Speegle is a search engine which plays back your search results as an audio
stream, using one of 3 different voices and several verbosity levels:
http://www.speegle.co.uk/
Evergreen Hospital in the US discovers it can reduce its costs and medication
errors by using a robotic pharmacist. The robot dispenses 93% of their drugs:
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/22/biz/news02.txt
A Hospital CIO is the first healthcare RFID tag volunteer. If he gets to a
hospital with a reader, it'll find him in the database of one:
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/html/news/NewsStory.cfm?DID=12281
A consortium based in Taiwan prepares yet another SD Card variant called M
1/4-card, using a USB bus to increase throughput:
http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=57703239
Sun breaks out the first batch of Open Source Solaris code, but the code
released is not yet buildable. Sun is also contributing 1,600 patents:
http://www.opensolaris.org/
The ZigBee Alliance triples its membership to 124 companies in the last year,
netting such diverse companies as Seiko Epson Corp and the World Peace Group:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050125/255705_1.html
Correction to previous clippings. It is the US Deparment of 'Homeland Security'
that is worried about Chinese spies, not 'Fatherland Security'. Thank you Freud:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1753912,00.asp
And Finally. Ever fancied a self-destruct switch for your PC, or a
webcam-equipped network storage device with searchlights? This guy has:
http://xe.bz/aho/15/
http://xe.bz/aho/18/
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.