In addition to requiring fingerprints, The US Department of Homeland Security
is trialling RFID tags on visitors. The exact method is as yet unknown:
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39127374,00.htm
IBM Remains silent on its plans to have converted 40,000-60,000 desktops to
Linux by 2004. Spokeswoman says "I don't know if there are 40,000 users":
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119422,00.asp
SuperWaba, a VM for a range of PDAs and phones, reaches 5.0 and goes
dual-licence; GPL or LGPL for subscribers. Symbian support now official:
http://www.superwaba.com.br
British Telecom call an armed police raid on a person making Tsunami fund
donations using the Lynx browser. 'It was unusual, so he *must* be a hacker':
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html
Sun's recent move to Open Source Solaris is widely appreciated, but some
concerns remain over a hole in their licence that lets Microsoft have control:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050121014650517
What will happen to all those pirated Windows PCs when Microsoft makes their
authentication mandatory? Some think of unpatched massed of spam engines:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756569,00.asp
British Telecom's Project Bluephone to launch this Northern Spring, providing a
Bluetooth base station that connects cellphones to proprietary WiFi networks:
http://www.techworld.com/features/index.cfm?featureID=1150
And Finally. A new recipe boook is out = "Grandma Eats Cannabis". Apparently
she does, and when raided offered the cops tea and biscuits...:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/4208699.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.