If you buy the phone through Sprint, you’ll pay $299 and get a coupon for a $100 mail-in rebate. If you go to elsewhere, the store may charge you $199 and file the rebate for themselves.

RIM has pushed up release of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 by a month. AT&T will start selling the smartphones Friday for $300, with a $100 rebate.

A three-year-old New Zealand girl bought a mechanical digger, not the toy kind, in an on-line auction for about $12,000 US. Her mother had been bidding for Duplo Legos when her daughter found the computer unattended.

The geo-positioning system satellites that provide information to our cars, cell phones, and other tracking devices, are getting old. So far the government hasn’t charged for civilian use of the military satellites, in the future should we pay for access?

With Palm’s rebate, the price is similar. This article lists the physical characteristics of both phones for a quick comparison. And if you’d like to buy, Sprint is planning to open its stores at 8am on June 6th to handle the demand.

eTicket is a rugged PDA with an integrated smart card reader and RFID capabilities. The built in smart card reader supports various ISO14443 type A/B, and ISO 15693 RFID devices, including MIFARE and ICODE.

eMachines is offering a series of AMD Athlon desktop PCs, running Windows Vista Home Basic, starting at $298.

KAV (Klingon Anti-Virus) is a free, Klingon language version of Sophos’ Threat Detection Test. This article includes a link to the download.

Humans can generally work themselves out of a sand trap. Mars rovers have had a harder time of it. NASA is now working on designs for rovers that can jump, climb, or dig themselves out of a tight spot.

Acer’s new netbooks, the 11.6-inch Aspire One A0751h and the 10.1-inch Aspire One AOD250, have full keyboards, touch screens, a gigabyte of memory, and a 160GB hard drive.