There are lots of jabber clients, even for cellphones -- Palm, J2ME, Symbian, WinCE, etc.

Jabber Clients

Japan's space agency plans to launch an arrow-shaped airplane at twice the speed of sound high over the Australian outback as early as next month in a crucial test of the country's push to develop a supersonic successor to the retired Concorde.

From what I've heard, the concorde was not very nice in the passenger cabin. Boeing seems to be betting that people would rather have a more comfortable ride than a faster one. Not to mention the huge premium you have to pay to build and operate a supersonic jetliner.

Japan to Resume Supersonic Jet Test

OMG! Its like a car. Except that its like a bike. Except that its like a fighter jet. Must be seen to be believed. This was featured on Top Gear on the Discovery Channel. Apparently, it costs €35K.

CARVER - The most athletic car in the world

Now when will they sell me one that lets me roam between the AP in my apartment and the cell network?

ZyXEL P-2000W_v2 - VoIP Wi-Fi Phone

MSH, or Microsoft Command Shell, is a command line interface and scripting language being developed by Microsoft. It is similar in usage to the Unix shells, but is based on object-oriented programming and the .NET framework.

For basically 20 years, bash has been the state of the art in
deployed interactive text-based user interfaces. That's pathetic. Its been taken as an article of faith that such things are inherantly difficult to use, have a steep learning curve, etc, and that GUIs are preferable. I have long wondered where we could go from the UNIX shell if someone devoted real resources to developing something. This is one possible answer.

Windows Monad Shell (msh)

Free software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use. A few freely distributed programs, like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, have become well known, but most are still unproved.

To address the problem, Carnegie Mellon University, Intel and SpikeSource, a company that supports and tests corporate open-source projects, have devised a rating system intended to reduce confusion and guesswork in evaluating such software. The initiative, Business Readiness Ratings, is to be announced today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore.

Huh ... this is the first I've heard of this.

Rating System Will Evaluate Free Software

Satellite digital radio has captured the attention of consumers and investors with its billions spent and millions of paying subscribers. But a quiet digital revolution has hit the AM and FM dials as well: more than 450 stations in the United States now broadcast one or two digital channels alongside analog ones. At least 2,000 of the more than 12,000 stations in the country are committed to adding the format.

Yay.

Digital Terrestrial Radio Finally Getting Deployed

Acidus wrote:
teh h4x0rs R 3vi1!

It sounds like what's going to happen is the existing copies
are going to be re-rated "adults only" and pulled from shelves in
most places and Rockstar is going to cut a new release sans the "hot coffee" minigame which ESRB said would get the old "M" rating back.

I can't feel much sympathy for Rockstar ... if it was dead code
that you had to patch to get into, that would be one thing, but apparently its also accessible on the PS2 version via a cheat code. For once, I can't really blame the folks that got outraged over this when it was rated without consideration of this submarine content.

RE: Penny Arcade on GTA fluff

Japan may allow terrestrial digital TV programmes to be broadcast on fibre-optic networks via the Internet to help speed the transition from analog services, a government source said on Thursday.

Japan to test video over IP

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] The Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is designed to
] securely extend the single-sign-on approach from internal
] systems to external business partners and suppliers.

IBM Rolls Out Federated ID-Management Software