Despite the hype, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, HP and Lenovo do not in reality
offer PCs for sale without Windows installed, as ZDNet discovers:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39286228,00.htm
SCO's "mountain of code" which it alleges IBM is infringing boils down to
326 non-copyrightable lines that IBM didn't put in Linux anyway:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070310204302343
Confirmation that Google are creating their own phone, possibly in
collaboration with Samsung. Actual details remain scarce:
http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6167826.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
An OpenBSD remote kernel exploit is found. Time to update your
firewalls:
http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=1703
A new theory on the nature of electrons leads to novel uses for an
unusual crystal called herbertsmithite in quantum computing:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200
And finally. A bike that travels sideways. Nearly killed the inventor,
but sounds fun for those with adventurous tendencies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6375259.st
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.