Enjoy the digest:
Thanks to VoIP software like Skype, web-based phonecalls are proving to be more
popular than telcos had believed and have the possibility of impressive growth:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6716978
Novell wades in to Microsoft's recent anti-Linux memo and points out that the
Microsoft-penned conclusions do not follow from the data in the reports:
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6D492EF9-8032-4FE2-BD13-9B50D767AF6B
Here's 4,500 missing votes, because the officials thought the storage capacity
of the machine was bigger than it really was. Error message? What error?:
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65601,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Sun sees no need to Open Source Java yet, but with the competition from Linux
is set to Open Source Solaris early next year:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5438336.html
The BitTorrent P2P protocol seems to be responsible for up to 34% of the
internet's traffic, dwarfing the amoutn used for web content:
http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html
The notorious Source Code Club (SCC) is offering the complete Cisco Pix 6.3.1
firewall and network monitoring source code for US$24,000:
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Cisco-Source-Code-Offered-for-Sale&story_id=28140
IBM's BlueGene/L sets a record at 70.72 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark,
allowing US DoE scientists to design better nuclear bombs without testing:
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51202781
Nanotubes turn out to make excellent optoelectronic memory cells, offering
possibilities for a novel storage system and high resolution imaging:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/rnb_110304.asp
And finally. All heads turn towards the digital catwalk, where the Miss Digital
World virtual beauty pageant is making Lara Croft look like Ms. Pac-Man:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/virtual.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
http://missdigitalworld.com
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.