Laptop or portable Unix workstation?. Tadpole Computer's new Sparcle workstation looks like a large home or office laptop and is priced as low as $2,995. The company thinks that's enough to net some new customers. [CNET News.com]
5:40:09 PM    

Deal May Raise Napster From Online Ashes. Napster, the online music service that unleashed an era of music piracy, may be about to make a legitimate comeback. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
5:39:33 PM    

WiFi Road Not Paved With Gold?. A wireless 'land grab' reminiscent of the dot-com days is underway, with operators big and small anxious to plant their WiFi transmitters wherever laptop-toting travelers dwell. Although WiFi is cheap to install, so-called hot spots may still find profits elusive. [Wired News]
5:38:25 PM    

Geek GIs: How the War Was Wired. Servers on the fritz in 100-degree tents. Chat rooms filled with busty blond avatars. Lethal missile attacks. Go behind the lines with the Army's tactical Internet brigade. By Joshua Davis, from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
5:37:56 PM    

Matrix mixes life and hacking. A hack attack depicted in the Matrix Reloaded draws on real world tools and techniques. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
5:37:14 PM    

MCI wins Iraq gig, shovels $500m to shareholders. Iraq saved for GSM [The Register]
5:35:48 PM    

Sony takes leash off robot dog. The Japanese electronics giant unveils software that will allow Aibo owners to control the robot dog through e-mail commands. [CNET News.com]
5:35:13 PM    

Adobe buys audio software maker [CNET News.com]
5:34:35 PM    

MS blesses SCO, licenses Unix. Money go round [The Register]
5:33:54 PM    

The 'Car-Free City' and Slashdot:  computer nerds talk about the pros and cons of a car-free city.  Buried in this discussion is an interesting link to a WWW site called Book of Segway, a Seattle resident who has been using the Segway for nearly 6 months now.

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