An acquaintance of mine, John Barker, alerted me to something strange about his 5 month old Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. When he types in a non-www web address in his IE6 web browser’s address field, he is forwarded to a Dell search results page populated with pay-per-click ads.
For example, http://www.fireplace-outdoors.com takes him to his site […]

It appears that, as a workaround to alleged patent violations in the US, RIM, the makers of the famous Blackberry portable email gadget will be offering a US specific version of it’s core software.
From The Inquirer story:
The word-around has been labelled Blackberry Multi-Mode edition – simply because it can act in different modes in different […]

Suitsat, the junky old Russian space suit filled with old clothes and a redio transmitter, then booted into space, is still transmitting. It was thought the experiment was a flop after ham radio enthusiasts and official space monitoring freaks lost the signal a few hours after launch the suit into orbit, but looks like it’s […]

Just a quick note on a previous story - BMW.de is now back in Google’s search index.
BMW, Google

Quite frankly, if you’re too lazy to actually pedal a bicycle and opt for an electric one, I can’t see you wanting to carry one around. But anyway, if that’s your cup of tea, you can check out the eZee Quando folding electric bicycle from 5oCycles.com.
The eZee Quando sports a NiMH 36V 9Ah (324 wh) […]

In an effort to protect soldiers faces from flying derbis in war zones, a company called MTek has been testing a product called Predator Facial Armor. From the MTek site:
Because of the increased risk of airborne fragmentation threats, resulting from improvised explosive devices, also known as IED’s, MTek has produced the Predator Facial Armor System […]

Ok, so you can scrap your VOIP Mouse Phone once you get your eager little paws on the IP–Talky multimedia keyboard with built–in VOIP handset.
Computer peripherals specialist A4 Tech has announced it will debut a new Talky multimedia keyboard with built-in VOIP handset at CEBIT in Hannover, Germany on March 9. The ergonomic layout keyboard […]

Again, just when you thought you’d seen it all - the Swiss Army Knife is available with a fully incorporated MP3 player.
The new s.beat digital audio player is an all-in-one 4GB digital audio player and USB storage device incorporated into a full-metal Swiss Army Knife. Built with the same level of precision the Swiss are […]

The Sanyo Xacti HD1 Video Camera is available for preorder at some retailers and is rumored to be shipping around the middle of February.
The Sanyo Xacti has True 720p High-Definition Digital Video, 10x Optical Zoom, 5.1 megapixel digital still images with image stabelization, a 2.2 inch OLED adjustable display, 9 Mbps transfer rate and the […]

I don’t often speak out on “issues” like this, but the recent announcement by Google’s Matt Cutts that BMW (et al) are being ousted from the big “G” is a massive case of f#@&ing corporate stupidity. I doubt if press like this s going to help BMW much.
1. They went and broke the […]