Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales

Jimmy Wales, the Internet whiz famous for creating the online, user-edited encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is facing allegations on two fronts that he abused the trust of the community he helped build, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

Former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool is alleging that Wales misused money from the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group that oversees the site.

At the same time, Wales has been hit with concerns that he inappropriately tinkered with a Wikipedia entry on behalf of a girlfriend, a television news commentator, whom he abruptly dumped last week.

Yahoo is on a mobile roll. The Internet company yesterday unveiled a new bookmarking tool for cellphones that lets people keep track of favourite Web content - news feeds, search results, Web sites - from one place on their handheld, says CNET News.com.

The technology, called Yahoo OnePlace, will be available in the second quarter of this year, according to Yahoo.

The tool builds on other new mobile applications from Yahoo. Those include OneConnect, a tool to update social-networking messaging on the phone (announced in February), and OneSearch, which aggregates news, weather, financial data, photos, and Web links based on search queries.

Dell yesterday introduced its first notebook for government and commercial customers looking for a notebook that can withstand extreme temperatures and moisture, reports InformationWeek.

The Latitude XFR D630 meets the Department of Defense's MIL-STD 810F standard, which certifies that the equipment is capable of withstanding the extreme conditions in the field.

The rugged notebook shares components with the rest of Dell's Latitude line to simplify maintenance and integration with networks, the computer maker says.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it could now be in the microchip too, after experiments suggest that a computer can use geometry to predict whether or not a face is attractive, says Telegraph.co.uk.

American scientists have programmed a computer to rate attractiveness using factors such as the golden ratio, a proportion that has been used by artists and architects since antiquity because it is aesthetically pleasing.

Females really are the fairer sex - rated more attractive by both men and women - according to the study by the team from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, which has devised an objective way to measure facial attractiveness, which gives reasonable agreement with what people think.