Poland tells the EU it won't put up with software patents, which it regards as a
threat to economic growth and communication. 4 others likely to follow suit:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19736
DoCoMo Looks for a "killer app" for 3G phones in the form of 3D sound to
accompany the 3D graphics. This is for applications, not speech:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3611635&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general
Segate announces the shipping of its 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA hard disk:
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=56224&s=ln
The multi-segmented ATRON robot prototype demonstrates how modular robots can
dynamically reconfigure themselves to perform wildly different tasks:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996683
And finally. Keep your eyes peeled over the next couple of nights for the Leonid
meteor showers. The lack of a moon is expected to give good viewing:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=753&e=10&u=/space/20041112/sc_space/theleonidmeteorshower2004modestpeakexpectednov1619
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.