Cybersource releases a study showing that Microsoft's anti-competitiveness hurts
Australian consumers and balance of trade to the tune of A$200 million annually:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/about/monopoly.html
Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy is debuting his new project,
which he hopes will do for internet phone calls what PGP did for e-mail:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68306,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
The Open Source vector grapics and layout program InkScape has made some very
impressive improvements recently. Over 150 of them. Now also runs on Macs too:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes042
AnandTech takes the Gigabyte i-RAM solid-state SATA drive for a spin. Or not,
given it has no moving parts:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480
Berkeley engineers develop a way of using LEDs and active silicon surfaces to
move thousands microparticles individually around simultaneously:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050726074321.htm
And finally. Autobahn is renowned for its unrestricted upper speed limit. It
also has a lower speed limit, which an 80-yr old in a wheelchair doesn't meet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4719819.stm
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.