Hot deal: National Geographic National Park topo CD-ROMs for $2 each
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Sierra Trading Post offers a sophisticated topo mapping system on CD-ROM at an 80 percent discount.
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Also: Huge numbers of dinosaurs lie in wait. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Imageon boosts DVD resolution, and new Geode conserves power.
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Google buys a mapquest of its own. Also: Sharp takes us to the future of television in 3-D & hellip;.  PayPal finds a way to make amends for mistakes & hellip;. and more.
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With Web sites like Yahoo and MapQuest giving away maps and driving directions it seems like a waste of money to buy a standalone program that basically does the same thing. To survive, software publishers need to offer a lot more than the online freebies. Microsoft Corp.'s Streets &amp; Trips 2005 does just that.
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Non-memory sale to go ahead next month
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Drobo is a storage appliance that retails for $499 without drives, employs its own disk and storage virtualization algorithms to give users many of the data redundancy benefits of RAID without RAID's complexity.
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Led by John Hanke, Google Earth and Google Maps are delivering cartography tools to the masses.
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Tycho: Our third book is now available on the store, if you haven't purchased it elsewhere. Entitled The Warsun Prophecies, it incorporates all the strips from 2002. I'm usually scared to read something I've written once I've written it, which may help you to understand the state these posts sometimes arrive in - but I think this one turned out really well.I've just now finished the final edits on the fourth book, which will be released... in the future. Also, on the very same store, our Fire Sale continues to rage - with the heat of a thousand bargains! Huge savings in every department, etc.(CW)TB
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The Dutch navigation systems company said it plans to make a cash offer of 21.25 euros per share for digital map supplier Tele Atlas, valuing the company at 2 billion euros ($2.76 billion).
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"High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed" (Hyperion Books. 357 pages. $24.95), by Michael Kodas: If you're going to Mt. Everest, don't forget to pack a gun.
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Nikon leads SLR market in Japan...gaming the Creative Commons...new geotagging tech...30-minute Olympus E-3 video...Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3...Microsoft Popfly video humor
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Looking to pick up several thousand baseball cards for a few bucks? How about a 1995 red Ford Mustang, 30 pounds of scissors, dozens of laptop computers or thousands of Swiss Army knives -- all also for, potentially, a few bucks?
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(InfoWorld) - What makes a great geek vacation? Well, high-speed access from even the most obscure locale is a given. Then throw in some activities to stimulate the brain cells, maybe a dose of electronic entertainment, possibly a bit of techie history, and you're most of the way there. Of course, it also helps if your chosen location is frequented by similarly techie folks and has some out-of-the-mainstream cred, meaning it would make your non-alpha geek friends roll their eyes. Our readers weighed in with their choices. InfoWorld editors share more of their favorites, adding to yesterday's list of top vacation spots.                                                     Mount Everest If you're in search of an adventure getaway that requires you to really get away -- but still don't want to miss that important e-mail message -- there's no reason to mess around at some tropical resort. What you want is to climb the world's highest, most treacherous peak: Mount Everest. At the Base Camp Cyber Cafe, owner and sherpa Tsering Gyaltsen (the grandson of one of Sir Edmund Hillary's sherpa team members) offers satellite-fed 802.11b wireless Internet access at the highest ground-level point on the planet, nearly 18,000 feet above sea level. At about $1 per minute for access, this won't be the cheapest Internet connection you've ever used. But despite Base Camp being situated on a moving glacier on the edge of Everest's Great Ice Fall, at least it's reliable: Service comes via a wireless link between a satellite dish in the nearby town of Namche Bazar and the camp. And there's another good reason to feel good about using the service: Outside of the March-through-May climbing season, the infrastructure provides distance learning opportunities for the sherpa children in town.      