Telstra abandons plans for a 3G network in NZ, leaving the Telecom/Vodafone
duopoly intact for the foreseeable future:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3479822a28,00.html
Tom's Hardware reviews the Ubuntu H2 drive, a USB 2.0 3GB 1" HD that can boot
PCs into Linux and hold user data. Nice idea, a bit slow though:
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051110/index.html
While San Fransisco debates Google's offer of free WiFi, Mountain View -
Google's hometown - gets the same deal for its 70,000 inhabitants:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=1505&e=2&u=/afp/20051111/tc_afp/usinternetgoogle_051111000816
US Customers are frequently forsaking wired phone connections and going totally
wireless, but many want to hang on to their DSL service:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173601871
Companies including ARM Ltd., Cellon, Esmertec, France Telecom/Orange, FSMLabs,
Huawei, Jaluna, MontaVista & PalmSource produce a standard for cellphone Linux:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6030689030.html
New code shows how to create MD5 collisions on a 1.6GHz P4 in 45 minutes or so,
negating the security usefulness of MD5 file checksums:
http://www.stachliu.com.nyud.net:8090/collisions.html
After reports that Novell plans to not ship KDE on Novell Linux Desktop and SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server products, customer feedback persuades them to keep KDE:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1608
Sun says it'll sell its Niagara chip in Q1 2006. The CPU will have 8 cores, each
with 4 hyperthreads. Power consumption is touted at a mere 75W:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5946639.html
And finally. New Scientist reports on a camera design that uses digital image
processing and multiple lenses to ensure all the scene is in focus:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825255.000
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.