A reminder that Microsoft is abandoning Windows 2000 at the end of the month,
despite its widespread use:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23948
Canon views the XM 64 release of Windows as "non-standard" and are not producing
all their printer drivers for it. Just the high-end ones:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24004
Ericsson launch their One Phone PBX-friendly system as British Telecom launch
their BluePhone combined cellphone and cordless handset:
http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9613358.html
Sony's latest take on DRM copy protection for CDs works fine, as long as you're
running Windows. Other machines have no problems copying indefinitely:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050616-5006.html
Research done with Dr. Nadrian Seeman produces molecular machines made from DNA
that can rotate in a programmed manner to assemble specific molecules:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/061505/DNA_machine_links_molecules_061505.html
And finally. "Solar Impulse" Is a solar-powered aircraft under development by
the crew of Breitling Orbiter 3 that will fly around the world:
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=16623
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.