The first of the EU's Galileo navigation satellites is to be sent up at the end
of this month. Giove-A will stake a claim on the frequencies used:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4417290.stm
The BBC becomes the first commercial user of Manx Telecom's 1.3 Mbit/s 3G
network, after a promised ADSL line failed to show for a live Skype broadcast:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27565
IBM And Sony distribute Linux patches and compiler toolkits to support their new
Cell processor:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173601261
Palm says they won't abandon PalmOS, despite reports in Computer Business
Review suggesting the equivalent of suitcases in the hallway:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051109-5544.html
In memoriam. Ron Donald, a Green MP true to the last, is interned in a plywood
casket, transported on an electric bus escorted by cyclists:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3474111a10,00.html
And finally. NASA Thinks asteroids can be diverted from hitting Earth without
nukes, using a 20 tonne 'Gravity Tractor' - if you start 20 yrs in advance:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8291
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.