Quanta Computer Inc. is chosen by One Laptop Per Child as the manufacturer for
their nonprofit $100 laptop project. Available Q4 2006:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175001754
Xbox 360 owners are urged to use the old Xbox or a Playstation version of the
new King Kong game due to a lack of brightness in the images:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4525318.stm
Diebold Inc. Chief Executive Walden W. O'Dell resigns from the company made
infamous by their insecure voting machines:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8EFFVO00.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
Leon County's Diebold voting machines likely to be withdrawn in Florida,
following hack demo. A shareholder's class action suit has been filed:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
A blind trial of 42 Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica entries by Nature
magazine shows each contain similar errors of similar magnitude:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/online-encyclopedias-put-to-the-test/2005/12/14/1134500913345.html
Google starts to focus on computer performance per Watt, as power prices
increase and hardware cheapens, lifetime power costs more than the PC itself:
http://news.com.com/Power+could+cost+more+than+servers%2C+Google+warns/2100-1010_3-5988090.html?tag=nefd.lede
The Swiss Federal Government is to switch 3,000 servers to run on Novell's SUSE
Linux platform:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-13-2005/0004232908&EDATE=
E Ink and Citizen show off a fully flexible clock the size of a bath towel,
weighing 1.5kg, batteries included:
http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr89.html
An finally. One of the worst ideas is a teacher leaving her phone around in a
class. Particularly when it has raunchy poses of her in it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/14/cypriot_mobile_snap/
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.