iRobot's latest project (swarm project) is to coordinate the actions of groups of hundreds of individual robots. A Swarm Operating System is under development to control as many as 10,000 robots or SwarmBots. Doesn't that remind you of the Borg collectve? [Via Cnet]

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On Thursday, Carl's Jr. launched a special "mini" site touting the Paris Hilton Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger ad that had created a buzz weeks ago.

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Google a choisi la journée où Yahoo sortait ses résultats financiers pour lancer une vaste opération de relations publiques et inviter les journalistes à visiter ses installations.

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HP announced the availability of Gwen Stefani's custom-designed HP digital camera.

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If you're planning on calling in sick for the Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie premiere, you might want to use the tools offered by Geek Squad. You'll find an absentee note - both for work and school - and will be happy to know that Geek Squad has set up "a fully operational workstation. This "docking bay," available during the final week of the line, will ensure that fans keep up with their jobs and lives leading up to the premiere. Geek Squad Agents also will be on hand at the line to provide mobile technological support and counsel." PS: "Geek Squad does not advocate employee truancy. However, we do recognize that wireless Internet access has expanded the boundaries of the traditional office... say, to that line outside of a favorite multiplex."

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"A friend who relocated to California from NY said she missed hearing all the odd variety of music that was played around the office here. "I miss hearing what you all are listening to," she wrote. This "radio" is my response. It will stream for a few hours and then it will recycle. Maybe it will run longer in the future."

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Pour fêter ses 50 ans, le parc d'attractions de Disneyland en Californie va se tourner vers les podcasts. À partir de demain le 3 mai, le journaliste et podcasteur Michael W. Geoghegan présentera des Disneyland podcasts, et ce jusqu'au lancement officiel des célébrations du 50è anniversaire, le 5 mai prochain. For its 50th anniversary, Disneyland Resort in California will podcast the festivities. Journalist and podcaster Michael W. Geoghegan will podcast directly from the 50th Anniversary Press Event, on May 3, 4 & 5, 2005.

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Votre vote ne servira à rien, mais c'est toujours amusant de faire comme si... Vous pouvez même donner votre avis sur le continent d'origine du prochain Saint-Père! Étrangement, les participants ne veulent pas de l'ordination des femmes mais souhaitent que le mariage des prêtres soit autorisé. Your vote won't change a thing but you can give your opinion on a lot of questions regarding the next Pope. Weirdly enough, voters are against the ordination of women but want celibacy for priesthood to be optional.

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This car/airplane/whatever rocks! Imagine a four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that is in fact, a car.

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Yahoo est en train de tester discrètement son service - refait - de nouvelles en ligne... Yahoo is quietly testing its - new - Yahoo News service...

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Après quelques jours d'attente, voici Google Video (beta, évidemment!) qui offre aux internautes de chercher des contenus et de les uploader. Google officially launched its Google Video (of course, in beta!). Search and upload are available.

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For the first time, the Webby Awards will be held in New York this year, instead of San Francisco. Nominations to the "Oscars of the Internet" will be unveiled April 12. Winners will be announced on May 3 and honored at the June 6 event. Pour la première fois, la cérémonie de remise des Webby Awards se déroulera à New York, au lieu de San Fransisco. Les mises en nomination aux "Oscars du Web" seront dévoilées le 12 avril, les gagnants annoncés le 3 mai et ils seront honorés lors d'une cérémonie qui se tiendra le 6 juin prochain.

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John Paul II's death has been widely covered by online media...

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Bloglines launches a service in Klingon Wolfowitz elected World Bank president... Sorry! Wishful thinking :-) Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time Rencontre au sommet: Le Pen à Washington

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Here are two quite unusual keyboards: one with letters in real alphabetical order and one without any letters at all...

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Have fun with the Google bunny...

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NOVA's website now features Wave That Shook the World, an analysis of the tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.

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AudioFeast is offering a commercial-free MP3 90 minute "St. Patrick's Day" special which includes a selection of Irish music featuring U2, Elvis Costello, Enya, The Corrs, Hothouse Flowers, Sinead O'Conner, Rory Gallagher, and The Chieftains.

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On some of its flights, Delta Air Lines will feature Song in-flight entertainment system which includes pay-per-view movies, MP3 programming and video games.

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Japanese compagny Flower Robotics Inc introduced Palette, the mannequin robot.

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P. Diddy will keynote on the first day of CTIA Wireless 2005, March 14. He'll officially open the Fashion In Motion Runway show, which will feature clothing from his Sean John Collection as well as wearable wireless products and will announce his plans for wireless content.

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You can now customize your Google News page by rearranging content, showing only headlines and adding a custom section. Il est maintenant possible de personnaliser la page des Actualités Google en changeant l'ordre d'affichage du contenu, en ne choisissant d'afficher que les titres des nouvelles et en créant des sections de nouvelles sur mesure.

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Larry Flynt announced that, following the success of Hustler Mobile in Europe, mobile content will be offered to customers in North America and Asia.

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Here's a service that transmits voice messages into space!

Photo: © Talk to Aliens

The new flash memory Network walkman range from Sony features ATRAC3plus sound, direct MP3 playbacka 3-minute recharge for 3 hours of play and a glowing Organic EL (electro-luminescence) display. All three lines- the NW-E100 series, mid-range NW-E400 series and the high-end NW-E500 series - are available in capacities of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB and will be launched in March and May 2005.

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The Irish Pubs Directory now offers a directory of Irish pubs located all over the world for PDAs (zip file) and iPods (zip file).

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Seems like Google (especially Google Ads) is down this morning. So are Blogrolling, Ping-O-Matic, Yulblog, Hosting Matters and Yahoo.com. Does anybody know what's happening?

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Did you know that, according to Catholic law, you do not have to be a Cardinal or even a Priest to become the Pope?

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A new service allows Skype users to send SMS text messages from within Skype Chat to any GSM mobile phone user. Introduced by Connectotel, Skype to SMS is free of charge for the SMS messages sent, for the duration of the Beta test - as long as you've registered with the service.

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Bonne nouvelle via Micro Persuasion: l'Associated Press se met à offrir des flux RSS directement via son site! Un bémol, malgré des versions française et allemande du site, les fils RSS ne sont offerts que pour les nouvelles en anglais. Good news from Micro Persuasion: the Associated Press is offering its own RSS feeds. Unfortunately, for now, eventhough the AP has websites in German and French, the feeds are only available in English.

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On Feb 23, Christie's will auction 1411 items in about 250 lots of rare documents and technical relics.

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People can now share their secrets anonymously on the web, by sending a homemade postcard to a blog.

