The free and Open ArtOfIllusion 3D graphics studio gets the Sourceforge
"Project of the Month" award for its slick features and friendly GUI:
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2007-04.php
NZ Post claimings a 70% reduction in IT operating costs, after moving to
a service-oriented architecture on Linux, and they're not done yet:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/AE975192352D1C90CC2572B4000F61A6
Google release Ocropus, an Open Source OCR and text analysis suite:
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" fixes 4 critical holes:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112781,00.asp
Microsoft is also blocking free game content for the Xbox:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38823
The One Laptop Per Child project's software is now available as a live
CD, if you fancy a go on your own hardware:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Test_Drive_the_OLPC_with_a_LiveCD
And finally. Microscale autonomous robotic fleas. Just what we need:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=992
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.