Microsoft try to talk the NZ Govt. out of passing its draft of the new anti-spam
legislation because it might actually stop spam, so harming the spam business:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3384447a28,00.html
IBM, Sony and Toshiba release specifications and tools to enable others to evaluate
the usefulness of the Cell processor design:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170100295
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/
Sun starts Project DReaM, working on the principle that if Digital
Restrictions/Rights Management (DRM) has to exist, it should at least be Open:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-08-21T202717Z_01_WRI173512_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-SUNMICROSYSTEMS-DRM.XML
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) nanotechnologists make transparent carbon
nanotube sheets at 7m/minute with good mechanical and electrical properties:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uota-utd081505.php
In Memoriam. RIP Dr. Robert Moog, father of the modern keyboard synthesiser, who died
after a battle with brain cancer aged 71:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4696651.stm
And finally. Bluetooth-enabled laptops show up on any Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone
that is looking for connections. So laptop thieves know which car to break into:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2005/08/17/06967453-8002-45f8-b520-66b9bed6f29f.lpf
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.