Microsoft tells customers to update their Office and Access to remove some
functionality following a US$8.9 million patent defeat. SP2 will also remove it:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/0B548114B6EF0EB7CC25710700172CBC?OpenDocument
Japanese cellphone users can now get information on a physical location by
pointing their cellphone at it:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177105590
The EFF sues AT&T for handing over clients personal information to US government
employees without a warrant during its ongoing domestic spying program:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/
And finally. Russians on the International Space Station convert an old,
discarded spacesuit into a novel satellite called "SuitSat":
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26jan_suitsat.htm?friend
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.