Intel's new Rockton and Merom PC CPU cores include Java and .NET acceleration
instructions. Intel will work with Apache on an Open Source Java to use them:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24781
IBM Also steps in to back the Harmony Java project, donating code after giving
the project leaders some time to establish their intended direction:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39210273,00.htm
The Semacode 2D barcode libraries become freely available for Symbian and J2ME
equipped mobile phones:
http://semacode.org/weblog/2005/07/21
It seems to be theoretically possible to crack a locked Windows PC by plugging
in an appropriately programmed USB storage device:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp
Sony's PSP2 Portable to include a web broswer. This will allow it to be used as
a web pad, thanks to built-in WiFi:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166401699
A team of British and Russian scientists flakes of sheets of crystalline atoms
just one atomic layer thick, offering many unique properties:
http://www.physorg.com/news5341.html
And finally. The Great British Royal Household is installing some very modern
equipment in Windsor Castle. A private hydroelectric power system:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Royal_Windsor_Castle_to_get_hydro-electric_power_plant
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.