Before we start, Clippings is 4 years old today - bumper edition time. I might
even blast the cork from something fizzy and alcoholic:
http://olliver.family.gen.nz/clippings/Aug-2001/02-Aug-01.html
Novell drops a legal bombshell on SCO, clarifying that SCO requested the copyright for Unix and Novell turned them down. Novell now wants its royalties back: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1841965,00.asp
The EFF voices concern that the FBI is amassing distribution databases of
pro-libertarian groups, using the secret IDs inserted by printer mfrs.:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003835.php
Microsoft heads for more anti-monopoly trials, this time in Japan. Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, and Matsushita Electric Industrial may testify on behalf of the Japanese govt.: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050728-5145.html
IBM Publishes a guide showing how to convert IE-specific applications to run on
Mozilla, Firefox and other W3C-compliant browsers:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ie2mozgd/
Vodafone discovers foreign cellphones don't sell in Japan. Probably because,
compared to local ones, they're crap:
http://iht.com/articles/2005/07/26/technology/btjapan27.php
Forbes reports that the ringtone market for annoyingly vocal mobile phones
fortunately seems to have peaked:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/08/01/ringtone-sales-flat-cx_vnu_0801ringtone.html
A research analyst with Internet Security Solutions quits his job, then
announces a known but poorly managed security hole in Cisco IOS to the world:
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68328,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
It appears it took the crackers a mere 24 hours to work around Microsoft's bid
to prevent cracked Windows installations getting updates:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24961
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html
Oakley, of "Thump" MP3 sunglasses fame, are to introduce Razrwire sunglasses,
which behave as a Bluetooth wireless headset with Motorola's Razor phone:
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-07-31T185951Z_01_N31503486_RTRIDST_0_TECH-RETAIL-OAKLEY-DC.XML
http://oakley.com/about/razrwire/
Toshiba develops a 3D display designed to lay down on the desktop and give a 30
degree viewing angle without special glasses:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050418/103839/
Pretec are to start selling a 4GB SD card this August. 20MB/sec access speed:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24941
And finally. Roskosmos puts the price tag on a trip around the moon at US$100
million. Russia can apparently do this within 18 months of getting the cash:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1536818,00.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.