The AA drop ISO-standard OpenOffice for Microsoft Office following
their decision to use incompatible Microsoft Sharepoint servers:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/A6AB17B34B1BA81ECC2573160079BFBC
The new AA CIO, Doug Wilson, was Microsoft New Zealand's Public
Sector Manager, which explains some of their reasoning:
http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/spot/821D68A0B8F6C33ECC25730C00839AD0?Opendocument&HighLight=microsoft
Google to change their cookies to auto-delete after 2 years rather
than the current blanket setting of 2038 an anonymises data:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6901946.stm
The BlackBerry 8820 works with both the EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and
WiFi connectivity. Comes with full keyboard and trackball:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070717.wgtblackberry0717/BNStory/Technology/home
Yadong Yin and the Department of Chemistry at the University of
California develop a cheap, colour-changing LCD replacement:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn12280-chameleon-liquid-could-outshine-lcds.html
And finally. German police generously let a man off for throwing his
misbehaving PC out the window - but he has to pick the bits up:
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC7487702007071
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.