Gmail adds location-aware signatures

Just a week after the search firm released its Latitude mobile device friend-tracker, Google Labs has a new tool that lets Gmail automatically include the user's location in an e-mail's signature, reports The Register.

"Sometime ago, I noticed how all mail systems tell you when an e-mail was written, but not where it was sent from," says Marco Bonechi, the author of the tool on Gmail's blog. "Because I love to travel, the first question in many messages I receive is 'where are you?' and by the time I answer I am often somewhere else."

The experimental feature can be switched on by going to the Labs tab in Gmail settings. Users also need to have their e-mail signature enabled and have the "append your location to the signature" option clicked in the general settings tab.

The Tories have admitted a member of staff altered a Wikipedia entry on the artist Titian after a row between Gordon Brown and David Cameron, says The BBC.

During the exchanges, the Tory leader mocked Brown for talking of Titian at 90, when he said in fact he had died at age 86.

Shortly afterwards, a Wikipedia user registered at Conservative HQ moved the date of the artist's death forward.

If Congress can't figure out what to do with its old computers, members of the House of Representatives rationalised yesterday, it's unlikely anyone else can, says CNet.

Electronic recycling programmes have been conspicuously unsuccessful, prompting the House Science and Technology Committee to draft a Bill to fund grants for higher education programmes related to e-waste management. The legislation also encompasses grants for research and development to find ways to better manage e-waste through product design, reuse and recycling.

At a hearing yesterday to review the initial draft of the Bill, the legislators admitted they were not even sure what to do with their own used electronics and are unhappy with the way Congress disposes of its official electronic equipment.