A federal judge has ruled in favor of five cell-phone companies in a case brought by consumers who said the companies violated antitrust laws by tying their phone services to particular brands of handsets. The lawsuits, filed in April 2002, named AT&T Wireless, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint as defendants. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote [...]

Google is moving ahead with its plans to digitize vast numbers of books and make them available online. The search engine this week expanded its book search service to 14 countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia, where users can now search English-language books. Although laws in each country [...]

Purdue University has begun providing podcasts of lectures for certain courses. Purdue offers recordings for students who miss a class or who want to review specific lectures. Previously, recordings were available for about 100 courses but only on audio cassettes. Starting this fall, recordings for lectures from some courses are availble as MP3 files, allowing [...]

U.S. Army officials have said they will take a closer look at blogs and Web sites maintained by soldiers. Many such blogs and Web sites include photographs or other information that inadvertently exposes classified or sensitive information to anyone with access to the Internet. Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s chief of staff, noted that soldiers [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given a glimpse of a proposed initiative to redesign the Internet. Though short on details and currently without funding, the project, called the Global Environment for Networking Investigations, is intended to take a clean-slate approach to designing a new Internet, one that addresses some of the major shortcomings of [...]

A new study indicates that computer usage by U.S. schoolteachers is rising, though technology is more frequently used for administrative purposes than for teaching. The study, conducted by Scholastic subsidiary Quality Education Data, found that 70 percent of teachers communicate with parents using e-mail and that a majority use computers for tasks such as attendance, [...]

A new study by research firm CacheLogic suggests that the recent crackdown on BitTorrent P2P sites has merely shifted illegal file trading to eDonkey, which now has as many users as BitTorrent in the United States, China, Japan, and Britain. It is the leading P2P service in South Korea, Italy, Spain, and Germany. CacheLogic estimates [...]

Various pictures of Emry as an infant.

Pictures from out trip to Alberta in Agust 2005

Two men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into the Zotob worm, which surfaced in August and took advantage of a flaw in the Microsoft operating system. The worm affected computers at organizations including The New York Times, ABC, CNN, the Associated Press, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. According to Louis [...]