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Valentine's Day is the second-biggest card-sending occasion of the year after Christmas. No wonder Hallmark's website crashed early this morning, and is still down this afternoon.

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The Yahoo! toolbar beta for Mozilla is available as a free download. "It includes many of the same features as the Yahoo Toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Yahoo officials said. The initial Firefox toolbar beta is specifically for Windows and will not include Yahoo Anti-Spy, a spyware-fighting tool added into the IE toolbar last year. But Yahoo plans to build Mac OS X and Linux versions and extend Anti-Spy to the Firefox toolbar "shortly," the company announced." La barre d'outils Yahoo! pour Mozilla (en version beta) peut être téléchargée gratuitement. Les services inclus sont presque les mêmes que ceux disponibles avec la barre d'outils développée pour Internet Explorer. Pour l'instant, elle n'inclut pas l'outil anti spyware mais Yahoo a l'intention d'offrir une barre d'outils pour l'OS X et Linux et d'inclure l'anti spyware dans la barre d'outils pour Mozilla.

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Juergen Broether, a german inventor, wanted to stay in touch with his dead mother. He patented a system - on sale since last December - consisting of a one-way phone and loudspeaker device that can be buried close to the person's coffin, and will transmit a voice message into the tomb for a period of up to a year.

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Mark Wright, Boom Bags president, introduced a stereo luggage.

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Dan Myrick, director of The Blair Witch Project is launching The Strand, an independently produced series, specifically created for the web.

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Sega Toys is launching, on April 2, this cute little dog-looking robot. Sega Toys va lancer, le 2 avril prochain, ce mignon petit chien robot.

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This morning (Jan 25), Google will introduce a new video search service. This index will be operated separately from the search engine offered on Google's home page.

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David Chien, a Houston artist has come up with something pretty amazing.

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If you use Windows 98 or above and Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, you might want to check out the new free Yahoo ticker. You can choose from over 250,000 RSS feeds, use your existing My Yahoo! settings to track your stocks, news, and weather and search the Web using Yahoo! Search directly from your desktop. [Via CyberJournalist.net]

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jobs.feedster.com offers an "index of job related feeds on the web". From its current sources, Feedster adds over 5,000 job postings to its index daily. "Our organic growth has accelerated as the rapid adoption of RSS continues to move more mainstream. Feedster now indexes more than 3.5 million RSS feeds and quickly approaching 4 million," said Scott Rafer, CEO, Feedster. "Out of that index we deliver tens of millions of search queries monthly from our site, through our network of distributed content providers, and to individual users subscribing to Feedster search feeds."

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This actually might not make Google happy but a portal called Xasa offers RSS feeds to Google News.

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According to Pew Internet and American Life Project, technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts "believe the dawning of the blog era will bring radical change to the news and publishing industry and they think the internet will have the least impact on religious institutions." The whole report in PDF format is available here.

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Next year, snowboarders will be able to switch between their iPOD playlist and incoming calls. Launched at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show, Bluetooth-enabled jackets, helmets and beanies will provide wireless, high-performance connectivity and playability on the slopes for the 2006 winter season.

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If you want to have fun tracking Santa tonight, here are a few sites that will help you! Of course there's the official NORAD Santa tracking website. In 5 languages - including Japanese - you can see where Santa is going. You can even access NORAD's declassified Santa files and see pictures of the guy (sorry! no elves!). There's also the Santa Tracker Navigator, which includes Santa's flight plan, a monitoring screen of his sleigh, a Santa Cam and even a Santa blog! Merry Christmas!

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Russ Caslis made a fully functioning PC that fits inside a vintage Millennium Falcon from Kenner's Star Wars toy line.

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IKONOS satellite has taken more than 1.7 million images of the Earth since its launch in Sept. 1999. This year, the public will determine the "the 10 most spectacular images taken by IKONOS during 2004."

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The second Google doodle (here's the first one) also features bears, but this time, playing in snow...

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Here's the first holiday doodle from Google...

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Conchango, and the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer team are looking for two writers and one photographer to report for the project's website during the next round the world record attempt in January. The journalists need to be free to travel in the US - all expenses paid -, one week in January. Applications can be sent here. [Via dotJournalism]

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Here's a new Yahoo feature that enables you to search for videos. You can also submit your video content here.

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For readers interested in getting live updates from England's PM official website, here's the RSS feed. [Via Scripting News]

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How about an iPod or an iPod mini entirely made of 1000 crystal - one for each downloadable song? If you're willing to spend between $699 and $999... you can get one!

Photo: © Crystalmini

Scary news from The Christian Science Monitor, whose journalist reveals that: "Next year, new US passports will have a chip slipped under the cover, containing biometric and personal data." Security issues have been raised and promptly dismissed by the US government. The worst part of it is that "all countries that are part of the US visa-waiver program must use the new passports by Oct. 26, 2005."

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The fun part of an automated news service and linker is that it can sometimes refer to false news. That's exactly what happened at the beginning of december on Google News.

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With Pornolize, you can turn any website or blog into an adult site. :-) Have fun! [Via Google Blogoscoped]

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Miniket is a digital camcorder, a digital camera, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a PC camera and can store data and is the size of a credit card. "It [also] has a built-in flash memory of one gigabyte that can record up to 68 minutes of video and 18 hours of voice-recorded data, while storing a library of 250 downloaded songs in MP3 form." Developped by Samsung, the Miniket will be sold for approximately $ 750,00.

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On November 22, VotersUnite has "officially launching a presidential recount effort between George Bush and John Kerry. More than anyone we want to put this election to rest, and hope that this recount will help several of our readers have closure. Our goal is to have 100,000,000 votes by January 1, 2005 to see who really won the popular vote. " I really don't see what good will come out of this, especially if Kerry wins the recount. The election is over and the winner has been declared...

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Just enter a keyword you want to track and turn it into an RSS Feed. [Via Google Blogoscoped]

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The idea comes from a Hong-Kong based US company called Artificial Life. Believe it or not, they've come up with a personnalized virtual girlfriend, called V-Girl, that can be downloaded on a cell phone.

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"You are in the top 0.902% richest people in the world. There are 5,945,827,035 people poorer than you. How do you feel about that? A bit richer we hope. Please consider donating just a small amount to help some of the poorest people in the world. Many of their lives could be improved dramatically or even saved if you donate just one hour's salary. Oh, and in case you’re interested you are the 54,172,965 richest person in the world." Go ahead, see where you stand on the Global Rich List! [Via The Red Actor]

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MSN Beta search is now online. According to Microsoft, "the MSN Search index of more than 5 billion Web documents". The search engine is customizable with features such as "search results tailored to a geographic location" and emphasis or de-emphasis of "certain search criteria, such as specific sites or domains, countries, regions, or languages."

