Radio New Zealand talks to Groklaw about their decision to offer
audio in the Free Ogg Vorbis format alongside proprietary ones:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080821100600851
Amarok 2.0 audio player comes out in beta, together with an app for
the upcoming Google Android phones which gives them remote control:
http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.0/beta/1
http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/2008/08/20/amarok-14-remote-in-android-using-dcoppython/
MIT develops microbatteries, only 4 micrometers across and joined up
by virus particles. It's smaller than a human blood cell:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/virus-battery-0820.html
TI Show the BBC what they are doing to reduce power consumption of
portable devices so they can run off background vibrations:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7576366.stm
And finally. An esitmated half a million people in developing nations
are employed as "gold farmers" in virtual games as their main job:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7575902.stm
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.