IBM announces plans for voluntary and involuntary workforce reductions of
between 10,000 and 13,000 employees worldwide:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162101551
Apple make their zero-configuration network tools available to Windows users:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows_readme.html
A German student figures out how to reprogram RFID tags to play a merry jingle
at the checkout:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=385
Some are claiming the death of the PDA, but 2005 Q1 shipments are actually up:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5696560.html
Berkeley researchers develop a 200nm nanoelectromechanical relaxation
oscillator that harnesses surface tension to drive nanomachines:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/050405/Surface_tension_drives_nanomotor_Brief_050405.html
And finally. The E=motion vehicle is expected to run up a new world landspeed
record of 394km/h in Nevada on the 5th, running on rechargeable batteries:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4513529.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.