Dell now offering their Ubuntu Linux PCs with DVD playback set up
properly, but only in the US, UK, France and Germany:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/18/38935.aspx
Lithum rechargable battery life expected to increase 10 times with
the discovery that silicon nanowires safely store lithium:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html
Windows XP SP3 release candidate is out, backporting some of Vista's
networking features into the older OS:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205100675
U2 To stream their next concert live wortdwide, in state-of-the-art
3D. This is no red & blue glasses effort, technololgy has improved:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/u2-stereoscopic-3d-concert/8534/
Solar cell technology starts to look to carbon electrodes as the
world will have run out of indium in 10 years or so:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13103-carbon-electrodes-could-slash-cost-of-solar-panels.html
And finally. Duke Nukem Forever, a game whose main claim to fame is
that it isn't out yet, gets a teaser trailer:
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/5046
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.