A Telecom fault in Auckland's Mt Albert exchange takes out the internet
for 8,000 customers - and delays Clippings out in the Waitakeres:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10388802
Cash-strapped Intel sells off its division that makes PXA-series ARM
CPUs for smartphones and PDAs to Marvell Technology:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189601851
The Victorian Department of Justice puts the "TrimClient" Linux
distribution customised by Cybersource on 120 desktops:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/_Locked_down_Linux_dispenses_Justice/0,2000061733,39261329,00.htm
Spaniards will be able to buy wi-fi routers for US$5 on the condition
that they allow access to other users of the scheme:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5116960.stm
Taiwan mandates that all PCs purchased for government use must now be
compatible with the Linux operating system. No specific version given:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39370618,00.htm
Xerox and Palm finally settle over the use of Graffiti on Palm devices:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32697
Sun says it is just "months" away from releasing under an open-source
licence. So are others who have nothing to do with Sun. Yeah, right:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/27/79685_HNsunopensourcejava_1.html
And finally. How the occupying US forces in Iraq maintain their own unofficial
ISPs, or 'hajjinets' with the help of Ukrainian satellite services:
http://www.localistmagazine.com/iraq.htm
http://www.hajjinet.com
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.