Low-cost PCs hit the news as Shuttle makes a US$200 PC and an ex-OLPC
team member aims for a US$75 laptop:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9847365-7.html?tag=nefd.only
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html
Several devices have now been made to run Googles "Android" mobile
phone stack - by the Open Source community:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4262102607.html
Wired explores how the iPhone marketing campaign has cleared the way
for open WiFi networks:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone
The FBI find that their wiretaps are being disconnected - because they're
not paying their phone bills:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080110/D8U35C500.html
The first look at the new USB 3.0 connectors. New connections are
recessed for compatibility. No optical connections:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/09/ces_usb_3_revealed/
And finally. An experimental treatment in humans causes improvement
in Alzheimer's patients within minutes of injection:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109091102.htm
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.