Following the "NZ Telecon" video lampooning Telecom's controversial concept of
customer relations, the BBC looks at how YouTube is changing the video world:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5020364.stm
Microsoft examines OpenOffice load times and deduces that the ODF format is too slow, compared to their as yet unimplemented XML document format: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39271078,00.htm
Microsoft also wants to replace another real standard, and has prepared a proprietary format to compete with JPEG - giving them more lock-in:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4444/106/
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen calls for the banning of cellphones that can receive "inappropriate" video content in an already tech-poor country:
http://www.i4u.com/article5731.html
And finally. GATTACA gets too close for comfort, as New York's Republican
mayor Michael Bloomberg goes on record advocating a DNA database of workers:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=64
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.