London tops chart for kit left in taxis

UK capital tops the charts for leaving mobiles and laptops in the backs of taxis London is the top city for leaving laptops and mobile phones in the backs of cabs, according to a new survey. A survey of 2,000 taxi drivers worldwide found that Londoners have forgotten 54,874 mobile phones, 4,718 handhelds or Pocket PCs, 3,179 laptops and 923 USB memory sticks at the back of licensed taxi cabs in the last six months. London tops the charts with the amount of missing mobiles with only Mumbai coming near this total (32,970). ...more

Take some pictures with your Palm

A new gadget from Kodak enables Palm users to turn their PDA into a regular digital still camera. The Kodak PalmPix connects to almost any current Palm model and gives you the chance to take pictures with your organiser. The unit features two picture resolutions, a 2x zoom, and it can store one picture for every 100k of available Palm memory. ...more

Police arrest and caution Wi-Fi thieves

Worcestershire police have cautioned two people who were arrested for accessing unsecured wireless networks in breach of the Communications Act 2003. Last weekend officers were alerted to a man sitting in a car with cardboard blocking the windows. They found him using a laptop to access a network in a nearby house. ...more

phpBB team locked out from servers after political hack

Netcraft is reporting that the phpBB development team - the people behind the widely used (including by this site) bulletin board software - have been locked out of their primary server following a security attack. According to www.phpbb. ...more

Xbox takes thrashing in Japan

The gloves are off and Japanese pundits are pulling no punches in their assessment of Xbox's sales performance so far. Japanese analysts today completely wrote off Xbox's chances in the country, issuing some sensational quotes on the back what are essentially disastrous sales figures. 'There's no point in discussing the issue,' said Deutsche Securities analyst Takashi Oya, speaking of the machine's situation in Japan. ...more