Norway's government mandates HTML, PDF and ODF for all publicly
accessable information, as of 2009:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/norway-mandates-government-odf
AOL announces that they will discontinue further development of
the Netscape browser and recommends the use of Firefox:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/
Windows Home Server has a file corruption bug under heavy load, say
on multimedia files. So would both the users please read this:
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9838093-37.html?tag=newsmap
The CIA must be using Windows Home Server then...:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36444§ionid=3510203
The new NASA moon rocket is to have Open Source avionics systems
for lower costs & improved interoperability:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4236758.html
Sony pull out of the large screen projection TV market to concentrate
on LCD and OLED panels. Their OLED screen is 3mm thick:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7161623.stm
Steve Furber of the University of Manchester gets a CBE for his part
in creating the BBC computer and the ARM CPU:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7162935.stm
And finally. Looks like the squirrels are taking their first step
towards fighting global warming. They're stealing the lightbulbs:
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/27/news/local_state/127542.txt
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.