Clippings is back online, courtesy of Diamond Age Solutions Ltd.
Firefox web browser downloads continue to go ballistic, exceeding the site's
capacity at one point and headed for 10% of the market by the end of 2005:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1026116,00.html
A US-based hunter offers the ability to aim and shoot a .22 rifle over the web,
and plans to offer game hunting by internet:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6834613
IBM starts their own SETI@Home-style project, hoping to encourage people to
donate spare CPU cycles for humanitarian projects:
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6822035
Siemens plans to introduce an airport checkin and seat booking service via
GPRS mobiles in 2005:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6829889
Freecom bring out a 1GB USB card that is the same format as a credit card but
slightly thicker. The USB plug pops out sideways, and the device is waterproof:
http://www.everythingusb.com/news/index/5592.htm
A review of a range of Bluetooth-equipped motorcycle helmets, including the Kiwi
brand:
http://blogs.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/11162004084544MWEB56.htm
And finally. NASA's X-43A hypersonic scramjet does its nearly-Mach 10 flight,
though not for very long and it did need a fair size rocket to jump-start it:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html
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.