The latest Microsoft patent granted in the US patents all methods of converting
program objects into XML and back again:
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/work/0,39024650,39190121,00.htm
Workshops held by the UK Patent Office (UKPO) find the definition of technical
contribution in the EU software patent directive lets through too many patents:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39200624,00.htm
Suggestions that Microsoft's new emerging enemy is the wave of Open
Source-powered, mass-produced devices emerging in Asia such as Mobilis:
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/295338.php
Intel sneaks Digital Restrictions/rights Management into its latest of the
Pentium line. More power to AMD:
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915
The future seems to be headed in the direction of configurable processor chips.
The Cell CPU is reconfigurable, and this article describes how:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_23/b3936081_mz018.htm?chan=tc
And finally. What could bwe more fun than swallowing a camera? Swallowing one
with legs that let it wriggle around inside, of course:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05150/512648.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.