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Help.Them.Leave.com is a strange website offering help to Americans that want to leave their countries to escape Bush. "In return for your irrevocable renunciation of your United States citizenship, and a sworn statement that you will never return, we will provide free one-way transportation to one of our politically matched recommended countries on one of the jets we have chartered to provide this service." The countries are: Anarchists: Antartica, Communists: Cuba or North Korea, Leftists: France, Germany, Italy or Spain and Socialists: Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Norway, or Sweden.

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Here's Speegle, a UK-based talking search engine. It reads search results and news and you can even select a male or female voice. Nice! ;-) [Via Bleu Blanc Blog via Google Blogoscoped]

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"Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal. How the time is actually displayed is a whole different matter. A lot of photos have the time written on a crummy cardboard sign, while other photos might have the current time in a more edible format, such as olives. There are photos below sea level and ones over two miles above sea level."

© Daniel Craig Giffen

On its website, Reuters now offers access to what is called the News Room. The sections include: "a list of the 10 most-read stories, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (a weekly sampling of reader feedback about our news), behind the Scenes (first-person insight into covering the biggest stories in the world), exclusives and up-front corrections in stories, pictures, video, and graphics."

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Until tomorrow, you can download Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 in different formats for free on Marc Perkel Rantz. [Via Le fromage de Tartiflette]

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Cute doodles!

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"Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, today announced the availability of an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed of free Web content covering the U.S. Presidential election. Targeting the U.S. government sector, this free RSS feed will continuously update the campaign issues being reported, enabling users to view a three-paned window that allows them to quickly scan campaign issue headlines. If they see an update or issue that interests them, they can easily click on the link to read the entire story." [Via dotJournalism]

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CyberJournalist.net lists five sites with interactive features that "help readers better understand the electoral process and select which candidate is likely to come out on top in electoral votes."

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After the U2 one, here's the Ashlee Simpson iPod... karaoke edition. [via Waxy]

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"Hi, I'm Shanti Braford. This is my new link spidering & meta-link aggregation engine. Follow the instructions to the left and you'll see who's linking to you in no time! [...] Our backend crawlers are constantly looking for any new links to your site, so you don't have to! Currently Monitoring blogs: 1,737,992 links: 7,415,375." Here's the result: Who Links Here [Via J-Walk]

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"Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to put Web search features into Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader software. [...] Under the deal, Adobe will first introduce a cobranded Yahoo browser toolbar that users can choose to install on their computers when prompted to download an update of Acrobat Reader. The toolbar — an increasingly popular method of online search engines to stay constantly visible on a user's Internet browser — will feature links to Yahoo products and services as well as Adobe's Web-based subscription service that lets people convert documents into the Adobe PDF file format. Later, the companies said, the toolbar will add features such as the ability to quickly convert Web-based content into Adobe PDF files. Yahoo search will also be built into a future version of the Acrobat Reader, allowing users to search for more information from within the document without going through the extra steps of launching a Web browser. " [Via Yahoo! news]

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From Brad Blog, a complete list of documents that have disappeared from the White House website.

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"Six blood relatives of President Bush who support John F. Kerry's bid for the presidency have launched a website to publicize their sharp disagreements with Bush's policies. The site, www.bushrelativesforkerry.com, consists of personal statements from a group of decidedly liberal second cousins of the president, none of whom knows him personally. All are grandchildren of Mary Bush House, the sister of Prescott Bush, a former US senator from Connecticut and the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents." [Via The Boston Globe]

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On Webproworld's forum, an interesting discussion on how blogs are used to spam search engines.

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"Rock band U2 has cut a deal with Apple Computer to sell custom iPods promoting the band's forthcoming album. Sources close to the group say the U2 edition of the popular digital music player will come preloaded with the band's new album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, along with portions of the Irish supergroup's 25-year catalogue. The iPods will be black and will be made available the same week as the band's 11th studio album, which is slated to be released in the U.S. by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records on November 23." [Via Forbes]

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Horrible and funny at the same time: "An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity. [...] "They Googled him and then went onto a web site - either his own or his book publisher's web site, I don't know which one - and saw that he was who he was, and that was instrumental in letting him go, I think, or swinging their decision," he told AP news agency." [Via BBC]

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Your ip isn't as dull as it seems. It has a shape and a color... Mine is a blue-green polygon. What's yours? [Via Comme la lune sur la branche]

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A complete and easy how-to. Very useful! [Via CSS Vault Gallery]

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The latest trend in games? Giving electric shocks to your "ennemy"...

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"You drive a car around a screen that looks like a two-lane highway, your sole objective being to hit as many pedestrians as you can. When the time limit expires, the game ends and you get to see if you made the high score list." Think of it as a new spin on Frogger. Or better yet, think of it as the flip side of Freeway [...] You see, kids? Violence doesn't have to be bad. It can also be retro!" [Via The SaltwaterPizza Blog]

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"Reuters has announced a new interactive TV news channel available through Microsoft's Media Centre, a home entertainment operating system." "With analysts predicting that as many as 20 million people will be using Microsoft's home entertainment PCs by 2008, this channel offers huge potential to broaden Reuters reach within the consumer market," said Chris Ahearn, president of Reuters Media. The channel is initially available only to customers in the US. [Via DotJournalism.net]

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Robert Scoble tells of his encounter, on a plane, with a guy that explained to him why he thought Microsoft - and Microsoft products - sucked. As he says: "I tell that story because for the past two weeks I've gotten quite a few people to tell me just how our products (or our company) suck. The thing is, there's a group of us at Microsoft who are tired of being told this and who are going to turn around the world's perception of the products we build. This group is growing in size." And he asks: "So, I'm looking for more people who think our products or processes or services suck. Tell us why."

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"Danish journalist Hans Henrik H. de Lichtenberg has just launched newspaperindex.com a database of online editions of newspapers in every country in the world." [via CyberJournalist.net]

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You can download Democrat or Republican pumpkin patterns, once you've cast your vote for the candidate of your choice. Patters are offered in PDF or JPG format and you can choose from the following six: President Bush, Republican mascot, Bush mascot, Senator Kerry, Democratic mascot and Kerry mascot.

© Pumpkin Poll

Eyetop (the makers of audio/video sunglasses) has announced that it will present Eyetop DVD will be at Digital Life in New York from 14 to 17 October, 2004.

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"A stout, star-spangled rocket plane broke through the Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space Monday for the second time in five days, capturing a $10 million prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists."

© Scaled Composites

The first bullfight was held in Spain in 1133 in honor of the coronation of King Alfonso VIII.

