Because the Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporations's new E-Rock jukebox is wired and electronic, you can pay with your credit card and choose from 130,000 songs. Business owners can manage it via the Web.
Indian mobile phone company Bharti Cellular announced several new flexible services for customers, including recorded yoga tips from yoga guru Bharat Thakur. Unfortunately, nobody does yoga in India anymore. They should offer that service here in California.
A computer virus disabled the State Department's system for checking the visas of people coming into the United States. "The virus crippled the department's Consular Lookout and Support System, known as CLASS, which contains more than 12.8 million records from the FBI, State Department and U.S. immigration, drug-enforcement and intelligence agencies. Among the names are those of at least 78,000 suspected terrorists."
Los Angeles based Liebermann Inc. announced a new four-monitor display called the Grand Canyon Professional Desktop Monitors Series, which the company claims are the "largest, highest image quality and highest resolution LCD displays in the world." With sizes up to 92", resolutions maxing out at 6400x1200 pixels and packages of up to four monitors per display, I believe them. It just doesn't get any better than this, folks. Nor does it get any more expensive: A four-monitor, 92" display costs $17,500. Still, which would you really rather have, a car or one of these? UPDATE: It turns out the Grand Canyon systems are for wimps. How about a $155,000, 10-monitor display?
California's embattled governor, Gray Davis, signed a bill today that outlaws spam. The penalty: $1,000 per message sent with a maximum fine of $1 million per campaign. The move is seen as a desperate attempt by Davis to avoid being the first governor in the history of California to be replaced by Gary Coleman.
A study by Blue Coat Systems found that half of all respondents to a survey claimed to use profanity in IM at work, one third admit to making chat-based "sexual advances." My favorite part: 40 percent said they use IM to "conspire with colleagues" during conference calls.
An Indian mobile phone company called Escotel is working with the local Election Commission to enable the public to monitor electoral votes in real-time via SMS.
NEC plans to start selling a fuel cell notebook next year. The fuel cell features an electrode made of a type of carbon nano-tube called the "carbon nano-horn." The notebook should be able to work 40 hours at a time.