27 August 2002

Pocket Classroom WIRED.com -- Developers at Wake Forest University have written software that turns a Compaq iPaq PDA into a mobile, wireless Web server, allowing teachers and students to communicate in new ways in the classroom. While many schools have experimented with PDAs in the classroom -– using them as a substitute for laptop computers, for instance -– PocketClassroom could increase communication between students and teachers during class. x:153 >> downloadable app

Set to Stun Technobabblists Here's an underinformed reporter, who listened to a single account, and wrote a malformed story. The piece conflates many innocuous trends into rampaging, wardriving, warchalking crackers, roaming the streets. Thankfully, Cory Doctorow sets things straight. x:125

Dot-com Dead Pool Pinned by Ford After scrambling around copyright and trademark challenges for most of its existence, F***edCompany.com feels the heat from Ford Motor and the Associated Press. x: 125