Yankee Group spokesman calls the new IBM/Sony Cell processor "essentially an
open-source chipset" and points out the lowered manufacturing costs:
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Cell-Chip-Implications-Unclear&story_id=30327
Wanted. Linux experts in New Zealand to make technical contributions to turning
the Linux Standards Base into an ISO standard:
http://www.linuxbase.org/LSBWiki/IsoBallot
Mike Nash, Microsoft's chief security executive, says during an online chat
session that WIndows is clearly more secure than Linux:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/60300209
Security alert on Microsoft's MSN messenger, which is vulnerable to a buffer
overflow in specially crafted images that can be sent through chatrooms:
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=57598
Toshiba and SanDisk have developed an 8 Gib Flash memory chip on multi-level
70nm technology, which they intend to make their mainstay Flash component:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3482231
A summary of the current state of play in creating molecular scale robots from
DNA by exponets of the art Nadrian Seeman and Hao Yan:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacemedicine-05f.html
And finally. New South Wales is struck by a fusilade of frozen poultry. Police
suspect fowl play:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10010790
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.