The resurgence of touchscreen mobiles begins, with Samsung releasing
the F700. The device also has a QWERTY keyboard and 5MP camera:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/09/samsung_f700/
Orange and France Telecom establish a research and development lab in
Beijing to develop the Open Source GPE moble phone platform:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/marketing/GPEPE-announce-en.txt?rev=560&root=gpephone&view=markup
Hewlett-Packard introduces a SIP-enabled GSM smartphone, the iPAQ 500,
with support for Windows Mobile 6, WiFi, Bluetooth and low-res screen:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2094139,00.asp
Nokia announce a partnership with YouTube that will allow YouTube
content to be viewed on their handsets using H.264:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005140
Claims from D-Wave of British Columbia that a 16-qubit quantum computer
is about to be demonstrated. Some see this as too good to be true:
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7972&pagtype=all
In memoriam. Nobel Laureate Professor Alan MacDiarmid died on Wednesday
after a fall in Philadelphia preparing to travel to NZ. He was 79:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10423058
And finally. There's a new star in the Southern Cross. It turns out that
Beta Crucis has a previously unknown, X-ray emitting companion:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_stars_found_in_Southern_Cross
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.