The NZ government claims it is saving NZ$9M on its G2006 agreement with
Microsoft, but won't say how this is made up or what the details are:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6F3B49FDB7F349A2CC257196001A6BCF
Verizon is to close its airbourne phone services division Airfone some
time this year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/technology/23cnd-airfone.html?ei=5088&en=f46437bc54032899&ex=1308715200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1151097527-8G42S1dvCa82bCd46rRM7w
Nokia is halting the production of CDMA phones and abandoned plans to
make them in conjunction with Sanyo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060622/tc_nm/nokia_cdma_dc
Allowing robots such as the Sony Aibo to develop inter-robot communication
gives insights into language development:
http://www.e4engineering.com/Articles/295021/Teaching%20robot%20dogs%20linguistic%20tricks.htm
Tel Aviv University produces artificial neural nets from rat brain cells
that are joined by nanotubes into regular arrays:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=664
And finally. This series of bathroom taps includes bright LEDs to indicate the temperature of the water flowing through them. Ye Gods, bathroom bling:
http://www.equasystem.com/eng/index.ht
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.