Faced with impending government regulation, Vodafone offers to cut its
call termination rates in NZ - over the next 4 years:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3F8AB22E636426E1CC2571AF002F89F4
Kennedy's lawyers file suit against Diebold & other electronic voting machine
vendors for fraudulent business practices. The US media misses it:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2750
Details on Microsoft's €280.5 million fine for non-compliance with EU
rulings, including comments from the commission's Neelie Kroes:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060712075744498
In-Stat suggests solid state drives will have replaced half the hard
disks within 10 years, mostly because of lower power consumption:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190500058
eWeek Gives Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) its Analyst's Choice
designation for server side Linux. Review here:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1990777,00.asp
Firefox gets 13% of the global market, with countries like Germany on
39%, Oz on 24% and sites like Slashdot and Diamond Age experiencing 69%:
http://pro-seo.blogspot.com/2006/07/firefox-jumps-to-13-of-global-market.html
An application giving walkie-talkie functionality for WiFi-equipped PalmOS devices:
http://www.ranosoft.net/wifitalkie/
The Firefox 2.0 beta is reviewed by eWeek. It's obviously beta material,
with less of a visual overhaul than there was between 1.0 and 1.5:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1988321,00.asp
Bigelow Aerospace launches Genesis 1, the first private space station.
It's an inflatable 1/3 scale model and currently only houses insects:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/12/private.space.station.ap/index.html
And finally. Making the best of a bad deal, Andrea Stierle discovers
migraine-fighting fungi in a heavily polluted lake:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9553-dirty-old-mine-has-rich-seam-of-drugs.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.