Unable to fix a calendaring bug in their spreadsheet, Microsoft now want
to make it a standard for everyone to follow:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/leap-back.html
Peter Gutmann points out the inconsistencies and direct contradictions
in Microsoft's defence of Vista's DRM:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#response
Sony now says it has no control over the licensing of Blu-ray, and has
no problem with the adult industry using the format:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197000093
Court finds against Qualcomm, and announces that the H.264 video
compression standard is not patented. It can now be widely adopted:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070126-9999-1b26qualcomm.html
Peter Harrison, the President of the NZOSS, will be stepping down next
AGM after a distinguished term that started in 2002:
http://www.nzoss.org.nz/node/129
A study finds that mobile phones do make lumps grow on the "phone" side
of your head after all:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37209
Solar cells using quantum dot technology show that 45% efficiency is
attainable, though more than 60% is predicted by theory:
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/nalefd/2007/7/i01/abs/nl062564s.html
UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists develop a 160Kib
molecular memory chip with a 10^11 bits/sq. cm memory density:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoc--ucc012407.php
IBM And Intel Make a more immediate advance in microelectronics, increasing
chip speed by using hafnium instead of silicon dioxide for insulation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/technology/27chip.html?hp&ex=1169960400&en=b5dab5ed9a363262&ei=5094&partner=homepage
And finally. Tom Coates at Plasticbag.org creates a space invader scene
that is visible from space. Plus a Cylon raider for good measure:
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/space_invaders_.html
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.