A Businessweek article “As Number Portability Nears” discusses the recent FCC ruling that mobile phone operators must allow customers to keep their phone number when changing providers. The new rule takes effect 23 November 2003. Read more…

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The recently announced VeriChip has the potential to be implanted in humans (in addition to devices) allow them to be scanned and tracked without the hosts knowledge. Pretty cool for airline luggage, a little scary when implanted in humans.

VeriChip is a miniaturized, implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID) that has the potential to be used in a variety of personal identification, security, financial, and

The new Samsung i500 released by SprintPCS (palm/phone combo) will sync with a Macintosh (OS X) running Palm’s desktop. I have yet to try it on OS 9, but it does indeed work on OS X. Neither Sprint nor Samsung advertise support for the Macintosh.

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Politechbot and TheNation are reporting that eBay is cozy with the cops.
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