ICANN Seeks to become immune to US law by becoming a real international
organisation and possibly moving to Switzerland:
http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6172758.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Rural India uses WiFi-equipped public transport to store-and-forward web
and e-mail to unwired villages:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506193.stm
A fairly brutal comparison between MS Office 2007 and OpenOffice:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38633
EMI To offer higher quality music without DRM through iTunes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6516189.stm
WEP Encryption cracking algorithm now improved to the point where it
breaks a key 50% of the time with 1 minute of WiFi traffic:
http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aircrack-ptw/
A patent has been filed covering the compilation of AJAX into a variety
of languages:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=morfik&OS=morfik&RS=morfik
The race to make home 3D printers is on, with kits and self-replicating
printers envisaged under Open Source licences:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,2044800,00.html
And finally. The ashes of James Doohan, Scotty in the original Star Trek,
are loaded into a rocket. Ye cannae change the laws 'o physics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6519525.st
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.