Vista seems to come out on top when it comes to having fewest
high severity bugs, and they're being patched:
http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_6_month_vulnerability_report
Dell to now offer PCs without most of the crapware installed:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/dell_cuts_the_fat/
Samsung starts mass production of 64GB solid-state drives to fit 1.8
inch laptop bays:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40563
Calao, based in Sant Martin le Vinoux, show a tiny ARM-based Linux
single-board computer in a USB key. It even accepts SD & peripherals:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6730529835.html
Photos of the large-scale manual assembly plants still used in high-tech
electronics in China:
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_burtynsky_china
And finally. 36 Million years ago, 1.5 metre penguins roamed the
Peruvian coast, just 14 degrees off the equator:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12127-when-giant-penguins-roamed-the-tropics.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.