The co-founder of Hotmail starts development of a nanotechnology
equivalent of Silicon Valley in India:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193501338
Patent lawsuit firm NTP, which earlier sued RIM over the Blackberry,
has now filed against Palm's Treo:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-06T202808Z_01_N06282003_RTRUKOC_0_US-PALM.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R2-Today-11
Wikipedia gets an unexpected contribution on one of its pages. A
link to a trojan disguised as a patch for the Lovesan/W32.Blaster worm:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=e-business&articleId=9004782&taxonomyId=71&intsrc=kc_top
The Eclipse cross-platform IDE, backed by IBM, celebrates its 5th
birthday:
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20061025cb_eclipsebirthday5.php
Outgoing UK PM Tony Blair pushes for legislation to "explore the
benefits" of compulsory ID cards. The opposition say they'll scrap them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6120220.stm
An Australian court finds that click-through agreements invoked as part
of a repetitive regime are not binding:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=159213
And finally. HP black ink cartridge: 71 cents/ml. Blood from the Red
Cross: 40c/ml. Adverse publicity, priceless:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35543
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.