Microsoft OOXML achieved enough votes to become an ISO standard,
though controversy surrounds many of the national body votes:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080401/tc_nm/microsoft_standard_dc_2
Rumours spread of a link of some form between Google and Skype:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/01/googleskype-acquisition-or-partnership-imminent/
Britain is to allow the use of mobile phones on aircraft flying above 3,000
metres in aircraft fitted with a cell:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7314362.stm
Voxforge wants to hear from you, literally. They're asking for voice
samples for Open speech synthesis and recognition applications:
http://www.voxforge.org
MIT Develops a microfluidic chip that can not only create genes, but
manufacture the proteins - just like a real cell does:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13568-artificial-cell-can-make-its-own-genes.html
And finally. A chance encounter with some chloroform leads anaesthetists
to the so far unanswered question of how anaesthetics actually work:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/media/press_releases/current/anaesthesia.htm
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.