NZ Gets a 30% increase in broadband subscribers, bring it to 19th place
in the OECD rankings. Up from 22nd:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Zealand_broadband_subscribers_increase
The US Federal Aviation Administration follows the Department of
Transport and considers upgrading to Linux rather than Vista:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
Intel isn't upgrading to Vista either, at least not until SP1 is out:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38064
Novell delivers their Open XML import/export filter for OpenOffice,
allowing it to read and write MS Office 2007 files:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/4DD8F59C3B4291AACC257296001A68D2
RedHat's Fedora Linux tracks the number of unique users logging on for
updates, and finds 2 million of them:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3663951
DAAMIT Shows off two new handheld video accelerator chips. One running
OpenGL the other being a vector-based GPU:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38072
Cunning method developed for turning the silica shells of microscopic
organisms into finely-shaped silicon artifacts:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11329-algae-skeletons-made-into-silicon-components.html
Intel to sample the first phase-change memory chips in the next few
months, with mass production before the year's end. May replace DRAM:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800524
IBM and Toppan Printing are collaborating on 32nm chip processes:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38063
And finally. Male circumcision prevents the spread of AIDS to men, but
seems to increase the spread in women:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11327-male-circumcision-to-fight-hiv-poses-risk-to-women.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.