Google stops drunks lamenting

The forward-thinking folks at Google have implemented a novel solution to prevent regretful drunken digital correspondence to friends, family, co-workers and loved ones, says The Register.

Gmail engineer Jon Perlow is introducing Mail Goggles. The new feature is presently available in the Labs tab on Gmail settings.

Once activated, users can select the days and times when they're most likely to be recreating in a fashion unsuitable for copying the entire office. Default settings are the hours between 10pm and 4am on Fridays and Saturdays.

AMD is expected to announce today that it is to split into two separate companies, one focused on designing processors and the other on manufacturing chips, reports Computing.co.uk.

Sources, including The New York Times, suggest AMD will unveil the move later today, along with an announcement of a fresh injection of cash to help the company complete a new fabrication plant.

The move is a drastic one for the firm, which until now has designed and manufactured its own processor chips as does its rival Intel.

Cars could soon come with parental controls that limit what younger drivers can do with a vehicle, says The BBC. Developed by Ford, the MyKey system limits a car's top speed, how loud its stereo can be and sounds warnings if seatbelts are not being worn.

Ford will introduce the controls on some US makes of car that are due to debut in 2009, but go on sale in 2010. The main element of the MyKey system is to limit the top speed of a car to 80mph.

The car giant said the system is built on the ID chips it already uses in car keys to hamper car theft.

Steve Wozniak, better known as Woz, thinks the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone, reports VNU Net.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he said the iPod has had a long time as the world's most popular media player and he can see it falling from grace due to oversupply. “The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one," he said.

He also commented on the iPhone's proprietary nature and locked service provider, in comparison to Google's open Android platform.