Microvision ready a projection system for mobile phones to show to OEMs:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/6685/
Google to produce star maps similar to the way they've done Google
Earth. Presumably they want to charge for sponsoring planets:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=442
Nokia make a stealth launch of the N800 Internet tablet, increasing
memory to 256MB, the CPU to 320MHz, adding SD and a mic/VGA webcam:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7056717365.html
Verizon are aiming to broadcast TV channels to mobile phones using
Qualcomm’s MediaFLO network over UHF channel 55:
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20588&hed=Verizon+to+Broadcast+Mobile+TV
The first Open Source graphics card emerges, the OGPN17. PCI based FPGA
dev card, 256MB RAM, dual DVI output, TV-out & 3 300MHz AD Converters:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36761
http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=OGPN17
And finally. Hubble makes a map of what we can't see; the distribution
of dark matter in the universe on which our galaxies formed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6235751.stm
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.