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[ News.com ] has an article about some MIT graduates building something anologous to Bluetooth using magnetic fields. Seems like this could be used in some "gee whiz!" sorts of ways but a 4-foot transmission radius seems awful small to be of any wide-scale use. In other news, applications for replacement credit cards and repairs of analog watches seen skyrocketing.
As most of you have realized the content on Geek News Central has been rather slow the last week. I am currently 7 days into a 20 day traveling vacation and have been enjoying every minute of it. I have gotten a couple of real nasty e-mails asking where I have been. Since I launched Geek News Central in May
What is the tone that a black hole makes when it sings? It's a sound so low that it will send chills up your spine. The tone, a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C, which is 256 Hertz. Sounds as low as the black hole singing are detected as pressure waves, rather than as sounds.
For those of you on the east coast getting ready to be slammed by this Hurricane take a look at how big she is. Luckily last reports had the storm down to a Category Three but no matter what this monster is big. [SpaceRef.com]
We all know that when we type in a URL and do a typo we normally will get a DNS error on our browser. Well is seems Verisign in an attempt to re-direct those typo's to a page that have designed will cause havoc in the e-mail arena. This will get very ugly before it's all over and I would
Apple introduced the G4 Powerbooks this morning and there case design engineers continue with familiar sleek design. [ThinkSecret]
IMing, shorthand for Instant Messaging, could waste a lot of valuable business time. Even though IM could be a digital replacement to the office water cooler, replacing the physical congregating to swap office gossip and the athletic spreads, IM seems to be used appropriately.
Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable.
The craziest thing that I've ever heard is to pay spammers not to spam, and that's just what a startup company from San Antonio, Texas, Global Removal (GR), is planning to do. Their theory is that spammers are in business to make money, and that the lowbrows will remove your e-mail address from all of their junk mail lists for a buck.
Seems some people cannot get a handle on Microsoft's patching scheme. Seems pretty straight forward to me. Joe Consumer finds bug reports it and Microsoft cleans up the code and issues a patch. Joe Consumer downloads patch and bug goes away. Hypothetically I guess that is the way it is supposed to work. But after reading the official Microsoft web
I have been holding off on buying a TiVo but being the wife is always looking to save money maybe this will be incentive enough to move from uncommitted to committed. [TiVo] I was kinda hoping that a TiVo exec would see all the nice things we have had to say about there services and give us one. But I
In what can only make the pundits over at the RIAA cringe file sharing networks are all seeing record usage. This comes one week after the RIAA heavy handed tactics where started to be laid down. [The Star Ledger]
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