Windows XP Users can now get the "Google Pack" of desktop productivity tools:
http://pack.google.com/pack_installer_required.html
11% Of European & US CIOs say their vendors have used supposed legal risks to
the use of Linux, usually Microsoft vendors:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/68074
The novel Mogo MouseBT is a collapsable Bluetooth mouse that stores and
recharges inside a laptop's PCMCIA slot:
http://www.uberreview.com/2006/01/mogo-mousebt.htm
Lego get ready to launch their NXT line of high-tech, programmable bricks, this
time developed with community support and with Open interfaces:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,69946-4.html
Motorola to put a "Google" button on their Internet-optimised cellphones:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8EV5S801.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
How hard is it to get the call lists of any given cellphone in the US? A mere
US$110 will do it. Now, what am I bid for your LBS-based location info?:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-privacy05.html
Microsoft breaks its patch cycle to release a fix for the critical WMF
vulnerabuility:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft_releases_emergency_patch_for_WMF_exploit
An Oracle database work looks pratical, and an exploit has been published on the
Full Disclosure mailing list:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1908755,00.asp
The Linux WINE Windows environment is sufficiently Windows-compatible to suffer
from the recent WMF exploit:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=146
And finally. A laser communication link is established over a record 24 million
km, between NASA's Mercury Messenger spacecraft and Earth using the altimeter:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8540
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.