Enjoy the digest:
Sky TV Join the list of Linux system users in New Zealand, switching from HP-UX
to Linux and Oracle clustering for running their SkyMail and SkyBet services:
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3089033a28,00.html
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=10471&cid=3&cname=Technology
UK Supermarket chain Tesco takes a forray into the digital music download
market:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-1348990,00.html
The military arm of the Hizbollah group flies an unmanned reconnaissance drone
over Israel, showing that high-tech war is no longer just for the big guys:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3990773.stm
MIT Researchers develop an unmanned aerial vehicle that can tag along with a
jet fighter and understand the pilot's spoken commands:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001185.html
Non-volatile RAM looks like it might be the first large-scale deployment of
nanotechnology:
http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=52200086
And finally. The latest invocation of the Doom trilogy of PC games walks away
with the "Golden Joystick" award for Ultimate Game:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3983817.stm
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.