Firefox now neary at 29% in Europe, and 31.2% in Oceania. However,
Safari has caused a drop of about 1% in the North American market:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080427-all-the-rage-in-europe-firefox-marketshare-climbs-higher.html
US Voting machine tapes show a basic inability to add up. The questions
remain. Why did the officials not notice, and why do they not care?:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1280
Tests indicate that SSDs are not worth the premium from a speed
perspective just yet. Old-fashioned spinning disks rule:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9080838&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat
British Telecom try to bundle the Linux-based Eee PC with a copy of
Microsoft Office Home and Student:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/29/bt_offers_office_linux/
If you have a PDL Powerguard RCD, you might want to check this
recall notice:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507026
And finally. English village to be invaded by robots. Copehill Down
in Wiltshire is targeted for an autonomous sureillance competition:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13796-english-village-to-be-invaded-in-spybot-competition.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn13796
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.