NTP Licences its patented e-mail wireless technology that RIM fell foul off to
Visto and buys a stake in it, making 3 licencees:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051215_806425.htm
Visto files a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of infringing 3 patents
related to e-mail client operation on PocketPCs and smartphones:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-12-15T215804Z_01_YUE550605_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-MICROSOFT-VISTO.xml&archived=False
Microsoft formally announces the end of Internet Explorer for the Mac:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4542750.stm
Novell's European press reports have Novell only supplying 300 Linux servers,
not 3,000 as was previously widely reported. Swiss Govt. release first:
http://www.isb.admin.ch/internet/
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8AB88934AC4A2874CC2570D70061389E
New Zealand is to get a satellite in its orbital slot, around 2010. The
NZ government thinks this is a great idea, and might even buy shares someday:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10360387
Siemens suggests that US mobile network operators could shift from CDMA to GSM,
following the trend of South America and the growing Chinese market:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-12-15T195102Z_01_SCH528215_RTRUKOC_0_US-SIEMENS-NETWORKS.xml&archived=False
Quantum computing reaches the state of having one qubit on an mass-produced
chip. The chip traps a single atom that is manipulated electrostatically:
http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/computer/first-mass-producible-quantum-computer-chip.html
DNA Is made to assemble into regular tetrahedral structures approx 10nm tall. A
good starting point for nanoscale building blocks and electron point emitters:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051210/fob3.asp
And finally. Robotic spiders to be deployed in space, crawling on a web
stretched between satellites. For 10 whole minutes before they all burn up:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=506
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.