Dell is recalling over 4 million laptops due to suspect batteries that
have caused several fires. Rumour says they want to pin it on Sony:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2003519,00.asp
Matching Levono's move to ship SuSE on laptops, HP says it will support
Debian Linux on its ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/5488FB441D1E157FCC2571CA00151652?OpenDocument
Personal details on PCs sent for recycling to Nigeria are found on
sale at UKP20 per account:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4790293.stm
Will Swedish IP addresses become the digital equivalent of a numbered
Swiss bank account? The Pirate Party there are now selling darknet IPs:
http://www2.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/press_release_pirate_party_launches_worlds_first_commercial_darknet/
The Sony Mylo WiFi device runs on Linux with a Qtopia interface, and
includes a Java VM. No word on any crippling DRM:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8202297251.html
While mobile service providers push 3G content, only 14% of teens want
TV on cell phones, and a few more say they'd watch it on an iPod:
http://www.pvrwire.com/2006/08/13/small-screen-blues/
The UDI interface is becoming a popular alternative to HDMI as it has
higher bandwidth and no licencing costs - and no DRM:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33595
New methods of growing nanotubes are now not just compatible with
silicon, but work at temperatures currently used in chip fabs:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33602
And finally. A submarine was found off Spain's nort-western coast.
Police suspect drug smugglers were using it, but no drugs were found:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4792075.stm
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.