Russian schoolteachers are now so scared of the Microsoft anti-piracy
police that they're installing Linux instead to ensure "licence purity":
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision announce their intent to release a
mobile device with a roll-up display this year:
http://www.polymervision.com/News-Center/Press-Releases/TelecomItaliaandPolymerVisionannouncetheCE.html
Flash memory is starting to be a low-cost commodity, with 1GB MP3
players now going for US$25:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002923
Both Broadcomm and TI are now pushing chipsets containing mobile WLAN,
Bluetooth and FM:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197003497
The OpenDocument ODF standard has now been approved with no dissenting
votes, and is now an official OASIS standard, with disabled access:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070204124124970
A rule for mobile content developers. If your data is 30s away from the
homepage on the phone, it might just as well not exist:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37412
A look at how the Symbian OS for mobile phones is viewed by developers
and Nokia themselves, and an explanation as to why Apple ported OSX:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/6856C375-FE4E-4BC8-B753-B48AF3BD8B30.html
The GPE Phone Edition is launched as a functioning Linux distro for
mobile phones. A GTK/GPE implementation of a LIPS software stack:
http://gpephone.linuxtogo.org/
And finally. No less than Apple's Steve Jobs calls for the music
companies to drop DRM from their music files:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/02/jobs_calls_for.php
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.