New Version of Warfare Incorporated

A new version of Handmark’s Warfare Incorporated has been released, adding multiplayer functionality, a complete Mission Editor, and access to dozens of original user-contributed missions.

Posted on: May 11, 2004 9:00 am

USB Security Key

The Kanguru Wizard is a USB security key, which allows you to create multiple encrypted virtual drives on existing systems that have the drive space.

Posted on: May 11, 2004 9:00 am

MS paying for Sasser tip

Based on a tip to Microsoft, a German high school student has been arrested in connection with writing and distributing the Sasser worm. Microsoft says it will pay a bounty to informants in the case of the teen being convicted.

Posted on: May 11, 2004 9:00 am

Finding the best CD-Rs

Mike Johnston of Luminous Landscape shares his research and opinion on how to find the most archive reliable CD-Rs.

Posted on: May 11, 2004 9:00 am

iPAQs in orbit

iPAQ Pocket PCs are now being used in space by the Expedition 9 astronaut and cosmonaut crew aboard the International Space Station Soyuz 8 space craft. The devices will remain aboard the space station and be reconfigured for each new crew.

Posted on: May 10, 2004 9:00 am

Apple Bluetooth mouse

Gadgeteer guest reviewer Kate Murray gives us her impressions of Apple’s new Bluetooth wireless mouse.

Posted on: May 10, 2004 9:00 am

Dell Axim X3i

This review of the Dell Axim X3i from Pocket PC Thoughts builds on an existing review and concentrates on the Bluetooth implementation, how it interoperates with the Wi-Fi functionality and what the impact is on battery life.

Posted on: May 10, 2004 9:00 am

palmOne at Philadelphia airport

palmOne announced the opening of a flagship store in Philadelphia to showcase and sell the company’s Zire and Tungsten handheld computers, Treo smartphones, and accessories. The palmOne retail store at Philadelphia International Airport (Terminal B) is the 11th hybrid store that palmOne has opened following a pilot program that began in October 2002.

Posted on: May 10, 2004 9:00 am

Sasser suspect arrested in Germany

German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm, believed to be one of the Internet’s costliest outbreaks of sabotage. Security experts said this could be the single biggest arrest yet in bringing down a virus-writing gang.

Posted on: May 10, 2004 9:00 am

Nanobots take first steps

US chemists have designed the world’s first two-footed molecular robot and taken it for a stroll in a lab dish. The robot’s legs, which measure just 10 billionths of a meter, are the first nanoscale device to be capable of bipedal movement.

Posted on: May 7, 2004 9:00 am