BEDFORD, N.H. - Segway LLC is rolling out three new models of its self-balancing, two-wheeled machines.

A rack transforms one version into a single-person golf cart, and wide tires outfit another for off-road riding. The final model looks more like previous versions, but comes in sportier colors like red and yellow.

Each new Segway also features better batteries for longer ranges. They can travel twice as far, up to 24 miles in some cases.

But suggested retail prices aren't coming down. Each one costs at least $5,000 with the new batteries.

Analysts have been skeptical about the company's future, arguing that prices must drop sharply for Segways to be mass-market successes. The machines were unveiled in December 2001. A September 2003 recall revealed only about 6,000 had sold.

Company officials claimed U.S. sales doubled last year in a 10-week period staring on Oct. 25, but the privately held company doesn't release financial figures.

-Erik Stetson, AP Writer

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NEW YORK (AP) - Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, who famously predicted the speed in which the semiconductor industry would innovate, has won a lifetime achievement award for contributions to communications technology.

The award from the Marconi Society at Columbia University comes 40 years after Moore wrote what would come to be known as "Moore's Law" - that the number of transistors on a chip would roughly double every 18 months. It has held true since then.

Darcy Gerbarg, Marconi's executive director, said the prediction drove the industry to innovate in order to meet Moore's goals.

Unlike recipients of Marconi's annual achievement awards, Moore did not necessarily have one invention or development that radically changed communications, Gerbarg said. But his prediction, as well as the work that grew out of Intel, drove an entire industry and affects just about everything in communications today, she said.

Moore is the third recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Marconi Society, which sponsors seminars and lectures to explore the social dynamics of telecommunications technology. It carries no cash award.

-Anick Jesdanun, AP Writer.

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NEW YORK (AP) - A new version of the Mozilla Firefox browser fixes a flaw that made users vulnerable to online fraud.

The flaw allowed fraudsters to set up fake Web sites with names indistinguishable from legitimate companies.

It worked because, to a Firefox user, a Web address with one Cyrillic letter in place of the Latin-script letters used in English could look indistinguishable from an address written completely in Latin script. For instance, a Cyrillic "a" looks just like the Latin "a," but if used in a Web address, it will send the surfer to a different site.

Firefox 1.0.1, released last week, shows Web addresses with foreign scripts in code, preceded by the letters "xn." So "paypal.com" with a Cyrillic "a" becomes "xn--pypal-4ve.com."

This means that perfectly legitimate Web sites with names in, say, Latvian, will display with the "xn" prefix.

The Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the browser, said the change is temporary, but a long-term solution requires industry cooperation.

The latest "beta" version of the Opera browser, also released last week, makes a similar change. It displays Web addresses in the original script only if they are registered in countries that Opera considers to have proper controls against scam addresses.

Web addresses in foreign scripts do not work in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer without installing a special plug-in.

-Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer.

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BANGALORE, India (AP) - Cybercafe owners are complaining about a new rule that requires them to record personal details of every visitor to help police track perpetrators of Internet-related crimes.

Police in Bangalore sent hundreds of letters in the past month asking cybercafes to keep records of visitors in case police want to investigate virus attacks, online fraud and terrorism. Under the rule, a visitor must produce a photo identity card before beginning to browse. Login and log-out times will also be noted.

Internet users expressed concerns about intrusion of privacy and police harassment, while the cafe owners fear a drop in customers.

"People ask why they must part with personal details just to send an e-mail." said G. Satish, co-owner of Cyberia, a downtown Internet shop that caters to tourists. "Many have walked out of my shop after being asked to register themselves."

Pavan Duggal, a lawyer with expertise in cybercrimes, said the rule had several legal loopholes and presented a good case to be challenged in court.

"National security and individual privacy must be kept in balance," he said.

The police, Duggal said, can't guarantee that the personal details left in a cybercafe will not be misused or sold to telemarketers.

"Cybercafes are only a medium," Duggal said. "Don't punish the pipeline because you are getting dirty water."

-S. Srinivasan, AP Writer.