Genuitec ports the Matisse GUI builder to the Eclipse platform, adding much
needed functionality:
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t65341.html
The popular GnuPG encryption and digital signing package has a fault that allows
non-detatched signatures to be bypassed by inserted data:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000216.html
ESA's "GIOVE A" GPS test satellite is transmitting successfully, and experiments
on signal quality are now being conducted:
http://www.esa.int/esaNA/SEM21VMVGJE_index_0.html
Motorola's RAZR phones are great at doing lots of thing, but apparently not ver
good at amintaininng a cellphone call:
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/calldropping-motorola-razrs-159688.php
Samsung releases an ultra-mobile PC tablet bearing the hallmarks of Microsoft's
over-hyped Origami:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502290
A brain-controlled computer interface for humans is demonstrated. Electrodes go
no further than the scalp:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/dn8826.html
NASA Releases a number of their software projects under Open Source licences:
http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/
And finally. For those who miss bass vibration on iPods, here's the Brainic MP3
player that vibrates to the beat. A player for the deaf, perhaps?:
http://www.brainic.com/
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.