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Pharmaceutical companies use tags to prevent drug fraud

By Kaushal Toprani

As drug counterfeiting becomes a more profitable and attractive business, major drug makers are starting to fight back. Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Purdue Pharma individually announced hat they will be shipping their drugs in containers with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.

Motion Picture Association of America lawsuits futile

Cork Board

By Paul Corkery

Have you been surfing the Gnutella and eDonkey networks for the latest movie titles? It might be time to reconsider this practice, now that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has begun filing a number of lawsuits against individuals who trade, distribute and/or download pirated copies of movies over the Internet.

Advancements rapidly outpace each other

Technophile

By Kevin Lynch

Everyday we get closer and closer to the future, yet we never seem to get there. Technology is rapidly increasing, and new technology is replacing the old much more quickly than ever before. Devices such as PDAs and cell phones were almost nonexistent a decade ago.

American Bigelow offers space prize

Space prize

By Paul Corkery

Fresh on the heels of the highly reported Ansari X Prize, Robert Bigelow of Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace has announced what has been dubbed "America's Space Prize". Bigelow, along with other donors, will offer the $50 million award for private space travel achievement.

Coelacanth abused as evidence for dinosaur life

The iron skeptic

By Aaron Sakulich

Hatred burns inside me. A vile, black rage, thick and chunky like some sort of beef stew of anger. It's the first thing to greet me when I wake up and the last thought that goes sizzling through my brain before I fall into the bleak depths of a restless sleep each night, only to be wrenched from my grainy, terrible dreams to face another day.

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