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Online Sperm Bank Allows Virtual Conception
News Jaime Saphier and Sarah Watkinson purchased sperm from the Man Not Included Web site at a total cost of £830, and Saphier is due to give birth in January 2004. According to reports, 18 other couples from around the world have conceived babies using...
[June 30, 2003, 15:09]
Web Attack Manhunt 'impossible'
News On Tuesday, a Florida man calling himself Captain Zapp sent out an 18-page manifesto to MSNBC claiming credit for the crime. Reed Omman, or Freedom Man. It's not easy to track down the IP addresses from which the attack originated.
[February 11, 2000, 8:20]
Australia Censors The Net
News The digital age requires a Minister with a grasp of the portfolio and an eye for the future, not a man who can't tell the difference between the Internet and TV. Despite the furore, the man behind the bill, Information Technology Minister, Senator...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
Plantronics Headset To Blame For Neil Armstrong's Moon Gaffe?
Blog Space geeks will tell you that the oft-repeated line of “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” (quoted by Plantronics) is not what he said, as if you stop to think about it, man and mankind are the same thing.
[February 14, 2008, 10:37]
Hilton Hacker Sent Down
News The young man was sentenced to 11 months of detention in a juvenile facility, to be followed by two years of supervised release. The perpetrator's name is not being disclosed because he is a juvenile.
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part IX
News The one thing he was sure of, Naughton said, was that people could never be sure whom they were talking to in chatrooms, noting that he had once witnessed a 40-year-old man posing as a dominatrix. As for the actual meeting on the pier, Naughton...
[March 21, 2000, 14:25]
Real-life Iron Giant Invades IT Recycling Debate
News At just over seven metres tall with computer mice for teeth, a washing machine for a spine, and a head made up of PC monitors, the WEEE Man (pictured below) is not your usual environmental campaigner but he's certainly attracting attention.
[April 29, 2005, 12:45]
News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux Gobbles Microsoft
News The Linux operating system may pose many problems for competitors such as Microsoft, but it hadn't occurred to the Schmoozer that one of them was the GPL's resemblance to Pac-Man. I-Mode phones have been offering games like Pac-Man for a while, of...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
Hot Links, Cool Trends On The Web
News And according to Google, pop singer Shakira is second only to Spider-Man when it comes to garnering more searches this year than the year before. Spider-Man topped the gainers while Nostradamus, which was the focus of many Sept.hoaxes, and defunct...
[December 27, 2002, 9:26]
Jane Wakefield: The Real Tech Revolution
News The idea of Web sites as our virtual psychiatrists conjures up images of a Woody Allen film in 2020 (for undoubtedly he will still be making films then), with a man lying on the psychiatrist's couch hooked up to a computer and whining: "My Web...
[October 1, 1999, 16:50]
Hijackers Lay Traps For Errant Emails
News For months, Jews for Jesus had lost email to a New Jersey man named Steven Brodsky who opposed the San Francisco religious group. I was blessed when one of your people came to our church," wrote a Baptist man from Oregon who left out the hyphens.
[November 9, 1999, 9:13]
A Year Ago: Hijackers Lay Traps For Errant Emails
News I was blessed when one of your people came to our church," wrote a Baptist man from Oregon who left out the hyphens. For months, Jews for Jesus had lost email to a New Jersey man named Steven Brodsky who opposed the San Francisco religious group.
[November 9, 2000, 6:01]
Bagle Turns To Verse
News Like a man did never understand the wild life. The author of the latest variant of the Bagle worm has gone beyond penning just a piece of code: the writer has also included a poem in the document attachment on which the worm piggybacks.
[April 27, 2004, 8:40]
AI: The Story So Far
News Other medieval attempts at AI included The Turk, an allegedly intelligent chess-playing machine (which turned out to be a small man hidden in a box). But man's interest in the notion that a machine could be given the ability to think can be traced...
[January 23, 2001, 13:22]
News Schmooze: WorldCom Or WorldCon?
News Man Not Included Why not, when all it takes to get connected to the company LAN is a couple of taps on your shiny new handheld computer? The boom in laptops and other mobile gadgets may not have ended world hunger, but it has had one noticeable...
[June 28, 2002, 14:31]
Windows 98 Can Still Be A Good Choice
News As much as Microsoft would love for you to toss out your old copies of Windows 98 like the old man in that sketch, if you listen closely enough you can probably hear Windows 98 saying "But I'm not dead yet!
[January 28, 2004, 15:05]
Novell Chief Lashes Forrester Report
News The report by US IT analyst Forrester Research was condemned as "garbage" by Joe Marengi, who has taken over as the man in charge following the departure of Bob Frankenberg. But Marengi says all the figures show this not to be true.
[September 19, 1996, 9:23]
Spammer Hit With Criminal Charges
News Last year, an Ohio man named Daniel Baas pleaded guilty to illegally entering Acxiom's FTP site. It's unclear from the indictment how much of the alleged theft included email addresses versus physical mailing addresses, and the Justice Department...
[July 22, 2004, 8:45]
Will Restricting File-sharing Slow Innovation?
News One brief included 20 musicians ranging from Public Enemy front man Chuck D to newcomer Jason Mraz, who said that file-swapping had actually helped -- or at least had not hurt -- their careers. The ability to create and innovate is a dynamic...
[March 2, 2005, 10:55]
'Stupid' Linking Policies Come Under Fire
News Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Ill.is the man behind Don't Link to Us, a Web site that exists merely to flout what it terms "stupid linking policies. In last month's Newsbooster case, a Danish court...
[August 21, 2002, 14:33]
