OnSpeed markets systems to improve dialup speeds to Third World nations
where true broadband isn’t widely available. Including New Zealand:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/EC8B7B2DDB627E4ECC257148007B91BD?OpenDocument
IBM Joins with startup Rapport to produce a massively parallel and
configurable low-power chip with 1,024 8-bit CPUs, the kilocore:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060407-6556.html
A witness comes forward, describing the wiretap systems that the NSA is
using to spy on American residents, supporting the EFF lawsuit:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
WiFi-based cellphones are demonstrated at the CTIA Wireless 2006, using
Unlicensed Mobile Access, or UMA, to do the handover to GSM:
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20060409/D8GSN4V00.html
Researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, use the M13 virus
to create toe anode of a nanoscale lithium battery:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060407/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_science_virus
Alameda County Computer Resource Center build a supercomputer from donated junk
parts, and run the thing on vegetable oil:
http://www.accrc.org/cluster/
An asynchronous ARM CPU is developed, a design which dispenses with the
traditional CPU clock. Lowers power consumption and confuses benchmarkers:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=179101800
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers demonstrate a way to move
thin membranes of semiconductors from one substrate to another:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uow-sfs040506.php
And finally. For those of a non-squeamish nature or a complete ignorance of
all unsavoury things goatse, we bring you the "Goatse iPod Holder":
http://laughingsquid.com/2006/03/30/igoatse/
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.