As soon as anyone trades in a Microsoft/Novell certificate for SuSE Linux
under GPL3, all Linux users will be protected from MS patent lawsuits:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070518124020691
Mobile phone calls around US President Bush will be jammed as he
proceeds through Sydney:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Banned-Mobile-calls-while-Bush-in-Sydney/0,130061791,339277444,00.htm
Microsoft plays ball and votes for the adoption of ODF on the ANSI
standards list:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-16ANSIVotePR.mspx
Amazon joins the list of suppliers of unencumbered music files:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003&highlight=
Skype wants to act as a channel for selling games:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-skype-busts-into-casual-gaming-market.html
The New York Stock Exchange moves to a system using a mic of IBM AIX and
HP Linux servers:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1254860,00.html
And finally. The Southern Ocean, responsible for soaking up 15% of the
world's CO2, is apparently nearly full. Time to cut down on the gas...:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1623079520070517
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.