NZ to get Internet radio, but Telecom and TelstraClear users miss content due to
copyright reasons; ISPs won't peer locally & copyright prohibits export to US:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/54FCC3B9D0B8BB96CC25702F00740446?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Open Source Victoria is offering all schools a free plug-and-play school network
system. Just insert the bootable CD and stand well back:
http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=151
The US May decry Iran's strict Internet censorship, but it is quite willing to
supply the technology to make it possible:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7589
Microsoft's South African representatives are presented with a "request to
surrender" their XML word processing patent, following similar action in NZ:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=497
Norwegian Minister in Oslo declares "Proprietary formats will no longer be
acceptable in communication between citizens and government.":
http://www.andwest.com/blojsom/blog/tatle/agenda/2005/06/27/Norwegian_Minister_Proprietary_Standards_No_Longer_Acceptable_in_Communication_with_Government.html
Lidong Qin and colleagues at Northwestern University in Chicago produce
nanowires with gaps in that can accept molecular-scale components:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7611
And finally. Rising sea levels over the next few hundred years look like
swamping a few nuclear waste dumps and reactors in the UK, India and Japan:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7591
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.