Who needs RFID tags? Just triangulate your customers' mobile phone signals
around the mall and you know exactly who they are and what they do:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3945496.ece
The Sugar GUI from the OLPC is given a life of its own to ensure
independence from the underlying OS on future laptops:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146002/bender_forms_group_to_promote_olpcs_sugar_ui.html
Firefox 3.0 RC1 is now out for those of us who like the bleeding
edge and have plenty of sticking plasters:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Serious vulnerability found in Suitelink, widely used to control
power stations and oil refineries etc.:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19826566.200-power-plants-open-to-hacker-attack.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_mg19826566.200
And finally. Trouble with truffles. Apparently the famous Perigord
black truffle is under attack from a Chinese invader:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7405004.stm
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.