This is the final Clippngs for 2006. All the best for 2007, when we shall return, and have a Merry Xmas. - Vik :v)
New Zealand gets an iTunes store, just in time for Xmas:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/915552
Poms none too pleased at having to pay 70% more for Microsoft Office
2007 than the Americans do. OpenOffice starts to look attractive...:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36123
Mac users don't get Office 2007, and so cannot open Microsoft's new
XML-based document formats:
http://apcmag.com/node/4755
All previous versions of Office seem to have an unpatched bug that
can be maliciously activated merely by loading a document:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068786,00.asp
Microsoft are now trying to put Windows on a "$100" laptop:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36177
"Novell, Inc. delivers A-Hint-Of-Not-Really-Open-Software for the
Not-Much-Interested-in-Leaving-Microsoft Enterprise":
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061204130954610
How most of the world's websites do not grant access for disabled
users, reported by the BBC - who didn't get reviewed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6210068.stm
And finally. The NZ govt. proposes a bill giving it the right to
forcibly take fingerprints, iris scans, facial scans & DNA. Merry Xmas:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3889500a6160,00.htm
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.