The cross-platform Firefox web browser hits 50 million downloads, not counting
upgrades. Link below includes live counter:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html
Microsoft may be heading for additional fines in the EU, as the commission
expresses concern that Microsoft has not done enough to open up its OS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4489805.stm
Microsoft fails to come up with any real specifications for the hardware
requirements of the forthcoming Longhorn OS other than 256MiB of RAM mimimum:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790776,00.asp
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to use TurboLinux throughout. The bank
handles 1/5th of Chinese banking assets with 390,000 employees in 20,000 banks:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22868
Cambridge UK researchers working for Toshiba demonstrate a quantum key server:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4496893.stm
Northwestern University research comes up with a fountain pen capable of drawing
40nm features with a variety of molecular "inks":
http://clifton.mech.northwestern.edu/~espinosa/research/NFAP.htm
Nuclear fusion created on the desktop. Not exactly large scale, but it does
actually work. A good thing perhaps:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7315
And finally. Using satellites, data from buoys and computer models, NASA has
confirmed the Earth's suspected energy imbalance at 0.85 watts per metre:
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=33915
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.