Happy Birthday. The humble compact disc turns 25. The first
pressing was an ABBA CD:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/happy-25th-birthday-compact-disc/
The New Zealand Open Source Society objects to the vaugeness of the
proposed OOXML stanadard, and will voice concerns to Standards NZ:
http://nzoss.org.nz/node/179
Dell refuse to commit to supply Linux-powered laptops in New Zealand,
though will be supplying most of the rest of the world:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10458099
China's Qiao Xing Mobile announces the W100, a wrist-watch mobile
phone with 65k TFT-LCD touch screen, 1GB memory, FM radio & 1.3MP:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/7797/
MIT Spinoff Tilera launches a 64-core chip with a mesh bus:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19269/
And finally. Studies done at the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne suggest girls may be hardwired to like pink:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12512-women-may-be-hardwired-to-prefer-pink.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.