The EU's anti-trust official says that Microsoft is continuing to gain
market share through abusive behaviour and this is not acceptable:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/bs_nm/microsoft_kroes_eu_dc
Symantec list Microsoft Windows as the more secure operating system (12
severe bugs, 21 days to fix), compared to RedHat (2 bugs, 13 days). Eh?:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201
A survey shows that Google's Blogspot blogs are 75% spam - and that's
actually good compared to most of the competition:
http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/google-blogs-spam.html
According to MacWorld iPods Can now run widgets, as Koloroo releases a
calculator and colour-matching program:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/130042-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
Firefox seems to be getting much more stable and secure, thanks to
community effort. Only one patch needed for 2.0.0.3:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3667396
Scott Miller, the guy in charge of "Duke Nukem" admits they screwed up.
But they will bring out the next version, honest:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38388
US Defense(sic) Department produces a prototype polymorphous processor
that can reconfigure depending on the task at hand:
http://www.mil-embedded.com/news/db/?5784
UCLA Produce the world's finest-grained alphabet soup to demonstrate a
new microscale fabrication technique. They want to play Scrabble:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100597
And finally. I've been waiting for this - how to make a BB-firing coil
gun from disposable cameras, and mount it on a Robosapien toy:
http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/marcus/html/coilosapien.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.