That's no Etch-A-Sketch, that's my WebPAD

Wander about the house as you may, you need never be away from the Internet with Honeywell's WebPAD. You can surf the Internet, send and receive email, and enter information via the wireless touch screen display, as long as you stay within 150 feet of the base station with a broadband Internet connection. With a touch-screen display, the device weighs under three pounds, is about an inch thick and has the dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper. ...more

Botmaster fesses to the Feds

A 20 year old man from California alleged to be a prominent member of the 'Botmaster Underground' has admitted to recruiting armies of 'bot' machines to sends out millions of spam emails. He has also confessed to renting out his botnet so that users were bombarded with pop up ads. Jeanson James Ancheta is said to have illegally taken control of some half a million computers including some belonging to the US military. ...more

Microsoft moves towards open licenses

Microsoft has stepped closer to the Free Software movement with the announcement of three new licences under its shared source initiative. The three new licences are referred to as the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL), Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) and Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL), with the first two also comprising modified versions restricting use to the Windows platform. The Permissive version allows the viewing, modification and redistribution of code for commercial use or other. ...more

Apple ships iPod shuffle reset utility... again

Apple has posted a reset utility for the iPod shuffle first and second generation players. Rather confusingly it's called version 1.0, despite it having released a version 1. ...more

Lite-On Technology to help IBM repair problem monitors

Lite-On Technology has said that the company will assist IBM in repairing recalled G51 and G51t CRT monitors. Lite-On Technology built the faulty monitors for IBM in 1997. Following receiving reports of the monitors overheating and smoking, IBM recalled the products. ...more