Opera 7.60 set to offer faster browsing
The next version of the Opera browser will be integrated with SlipStream's Web and email acceleration technology, Opera Software said on Thursday. The company claimed that Opera , which is…
Iridium (satellite)
The Iridium satellite constellation is a system of 66 active communication satellites and spares around the earth. The system was originally to have 77 active satellites, and was named for…
Wayfinder Mobile Navigator for Nokia 6600 mobile phones
Over the last few years mobile phone technology has been improving at a rapid pace. This has included not only the introduction of faster data connections, but also highly specified…
Hacker Psych
Who are hackers, and what makes them tick? Two experts in the field of cyber forensics and psychology have some answers to that question. One is Marc Rogers, a behavioral…
No Software Patents!
Under the influence of the patent system and big industry lobbyists, the European Union is on the verge of making a huge mistake: to pass a law that would legalize…
Spyware and the Law
I spy with my little eye, a legal problem beginning with 'S' - find out just where spyware stands in law, on both sides of the Atlantic. The media is…
Super-powered peer to peer
StreamCast Networks on Wednesday plans to release an updated version of its Morpheus file-swapping software, showcasing new search technology that could dramatically strengthen peer-to-peer networks. Morpheus developers are looking to…
Linux kernel flaw allows DoS attack
A bug in version of the Linux kernel allows remote users to crash systems running SuSE's latest enterprise and consumer software Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with…
Macromedia to Flex new Flash server muscles
This week Macromedia will announce a new version of Flex, its server-side software that was designed to increase the uptake of the Flash format for web graphics and interfaces Macromedia…
Art Deco: High Style
The glamorous look marked skylines from New York to Shanghai and streamlined everything from film and fashion to jewelry and automobiles Art Deco was the name given, long after the…
Art That Goes Boom
Fireworks, exploding balloons, skywriting: Gai Guo-Qiang's sizzling works defy gravity and expectations On a gritty street in downtown New York City, a bright red door gives way to another world—the…
Portrait Painter of the Republic
A dazzling Gilbert Stuart retrospective includes paintings never before seen in public When the largest exhibition ever of works by Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) opens this month at the Metropolitan Museum…
Handicrafts as local art
An exhibit of Bolivian folk art evokes local cultures and environments In the same way that a Wall Street banker would never show up at work sporting beads and sandals,…
Mass Consumption
American designers tackle the issue of obesity. International design biennials ask a lot of their curators—bring us your best designers, but introduce us to new faces. Tell us what’s happening…
Jun-ichi Arai: The Futurist of Fabric
Blending technology and ancient arts, the 72-year-old “dream weaver” continues to push textile design into unexplored realms. By Paul Makovsky and Mary Murphy Jun-ichi Arai isn’t a household name in…
Sports History of China
Before the Western Han Dynasty Some known ancient cultural relics have provided evidence that health-building activities appeared in China over 4,000 years ago. By the time of the Western Zhou…
History of Chogān (Polo)
Let other people play at other things. The king of games is still the game of kings. This verse is inscribed on a stone tablet next to a polo ground…
Sports, women and History
In the Early Beginnings Around the time of Australia's Federation at start of the 20th century, sport became a means for an emerging nation to place itself on the world…
Lithuania Sports
Of the three Baltic states, Lithuania is probably best known as a sports nation. This is primarily because of its national basketball teams, which are consistently among the top three…
BC Zalgiris
History In 1944 best basketball players from Kaunas united into one team which was named "Zalgiris" shortly after that. From the beginning "Zalgiris" starts fighting for the first places in…