A French court takes an interesting approach to DVD copying, saying that
personal copying is a right and anti-copying techniques are illegal:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/23/french_court_bans_dr.html
MontaVista announces Q2 2005 availability of Mobilinux 4.0 for U$300
mobiles, used by Openwave and palmOne as well as Motorola, NEC and
Panasonic:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3500036
A predictable and controllable method is found of making carbon
nanotubes grow on sapphire chip substrates:
http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2005/2005_04_13_sapphire.htm
A patent is filed on constructing relatively complex diamond devices in a
controlled way, two carbon atoms at a time:
http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/DMSToolbuildProvPat.htm
Sandia Labs creates new nanotubes with catalytic metals inside and out - like
artificial chlorophyll - that can generate hydrogen in sunlight:
http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/renew-energy-batt/nano.html
And finally. What could be faster than ADSL? Giant African Land Snails. Yes,
someone actually made a charriot of DVDs and got a snail to pull it along:
http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/10991.asp
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.