IBM Responds to Microsoft's allegations and says it objects to OOXML
because it is technically inferior to ODF:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080204-ibm-responds-to-microsoft-ooxml-is-technically-inferior.html
EETimes looks at the Google Android Alliance and looks at what happens
when you put all the members' features into one device:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805720&pgno=1
The alpha of Ubuntu's next Hardy Heron release is made available to
experimenters and foolhardy early adopters:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9060581&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
IBM To release Lotus Notes 8.5 with full support for Ubuntu Linux:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/enterprise/news/index.cfm?newsid=7193&print
Intel's latest high-speed NAND Flash chips have a 200MB/sec write speed,
which you'll need an IDE or USB 3.0 to take advantage of:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9060581&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
And finally. Scientists are making Alzheimer's patients strap
frickin' lasers to their frickin' heads to regenerate brain cells:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7208768.stm
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.