The Japanese competitor to Microsoft Office is shut down by Matsushita, famous
for their Panasonic brand. They claim infringement of a patent on the help icon:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/3BDE72837B1DD5BBCC256F9C0070E506?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld]
Gartner reports "Firefox usage already exceeds 25 percent on some sites that
target technical audiences" and says we'd better get used to a 2 browser world:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Research/index.php?p=61
Skype signs a deal with Hutchison to provide connections from their VoIP service
to landlines. Possibly the start of a growing trend in VoIP deployment:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/E408523D09B12ABFCC256FA1001837EA?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Google is blocking searches that look for anything ending in PHP. If one user
on a corporate proxy looks for it, the whole company is blocked from Google:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-02-02
http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.google.com/
Sony and IBM to spill the beans on the guts of the Cell CPU, and tout it for
devices from handhelds to supercomputers and all stops inbetween:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-02-07T082453Z_01_JON730176_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-TECH-CELL.XML
IBM's "Millipede" storage device is now demonstrating one Terabit per square
inch, though only 80% of the tips in a 1024-tip head work:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/bios.nsf/pages/millipede.html
While HP is making inroads into polymer circuitry, Intel is not and decides to
close down its polymer memory research:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21123
Five people are given retinal implants to restore vision. The implant is a 5,000
pixel array of solar cells, still a far cry from normal but better than zero:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/6906
And finally. By combining infra-red flourescent particles with self-assembling
artifical cells, researchers can make tumors visible even under 1cm of flesh:
http://www.primidi.com/2005/02/08.html#a1105
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.