Roughly the same size as a lighter (and with more than a passing resemblance to memory keys from a few years back), the U880 is – incredibly – a full featured TV Card. Check out the photos.

Sirius Satellite Radio plans to introduce services such as stock quotes, sports scores, music videos and cartoons in the second half of next year.

The word ”prosumer” was coined in 1979 by the futurist Alvin Toffler. Initially, it referred to an individual who would be involved in designing the things she purchased (a mash-up of the words ”producer” and ”consumer.”) These days, the term more often refers to a segment of users midway between consumers and professionals.

FeedBurner works with 40,000 Web content publishers to make it easy to subscribe to audio and RSS feeds. Since November, when the company pointed to 505 podcasts, the number has now grown to almost 6,000.

Dan Gillmor:
My one worry in this arena is patents. The U.S. Patent & Trademark office is notorious for issuing overly broad patents, and too frequently ones that cover things that aren’t real inventions.

Brain shrinkage, a common symptom of aging, appears to have no impact on an individual’s capacity to think or learn, Australian researchers find.

A British bus company believes it may have a secret weapon to cut pollution emissions — sheep urine in the engine.

Less than a year after podcasting caught the public imagination, the radio industry is beginning to wake up and smell the money.

When it comes to digging up a specific name, date, phrase or price, search engines are unstoppable. The same is true for details from the previously concealed past. For better and worse, any information about any of us – true or false, flattering or compromising – that has ever appeared on a publicly available site [...]