The French Police are switching 35,000 PCs to OpenOffice instead of MS Office
to save 2M Euros by the end of January. 45,000 more will have changed by Summer:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55253
Azul Systems wants to add a new word to PC jargon - KiloCores, or thousands of
CPU cores used in a system. They say, "Get ready to buy chips by the kilo":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/azul_khan_comment/
Having discovered that some 3G phone handsets are now capable of receiving live
TV channels, the UK Government wants their owners to pay for a TV licence:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20729
Microsoft make a fundemental mistake in encrypting Word documents, re-using the
same RC4 keystream to encrypt successive versions. Decrypt with a simple XOR:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/01/microsoft_rc4_f.html
Garmin announces the iQue 3600a, a PalmOS-based PDA designed to sit in an
aircraft's control yoke and deliver turn-by-turn navigation directions:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=832
And finally. Willie Nelson strikes oil in Texas; Homegrown vegetable oil, and
he's turning it into a biodiesel that runs in unaltered diesel engines:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66288,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
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.