The OOXML ISO process has apparently been under inspection by the
European Commission, relating to the Microsoft antitrust trial:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040201515.html
Firefox now expands to 18% of the business browser market, almost
catching IE7. So design for standards, not browsers:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001060
There are now more than 2,000 projects licenced under GPLv3:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1811059115
By managing qubits as a three-level system, University of Queensland
researchers develop a better way to design quantum logic:
http://arxivblog.com/?p=346
And finally. A review of the world's big solar power plants coming
online soon. Impressive, but not nearly enough of them:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4239
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.