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Yahoo's new home page is offered in beta version and will replace the old one within a few weeks. Users can take a peak or start using it by clicking on Take me to the: BETA Page on Yahoo's regular home page.

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myRSS was a really good service which enables anybody to create an RSS/XML feed for a site/blog that didn't have any. Unfortunately: "We have successfully completed the market research stage and established that there is a real business need for our service. We are now ready for full commercial operations and are re-launching the company as Market Sentinel. This means that we will be discontinuing the free myRSS service."

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In May 1985, the Wall Street Journal ran an ad featuring William H. Gates III, chairman of Microsoft Corp. quoted as saying: "Next to my software, nothing's more user friendly than the Wall Street Journal." :-) Here is the ad:

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In its forums, WebProNews notices: "Apparently, Google has begun using another spider in their scanning and indexing of web sites. News of a second Googlebot was discovered by a number of site owners who, while studying their site logs, noticed two Google spiders; with different IP address ranges; visited and scanned their respective sites.

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The iMove, a computer display positioning table, enables the user to change the position of their Apple Cinema Display for optimum viewing angle and position. The iMove is available for Apple Cinema Displays (30 inch, 23 inch, and 20 inch models). iMove for iMac G5 will be released in early October 2004.

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Have fun with George W. Bush!

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The National Hurricane Center offers RSS and XML feeds to track hurricanes and tropical storms. Three feeds are available, one in English and one in Spanish for Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones, and one in English for Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones. [Via Scripting News]

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BMW unveiled its hydrogen-powered H2R model, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour. The BMW H2R Record Car was conceived, designed and developed by BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, the legendary subsidiary of BMW AG. The name "H2R" stands for "H two Race Car", "Hydrogen Record Car" or "Hydrogen Research Car".

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Cute!

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Adult star Jenna Jameson has launched a new, “non-explicit” Website, JustJennaJameson.com, for fans in the wake of her best-selling memoir. Intended as a complement to her principal, adult ClubJenna.com, the new free site offers visitors access to her personal diary, a portfolio of choice photographs, links to several auction sites, and her own online store, plus her monthly travel and appearance schedule. "I'm really excited to have a place to keep in touch with thousands of new fans and all the cool people who've supported me throughout my career," Jameson said in an open letter to fans posted on JustJennaJameson.com. [via AVN Online]

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Employees of Ballard Power Systems have built a vehicle running by fuel cells which masters a distance of 3000km with only 3kg hydrogen (equals to 11 litres of gasoline): the Hysun 3000. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new vehicule, a 3000-km-drive was started on Sept. 7 in Berlin and will end in Barcelona. Pictures and details are available on Hysun 3000 official site.

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CNN has shut down its Spanish-language new site, CNNenEspanol.com, because it wasn't making money, replacing it with a TV promotional site, reports Cyberournalist.com.

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Via Dotjournalism: "Former Observer editor Jonathan Fenby has launched an innovative news and current affiars site that aims to predict the news. Earlywarning.com will use a network of established journalists based around the world to provide insight and analysis on news events. By writing about the forces behind these events, says Mr Fenby, the publishers aim to forecast what will happen, rather than respond to it."

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Six live performances recorded at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival will be available to purchase as downloads beginning in October on MSN Music.

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It's the latest trend in Japan! After origami (the art of folding pieces of paper to create different objects), here comes pornogami, an adult version of that art. The Origami Underground presents different sexual positions, including the missionary, the doggy style, and the "Bill and Monica"!

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... to be used by visually impaired people. :-) [BBC]

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Komodo has begun internal testing of a new email service. "The company is very excited about the preliminary results of our test trials," states Gordon Muir CEO, of Komodo. "Spam and viruses are costing the corporate world billions of dollars in lost productivity, wasted bandwidth costs and wasted man hours." Mr. Muir further states, "With the company's security measures fully implemented Komodo's proprietary email system will totally eliminate spam, spreading viruses and Identity theft via phishing, one of the biggest security issues on the net today. It is the intention of the company to file a series of multiple patents and then allow beta testers from outside the company to test our system before any public exposure."

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Puisque, selon des prévisions faites par IDC et Nokia, 800 millions de téléphones/appareils photos seront utilisés en 2007 et 100 milliards d'images seront prises avec ces appareils la même année, c'était une question de temps avant que les agences de presse qui fournissent du contenu visuel s'associent avec les compagnies de téléphone cellulaires.

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Hop-on.com announced that its original CDMA disposable cell phone is featured in the current Mel Gibson blockbuster film Paparazzi distributed by 20th Century Fox. Hop-on is the developer and marketer of the world's first disposable, recyclable and contract free cell phone. Its initial IS-95 CDMA phones provided a much-needed alternative to full service cellular contracts and prepaid calling cards and also provided the end user the capability to add on additional minutes.

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As I had mentionned three days ago, two new Roger Waters songs are available exclusively as downloads. You can purchase To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut, since this morning, on BuyMusic, iTunes, MusicMatch, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, Real / Rhapsody, SonyConnect and Walmart.com. The list, including the URI is on Waters' website. If you want to check out the songs first (they are truly beautiful!), you can do so here, as they are both available in Quicktime (To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut), Real (To Kill The Child and Leaving Beirut) and Windows Media (To Kill The Child: hi and low and Leaving Beirut: Hi and low). Also, check out the lyrics, as they are quite moving.

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This German photographer has a amazing website, on which you can admire his pictures. Beautiful!

Copyright © 2004. Christian Otte, 14197 Berlin. All Rights Reserved

Olympus will release later this month its new Stylus Verve 4.0-megapixel digital cameras in 6 different colors.

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"To Kill The Child" and "Leaving Beirut" will be made available on a variety of digital music stores - including SonyConnect, iTunes, BuyMusic, MusicMatch, MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, Real/Rhapsody, and Walmart.com - beginning Tuesday, September 7.

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Ars Electronica, an art and technology festival, is under way until September 7 in Linz, Austria. Here are some interesting things going on there, as well as a list of bloggers attending and/or talking about it.

Source: Laura Beloff (N), Erich Berger (A), Martin Pichlmair (A) © Ars Electronica

ABC News correspondent Wonbo Woo works alone, and is equiped with a laptop, a video camera and a cell phone.

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The Web is 35 years old today. According to CNN, on September 2, 1969, "computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks."

© CNN - Stephen Crocker

It is no secret that China monitors and censors web sites and SMS. What is less known is the way the Chinese governement and ISPs proceed to do so, as well as the list of banned words.

