Murky dealings surround Microsoft's push to get OOXML adopted as a
standard, including allegations of vote buying:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2824601520070828
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14868/1/
Telecom (profit NZ$955 million year to june) offers NZ$7 million
as an apology for the recent disruptions in service:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10460470
The Free Software Foundation tells Microsoft that it can't just
declare itself not bound by other people's copyrights:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070828105447144
Seagate to release solid-state drives in 2008. No word on price or
capacity though:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9032298&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
The Apple iPhone is verifiably unlocked, opening the doors to a
grey market for overseas users:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
The "$100" laptop us headed for the Solomon Islands, equipping one
village's kids at a time with between 20 and 50 OLPCs:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E863C047F225298FCC257339007321B6
And finally. Give the guy a hand. Actually, they want to reduce this
poor guy's 10kg hand with plastic surgery. Not for the squeamish:
http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/22/man_with_worlds.ph
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.