Dell confirms that it will be shipping Ubuntu 7.04 Linux on desktops and
laptops by the end of the month. How will it fare against Vista?:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131447-c,linux/article.html
Adobe to release their Flex SDK as Open Source under the Mozilla Public
Licence (MPL) bit by bit, seen as a response to Microsoft's "Sparkle":
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200704/042607Flex.html
Cybersource and others voice concern that Microsoft's $3 software pack
will cost dear in the long run, offering little over free alternatives:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
Nokia to make all its new phones work as RFID credit cards:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2559972620070425
And working in the other direction, South Korea is working on making the
mobile phone an RFID tag reader:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201803
How to hack your Treo 750 to enable HSDPA and wring 1Mbit/s out of your
Vodafone connection:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/5C7F8B8EC7345B1FCC2572C3001AF660
Hitachi puts out their first 1TB hard disk at US$399:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39200
A network protected by quantum cryptography is hacked for the first
time:
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-10.html
The BlueGene L supercomputer manages to simulate half a mouse brain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm
IBM To put the Cell processor in its System Z mainframes:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3674226
Samsung puts 16Gb NAND Flash chips into mass production, with mainstream
sales expected in Q3 2007. That's 2 gigabytes on a single chip:
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Samsung_Starts_Mass_Producing_16Gb_NAND/551-80814-581.html
Carbon nanotubes have now been grown in bulk 'carpets' with a
well-aligned pile 12mm deep:
http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=5700
And finally. US Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, the man
combating worldwide prostitution, gets caught hiring "escorts":
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/senior_official.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.