Business 2.0 - Web Article - Can't Get to That Meeting? Send a Bot.

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Can't Get to That Meeting? Send a [ro]Bot. HP Labs recently invited a bunch of journalists to check out the company's latest experiment, a robotic meeting surrogate that turns teleconferencing into telepresence. The idea is that if you have to attend a remote meeting, you virtually "inhabit" the surrogate bot and send it in your place (one assumes that the bot would already be at or near the meeting location). After all, if the military can separate its pilots from its airplanes with a remote-control link, why can't the ordinary business traveler separate his body from the conference room?

WSJ.com - Nullsoft Founder Frankel Says He Intends to Resign

WSJ.com - Nullsoft Founder Frankel Says He Intends to Resign Justin Frankel, 24, announced his intentions late Monday on his Web site, less than a week after a file-sharing program called Waste was posted and then pulled from the Nullsoft Web site.
"The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have," he said in his Web log. "This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leav (sic). I don't know when it will be, but I'm not going to last much longer."

File-Sharing Program Slips Out of AOL Offices

File-Sharing Program Slips Out of AOL Offices Whatever Mr. Frankel's cause, AOL was anything but enthusiastic. Less than 24 hours after the new program was released, the company pulled it from the Nullosft site. On Friday evening, it posted a stern warning informing anyone who had obtained a copy that the release had not been authorized.
"You acquired no lawful rights to the software and must destroy any and all copies of the software, including by deleting it from your computer," the notice reads. "Any license that you may believe you acquired with the software is void, revoked and terminated."

I bet this will be the last time nullsoft will 'slip' anything out the door. What's interesting is there was a lot of talk about 'Waste' prior to the release...so it's amazing they were able to leak it out in the first place...