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Bushgame is an anti-Bush videogame. Bushgame combines humor, opinion, and fact to bring an entertaining and informative video game adventure to people everywhere. The use of this medium will hopefully reach many people who have not had the time or interest to read up on some of the appalling things that have taken place in our government and society over the past four years. For those of you who are paying attention, hopefully this game has helped to clarify some of the important things at stake in the upcoming elections. I realize that this game does not cover every issue, problem, and appalling action of the Bush administration. There are too many stories to report. Some issues ended up taking a back seat to others. Just know that this is just a silly game and please inform yourself for real and read books...and most importantly...please vote.

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Serena Williams presented clothes and footwear designed by Nike to keep her cool on the courts.

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Have you tried looking up "search engine" or "search engines" in Google? The results are quite suprising...

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Filmmaker Spike Lee has beaten Philippine-based porn cybersquatter Mercedita Kyamko, whose SpikeLee.com redirected visitors hoping for information about the director of Do The Right Thing, 4 Little Girls, and She Hate Me to an adult Website.

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KlipFolio 2.6 has a news aggregator which can be used in Hotmail. (via Scobleizer)

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Sorrent has just launched Bush vs. Kerry Boxing, a game available on cell phones. You can step into the ring as either candidate and take your best shot at knocking out their opponent. The results of every match between Bush and Kerry are automatically posted on Sorrent's web site. Sorrent will be giving ten percent of proceeds from Bush vs. Kerry Boxing to Rock the Vote.

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I guess we'll see today if Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs was right when he predicted yesterday "that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists". (via Slashdot)

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Ask Jeeves launched a beta version of Ask.jp, a new Japanese language Web search engine. Ask.jp's Japanese-only index contains over 150 million Web pages at this time, and new pages will be continually added leading up to the formal launch. In addition, other improvements and new features will be added regularly. Ask Jeeves expects to offer the first fully functional version of Ask.jp, including access to Ask Jeeves' global index, in the first quarter of 2005.

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This little thingee costs over 19,000 US dollars! Only 500 of this model have been made, and eight of them went to the Chinese market. The cell phone has a super tough sapphire crystal display, a titanium body, platinum decoration and an edging of the finest leather. (Via Xinhuanet)

Photo: CRIENGLISH.com/sina.com.cn

Photon Research Associates in cooperation with Skyline Software Systems, i-cubed and LeadDog Consulting have created a web-based interactive 3D 'fly-through' of Athens Greece. You can visit specific venues or follow one of the predefined routes through the city. The visual terrain data set includes DigitalGlobe 60 centimeter imagery processed by i-cubed, a 25 meter digital elevation model based on ASTER imagery from i-cubed, and vectors extracted by LeadDog.

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"We cannot experience a cultural product if we don't understand the forces that affect its practice," says Mohammed Abdullah, a 39-year-old artist and curator who was born in Iraq and is now based in the Netherlands. "Over the past three decades - an era marked by political upheaval, dictatorship, war, embargo, and exile - Iraqi intellectuals have had to practice (a) culture of necessity and survival." In a country still ravaged by war, this project underlines the hopes of many to -one day - be able to live peacefully.

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Weboggle is a nice little word game that can be played for free, without registering. The objective is to find the most words in a 4x4 or 5x5 grid. Quite addictive! (via A Small Victory)

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I have been judged, found to be an Heretic... and banished to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis :-))) You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.

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RealNetworks is offering free access to its Rhapsody Internet jukebox service and music playlists from more than 250 U.S. athletes.

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I got a mail from IFEX, describing its purpose and actions. Not only is it interesting but it's also quite useful: Canadian Journalists for Free Expression [is] a non-governmental organisation that monitors press freedom (attacks on journalists) in Canada and around the world. CJFE manages the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of press freedom groups. The IFEX website contains up to date information on what is happening worldwide in terms of attacks on journalists. You may wish to add it to your list of resources.

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Apple announced its iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs available for download in the US. As stated by Apple: "The iTunes Music Store features music from all five major record labels and over 600 leading independent labels from around the world. With more than 100 million songs downloaded and more than 70 percent market share of legal downloads for singles and albums, the iTunes Music Store is the world's number one online music service."

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I got this unusual press release from Epson last week, and I can only say the idea is brilliant! Check this out. To promote its DURABrite Ink (a revolutionary pigment-based ink technology that not only gives you the superior image quality you need, but provides the water, smudge, and light resistance you want), the company sent tech journalists a full bottle of water in which a printed sheet of paper was enclosed. Told you... brilliant!

Epson's press release for its DURABrite Ink

Epson's press release for its DURABrite Ink

That's what reports German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, as mentionned by News.com.au...

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The Statue of Liberty is set to reopen on August 3 after being closed for nearly three years.

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The Playboy: The Mansion game will feature Carmen Electra and Tom Arnold on its interactive game play roster, and the official game site is now online.

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Since the opening of the 2004 Democratic National Convention on Monday afternoon, the official Convention website has received more than 16.5 million hits from visitors across the globe.

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MSNBC.com has begun online testing of the MSNBC Newsbot, its automated personalized online news service. The Associated Press is participating with MSNBC.com in the test to evaluate this emerging market segment of online news by authorizing use of its AP Online product, which includes top national and international news. Moreover technologies is behind the crawling agent, user news search history is recorded in order to provide personalized news and 18 other MSNBC Newsbots are available throughout the world.

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Ziff Davis Media Inc. will launch ExtremeTech magazine; the first issue will debut on newsstands in October. ExtremeTech magazine is a brand extension of http://www.extremetech.com/. The editorial coverage will provide expert knowledge on how to design and upgrade PCs and related technology systems, networking, security and videogames.

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The company announced that 100,000 customers subscribed to its premium digital music in Q2 2004, bringing the total to half a milion.

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Found on J-Walk, this tool displays your Google page rank automatically. Not a bad idea BUT, the html code has to be inserted in the page you want your page rank to show (your home page instead of a post), the code doesn't validate (some " and / are missing) and the image is not transparent, so you're stuck with a 44 x 15 pixels white background.

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Kodak's involvement with the Games began with the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896. In 1924, at the Paris Games, Kodak supplied film to professional photographers for the first time. In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Kodak introduced new technologies and innovations at the Games, including digital cameras, the Kodak Picture Maker, the Kodak Sticker Print Kiosk and many new professional and consumer films. In Athens, The Kodak Image Center, an 18,000 square-foot facility within the Main Press Center, will provide traditional film and digital photographic products and services to accredited professional photographers. Kodak will digitize 100% of the estimated 3 million images. Kodak will also provide photojournalists with on-site image-rich publishing, producing postcards and poster-sized prints of key images for display purposes. Kodak will publish daily newsletters, invitations, and daily event guides for sponsors.

