New Zealand's District Health Boards to conduct trials of assorted Open Source
desktop software to cut their bills:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/39A5FAC6A45E8FB2CC256FDA00319B5C?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/PR8496.html
NSW Minister for Commerce, John Della Bosca announces 10 successful tenderers
for the Government Linux supplier contracts:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39187094,00.htm
Cybersource launches a free consultation service to help the Austrailian
education department get better value by using Open Source as a lever:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/saving_education_millions.html
Microsoft finally catches on the othe concept of operating PDAs with the thumb.
Stand by for the first patent...:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160500234
The Indian low-cost Simputer does not fare well, mostly because its design is
no longer low-cost compared with the modern market:
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20050403/D89864N80.html
Fujitsu show off their first digital camera equipped with wireless USB:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2005/20050405-01.html
And finally. The latest bionic eye implants offer improved resolution by letting
the retinal cells invade the electrode array placed in the eye:
http://www.stanford.edu/~palanker/lab/retinalpros.html
Hitachi develops vertical magnetic disk surfaces that may provide 1TB desktop
drives or 20GB Microdrives in 2007:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120279,00.asp
Caltech scientists use a small, vibrating blade to weigh a small cluster of
xenon atoms weighing only a few zeptograms, promising new sensors:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4394947.stm
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.