Palm launch a laptop-like terminal for smartphones called Foleo, for
those times when you really need a bigger screen and a real keyboard:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2494029776.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2138728,00.asp
NZ Telecom to give Alcatel Lucent NZ$300-400 million to build them a GSM
network, ending the era of CDMA in NZ and giving us decent phones:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=93&objectid=10442621
Singapore Airlines are fitting their in-flight entertainment systems
with StarOffice, the Sun-branded version of OpenOffice:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39936
Microsoft get onto the multi-touch display bandwagon with a 30-inch
screen, targeted at the coffee tables of expensive restaurants:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6703249.stm
After improving its profits, Dell sets out to cut 10% of it's workforce.
That's the sack for 7,000 people in plain English:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6710327.stm
Google releases an API to allow web-based programs to continue to
function offline:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8PF20000.htm
QDevelop offers RAD for Linux and Windows using Trolltech's Qt4 SDK. Now
even VBASIC developers can write for Linux. Scary thought:
http://www.clivecooper.co.uk/tutorial/index.html
A look at the new eye-candy for the KDE desktop, some of which actually
looks useful:
http://dot.kde.org/1180541665/
And finally. After manufacturing the AK47 assualt rifle for 60 years,
Russia decides it wants to claim royalties for the design:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070316/62123005.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.