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KerryEdwards.com is owned by a 34-year-old man named Kerry Edwards, a part-time bail bondsman in Indianapolis. He registered KerryEdwards.com two years ago as a personal site for family and friends. "He's sitting on a lottery ticket," Bentley said. Last week, Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign said it had considered buying KerryEdwards.com, but it balked at the price. "We're very happy with our site, JohnKerry.com," a campaign spokeswoman said." (via EditorsWeblog)

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As announced earlier this week, Google acquired Picasa, a picture-sharing and organizing tool. The version 1.6 is now offered free, on Google's main page. Tel qu'annoncé la semaine dernière, Google a acquis Picasa, un utilitaire de partage et d'organisation de photos numériques. La version 1.6 est maintenant offerte gratuitement sur la page d'accueil du moteur en anglais. Encore rien sur la page française ou canadienne.

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FrogPad has been offering one-handed keyboards for some time now. They are used with USB keyboard compatible PDA's, Pocket PCs, Tablet and Wearable PC's, and other mobile applications, such as portable laptops. The interesting thing about FrogPad is that the letter layout is based on the percent usage of each letter in the English language. Fifteen letters that are used 86% of the time by typists are placed in the most efficient locations on the keyboard.

© FrogPad

EZ-Feeds.com offers a way to bypass the SMTP protocol used to filter emails. This free tool is either a toolbar for Internet Explorer or a special Windows tray icon. Since it's permission-based, you won't get spam. And according to EZ-Feeds, no spyware is installed on your machine.

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Blinkx (beta) was launched Friday. How does it work? "Whenever you browse a website, read a news story, check your e-mail or write a document, blinkx automatically delivers suggestions from the Web, news or your local files; which you can view by simply clicking the links or rolling over to get a summary of the information found". I'm not sure I want to give a search engine access to my HD! (via ConstellationW3 - Un nouvel engin de recherche inattendu: blinkx)

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comScore Media Metrix announced the top 50 U.S. Internet properties for the month of June 2004.

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Every site is now offering an RSS feed. It's the case of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Tous les sites semblent offrir des flux RSS. C'est le cas de l'International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Deepnet Technologies (a British company) launched its Deepnet Explorer, a new free browser. It simultaneously allows web browsing, P2P file sharing and news reading via RSS and ATOM feeds. The free product contains no Adware, Spyware or any 3rd party software.

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Scary news from Forrester Consulting! A study on outbound email security and content issues, sponsored by Proofpoint, finds that more than 43% of corporations with more than 20,000 employees employ staff to monitor and read outbound email.

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Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 100 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, marking a major milestone for the emerging online music business. The 100 millionth song, "Somersault (Dangermouse remix)" by Zero7 was purchased by Kevin Britten, age 20, of Hays, Kansas on Sunday, July 11. As the grand prize winner of Apple's 100 million song countdown, Kevin Britten will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his iPod and the opportunity to create his own Celebrity Playlist to be published on the iTunes Music Store.

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Seventeen McDonald's restaurants in Oklahoma now offer customers high-speed wireless internet access (a.k.a. Wi-Fi) for wireless-enabled notebook computers and handheld devices.

© Mc Donald's wireless

Site Meter (the free version) enables me to have quite complete traffic stats. One interesting information is the PNG graphics which tells me if browsers read the png format. Approximately 5 to 10% don't. Suprising! Site Meter (la version gratuite) me donne des chiffres assez complets sur les visiteurs qui viennent sur mon blogue. L'une des informations intéressantes est celle des PNG graphics, qui m'indique si les fureteurs lisent le format png. De 5 à 10% ne le peuvent pas. Surprenant!

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Warner Music Group has just announced a partnership with wireless entertainment and marketing company Mobileway to incorporate wireless branding into its CD packaging.

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Deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech disabled users can now place video relay service (VRS) telephone calls using Apple's iChat AV, the AOL service or the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Service, Version 5.5 free of charge.

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The new S+ARCK mouse was unveiled today by both Bill Gates and Philippe Starck. Furthermore, a new Wireless Optical Mouse in Mood Ring was also announced.

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Imation Corp. announced the availability of its one gigabyte USB 2.0 Swivel Flash Drive.

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Broadgun Software has just released pdfMachine White.

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The Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8920 is manufactured by Audiovox and is available in Sprint Stores in the U.S. for $149.99 after rebates (SRP: $299.99).

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"The iPod mini has been a smash hit in the US, and we're thrilled to finally be able to offer it to music lovers the world over," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "iPod has changed the way people listen to music and is now the number one digital music player in the world."

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On Dotjournalism: The corporation has been given four months to redraft the BBC.co.uk remit and outline how it plans to increase the amount of content commissioned from external companies. Let's hope the Beeb will come up with a plan.

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McAfee AVERT (Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team) raised the risk assessment to medium on the recently discovered W32/Bagle.ad@MM, also known as Bagle.ad.

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Reported by Geek News Central. Ouch! Six Apart est victime de spam via les trackbacks, tel que rapporté par Geek News Central. Ouille!

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A company now sends your loved ones a pre-planned e-mail message which will be delivered after your death.

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Over half a billion (500 million) page views and over 40 million visits have been registered on euro2004.com since the site launched on 31 March 2004.

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A Samsung portable circular printer won the Gold Award at IDEA 2004.

© Samsung

A couple of days ago, I got this cute Increase your penis size Now spam.

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It's no surprise that traffic to Fahrenheit911.com, MichaelMoore.com and F911Tix.com is up. According to comScore, on June 18, 101 000 users visited MichaelMoore.com, an increase of 115 percent versus the prior Monday.

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The BrailleNote PK weighs less than a pound and has dimensions of 6.8 inches by 3.6 inches by 1.3 inches.

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The RealPlayer for Mac OS X beta will be available this Wednesday, June 30th, for free download. RealPlayer pour le Mac OS X sera disponible pour téléchargement, en version beta, le 30 juin.

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As reported by The Washington Post: "Internet security companies and cybersecurity experts in the federal government are warning computer users to guard against a new online attack that can affect PCs running the Windows operating system. What makes this latest threat particularly scary is that computers can be affected just by visiting a Web site that has been compromised by hackers. [...] Best quote of the days goes hands down to Brent Houlihan, chief technology officer of NetSec, who delivered this beaut to News.com: "I told my wife, unless it is absolutely necessary and unless you are going to a site like our banking site, stay off the Internet right now."

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In early July, MSN will offer e-mail anti-virus protection to its 170 million customers and will increase inbox storage to 250MB. Customers will also have the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB.

