PC World release their list of the top 100 products for 2005. The number one
spot is held by the Firefox web browser:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120763,pg,12,00.asp
Autodesk, Inc. releases the code for MapServer Enterprise, the company's new web
mapping platform, as open source through the MapServer Foundation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051128/sfm053.html?.v=33
The 2008 Beijing Olympics IT infrastructure could be run on Open Source, if
recommendations from HP and IBM are followed through:
http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39154775,00.htm
KDE 3.5 is out, and here's an illustrated guide to the new features including
Superkaramba integration, advert blocking in the browser, and ACL support:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-3.5.php
A sneak preview of the Sony P990 Smartphone, which can operate WiFi and W-CDMA
at the same time:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28042
The Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of
Innsbruck in Austria creates the first "qubyte", 8 quantum bits in a row:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/First_quantum_byte_created
Seiko to put 500 limited edition watches on the market in January, using
flexible electronic paper for the display:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-10749-The+first+watch+that+uses+flexible+e-paper+hits+the+stores.html
And finally. It looks like the first video game was created by William
Higinbotham, with his 1958 tennis game built using anologue computers:
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp
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.