Instant Diagnosis in Your Palm

"Researchers develop a DNA detection system designed to instantly diagnoses disease, as well as acts of bioterrorism. And it all comes wrapped in a handheld device." [Wired News]

What, no reading eBooks on it? (Joking, joking....)

AvantGo weeds out custom channel 'abuse'

"Avantgo, the PDA content provider, is to start charging for custom channels with more than eight subscribers, in a move to stamp out business use. The change in Ts&Cs takes place tomorrow, February 20, and is expected to affect thousands of businesses. [...] Custom channel charges for eight users and below remain free. From nine to 100 users, annual charges are set at $1,000 a year; 101-500 users $4,000; 501-1000 -$6,000." [The End of Free]

So the AvantGo change makes The End of Free, and now it's official. I understand wanting to stop abuses by "big businesses," but obviously they can monitor this so why can't they weed out the bad guys. Maybe they shouldn't have to, I hear you asking... but what about all of the non-profits and amateur sites that were using this service. How many thousands of users did we send AvantGo's way, and now they want to charge us a minimum of $1,000 if you have a fielded baseball team subscribe to your channel (that's less than nine people, for our international friends). Here's something for us to investigate though:

"Pocket PC Thoughts, a forum site which estimates that it has 8,000 subscribers to its Avantgo channel, says it will no longer offer Avantgo, as the fees are too high. It recommends instead Mazingo. 'Despite it's quirks and rough edges, Mazingo is the best solution for getting this site onto your device,' it says. ® "

It may be a while before I get to play with Mazingo (hey, I do have to work some times), so if you get to it first, give me a holler. I'd love to hear your evaluation of it.