Route 128, Boston Anyone who remembers DEC, Lotus, or Wang will enjoy a trip along this tech-heavy highway that runs from Canton to Gloucester in Boston's suburbs. Although more actual work than tourism takes place here, geek highlights include a pilgrimage to the MIT campus and, of course, its science museum. The first modern American factory opened in the town of Waltham; check it out for early examples of mass-produced goods. In Boston, the Museum of Science offers a wealth of exhibits, an IMAX theater, and a planetarium. While you're in town, try the local sport of candlepin bowling. Iceland It's one of the most isolated cultures in the world -- and one of the most wired. Sure, it has a pristine environment with beautiful scenery, an interesting cultural      history, fjords, hot springs, and plenty more to make for a fascinating vacation destination. But on top of all that, broadband connectivity is as plentiful as, well, ice. In fact, Iceland leads the world in per-capita broadband adoption. So wherever you go, chances are you'll be plugged in. Iceland is not a very big place, most of its interior is uninhabitable, and much of its population lives in the capital city of Reykjavik, but there is much to see and do around most of the perimeter of the island, from skiing to rafting to nature-watching. The Visit Iceland travel guide contains lots of good background info for Icelandic activities. If you want to get around, you might want to consider booking flights rather than driving. Roads hug the fjord-pocked coastline, meaning some places that can take upward of nine hours to drive to are but a 45-minute flight away. Also a short flight away: Finland, the extremely tech-friendly Scandinavian country that's home to IT companies such as Nokia. Defcon in Las Vegas      If you've ever wondered how the world's elite cybersecurity professionals get away from it all, look no further than the Defcon computer security conference, which takes place around the end of July every year in Las Vegas. Even with outside temperatures topping nearly 120 degrees, you'll find more black-leather-clad, pierced geeks by the pool at the Riviera Hotel than anywhere outside of a bondage gear trade show. For security wonks, this is a dream come true, whether you're attending lectures and educational sessions about the newest hacking techniques, participating in hacking contests, or shopping for security-themed gear. Where else can you snag a full selection of lock-picking sets, satellite dishes, or a "My kid hacked your Honor Student's e-mail account" T-shirt? When the sun goes down, prepare to experience nightlife, hacker style, with the Black and White Costume Ball; anime and film festivals; and even Hacker Jeopardy -- a live game show featuring experts and volunteer audience members. Just remember: Don't use an unencrypted wireless Internet connection on the premises, or they may project your username and password on the Wall of Sheep, a 20-foot-high screen. Space tourism      You don't have to be an ex-boy bander (ahem, erstwhile *NSync-er Lance Bass) to book a space tourist flight, but you'll probably require a similar cash flow -- and you'll need to learn that the preferred term is "personal spaceflight" so as not to offend your travel agent and/or Mission Control. For the moment, the Russian government is the only outfit offering personal spaceflight, and even with a price tag of $20 million, the Russian Space Agency claims to be booked until 2009. But fear not, intrepid would-be astronauts! The private sector is looking to get in on the action, and at rock-bottom prices to boot, so long as several hundred thousand dollars strikes you as being a bargain-basement price. Richard Branson has jumped to the forefront of personal spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, which he calls "the world's first spaceline," joined by others, including Space Adventures and John Carmack's (yeah, the guy who created Doom) Armadillo Aerospace. Presently, private personal spaceflight offers suborbital flights that serve up a couple minutes of weightlessness and a once-in-a-lifetime view. Not quite the same thing as the trips to the International Space Station that the Russian government has been providing, but still far beyond anything that can be experienced on terra firma.SEE ALSO:Top 10 geek vacations
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The store chain will launch a Web DVD rental service like Netflix -- only cheaper. Also: American troops get access to Napster & hellip;. Microsoft offers XP lite in Asia to recapture business lost to Linux, piracy & hellip;. and more.
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Players of the rock music simulator have downloaded more  than 2.5 million songs at about $2 each in the eight weeks  since the game went on sale, MTV said on Thursday.
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The government began issuing $40 vouchers for DTV converters as a part of its Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program on Jan. 1. The only problem is the converters are nowhere to be found.