Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Apr 24 18:06:24 NZST 2006

Today Index

The RIAA now resorts to suing families for filesharing that do not even own a computer:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=728&NewsID=713614&CategoryID=11575&on=1

Microsoft starts to rely on Sun. Installs 480kW solar panels:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3601031

A forest of piezoelectric zinc oxide nanowires converts vibrational energy into electrical energy with 30% efficiency:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312/5771/242

A fuel cell using organic enzymes instead of metal catalysts is developed:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9040-bio-fuel-cells-could-power-portable-gadgets.html

Nantero fabricates a 22nm non-volatile memory switch using nanotubes with a switch time of 3ns. The process appears to be practical down to 5nm:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300586

And finally. You install a firefighting foam dump system in your military aircraft hangar, but how to test it? What if the "off" switch jams?:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=10491

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.