A Buyer's Guide to the New Gameboxes
The Wall Street Journal Online
The big videogame hardware makers – Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo – have weighed in with plans for their next-generation of consoles. Now the question for consumers is which one to buy. More.

German -language spam

E-mail users perplexed by the barrage of German-language spam waiting in their inboxes Monday morning can point the finger of blame at the latest version of the Sober mass mailing worm which began rapidly spreading over the weekend.

EPIC

By the year 2014, what I call newsmasters will be the most sought-after and highly rewarded professional media creators the world has ever seen. View it here.

Summary of this new world.

Major Solaris features slip to 2006

Sun Microsystems has delayed the release of two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its new Solaris operating system.

Future of Pro Digital Photography

Film is portable, durable, versatile. But its arcane chemistry is going out of style.

Yahoo hires legendary Larry Tesler

Tesler, 60, was part of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1973 to 1980 where he helped develop techniques such as "cut and paste" that are now standard in computer graphical user interfaces.

PalmOne Call LifeDrive 'Mobile Manager'

PalmOne has finally acknowledged the LifeDrive, calling it the first in a series of ‘Mobile Manager’ devices that will sit alongside the Zire, Tungsten, and Treo units. The Register quotes a PalmOne spokesperson describing the Mobile Manager series as something “designed for customers who are eager to take full advantage of the trend toward ‘digital everything’ - from documents and email to music, images and video, as standalone files or in organised folders.” That sounds perfectly pedestrian.

Hard drives in PDAs are a good thing, and we applaud PalmOne for being the first major vendor to do so (Sharp’s Japan-only Zaurus SL-C3000 beat them to the punch by a few months), but like other hardware vendors out there looking for a problem for which to sell a solution—we’re looking at you, Nokia—the ‘manage your lifestyle’ crap just sounds like the same thing we’ve been hearing for the last few years. That said, we’ll give them a chance—maybe they’ve got some fancy, streamlined interface that’s going to change the way we manage our multimedia.

Cnet story on LifeDrive Mobile Manager

In the New Game of Tag, All of Us Are It

Will free-style information tagging lead to anarchy? Early results are showing quite the opposite.

The Man Who Brewed Up Java
James Gosling sees new uses for the programming language he created 10 years ago, such as making his home-entertainment system work right.

U.S. Cities Set Up Wireless Networks

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A number of U.S. cities are becoming giant wireless "hot spots," where Internet users will be able to log on from the beach or a bus stop, a trend that's triggering a fierce backlash from telecom and cable giants.

'Tagging' helps unclutter data

Here's how we tend to organize our digital photos: We stick them into a folder on our computer and label it "Hawaii trip," or whatever. Here's a new way: Forget folders or albums. Just "tag" the photos based on what's actually in each frame.

No training wheels needed

Three Purdue University industrial designers tapped into memories of their own childhood cycling misadventures to build a bike that ditches the training wheels but keeps rookie riders stable.

For one Silicon Valley company, hiring Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. Read the report by Katherine Mieszkowski.

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser passed a significant milestone in adoption on Friday, with more than 50 million copies of the program downloaded, according to its distributors.

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Why spelling counts

Be careful typing "Google.com" in your browser, or you could end up stampeded by Trojans horses.

Renaissance robots

photos These days, robots are doing just about everything, from dancing to riding camels to taking people up stairs.

Tiger Takes Center Stage

Tiger has arrived, and we’ve got an in-depth look at the major OS update. First, read details about Mac OS X Tiger and Tiger Server. Then dive deep into Tiger with our Tiger Field Guide, featuring all-new looks at the top 10 features of Tiger, including Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator. And be sure not to install Tiger before reading Ted Landau's Guide to installing OS X 10.4. For all of Macworld's extensive Tiger coverage, visit and bookmark the Macworld Tiger topic page.

Google may base listings on news credibility

Google has plans to dramatically improve the results of Internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than their date and relevance to search terms. New Scientist

Looking for jobs 'Indeed'

Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from hundreds of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from over 500 websites - major job boards, the top 200 newspapers, hundreds of associations and company career pages - and they continue to add new sites every day. Check it out.

Longhorn Blogs

This is NOT a Microsoft site. It is a community-based initiative to spread the word about the next version of Windows, sponsored by Interscape Technologies. Check it out here.