What do you think should happen to spammers? This article in The Register discusses how the government is seeking your input into sentencing guidelines for spammers.

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has beamed back vivid 3D images of Mars. You can view these beautiful relief images on ESA’s Mars site.

I offer this news story about Microsoft attempting to gain control over Canadian teenager Mike Rowe’s web domain, mikerowesoft.com.

This review by Brighthand takes a look at the Sony VR100k video recorder. Sony has designed this recorder to take video content, convert it to a format compatible with their Clie’ line, and save it to a Memory Stick.

Software firms are helping consumers turn their camera phones into bar code scanners in order to get coupons, product reviews, and other information from bar code images.

A study by the Consumer Electronics Association says that women are bigger tech consumers than men. Electronics stores aren’t too quick to catch on and women aren’t at all happy.

ZD Net’s Robert Vamosi discusses how to protect yourself from phishing and email scams. Do you have the armament to defend yourself?

Ohio Super Computer has selected IBM to provide the storage hardware and software to manage their repository or research data. The deal will increase OSC’s data storage capacity five-fold over the previous system.

Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have begun research into the next generation of supercomputers. The research is funded by a $4.2 million Department of Defense grant.

A virus alert from Symantec outlines the W32.Beagle.A@mm virus. The worm will insert files and registry keys, remotely access web sites, and email all available contacts.