Triple boot - Mac OS, WIndows and Linux - is now possible on the
new Mac/Intel PCs:
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Developers/Triple_Boot
The Free Standards Group announces that Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu and
others are certifying their operating systems to the LSB:
http://www.alphatradefn.com/story/2006-04-25/MRW/200604251201MRKTWIREUSPR____0124970.html
A group capitalises on Google's $1 bounty for switching users from IE to
Firefox, but yet another unpatched IE critical security hole may make
more switch:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/042506-firefox-backers-aim-to-destroy-ie.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1953833,00.asp
Researchers create low-cost solar panels by replacing much of the
silicon with reflective holograms:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16736&ch=biztech
Flexible displays are shaping up to produce e-newspapers, but the
driving circuitry is still impressively large:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=602
Intel is looking at a cheap PC destined for rural China, running Red
Flag Linux. But what would keep the PC in the rural marketplace?:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31254
And finally. What's more ridiculous than the RIAA suing old grannies
for file sharing? Suing dead grannies for file sharing. "I sue dead people":
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050204-4587.html
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.