Current Articles

• Show: CTIA - it's a wireless world in New Orleans.
• New PDAs: Wired PDAs from CTIA: A new flavor of Blackberry, A Pocket PC from Hitachi for Sprint, and TI answers the perennial question: Where's Wanda?
• Tech Ad: AOL They Can Rebuild Him - Were not buying it, but we love the ad.
• Camera Review: Olympus Stylus 300 - It's all metal, has a 4x zoom...and it's "weatherproof"
• Tech Art/Culture: Matrix Reloaded Trailer This Friday

Other Stories On The Web:

• Science / Culture Popular Science: Bad Science at the Earth's Core: One hundred forty years after Jules Verne imagined a Journey to the Center of the Earth, Paramount Pictures is putting it on screen: The Core hits theaters thsi Friday (March 28). This time around, a crack team of scientists and "terranauts" travels to Earth's core to -- what else? -- save the world from pending annihilation. THe science is pretty terrible, but otherwise it's a fun tech fest.
  NYTIMES: Dot-Com Saviors, Tilting at the World's Ills:  In increasing numbers, high-tech entrepreneurs who grew wealthy during the dot-com boom of the late 1990's — as well as many who didn't — are turning the intense business acumen they once devoted to making money to working for what they see as the global good.
• Computers CNET: Wi-Fi firewall gets U.S. approval: A start-up's wireless security product won approval from a federal standards organization, paving the way for resale by Hewlett-Packard to the U.S. government. Cranite Systems, a 3-year-old start-up based in San Jose, Calif., said its WirelessWall Software Suite, a firewall for wireless networks, had earned the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Space Aerospace Daily: GPS in Iraq functioning despite jamming -  The Global Positioning System (GPS), the linchpin of the U.S. military's all-weather, precision-bombing capability, is functioning despite possible jamming attempts by the Iraqi military, a Pentagon official said March 24.
• Mil-Tech DARPA:  UCAV Block 1 Demos Complete!  The Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) System Demonstration Program is a joint Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/U.S. Air Force/Boeing effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility, and operational value for a UCAV system to effectively and affordably prosecute 21st century lethal and non-lethal Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) and strike missions within the emerging global command and control architecture. The X-45A technology demonstrators are currently verifying the core functionality of the software necessary for these and related missions.
• Photography Imaging Resource: Kodak DCS Pro 14n Digital SLR Kodak emphatically addressed the industry doubters though, when they announced the DCS Pro 14n at last year's Photokina, in September 2002. While it's taken quite a while to make it to market, as of this writing in mid-March, 2003, the first demo units have just now been shipped to dealers across the US. While still not cheap at $5,000, it does set something of a new benchmark for the price of a full-frame digital SLR, and its astonishing 13.7 megapixel resolution has had many prospective users salivating for months now.
• Transportation AutoWeek: 2004 Audi TT 3.2 quattro TT comes of age - No one suggests the 2004 TT 3.2 quattro is a new car. Call it a significant update, the next step in Audi’s relentless quest to meet or beat its primary competition—BMW and Mercedes-Benz—on every field in every theater. Available as a coupe or roadster, with front- or all-wheel drive and two engine variants delivering a maximum 225 hp, the TT provides as much choice as any car in its class, and competitive power to boot.