The stiff letter sent by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to UK foreign
minister Jack Straw, telling him the US isn't giving up control of the Internet:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/02/rice_eu_letter/
Sun releases the hardware design and Verilog files for the Niagara multi-core
CPU as Open Source, allowing anyone to make or modify it:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1896866,00.asp
Java becomes the dominant language on the SourceForge site surpassing C++ with
16,738 Java-based projects versus 16,731 for C++:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1896196,00.asp
PortalPalyer Inc. licences Sun's J2ME for use in its personal media player:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174900696
Microsoft is fined US$32 million in South Korea for anti-trust offences, and
ordered to produce two different versions of Windows or remove their product:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/biztech/12/06/south.korea.microsoft.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Temperature-sensing RFID chips may provide early warning of avian flu infections
in flocks:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=503
Happy Birthday. Tetris, the dropping blocks game and productivity destroyer
extraordinaire, is 20 years old this week:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28164
More details emerge on how "organ printing" is now producing blood vessels, and
the progress towards more sophisticated items like livers and kidneys:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69701,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
Equipment to stack up to 10 chips on top of one another is announced in Japan:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174901241
NEC announces an enhanced three-terminal Nanobridge switch that will reduce the
size of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) tenfold:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174903905
And finally. A printer that produces live newsprint on demand, tailored to the
user's particular requirements. Long, thin and very absorbent:
http://www.djspyhunter.com/teapot/2005/12/rsstroom-reader-toilet-paper-printer.html
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.