The New Zealand government announces that it will force Telecom kicking and
screaming to unbundle the local loop and allow upload speeds more than 128Kb/s:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10380108
Gartner suggests that Microsoft Vista is likely to be delayed by an
additional 3 months to April-June 2007:
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN02271704
A critical bug has been found in the X11 window system used on Linux and
Mac computers allowing local users to become root. It has already been fixed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195
Samsung says they have developed a 7 inch LCD panel for mobile devices
that requires only a single driver chip:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187002532
And finally. Canada's prime minister was less than amused by a hack that put
"Stephen Harper Eats Babies" on electronic signs in Toronto commuter trains:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-05-02T205732Z_01_N02255888_RTRUKOC_0_US-HACKER1.xm
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.