Bank of America Corp. and Wachovia Corp. are notifying 670,000 customers of
stolen bank account information in a huge security breach:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/23/news/fortune500/bank_info/index.htm
Rackspace, which runs a 50-50 mix of Windows and Linux for its many servers,
finds that the costs are a dead heat between the two:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1782587,00.asp
The Brazilian government news agency, Radiobras, is now webcasting all its
audio and video using recently-adopted Open Source players:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brazilian_news_agency_using_Free_Software_for_multimedia_broadcasting
Homeland Security Authorization Legislation requiring at least 50% American
content in US Government devices reveals that phones and PCs don't measure up:
http://news.com.com/Buy+American+legislation+draws+fire/2100-1022_3-5715486.html?tag=nefd.top
Apple recall 128,000 recalled lithium ion batteries are used in the 12-inch
iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=1254
Samsung produces 16GiB solid state disks (SSD's), that look like hard disks but
are quieter and use 5% of the power of a conventional drive:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23425
AMD's x86-compatible Geode LX 800 CPU only uses 0.9W and runs at 500MHz, and
is being sold for $45 in 10,000 unit volumes:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3507081
Glasgow University develops nanoclusters that can store charge and may be
useful for high-density memory devices:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4573117.stm
And finally. What would it be like if Marvin served up a 404 Not Found page?
Well, now you can see. Not for those of a mentally unbalanced disposition. Um:
http://debian.co.nz/errors/404.php
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.