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U.K. newspapers to offer music downloads! The Guardian, through a partnership with EMI, is set to become the first U.K. newspaper to offer downloading of songs for 99 pence each to its online readers. The system is modeled on iTunes, Apple's pay-by-the-song, legal music downloading platform.

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SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built, manned spaceship, will take-off in the Mojave Desert at 6:30 this morning.

© Scaled Composites

It's a computer-generated movie called This Wonderful Life that was done by Liam Kemp. C'est un film dont les images ont été générées par ordinateur, intitulé This Wonderful Life et réalisé par un certain Liam Kemp.

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The next generation of Tamagotchi, called "Tamagotchi Connection" will return to the United States in August 2004, following recent launches in Japan and Europe.

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Mobile Diet Pal is a new Java application that turns mobile phones into tools in the fight with obesity. Mobile Diet Pal is a diet supervisor that goes on a diet with its user, counting calories and carbs.

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If e-paper seems a mere vision of a distant future, think again! Companies are developping and demonstrating prototypes! Si vous pensiez que le papier électronique n'était qu'un rêve brumeux d'un futur lointain, réveillez-vous! Des compagnies développent et testent des prototypes.

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This may come as a surprise : The average cost of replacing the tablespoon of ink in a 17ml colour printer cartridge is £29, making it sixteen times more expensive than vintage 1985 Dom Perignon. It also puts Chanel No.5 and even rocket fuel in the shade (The Mirror via MetaFilter). Are we getting screwed? Attention, vous allez avoir un choc: Le coût moyen de remplacement d'une cuillère à soupe d'encre pour une cartouche de 17ml coûte £29, soit seize fois plus qu'un Dom Perignon 1985. C'est également plus cher que du Chanel No. 5 et même que du carburant utilisé pour les fusées. (The Mirror via MetaFilter). Est-ce qu'on serait en train de se faire c... ?

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Ingineo is now shipping Eyetop Centra, the first audio/video sunglasses.

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"Our new solitaire game is a fun, interactive way for people to play cards with their favorite celebrity criminals," said Smokey Burns, managing partner of Starz Behind Barz, LLC. "You don't have to be in solitary confinement to enjoy playing solitaire with this deck of famous felons."

© Starz Behind Barz

Ebert Mobile Movie Reviews is a new service, available only to U.S. Cellular customers.

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Robert Scoble reports that eBay has launched two RSS feeds. Robert Scoble indique que eBay vient de lancer deux fils RSS.

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JapaneseSnacks.com is a website dedicated to the fandom surrounding the unique snacks, foods, and beverages of Japan.

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The Paloma Firefly KidzMouse is now available in Toys "R" Us stores across the U.S.

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McDonald's Big Mac Meal Tracks offers every customer who purchases a Big Mac Extra Value Meal at participating McDonald's restaurants an access code worth one free song download at the Connect music store.

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Gmail haters now have their own website, called Gmail is too creepy! (Bleu Blanc Blog pointed that one out, and he got it via Nigritude Ultramarine.)

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Commtouch Spam Detection Center issued its May figures on spam.

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euro2004.com est maintenant disponible en anglais, portugais, français, allemand, espagnol, italien et russe. Pour 9.95 £ ou 14.95 euros, les internautes auront droit à des extraits quotidiens des matches, des entrevues exclusives avec les joueurs, des jeux interactifs, etc. Bon foot!

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Pretec Electronics Corp. demonstrated today the world's first MMC 4.0 flash memory card with Read speed about 150X (22.5MB/s) and Write speed greater than 120X (18MB/s), which is the highest speed small form factor flash memory card in the world today.

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Aventure Media design and hosting company today launched Aventure Mail.com, a free 2GB email service available online to the public

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Nokia unveiled its Nokia 3220 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Has anyone noticed this in their visitors list: Host: 2.67-19-10.reverse.theplanet.com Agent: TestCrawler/1.0 (testcrawler@hotmail.com)? PS: I've sent an email to the Microsoft PR in Montréal. I'll keep you posted with regular updates. Update - June 2nd - I just got this email: Hi, I am testing some search engine software and wanted to let it crawl normal web data. I put a hotmail email address in the user-agent to make sure that people could contact me if there was a problem with how the crawler was crawling their site. I didn't want to put a real email address in there because logs tend to make it onto the web which would really add to the horrible amount of spam that I receive. Did the crawler do anything bad to your site or did you just email because you noticed it in the logs? Cheers, Chris. Guess that answers my questions :-))) Update - May 31st - According to Microsoft, there is no Hotmail bot. Since I'm curious to see who testcrawler@hotmail.com is, I've just sent an email. I'll keep you posted.

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A French company came up with the idea... and the means to do it.

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Fresh2 is a light bulb that eliminates odors in 10 minutes.

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Siemens mobile has launched its SX1 Mclaren Limited Edition mobile phone.

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A study shows that most city websites are unusable by a wide range of people, including blind, deaf, and mobility impaired individuals, as well as non-disabled users attempting to access government services with cutting edge technology such as Internet-enabled cell phones.

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The first collection of photos taken by Tibetans living in exile in India is available on the web.

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Yamaha Marine has issued a press kit that can be carried on a keychain and weighs less than two quarters.

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For those who want to feel like Captain Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard or any other Star Trek character, here are a few gadgets!

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Internet connected machines enable customers to rent or buy DVDs much in the way of an ATM.

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Named IntelliMat, this new multi-media digital display is designed for floors.

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Time.com has just started offering RSS feeds. As Time indicates: "If you have a personal Website, you can use these feeds to add TIME.com headlines to your pages."

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Apple announced today its collaboration with Chinese PC supplier Founder to pre-install iTunes on all computers.

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The real-time, WiFi-based, high-speed Internet connection was made at 36,000 feet above Canada.

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This gadget, called a Braatpaq, is a traditional laptop carrying case, but comes with straps that enable it to be mounted over the front seat headrests.

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Solarbaybies Inc announced the addition of two products to its FunBrowser product line.

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Fishing just got a whole lot easier with this high-tech device!

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The answer is here :-))))

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The Shrek and Donkey characters can be spoken to... and they respond in an intelligent way to a range of predefined questions.

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Spherex Inc., a Canadian company, launched its new Xbox 5.1 surround sound system at E3.

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Infinium Labs unveiled plans for the Phantom Game Service.

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Between May 17th and July 12th, more than 100 GPS cans of Coca-Cola will be available across the U.S. in specially marked 12, 18, 20, or 24-packs of Coca-Cola (classic, caffeine free Coke, cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke).

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Late Sunday afternoon, the bushvoodoo.com website and online store (both hosted by Yahoo!) mysteriously disappeared completely from their servers.

