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“The companies revealed the details Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Their system-on-a-chip platform is based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 processor and Globalfoundries’ 28-nanometer manufacturing process. The platform will be used in smartphones, tablets, and smartbooks.”

Full story at News.com.

So it looks like we will have devices that consume less power purely on a per-clock-cycle basis.  I’m guessing the new process won’t trickle down to actual commercial mobile implementation until at least 2013. 

December 14, 2009 – At this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IMEC and partners TNO (a Netherlands-based research group) and the Holst Center (IMEC-TNO joint center set up in 2005), disclosed their latest work in creating a MEMS-based piezoelectric energy harvesting device with record power generation, and a “world-first” organic transponder circuit with bit rate of 50kbits/s, nearing requirements for Electronic Product Coding (EPC) standards.

Full article.

References:

• Open Source Licensing – Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law by Lawrence Rosen
• Open Source Licenses Comparison

The Department of Defense CIO office has released a new guideline which is aimed at easing open source software adoption.

Department of Defense CIO David Wennergren’s revised guidance (PDF)

The Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo has developed a robotic hand capable of bouncing and catching a ball at remarkable speed.  Perhaps this is what a prosthetic would do in the near future.

IMG_9249, originally uploaded by pcmac77.

The last one didn’t come out the way I wanted. Trying this one, also taken by me in Tokyo this March.

I stumpled upon this site today that provides a service which allows you to change the phone number that is displayed on the receiver’s Caller ID.  Check it out.

http://www.telespoof.com/freecall.php

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