Google acquires GrandCentral, a company that redirects mobile phone
numbers and voicemail accounts into one box:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-aboard.html
How Google is poised to completely revolutionise the cellphone
and mobile comms industry. Do no evil:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=0d0fa453-8a22-4dd0-b244-53f03146da8e&k=11216
The New Zealand Open Source Awards are opened. Nominations for
creation and use of Open Source are open until the 17th August:
http://www.nzosa.org.nz/
Getting an iPhone is only half the story. It seems getting it
activated is the real battle:
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1325118.php/AT&T_suffers_wrath_of_bloggers_over_activation_issues
And finally. Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his
team transplanted a whole genome from one bacterium cell to another:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6251910.st
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.