The new SH066 mobile phone jammer looks just like a cell phone. When someone is yammering away on their phone in a restaurant or movie, shut them down.
Nuns Press Cisco to Break Excessive Exec Pay Habit
Nuns are descending on Silicon Valley to protest overcompensated CEOs here, starting with Cisco CEO John Chambers. Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary asked Cisco to compare its highest wage earner with its smallest. Chambers makes 2,277 times that of the average Cisco worker, and the nuns are quite cross about that. Chambers, however, took home just one dollar in salary last year, but was given share options that will probably be worth dozens of millions in ten years.
Federal judge James Ware ordered today that the trial of accused industrial spies Fei Ye and Ming Zhong will begin in June. The two were busted at the San Francisco airport in November 2001 with large suitcases packed with trade secrets and stolen equipment from Sun, NEC, Transmeta and Trident. They're accused of stealing the secrets in order to go back to China and start a new microprocessor company in cahoots with the Chinese government (hey, it worked for the space program...).
New Sony Laptop Less Than Half-Inch Thick, Under 2 Pounds
Sony plans to start selling next month the world's thinnest and lightest notebook. The Vaio Note 505 Extreme comes in two versions, one in a nickel-reinforced carbon composite shell and the other in a lighter, stronger carbon fiber casing. The lighter model is less than 0.4 inch thick and weighs 1.73 lbs. Both versions have a 10.4-inch LCD screen and will go on sale in Japan on December 6. The nickel-reinforced model will cost $2,760 while the ultra-light carbon fiber model will cost a little more.
An Israeli company building a military pilotless drone helicopter says its prototype was stolen over the weekend. Somebody out there has a fully functional airborne killing machine! Who's got it? The company suspects industrial espionage.
Korea to Require Annoying 'Shutter' Sound for Camera Phones
The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication said today that it's working on legislation that would require camera phones sold in Korea to feature a fake digital "camera shutter" sound when pictures are taken. The idea is that an audible noise would protect the privacy of people because they would know their pictures are being taken.
The KVH TracVision A5 is a low-profile automobile satellite dish. Now you can watch TV while you drive and talk on your cell phone. It's not perfect, but it's better than cable.
Nokia's N-Gage gaming phone has been hacked and reverse-engineered, according to enthusiast site Spong, which enables other phones to run N-Gage content, according to the site. They're a little vague on details, and promise more information later. ZD has the story, too.
Spanish Researcher Invents Electric Chameleon Fingernails
Spanish scientist Carlos Gonzales has invented fake fingernail technology that changes color at the flip of a switch. A device is placed over the special glue-on fingernails, which is used to set the color. It has a digital camera, so colors can be captured, then "transferred" to the nails. The fake nails are made from layers of electrochromic polymers, which change color in response to electrical currents from the gadget.
NTT DoCoMo plans to launch Wednesday the world's first auto-focus camera phone. Called the Mova P505iS, the phone features a 1.28 megapixel CCD, 65k TFT screen and a mini SD slot.
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