Computerworld suggests the Telecom Apache phone should use VoIP and WiFi to
offer roaming, as an alternative to its minority CDMA standard:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/D2777C0850B03E34CC2570BF00613588?OpenDocument
EDS Pay the UK Governement UKP71M as an out-of-court settlement relating to
their implementation of the 2003 Tax Credits system:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27867
Microsoft is accused of being either misleading or ignorant over its claims that
its OfficeXML standard will be Open once it is a ECMA standard:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1892080,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Paris steps up adoption of Open Source software, mostly Firefox and OpenOffice
as well as Linux servers. One of their 20 districts will switch completely:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1941298570;fp;16;fpid;0
SETI@home is to be switched off in December, as it becomes part of the Berkeley
Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC):
http://bitsofnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3089
A document and some reported advertising campaigns in rural China possibly
indicate that Intel is about to make a big Linux push in that arena:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/46808/index.html
The latest round of lightweight lithium batteries are to be used not in laptops
but power tools that are stronger than plug-in tools:
http://technologyreview.com/NanoTech-Devices/wtr_15913,303,p1.html
And finally. Biofuels are all very well, just so long as you don't go clearing
rainforests to grow your oil-producing crops with:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825265.400
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.