Details of Microsoft's planned IE 7.0 upgrade start to leak out. Mostly playing
catch-up, but has integration with MS anti-spyware. Short of CSS2 support:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1776317,00.asp
MIT Recommends Brazil use Linux in its PC Conectado project, designed to sell
1m subsidised PCs to poorer Brazilians:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-03-17T174439Z_01_N17147249_RTRIDST_0_TECH-TECH-BRAZIL-MICROSOFT-DC.XML
Debian developers propose cutting the supported CPU types from 11 to 4.
Controversial losers are ARM, used in PDAs, and Niagra, developed by Sun:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/debian_reduced/
The GNU C Compiler toolchain reaches V4.0, with greatly improved optimisation
and some embarrassingly impressive speed improvements:
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5615886.html?tag=st.util.print
Nokia to build WiFi into all its smartphones within the next couple of years:
http://www.commsdesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159402420
Siemens introduces a Bluetooth communicator badge and ties it to a home control
PC running voice recognition software:
http://www.physorg.com/news3417.html
Intel starts providing resellers with roll-your-own-linux kits, aimed at moving
Intel desktop users to the free OS:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21863
Emagine are showing an 800x600 OLED headset that can be powered off a USB port
and claim it will be cheaper than LCD ones:
http://www.emagin.com/3dvisor/
Prototype 3D raytracing hardware with scalable pipelines is starting to
outclass Pentiums and produce real-time results:
http://www.saarcor.de/
Dr Bowyer is developing 3D fabricators that are capable of fabricating
themselves - and is giving the plans away under the GPL:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/pr/releases/replicating-machines.htm
And finally. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York generates
what appears to be a baby black hole. Scary, eh?:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.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.