Boost for research paper access. Plans to offer researchers an alternative to commercially run journals get a cash boost from George Soros' Open Society Initiative. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Parsing the journals to an XML format would greatly facilitate the searching and aggregating of available data. This seems to be exactly what frontiier was designed for.

10:44:14 PM    

Ultra-wideband wireless gets the go-ahead [IDG InfoWorld] Promises speeds up to 200bps at a distance of up to 500 feet. Makes it possible to walk all over your yard while still surfing, or getting a streaming MP3 freed from your local server. A form of home based pirate(private) radio I suppose.

Further, combine this with a smart phone that runs either wireless or cellular depending on it's proximity to your home, and you now have a one phone solution for home or away. Tie this in with the IP telephony that Cicsco is up to and you'll really have soemthing going.  

Lastly, it promises to deliver the tech to broadcast an HDTV signal within a household inside of a year.

10:40:11 PM    

Move Over, BT: He Invented Links. British Telecom's claim that it owns the patent to hyperlinking outrages Bob Bemer, an octogenarian who invented what would become a key component of Web navigation a long, long time ago. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Interesting perspective from the guy who invented much of how computers navigate data via the "escape" function, as well as having a hand in COBOL, ASCII, and the 8 bit per byte standard. If anyone should have been patenting things, it's him, and he hasn't been. Rock on Bob!

7:42:25 AM    

'Atom bomb' solution for fast net access. Big telecom operators that fail to open up their services to rivals could lose control of the telephone networks. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Europe gets it. By allowing large monopolies to control the last mile, it stifles competition for broadband service in that market.  And why should the monopoly hop to it when they are not going to be making money off the fast service that is being offered on their network? They get little to nothing for doing so since they are not running the more expensive service.

So now the EU is threatening a legal seperation of the networks if they do not get their schtick together. Good call.

7:31:37 AM