Enjoy the digest:
SCO Rethinks its plans of creating a scoinfo.com website to present their view
of their case against IBM. They cite legal reasons, but reality has a case too:
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39172447,00.htm
The Open Source Firefox browser nearly doubles its market share from 3.5% in
June to 6%. That still leaves Microsoft with 92.9%:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6704716
Following Bush's unconfirmed US presidential win Black Box Voting has issued a
Freedom of Information Act request for all poll server access logs and more:
http://blackboxvoting.org/#foia
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65579,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
Adobe begins an unobtrusive effort to "identify and evaluate strategies for
Adobe in the Linux and open-source desktop market":
http://news.com.com/Adobe+dipping+toes+into+desktop+Linux+waters/2100-7344_3-5435397.html?tag=nefd.lede
Nokia to add RFID tag readers to handsets, which will come with spare tags.
These allow tag-enabled messaging and shortcuts to be posted like sticky notes:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Nokia-Adds-RFID-to-Latest-Handsets-37796.html
And finally. Friends of the Earth declare bottled water as being very
environmentally unfriendly due to onerous transport requirements:
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1266702004
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for ECONZ Ltd. The views presented in this document are those of the collator, not those of ECONZ Ltd.