links for 2009-07-02
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"The re-establishment of a parliamentary Science and Technology Committee was approved on Thursday. The committee will be made up of the same members as the existing Innovation, Universities, Skills, and Science Committee (IUSS)."
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"Under the arrangement, the companies said they will work together on chip design and open-source software. Intel recently has entered that field with its Linux-based operating system called Moblin, designed to function on portable devices, and Nokia has a Linux-based operating system, dubbed Maemo. In addition, Intel will license some modem technology from Nokia."
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BBC 'Click' makes some claims about what MIT is 'inventing': "MIT - is a breeding ground for boffins - the next generation of gadget creators. Ten thousand students, five schools and one college including the famed Media Lab make up MIT - which has an annual research budget of well over $500m (£302m). Every year hundreds of new inventions and patents are created at MIT and millions of dollars are earned in royalties from previous projects that have become public. So what's next?"
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China begins to ban 'gold farming': "Cash earned in games in China can no longer be spent on real world goods. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce policy aims to limit the impact of game currencies on real-world markets. In the future, any cash earned by Chinese gamers can only be spent to acquire items or equipment in that particular game."
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Urban Atmospheres/ CommonSense (a la Intel Berkeley) -style public sensing project, led by Imperial College: "Cyclists, buses, cars and even pedestrians will become mobile pollution detectors in an initiative launched on Tuesday. Led by Imperial College London, the project will trial three types of mobile, wireless pollution sensor. These will measure traffic pollutants throughout the UK, and transmit their data via the mobile phone network."
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Telecommuting gets 'mobilised' (again) for the noughties, the beeb reports: "Today work is somewhere you travel to - in the future work will come to you. So says a report attempting to work out what the offices and workplaces of 2030 will be like. It predicts that as workforces get more mobile, technology will ensure that everything an employee needs is available no matter where they are."
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