Microsoft loses a US$9m patent infringement case from a Guatemalan, who
patented the integration of Access and Excel. He's asking Microsoft to desist:
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/06/06/ap2078687.html
The new Microsoft Office 12 file formats are announced, XML/ZIP based as their
recent run on XML patents would suggest:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1822915,00.asp
ICANN Approves the .xxx top level domain extension for use by pornographic web
sites and their e-mail addresses:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7456
3 Years of persistent development brings forth the 3.1 Debian Sarge release on
11 CPUs. Cue the fanfare, and blow the cobwebs off first:
http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606
Levono, the new owner of the IBM ThinkPad design, is re-launching the X41
Tablet Series:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/3108.html
The replicating rapid prototyper or RepRap starts to show on the radar of the
mainstream press:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
http://reprap.org
Transmeta agrees to sell its Crusoe line of microprocessors, but not their
latest Efficion, to Hong Kong's Culturecom Technology for US$15 million:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/BD3B9D0186CF0211CC257013006AC95B?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Researchers at the University of Alberta report the development of a molecular
transistor, important for future computers:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/02/MNGUOD1V1P1.DTL
And finally. Little baby dolphins learn how to hunt with sponges from the Mummy
dolphins. Dad doesn't help, apparently:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4613709.stm
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.