European report showing that customers and investment suffer when regulators
fail to control former telecom monopolies:
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/051202custsuf/
Microsoft starts warning major web publishers that there will be "minor"
changes in the way ActiveX is implemented due to the Eolas lawsuit:
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3568286
Microsoft Live will disclose your exact physical location to interested parties.
Advertisers, debt collectors, Department of Fatherland Security employees...:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28276
Ars Technica reviews the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. In short, it's OK but needs
more CPU, more RAM and better e-mail:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nokia770.ars
China overtakes the US as the world's largest supplier of IT goods, valued at
U$$180 billion in 2004 and still rising with their long term plans:
http://news.com.com/China+overtakes+U.S.+as+supplier+of+IT+goods/2100-1011_3-5990797.html
The Register decries Wikipedia for not having an entry on "Moral
responsibility". This omission has now been rectified, with references:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/12/wikipedia_no_responsibility/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_responsibility
Vodafone's 3G network comes in for some stick, particularly over the way the
user is billed when poor service causes fallback to GPRS:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/C21AE8864106820ECC2570D1000F49A9?OpenDocument
Johns Hopkins researchers create self-assembling perforated cubes 0.1 millimetre
across. These might form the basis for a novel drug or cell delivery system:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/jhu-tsc121205.php
And finally. The ancient Japanese art of pencil carving. Some of these designs
are quite mind-blowing:
http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.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.