Kiwi actor Peter Calveley stumps up the funds to get Amazon's "1-click"
patent re-examined as part revenge for slow book delivery:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Amazon_One_Click_Patent.html
Microsoft now wants to charge users of its operating system by the minute:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-05-22T062218Z_01_N21279409_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-DEVELOPING.xml&archived=False
An amusing take on Telecom's adverts in the context of Teresa Gattung's
recent faux pas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2plFv5PCkGs
NTT DoCoMo Inc. to make all of its phones available on the world-wide (except for the US) GSM standard:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-05-21T061207Z_01_T327773_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-JAPAN-DOCOMO.xml&archived=False
IBM Says that Project Millipede has proved the concept of probe-based
storage, but they have not yet committed to making a product out of it:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188100511
And finally. It looks like Captain Cook's ship The Endeavour may have
been found on the sea bed off Rhode Island:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/05/16/sunken.ship.reut/index.htm
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.