Australia's mobile telco Hutchinson advises its CDMA customers that they
have 90 days to switch to UMTS, or lose their service:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_%223_CDMA%22_customers_have_90_days_to_move_to_3G
NZ's State Services Department releases its "Guide to Legal Issues in
Using Open Source Software V2", with assistance from the NZOSS:
http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/open-source/open-source-legal2/
ComputerWorld reports on an instance of Microsoft sales using baseless
licencing threats to insert a Microsoft consultant into a company:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=111186
The Novint Falcon 3D haptic feedback controller is expected to provide
force feedback motion control for around US$100:
http://www.novint.com/falcon.htm
University of Florida researchers discover a way to put a cork in a nanotube:
http://news.ufl.edu/2006/05/10/nanocork/
Microsoft releases a beta of WinCE 6, allowing many more consecutive
processes and memory up to 2GB:
http://windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9022042332.html
The GP2X handheld console packs a 240MHz dual-core processor, 64MB of
RAM and 64MB of flash. 6 hrs play time, UKP125 - oh, it's Open Source:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=3275
Japan's JT-60 Tokamak fusion reactor achieves a stable plasma for a
record-breaking 28.6 seconds, setting the place for the ITER reactor:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20060511TDY04004.htm
And finally. The Roomba vacuuming robot has been interfaced to PCs in
many interesting ways before, but not as a MIDI musical instrument:
http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/
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.