It turns out that 20% of Microsoft's WGA failures are not actually caused
by pirates:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=89
Microsoft to get a new monopoly - supply of Electronic Control Units to
Formula 1 cars. This may be linked to measures to slow the cars down:
http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/formulaone/27956/
Nandor Tanczos reports 15-20% of computing done in NZ enterprises
utilises open source, driven in-house by work groups not management:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0606/S00555.htm
Microsoft flip-flops and announces a project to support OpenDocument
files under a BSD licence. Can they embrace and extend this one?:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/05/657510.aspx
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060706064747376
Lexar issues a recall for its FireFly and Secure II JumpDrive USB flash
drives, which overheat. Serial numbers and details here:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06205.html
Starsight aims to produce street lighting with wireless connectivity,
and power the whole thing off solar panels:
http://www.starsightproject.com/en/africa/index.php
The NIST claim to have observed the mechanism that binds Cooper Pairs,
the electrons that make high temperature superconductors work:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190300530
NIST Physicists develop a simple design for an ion trap using existing
chip-making technologies, that may enable quantum computing:
http://www.physorg.com/news71414204.html
And finally. Some Austrians are caught causing trouble in Berlin. Police
arrest them on suspicion of placing cement-filled footballs around the city...:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,425386,00.htm
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.