"Clippings" Editor's PC is now repaired. Unusual service will be resumed as soon as possible.
New Orleans is to keep emergency WiFi network running, despite
objections from entrenched service providers. Global warming is an
emergency, after all:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70580-0.html?tw=rss.index
The City of Bristol switches 5,500 desktops to use StarOffice and ODF,
and the National Archives of Australia moves to the ODF format too:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006040309084465
Some pictures of MIT/Negroponte's $100 laptop, which is likely to cost
$135 when it comes out:
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=26847&a=174980,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945967,00.asp
Sweden, which has had cellphones for longer than most countries, does manage to
find a link between phone use and brain tumours:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6056325.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
Spyware is now available for cellphones. FlexiSpy hides itself when installed
and logs both SMS and voice:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30668
Transparent TFT and OLED materials that can be deposited at less than 200C are
developed:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6108
A case-modder's delight. A cooling fan that has LEDs on the fan's surface. They
display the temperature and the mfrs logo while the fan rotates:
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/archives/2006/03/technicolor_dre.html
And finally. One way to dodge avian flu - man-made eggs, the HOWTO:
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijto/vol2n1/eggs.xml#documentHeading-TheHuman-MadeEggs
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.