Yahoo plans to lay off hundreds to improve its profit margins, the exact
number is still being decided:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/technology/22yahoo.html?_r=1&ex=1358658000&en=a9617f1f670b78a3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
The W3C publishes the first public draft specification for the HTML 5 API:
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease
IBM Says recent reports of the Lotus suite for the iPhone are premature:
http://www.news.com/IBM-Lotus-Notes-for-iPhone-not-ready-yet/2100-1039_3-6227103.html
Microsoft reverses its attitude towards virtual machines, and will allow
users to run Vista Home Basic and Premium as guest operating systems:
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9854621-56.html
Polymer Vision is touting "Readius", an early version of a mobile phone
with a folding eInk screen. Monochrome and not touch-sensitive, but hey:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10488107
"The Future of Ideas" by Lawrence Lessig, a book about the land-grab for
knowledge, is now available as a free download:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/01/the_future_of_ideas_is_now_fre.html
And finally. A computer learns to devise its own strategies for winning at
the 1980's classic Pac-Man, and beats the human players:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13210-computer-learns-to-outmunch-humans-at-pacman.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.