Mystery surrounds the fate of NZ$5M of public money given to a trust for a 3rd
mobile network. Reads like a Nigerian scam:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/BCDEC67DEE143DECCC256FA500085E40?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Microsoft has held a secret webcast with its partners to discuss ways in which
they might improve IE, and boost the fading customer confidence in it:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1764441,00.asp
Microsoft teams with phone maker Flextronics to supply an OEM mobile phone
platform called "Peabody" to lower the cost of developing Windows phones:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5574442.html
Samsung takes a different approach, and is part of a consortium about to show
off their Linux phone platform, for which Palm are porting Palm OS to Linux:
http://informationweek.mobilepipeline.com/news/60400015
Nintendo licences Palm OS and plans a set of "V-Pocket" organiser tools to be
shown at E3 this year:
http://www.gamercentric.com/index.php?page=viewnews&id=3225
Oakland County USA is to create a 2300 square kilometer free/low cost wireless
network for its inhabitants, to ensure jobs for its citizens in the future:
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/wired11e_20050211.htm
And finally. If you thought last year was a scorcher, you'd be right say NASA,
though the US was cooler. 1998 was hottest, then 2002, 2003, and 2004:
http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/221919-5055-010.html
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.