Nokia announces that it will allow "all its patents to be used in the further
development of the Linux kernel" following its Linux based tablet release:
http://press.nokia.com/PR/200505/995845_5.html
eWeek reveals that Microsoft's next Longhorn operating system won't be based on
the .Net Framework:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1820686,00.asp
Eben Molgen calculates that the Open Source development work being done on
SourceForge alone is roughly equivalent to 1.35 Microsofts:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050528164216794
Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, with Service Pack 2 is "rapidly approaching
desktop usability":
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216
Looks like the US has asked Tony Blair to make sure that when the British get
"smart" ID cards, they get American ID cards, accessable by US security forces:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=641731
Sony and NHK are jointly developing a 10GiB 1 inch hard drive. Apparently they
want to put them in phones that can receive TV broadcasts:
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,102072,00.html
The secret behind the ability of the humble sponge to produce fine silica fibres
is revealed, and chip manufacturers want to duplicate the process:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050524224714.htm
And finally. Glasgow is to get a robotic bartender called Barhand. But is it a
robot, or a glorified vending machine? Nobody seems to know:
http://www.primidi.com/2005/05/29.html#a1204
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.