The first ever Linux-only line of desktops is launched by a major OEM, using the
Linspire release of Linux:
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=188
The French Military Police force has chosen to deploy Firefox and Thunderbird to
respectively 70,000 and 45,000 seats following a successful OpenOffice trial:
http://standblog.org/blog/2006/01/03/93114583-french-gendarmerie-national-switches-to-firefox-and-thunderbird
AllPeers plans to integrate Bittorrent-style file sharing with the Firefox
browser to form a killer app:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-killer-app/
PortableOffice released, a version of OpenOffice that installs onto a USB drive
so you can take it anywhere. Something Microsoft Office explicitly prohibits:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice
Perhaps PortableOffice could go in one of Imation's new USB memory wristbands,
coming soon to an arm near you:
http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=477
Motorola's Freescale spinoff develops a 24Mib Flash memory using silicon
nanocrystals. Tnis drops required voltage and increases yeild:
http://www.nsti.org/news/item.html?id=34
And finally. Austrian hackers hack into the video feed of the Vienna police
surveillance cameras and experiment with ways of disabling them:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8530
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.