A woman in Georgia presses a lawsuit against HP claiming that their cartridges
deliberately expire on a given date, empty or not - and you're not told when:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20050222/tc_nm/tech_hp_printers_dc
The American Electronics Association warns that the US standing in technology
is slipping, and that they're in danger of losing the advantage:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/20/us_could_see_its_advantage_in_technology_slip_away/
US Companies look to Russia for an expanding PC market, despite or perhaps
because of Russia's relaxed IP laws:
http://www.eet.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60402821
Sony to phase out the remaining Clie PDA line, currently only available in
Japan. Seen as a response to the merging of PDA and phone functionality:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050223-4644.html
Real objects to the Microsoft patent on the 'IsNot' function that compares two
pointers to see if they reference the same memory location:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1767520,00.asp
Apple releases colour, photo-capable iPods in 30GB and 60GB versions for
US$350 and US$450 respectively:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,66690,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
British Telecom announces that it wishes to use Open Standards for its VoIP
network in an attempt to avoid vendor lock-in:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39188730,00.htm
Arkeia backup client cracked to permit remote access to clients, including
Windows clients:
http://metasploit.com/research/arkeia_agent/
Viruses are now being concealed within RAR files, a little-known format used
for movie and image compression:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp
Despite Microsoft's assertions that only a "handful of developers" are working
on Open Source projects, IBM comes up with 800+ and the US total is 1 million+:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/news/69766/open-source-not-running-short-of-developers.html
A number of notable persons from the Open Source world pen an open letter
urging boycott of OASIS standards incompatible with Open Source licencing:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1768389,00.asp
And finally. Prof. Richard Wool of the University of Delaware, wants to recycle
discarded chicken feathers to make "green" printed circuit boards:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66361,00.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.