The iPhone is not currently available anywhere in the UK%2C and customers may have to wait for the putative 3G Apple iPhone.

Stock of both the 8GB and the 16GB Apple iPhone models, have flown off UK shelves, forcing service provider O2 to admit that no stock remains and the original iPhone will not re-appear. However, with no definite UK release date for the 3G…

A video demo and Python-GTK script of a new kind of scrollbar that should be faster to use and look more neat.

Thanks to drew Roberts for helping me with ponunciation, it would be worse without him

If a magnifying glass is like lightning to ants, this would be their atomic bomb.

The most recent announcement comes from Sunrgi, which claims its XCPV system will “produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5-cents per kWh” (via news release). Their system magnifies sunlight 2,000 times at over…

The MPAA has asked a Swedish court for $15.4 million in damages from The Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde, the torrent tracker's fearless captain, says that the claims are bogus.

The unflappable Sunde isn't impressed with the claims. He told Swedish newspaper SvD that the figure is a fabrication and that the content industry should be thanking him instead of attempting to sue him. "We might be able to pay…

Its been 40 years since Mr. McGuire pulled Benjamin Braddock withdrawal apart from his degree and said: I just want to say one word to you. ? Just one word are you listening? Plastics ?. There is a great future in plastics. ? The future is still in plastics, but today Mr. McGuire probably whisper, bioplastics?.

Any company planning to jump on bioplastics at a production of resin or conversion of products to a plant-based alternative needs to stay abreast of what is happening on stage biofuels, too. Bioplastica could be the darlings of bio-based…

New service for building YouTube subscription… interesting if it works as they claim…

Its easy to build your subscriber list but it can take time. WebVideoPromoter.com is now offering a service to increase your YouTube Subscriber base by increments of 1,000. Before releasing to the public weve made sure this new service…

We, the Diggers, are our own gatekeepers; the responsibility to bring each other the day's stories is shared equally amongst us. However, there are some that don't feel this way. These “shepherd” Diggers have a flock of “sheep” Diggers behind them that digg that flock? to the shepherd's stories, regardless of quality, importance or general appeal.

We, the Diggers, are our own gatekeepers; the responsibility to bring each other the day's stories is shared equally amongst us.However, there are some that don't feel this way. These “shepherd” Diggers have a flock of…

Medicine of the future will make even todays broad-based therapies obsolete. Breakthroughs such as cancer-hunting nanoparticles, virus-busting lasers and featherweight heart monitors have begun to usher in a new era of targeted treatment…

? PM NEWS: Developing a High-Tech Cure for the Superbug

Docks became popular when Mac began using them in their operating system. But these days docks are available on all platforms.
So which ones should you avoid and which ones should you use?

Short for Avant Window Navigator, AWN is one of the best docks availabe this day. It offers great applets, you can download themes from the internet, it has a flat and 3d look (look here for the curved look). You can set all kind of…

2008 is nearly halfway over, which means that poor CNET Download.com senior content manager Peter Butler has reached deeply into the trash heap to pluck out, shake off, and crown with glory the most useless downloads published this year. He's handed the best of the worst over to CNET Executive Editor Tom Merritt for show and tell

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You can't go backwards or forwards with SP3, truly 'screwed' down.

The inability to downgrade to IE6 after installing XP SP3 was by design, said Maliouta, because the service pack includes newer versions of the old browser's files. If Microsoft had allowed users to revert back to the pre-SP3 version of…

The US State Department has lost over 1000 laptops according to an audit report. Some of the laptops contain high security data.
Nita M. Lowey, a representative on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees State Department operations, told Congressional Quarterly that she is concerned? about the security revelations.

Nita M. Lowey, a representative on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees State Department operations, told Congressional Quarterly that she is “concerned” about the security revelations.

Harald Welte has posted an update on the GPL-compliance case hearing held on May 8. In the end, Skype dropped all of its arguments and gave up its appeal. “This means that the previous court decision is legally binding to Skype, and we have successfully won what has probably been the most lengthy and time consuming case so far.”

I would add to your remarks that the US court system (or any court system for that matter) is not designed to deal with the situation where a plaintiff seeks to drag out a case. In most court cases, the plaintiff wants a resolution as soon…

The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content'just like Google.

No matter which way the ruling goes, this could prove to be an important milestone for the MPAA's fight against BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has a few notches in its bedpost, but those have come from settlements which resulted in shuttered…