The improved newzealand.govt.nz website is launched by the Minister
of State Services, David Parker, in Wellington:
http://blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/2008/03/13/portal-upgraded-relaunched/
The cases for and against OOXML presented my Brett Roberts of
Microsoft NZ and Don Christie of the NZOSS. Judge for yourself:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/14110D406CB0AB11CC2574050004FA06
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/04DC44EB09DE49E2CC2574050005088A
AOL To purchase social networking site Bebo for US$850 million cash:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23609587/
The Software Freedom Law Centre publishes an analysis of Microsoft's
promises on OOXML and finds that Open Source software is prohibited:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080312151954507
An interesting combination of Flickr and Google Maps lets you see
images as they are uploaded to Flicker over the world in real time:
http://flickrvision.com/
And finally. Author Terry Pratchett is to donate US$1 million to fund
Alzheimer's research and to "scream and harangue while there is time":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7291315.stm
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.