The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
recommends UK schools steer clear of Vista and Office 2007:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080111-uk-education-agency-says-no-to-vista-office-2007.html
PC vendor Lenovo now has ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop 10 available for purchase:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3449833487.html
Demand is now starting to outstrip the supply of Linux PCs:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205604334
Toshiba to add a Cell processor to laptops under the "Spurs" moniker,
speeding up video processing and analysis:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/video/0,139101587,49295004,00.htm
And finally. If you think you're being poisoned by arsenic, eat plenty of
garlic. Seems to work for rats, anyway:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726385.100-garlic-combats-arsenic-poisoning.html
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.