More cash needed for flight test programme The trust which last October successfully got Avro Vulcan XH558 back into the air following a £6.5m restoration is rattling its tin again amid fears it may not have the cash to make the aircraft ready for the 2008 airshow season.?

Thunderbird is go The Mozilla Foundation has opened up a new subsidiary tasked with developing the Thunderbird email software package.?

All-terrain armoured transport Review Every office has a luddite, even an organisation so devoted to the new and the technological as Register Hardware. There's always at least one person who clings to his or her fear and loathing of some aspect of the modern world.?

Turning the air blue The inclusion of a paragraph in the bill to nationalise the Northern Rock which exempts the bank from the Freedom of Information Act is completely unacceptable, according to the Tories.?

Flying today? Not with those cases you're not Heathrow's Terminal 4 was yesterday hit by a software glitch which affected its baggage-handling capacity, the knock-on effect of which means that some passengers travelling have been told to leave any hold baggage at home.?

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Mozilla officially launched its new Thunderbird focuses spinoff Mozilla Messaging yesterday with David Ascher as CEO. Mozilla Messenging begins with the proposition that e-mail is broken, with its goal being to fix it. Writes Ascher: Email and other forms of internet communications present us with a paradox. The stunning proportion of our days spent communicating online [...]

We normally leave fluffy stories involving blond popstars up to our friends at Shiny Shiny, but in that instance, I just can't resist poking fun at Madonna, with the news her film is going...straight to the internet! She claims that her directorial debut Filth and Wisdom is bypassing the cinema because she is "a beginner so I think I should start off in an understated way. Just because I'm established in one field doesn't mean that's how I should
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Many will balk at the £10,000 price-tag on this system, but for those who know Denon, they'll realise that it's well deserved for the high audio quality you'll receive. Seen in the picture above are two systems, the AVP-A1HD and POA-A1HD, both retailing for £4,999 each, bringing the ideal home cinema system to just a shade under £10k. Here's both boxes, in a nutshell: The AVP-A1HD is their first AV component system for a decade reportedly, hand-b
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A motorcyclist and a person in a vehicle died in an accident near Loop 610 South and Wayside early today.

Harris County Precinct 6 Deputy Constable Harry Thielepape, who was shot Jan. 26 while working security at an apartment complex, died early this morning. He was 57.

Military extends restrictions on troops stationed in Okinawa following uproar over the arrest of a US marine accused of raping 14-year-old girl

Powerful earthquake damages buildings and injures several people in Indonesia but does not trigger a feared tsunami

Russia says sending 2,000 police to secure breakaway country's independence would be in breach of international law

If you don't want images included on your page to appear in Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown below (note this value is not new -- quite the opposite, it's been around for years -- though it's one of the more obscure ones): However, if other sites directly link to your images, then Google may still index them, as they explain on their help entry on the subject. A more stable way t
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Out in Japan at the end of next month, U-Mate's Lap-Around-Japan pedometer is a novel idea to get people walking. Instead of noting the same old landmarks (skyscraper, dog toilet, convenience store, interminable roadworks, pervy builders etc etc) the miles you cover are transposed into miles around the japanese coastline. The device also keeps you entertained on your journey by acting as a kind of geographic Wikipedia for you. Confused? Read on.L
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Gadget-loving actor Stephen Fry has added podcasting to his digital repertoire, though in quintessential Fry style he's dubbing them "podgrams". Issue one is out on his site now, detailing his recent arm-breaking disaster. We hope it heals soon Stephen, so that in future podgrams we can hear more of your thoughts on cool new gadgets! [StephenFry.com]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Given the fact that most of the nanotech developments we've seen have to do with making smaller transistors or generating electricity, we're not exactly sure why a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that two-thirds of American think nanotechnology is "morally unacceptable" -- perhaps they didn't hear about that team that used nanotech to inscribe the Bible on the head
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