Daily Archives: January 23, 2007

Jan 23

‘Priest’ claims he shouldn’t go on sex offenders list

A local Catholic ‘priest’, in prison for possessing child pornography, claims he shouldn’t go on the NY State sex offenders registry when he’s released in March. He and his lawyer are citing a technicality regarding the state list and federal … Read More

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Jan 23

Some iPhone touchscreen roots ‘splained by FingerWorks inventors

How did Apple get the iPhone’s finger gesture technology? It looks like they bought it, along with the company that created it, FingerWorks. John Elias and Wayne Westerman were the co-founders of FingerWorks, which suddenly closed up shop a year … Read More

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Jan 23

Microsoft seeks patent on ‘immortal computing’

Microsoft researchers are working on something they call ‘immortal computing’ that looks to preserving digital information in such a way that it’s still readable centuries from now. While that may sound far-fetched, just think about what’s happened to digital storage … Read More

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