Intel shows a technology that allows your PC's memory to be inspected
and reconfigured while you think the PC is turned off:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34697
Microsoft may not be releasing a list of programs that don't work under
Vista, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=19
NZ Security consultant Gerry Macridis gets off a charge of accessing a
bank's phone system without authorisation as a "White Hat" hacker:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3810989a11,00.html
The latest Firefox 2.0 RC1 release adds security and usability
enhancements but not a whole lot in terms of Earth-shattering features:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2021180,00.asp
If they make cellphones much smaller than the Xun Chi 138, they're
going to get lost in your pocket amongst the small change:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/25/worlds-most-easily-misplaced-cellphone/
... and one ring to remind you of the anniversaries:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=749
Remote-controlled aerial vehicles forming flocks indoors:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10174-uncrewed-aircraft-swarm-together-indoors.html
And finally. French surgeons carry out the first zero-gravity operation,
removing a tumor. Not in space, but bouncing up and down in an aircraft:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10169-doctors-remove-tumour-in-first-zerog-surgery-.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.