For all you Opera fans Opera 8 has been released. I don’t use it, but you might.

No doubt you’ll see this in a few places today, but it appears that this is real and not some April Fool’s Joke after the fact.
Mike Chambers of Macromedia says that their companies are coming together, Adobe says they are acquiring Macromedia. Either way you look at it, the two are coming together in […]

I’ve heard of this kind of thing before, but really only when people hand-crafted bogus research papers.

Jeremy Stribling said on Thursday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with nonsensical text, charts and diagrams.
The trio […]

A group of researchers at MIT’s Physical Language Workshop have created a wearable computer system that allows owners to monitor their dogs’ behaviors and capture their social networks. The system is, oh so cleverly, called Social Networking for Fur, or SNIF.

When out for a walk, the canine’s collar flashes a unique “collar tone” […]

Internet search leader Google Inc. late on Monday announced a test service for finding local restaurants, stores and other businesses via Web-enabled cell phones and other mobile devices.

I think it has gotten to the point that if Google doesn’t announce a new project every week then there stock price will drop. This is starting to […]

A tiny speck of zircon crystal that is barely visible to the eye is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.
For the first time ever, the public will have a chance to see the particle Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where researchers in 2001 made the […]

AOL’s Autofix software sends your long distance bill into “high speed”

Yeah, I know crazy title, but I am working on 4 hours sleep and am feeling a little frisky this morning. I came across this thread over at the Red Hat People blog and the funny stuff has nothing to do with the entry itself. The entry talks about security or something, I don’t know […]

The problem with reporting this kind of stuff on April Fool’s is that it’s tough to take it too seriously, but then again, Google announced Gmail last year on April Fool’s. In any case, the Uber Geeks are reporting that Google is implementing infinite space on Gmail accounts.

According to the “New Features” page from within […]

Is it possible to robotically construct a house? Maybe, maybe not, but Behrokh Khoshnevis, an engineering professor, sure seems to think so. He has even completed a prototype for automated building of concrete walls. From there, he believes a revolution of building construction as we know it is possible.

Ultimately, it would work […]

Here’s something for the “boggles the mind” category. Scientists have now created scales that are able to detect weights as small as a zeptogram (10^-21 g). That’s roughly the equivalent of a single protein molecule (yes, a molecule, people).

The key to the scales is a small blade that vibrates in a magnetic field, […]

What a great year it has been so far for small tech companies. All the search companies seem to be actively scooping up anyone they can find in order to one up the competition. The latest lucky bastard is Urchin, a Web analytics company.
Google says they are going to use the technology to help advertisers […]

Jeremy Zawodny reports that Yahoo! 360 invites are now being given out. Not that I have that much interest to get one since enough my information is spread around all these damn sites, but someone might be looking to get in on the latest craze (and it isn’t a craze now, but since I just […]

A U.S. court has told Sony to halt sales of its Playstation consoles and pay $90 million in damage to Immersion Corp, a California tech company. Obviously shares of the tech company have jumped since the news (5% at last count).

For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations as the order — which […]

This is just plain funny.
Firefox experienced the shortest periods of vulnerability due to the development model of Firefox. As for IE…

By comparison, the scanner showed Microsoft’s IE enjoyed only seven days without being subject to any known vulnerabilities, between 12 and 19 October.

Even more interesting is that security experts were more willing to report vulnerabilities […]

Damn, if this isn’t an exciting year of competition for everyone! Yahoo buys Flickr. HP buys Snapfish. Google does what Yahoo does and refers to these as ’side projects’. Well now we are back to the desktop search phase of the game and Yahoo is updating their’s by allowing users to index both offline and […]