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A private network gives unlimited choice of names ranging from .america to .zen!

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Nakednews.com announced that it has just signed a contract with Icemobile BV in the Netherlands, to provide the Naked News content to wireless cell phones and handheld devices.

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This summer, Napster will offer Canadian consumers a localized version of Napster 2.0, complete with Canadian-specific radio stations, promotions and content from domestic acts. Cet été, Napster offrira une version locale de Napster 2.0 incluant des stations de radios canadiennes, des promotions et des contenus spécifiques.

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The Yahoo parody site has changed its name to MrDough.com.

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In an effort to fund his childs future education, Robert Criscuolo, of Staten Island, New York set up a series of online businesses for his daughter, Sabrina Ann Criscuolo, now 18 months old.

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Big Brother is back, this time using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, a system that tracks people and equipment.

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Watch out! Big Brother is being replaced by "Big Mother" in Britain!

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The Swiss Army knife now comes with a memory stick that connects to computers through a USB port.

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Here are the 10 most popular searches according to Terra Lycos:

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NHJ USA has launched NHJ USA the world's thinnest 2.0-Megapixel digital camera with color LCD display in Target stores from April 25th.

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Credit cards that recognize owner's voice could soon become a reality.

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The message is sent with the subject field: Osama Bin Laden Captured.

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Créé par les journalistes et recherchistes de l'Événementiel, voici Le Coin Média. Pour accéder aux nombreuses et différentes rubriques, il vous suffit d'être journaliste... et de vous incrire.

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A Swedish company offers mice, keyboards and monitors... made of wood!

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Walt Disney Records announced that it's catalog is now available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store until September 30th.

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A totally new robot will make it's debut in UK stores on May 22nd.

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MedicTouch LLC., a mobile health device and application company announced the launch of the Pulse Meter mobile health solution.

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Go see you ecological footprint! Sigh - my results? If everybody lived like me, 4 planets would be needed! Ouch!

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Electronic Sensor Technology announced a new anti-terrorist technology based upon their commercial electronic nose, the zNose.

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William Shatner has taken on the role of Playboy photographer for an exclusive Playboy.com shoot.

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Xbox Canada has launched Xbox Tag, an online contest available exclusively in Canada.

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A survey shows that over 70% of consumers, at one time or another, use media simultaneously.

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A Concorde nosecone (technically known as the 'Radome') is being auctioned on eBay by Concorde Collectables.

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The Internet is getting to be more and more like Hollywood. Successful movies spawn numerous copycats, and this is now happening with search engines as well.

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A German website offering live webcams on a family of wild boars has had 1,5 million hits in two weeks.

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RealNetworks, Inc. announced today the final release of RealPlayer 10. The new player reads RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, Windows Media, QuickTime MPEG-4 and MP3 files.

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The 580 tonnes monster machine is up for grabs.

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These numbers have been made public by China's Internet information resources.

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Read on Canoe, the courts decision that "ruled against a motion which would have allowed the music industry to begin suing individuals who make music available online."

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"Horndog is for everything men are interested in," says Bob Smart, creator of Booble.com. "Except sports, gambling, and guns. Oh, and beer."

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Virgin Mobile unveiled a new mobile phone specifically designed for left-handed people.

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Go take a look at File-sharing had no effect on 2002 CD sales: US study. Then, click on technology home page and notice the proximity of that article with this one: Recording industry acts against swappers. Is there a hidden message?

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Ipsos-Insight unveiled the results of a new study showing "2003 witnessed a veritable explosion of fee-based digital music service introductions and a nearly three-fold increase in paid downloading due to experimentation among American downloaders."

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Carnegie Mellon students in Pittsburgh will now be able to use the Internet to check their laundy. The University has launched a new program called eSuds.

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I found the following press release in my inbox this morning, announcing the launch of yet another Yahoo sex parody.

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Sony Pictures announced a deal with Sprint PCS to offer Spider-Man 2 goodies on their cell phones.

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Search-Engine Optimization News (SEO)'s Andy Beal interviewed Microsoft's Robert Scoble. He has very interesting views on what lies ahead in termes of technology, user-interface and possibilites.

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Mr. Dough came up with his own parody search engine of the popular Yahoo.com site, called Yasexhoo.

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In one of his latest articles, a French author raises the question as to whether or not the MyDoom epidemic is really one. Here are his conclusions.

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Only the French could come up with this idea! A competition to create a web page that will come up first on Google's results for "mangeur de cigogne" (loosely translated by stork eater).

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London subway authorities are studying plans to enable mobile phone communications.

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Panda ActiveScan reports that Netsky.D is infecting computers worldwide.

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Un fabricant japonais de jouets vient d'inventer un appareil qui permet de sélectionner ses rêves.
You want to choose your dream? Here comes the Yumemi Kobo!

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Napter is doing very good and announced today having sold over 5 million downloads since its October 2003 launch.

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Seems these past days (or is it just wishful thinking since Feb. 18th) that both crawlers are pretty active.

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Here's a list of Iranian bloggers reporting on today's election.

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Jupiter Research released earlier this week a report on the online ad market, confirming the importance of the war officially started February 18th between Yahoo and Google search engines.

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Results, today, in Amsterdam, of the World Press Photo contest. While waiting for the winners, go take a look at last year's pictures. Extraordinary! Résultats, aujourd'hui à Amsterdam, du concours World Press Photo. En attendant les résultats, allez voir les gagnants de l'an dernier. Superbe!

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Booble, the search-engine google parody has just unveiled it’s Valentine’s Day header. In addition to the randy cupid which flaps its wings at the now famous Booble boobs, the creative team has also added interactive features to the breasts themselves. «These boobs are packed with fun,» says spokesperson Bob . Users can mouse over the boobs to activate the interactivity.

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President and candidate George W. Bush sent a web video to 6 million campaign supporters.

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According to a survey made by Léger Marketing for the Centre francophone d'informatisation des organisations (CEFRIO), 54,4% of adult Quebecers have used Internet at least once in 2003, an almost insignificant 2% increase from last year (52,3 %).

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Nintendo announced today that it's nex-gen console will probably hit the shelves in 2005 or 2006.

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L'Oréal has been selected as Marketer of the Year by the Canadian Marketing Magazine for it's ads campaign in the Star Académie (in Québec) and Canadian Idol (throughout Canada) reality TV shows.

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This is undoubtedly one of the best websites ever! Watch out... you'll get addicted real fast :-)

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Known for its high-profile actions, usually with the help of celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Alicia Silverstone or Alec Bladwin, PETA has struck once again.

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