuts average 20% across the board. The Canadian version […]

thefickler writes “The blogosphere has hit the mainstream, according to a new survey, which reveals that 80% of Americans know what a blog is, 50% regularly visit blogs, and 8% publish their own blog. The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having […]

KentuckyFC sends us to arXiv, as is his wont, for a paper (abstract; PDF preprint) making the claim that 200,000 elliptical galaxies are aligned in the same direction; the signal for this alignment stands out at 13 standard deviations. This axis is the same as the controversial alignment found in the cosmic microwave background by […]

Electron Barrage writes “Longtime JPL scientists, many of whom do not work on classified materials, including rover drivers and Apollo veterans, sued NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce today to fight highly invasive background checks, which include financial information, any and all retail business transactions, and even sexual orientation.”
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An anonymous reader writes “The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint this month with the FTC ‘alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law’. That is, they were aggressively pursuing ‘right’ that they were not entitled to. Now a group, backed by […]

ancientribe writes “Researchers have discovered the Storm Trojan nestled in hundreds of blog sites in Google’s Blogger network, according to an article in Dark Reading. And this isn’t simple comment spam, but actual blogs that post spam, and now, Storm executable files. A researcher who’s been tracking the Storm-infested blog sites says he’s working with […]

An anonymous reader writes “Geek.com has an interview with Nick White, Microsoft’s Vista Product Manager, covering the upcoming release of Vista SP1. The interview goes over some of the new features, how the change will affect admins, and how Microsoft decides if a change should be rolled out as an update or as part of […]