Apple launches their Mac mini, a compact Mac shipped without monitor, keyboard
or rodent at US$499 for the 40GB drive version. 80GB versions cost $599:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/11/macmini/index.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4162009.stm
IBM Pledges 500 of its patents will not be used to charge royalties on Open
Source software in a bid to create genuine competitive innovation:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,66237,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Three extremely critical vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer on XP, SP2
allowing remote system compromise. The solution is to use another product:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's browser market share continues its decline. IE Now
has 69.9%, down from 70.8% last month with Mozilla/Firefox claiming 22.8%:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
AMD to release a mobile CPU line called Turion 64 to compete directly with
Intel's Centrino chips:
http://www.expressnewsline.com/0305/fullstory0305-insight-AMD+mobile+chip-status-17-newsID-129.html
A Carnegie Mellon researcher figures out a practical way to make LED displays
touch-sensitive, simply by using the LED as an optical sensor:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/122904/LED_array_turned_into_touch_button_Brief_122904.html
And finally. Pass the organic tomato ketchup - it's got 3 times more of the
anti-cancer chemical lycopene in it than the regular stuff:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6844
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.