Clippings will be taking a week off, as the author is attending LCA 2007
in Sydney. Feel free to drop in and visit the RepRap stand on Open Day:
http://lca2007.linux.org.au/OpenDay
The Eclipse Foundation joins the Java Community Process, the Object
Management Group and the Open Services Gateway initiative Alliance:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2082418,00.asp
More bad news on the iPhone - Apple say that they won't allow anyone to
install software on it. No Skype, no Java. Call in the hackers:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900073
Electronic voting machines are in court in the US, with 18,000 votes
gone missing in a district won by only 400 votes:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72452-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
Philips claim their Powercaster and Powerharvester modules can recharge
batteries using RF broadcasts from up to a metre away:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900082
And finally. They've made coffee ever coffeeier by adding some extra
alkaloids. It's all natural, but then so is strychnine:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=896
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.