Cisco to sue Apple over use of the iPhone name:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm
Firefox usage doubles, now standing at 14% compared to Internet Explorer
at just under 80%. Opera is just under 1%:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/B391E27F49578DCCCC25725E007728C9
Linden Lab, creators of Second Life release the viewer code to the open
source software development community to accelerate improvements:
http://www.playfuls.com/news_05760_Second_Life_Software_To_Become_Open_Source_.html
Skype announce 12 new phones at CES, and collaborates with Nokia to
ensure Skype software works on their WiFi-enabled handsets:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-08T214742Z_01_N08378565_RTRIDST_0_TECH-ELECTRONICS-SHOW-SKYPE-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C3-Technology-7
A close-up look at the final industrial design prototype for the OLPC,
set to be the largest single deployment of a computing platform ever:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007010902326NWHWEV
The OLPC will go on sale to the general public next year. You buy one at
twice the cost price, and an impoverished kid gets one free:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.stm
As Intel and Samsung officially put their weight behind the Displayport
1.1 specification, the Universal Display Port (UDI) is essentially dead:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196802386
Canadian coins turn up with small transmitters embedded in them:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36848
And finally. Are you feeling happy? Check this map of global happiness
to see if you measure up to your peers. And don't forget to smile:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=893
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.