Anylists Gartner peg IT as being responsible for 2% of global warming:
http://www.ictworld.co.za/EditorialEdit.asp?EditorialID=28739
The Bush administration proposes a bill to retroactively make phone
companies immune from prosecution if they help US spy organisations:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070504-bush-administration-proposes-retroactive-immunity-for-phone-companies.html
As well as offering Ubuntu, Dell sign up for Novel/Microsoft SuSE
Linux too:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/314604_software07.html
Now the changes to daylight saving in New Zealand have been announced,
it's time to hunt down the patches in your code:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/75B12EAC252AAB2ACC2572D100009E07
An intrepid reviewer tries to find out if CDs burnt under Vista can be
read anywhere else. This turns out to be harder than expected:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070422083715451
And finally. Results of experiments to measure the speed of pedestrians
show that they have sped up by 10% since the early 90's:
http://www.richardwiseman.com/quirkology/latest2.htm
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.