Despite earlier concerns ofver their Linux commitment, Lenovo has now
made a deal with Novell to ship SuSE on the ThinkPad T60p laptop:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7778908329.html
Sony to release a GPS unit that can interface to their cameras,
so photos can be classified by where as well as when:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0608/06080202sonygpscs1.asp#press
A new hacking technique uses the trusted, encrypted tunnel used by
Blackberries to deliver exploits through corporate firewalls:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71548-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
One of the peope employed to censor negative articles about San
Fransisco on the web stands up and unveils their employers:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/04/18294498.php?printable=true
The new US RFID Passport has been hacked, cloned & detected remotely to
make a "Yanks Only" bomb trigger. Works on all ICAO standard passports:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71521-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
And finally. The answer to tech support dreams; the anti-stupid pill.
It stabilizes short term memory and something else I can't remember:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-08-07T160739Z_01_L05698599_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-PILL.xm
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.