Computer Users, Please Stand Up: For all those moms who have ever shouted, "Go outside and play!" at teens who sit for hours in dim rooms in front of the computer or TV, here's some more ammunition: Blood clots are afflicting chronic computer users who sit immobile for too long. Researchers say the malady is essentially the same as "economy class syndrome," and the story has the same moral: Exercise your limbs or risk suffering the effects of deep vein thrombosis.

Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare: Rules for Attacking Enemy Computers Prepared as U.S. Weighs Iraq Options U.S. Plans for Cyber Warfare Bush reportedly orders cyberwarfare plan

Why Your Boss Should Let Your Surf at Work: Personal Web use by employees is usually offset by office work done at home, study finds

Getting Game Boy to Play Their Tune: The SongPro ($99) plugs into a Game Boy Advance and turns it into an audio player. The system includes a 32-megabyte Flash memory card, headphones, music management software and a U.S.B. line to link it to a computer for music downloads.

Nothing but air: If there is one ray of hope amid the gloom that has cloaked the digital economy, it could be summed up with one word: wireless.

Dell foments floppy's fall: Later this month, the PC maker plans to drop the floppy as standard equipment on one of its Dimension desktops. [...] Apple Computer was the first manufacturer to actually take the plunge and eliminate the floppy completely, when it released the iMac in 1998.

Patent scare hits streaming industry: [A] company called Acacia Media Technologies said it owned patents on the process of transmitting compressed audio or video online, one of the most basic multimedia technologies on the Net.

Stalkers Use GPS to Track Victims: Just as the global satellite positioning system can help save lives, so can its abuse endanger them, advocates of stalking victims say.

The Windows vs. Lindows Trademark Infringement War

The Theory and Practice of the Internet: Three books ask: Is there a comprehensive theory of the Web? And if so, does it do us any good?

Feds pull suspicious .gov site: In a move that raises questions about the security of governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it. Until recently, visitors to the AONN.gov Web site were treated to a smorgasbord of information about an agency calling itself the Access One Network Northwest (AONN), a self-described cyberwarfare unit claiming to employ more than 2,000 people and had the support of the U.S. Department of Defense. No federal agency called AONN appears to exist, and no agency with that name is on the official list of organizations maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Standard will give broadband connectivity to mobile users: The IEEE 802 standards committee said it will create an air-interface to deliver wireless services to mobile users traveling at speeds up to 250 kilometers/hour (155 mph) at rates comparable to current broadband connections, such as cable or DSL. The IEEE P802.20 standard will seek to boost real-time data-transmission rates in wireless metropolitan-area networks from current dial-up speeds to at least 1 Mbit/second.

How Bill Gates Sponsored bin Laden: Microsoft is not the only company blamed for financing terrorists, even popular PC producer Compaq sponsored terrorists as well. It is clear that both companies didn’t even suspect that money transferred to the charitable organization Benevolence International Foundation is spent on training of al-Qaeda terrorists. The companies transferred not very large sums of money, Microsoft’s transfer made up 20 thousand dollars. But as is known, many hands make light work.

Mathematical Solutions for Maintaining Privacy: Mathematical Balance Between Public Statistics, Personal Information Recently Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant, two IBM researchers in California, have developed a simple program that might make customer duplicity less appealing. Based on the realization that companies often want data that is roughly accurate in the aggregate but not necessarily personally revealing, their program partially reconciles companies' desire for information with individuals' desire for privacy.

A bad case of DVD rot eats into movie collections: If you think your prized collection of DVD movies will last a lifetime, think again - some are already starting to rot while others are falling apart.

Video games without frontiers: Keen gamers can rejoice as US scientists are working on ways to make computer games that never end. The researchers are adapting AI techniques used for robot navigation to manage game worlds that constantly present fresh challenges to players.

The first 'e-war': The threat of so-called cyberwarfare may be overhyped. [A]t the same time that al-Qaida was plotting its successful suicide hijackings, the top U.S. spooks were busy fretting about the dire threat of Fidel Castro hacking our computers. In February 2001, Adm. Tom Wilson, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress: Castro's armed forces could initiate an "information warfare or computer network attack" that could "disrupt our military." We're still waiting.

UMTS: la Chine décroche son standard téléphonique: La troisième génération de téléphonie mobile aura sa norme chinoise, le TD-SCDMA. Il y a peu de chances de voir ce standard retenu en France, mais le marché chinois étant devenu, par sa taille, le premier du monde, la nouvelle est loin d'être négligeable pour le secteur. Ce mois-ci, la société chinoise Datang va effectuer des tests grandeur nature de sa technologie dans deux villes importantes, Chongching et Chengdu; elle prévoit une commercialisation dès l'an prochain.

Why Spy? Technology that monitors employees' Web usage sounds like a smart way to keep them focused on work. Wrong. Let 'em surf.

As Broadband Gains, the Internet's Snails Fall Back: The problem is speed. Consumers have been dropping their slow dial-up services and switching to faster service, called broadband. AOL and the other dial-up leaders do offer broadband service, but the latest quarterly results show that consumers are shunning these offers, despite increased promotion. Rather, they are buying broadband services offered by cable and telephone companies. Broadband Broadens Its Pitch: How goes the broadband revolution? It depends on how you read the numbers. By the research firm ARS Inc.'s figures, there are about 15 million broadband subscribers in the United States today, with 9.4 million using cable modems, which ride on the same wiring as cable TV, and 5.4 million on digital subscriber lines, which piggyback on telephone circuits. Not bad - but of the 70 percent of American households that could get either cable-modem or DSL service, only 13 percent or so have signed up. Broadband isn't just for early adopters anymore, but it's not for everyone either. Let's Underwrite Broadband: It's time for the U.S. government to subsidize broadband connections to the home. I never thought I'd say that, but I've gotten over my free-market puritanism. The Bush administration should write a check to cover about a quarter of the $40 per month that households pay for their cable or DSL connections, and be ready to pick up even more if Americans don't get with broadband fast enough.