While top telecommunications executives talked at an annual free-market conference about delivering Wi-Fi without a business model, Wi-Fi entrepreneur Jim Selby and his Aspen Wireless crew were outside the room selling Wi-Fi cards to conference goers.
Those with Wi-Fi had Internet access from within the bunkerlike conference room while BlackBerries were silenced.

The Wi-Fi train has reached the station. Commuters in and out of Silicon Valley will be the first in the United States to experience wireless Internet access while riding the rails.
A three-month trial will begin in September for riders of Altamont Commuter Express, or ACE Rail. It’s free during the trial; fees for later [...]

Bad memories could become a thing of the past as new research has solved a problem that hindered advances in targeted memory deletion.
The research, by a team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel could lead to more effective treatments for a host of psychological traumas.
Research into memory erasure has yielded [...]

Tiny self-assembling silicon chips that orient and sense their local environment could be used to detect disease, bioterrorism and pollution.
Michael Sailor, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Jamie Link, a graduate student in his laboratory, designed and synthesized the tiny silicon chips.
The chips consist of two colored [...]

It’s the latest controversy to hit pop music, and it doesn’t have anything to do with sex or drugs or trashed hotel rooms.
Instead, the music industry is divided over the use of computer hardware called autotuners, used by acts such as Britney Spears and ”N Sync to make sweeter music on the days when [...]

US firm Space Adventures is potentially interested in buying a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make tourist flights to the International Space Station (ISS), ITAR-TASS quoted the company’s chief as saying.
The Arlington, Virgina-based firm, which brokered the first two tourist space flights in 2001 and 2002, has signed a contract with the Russian space agency [...]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Glued to a computer screen in his north Tokyo apartment, the stocky, part-time sushi delivery man spent weeks searching the recesses of the Internet. Going simply by the handle “Murata,” the 28-year-old surfed for online companions harboring his same dark interest: the desire to die.
He found what he was looking for on a host [...]