Police in Britain are shaming hoax 999 callers and time-wasters on YouTube in an effort to cut down on non-emergency calls. Over 400 questionable calls, including requests to find a caller’s glasses, are received by the Avon and Somerset Police each month.

Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola of the U.S. District Court today denied a motion by the White House to reconsider his earlier recommendations and reaffirmed his recommendation that the court order the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search individual workstations used between March 2003 and October 2005 and preserve any e-mails located on those workstations or on portable media used by EOP employees.

The Object Management Group (OMG) announced industry veteran, Jan Baan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cordys, will be the guest keynote speaker at the inaugural BPM Think Tank Europe 2008. BPM Think Tank Europe will be held November 11-12, 2008 at Vanenburg Castle, Putten, Netherlands.

Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, has released VueScan 8.4.79 which now supports 24 languages.

With the advent of the Apple iPhone, more people are interested in the possibilities of the mobile Internet. Consumers can now learn to unleash the power of the mobile Internet from their own mobile phones, no matter what phone they have or what wireless carrier network they use.

This week’s Sun Microsystems Internet Radio showsfeature Iyer Venkatesan to discusses what’s new with StarOffice 9 and OpenOffice on the Innovation Insider show. The Shift Radio Show will have Margaret Wallace of Rebel Monkey.

Innovation Insider: – Guest: Iyer Venkatesan, 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. PST, Thursday, July 31

Shift Radio: – Guest: Margaret Wallace, 9-10 a.m. PST, Friday, August 1

Thomas Cook partners with Ceros to create the first fully interactive travel brochure. Reservations can be made from within the brochure.

PDF Annotator 2 takes classroom presentations to a new level: teachers can now capture the substance of a presentation as a PDF document to project on the wall. The instructor can then add remarks and drawings, creating a new kind of lecture. The PDF document can be saved in its new form and loaded to a server for download later.

Tennis, randomly played, as the cause of server crashes? A new methodology in troubleshooting.

Raxco Software announced that Computer Power User (CPU) Magazine has chosen PerfectDisk(r) 2008 as its preferred high-power disk defragmenter in the publication’s annual Software Guide