Open Source developers to get free IP and legal help from the Software Freedom
Law Center. Two full-time IP attourneys will be made available:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5557962.html
Research at the Santa Fe Institute has developed computer models that
accurately mimic the stock market. They assume traders buy and sell at random:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6948
HP Produce the elusive "crossbar latch" molecular component that could one day
replace the transistor. They now have all the logical parts needed to compute:
http://www.eet.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=59300037
VoIP online telephony service Skype issues clients for the Linux and Mac OS X
operating systems allowing free net calls. Current user base is 23 million:
http://itvibe.com/news/3252/
The forthcoming OpenDocument XML format looks like being the first Open
Standards document format that is useful and actually has an implementation:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154
Japanese National Institute for Materials Science researchers build a nanoscale
switch that works by drifting atoms into position with electric fields:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/012605/Nano_bridge_builds_logic_012605.html
And finally. University of California researchers develop a turbo-charged
version of the solar sail using special paint and a 60MW microwave generator:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524846.500
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.