EMI's DRM-free music sales seem to be working, with some albums
experiencing a sales increase of 350%:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=18342
Microsoft to stop supplying Office 2003 at the end of the month:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/19/microsoft_office_2003_oem/
Adobe Flex 3 public beta is released for Windows and Mac systems:
http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/387926.htm
Microsoft tries to settles quickly with Google and says will modify
Vista to work with Google Desktop to avoid another anti-trust suit:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/19/microsoft_vista_google_desktop_search_settlement/
Ubuntu 7.10, codename "Gutsy Gibbon", will feature mobile and embedded
operation as well as vastly improved automatic display setup:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070620-plans-for-ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon-revealed.html
Google plans to use plug-in hybrid cars as power storage units to even
out demand on the grid, making distributed power generation practical:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57926.html
And finally. A man doused himself with petrol, was shot with a Taser,
burst into flame and died. Police do not know what started the fire:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=463321&in_page_id=1811
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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.