Microsoft warns that Asian Linux users might be subject to lawsuits, if US law
can be made to stick. Little mention of Microsoft's own patent infringements:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20041118/wr_nm/asia_tech_microsoft_dc
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1661094,00.asp
IBM Claims that its new Linux Power 5 servers are more than 3 times the speed of
the existing database record holder, HP's Superdome:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6861196
Multiple irregularities found in the US vote. Using statistics is the only
option with no paper trail, but even what little paper remains is suspect:
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Taipei plans to cover 90% of the city with a for-fee WiFi network by 2006:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=575&ncid=738&e=6&u=/nm/20041119/wr_nm/tech_taiwan_cybercity_dc
A trojan called "Skulls" appears as "Tee-222", disgused as and "Extended Theme
Manager" for the Symbian handheld operating system:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-112004.html#00000362
Advances in CRT technology resut in thinner displays with better pictures,
threatening an LCD insutry already beleagured with poor picture quality:
http://news.com.com/Slimmer+tube+TVs+to+challenge+flat+panels/2100-1041_3-5458670.html
And finally. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have
discovered the world's strongest acid, and managed to keep it in the test tube:
http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=926
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.