Microsoft's David Lazar, who directs the "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, finally admits that Windows does indeed call home every day to see if it is a pirate copy or not:
http://www.physorg.com/news68917335.html
Microsoft also announced that they have pulled PDF support from the next release of Office, due to a dispute with Adobe. Fortunately PDF output is still supported by OpenOffice on Windows:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1792109,00.html
Australasian consumer electronics distributor Jaycar starts stocking a
200W windmill kit, undercutting solar power kits in Watts/dollar:
http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=MG4512&CATID=50&SUBCATID=855
Seagate launches a hybrid laptop hard disk fitted with 256MiB of Flash
memory, reducing drive power requirements by 50%:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1973122,00.asp
And finally. When you put an Xbox in the server room as a web server on the cheap, label it as such. Or this fate could befall you:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/50428/50428.html?Ad=1
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.