Next Generation Software is sent legal threats by Sybase ordering them not to
reveal details of a serious flaw they have found in Sybase ASE:
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Legal-notice-prevents-flaw-exposure/2005/03/29/1111862364404.html?oneclick=true
Microsoft offer their version with no media player as ordered by the EU, but
kill it by making it avalable as an OEM version with no price differential:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22283
MySQL 5.0, due around the middle of this year, is to support stored procedures,
triggers and views:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39192964,00.htm
Firefox users get a performance boost on Google, as the search engine now issues
prefetch data for popular search items in the results:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39186726,00.htm
IBM Sets its sights on the lucrative defence, aerospace and medical industries
with its upcoming Cell CPU
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/71100/ibm-takes-the-cell-processor-to-industrial-applications.html
Transmeta, maker of low-power CPUs, gets a new CEO and concentrates on work for
Sony - including some Cell CPU development:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3494401
Starnex is selling a portable media player/recorder that offers surveillance
capabilities:
http://www.i4u.com/article3118.html
Toshiba show off a lithium ion battery that recharges to 80% of its power in
one minute:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159907938
And finally. Gordon Laing brings out a book cataloguing the early days of
computing, describing the first 44 classic machines form the 70's and 80's:
http://www.digitalretro.co.uk/
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.