Ihug customers still reporting e-mail problems despite reassurances:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10410064
Microsoft announces "Availability to MSDN Premium subscribers of Windows
Vista and the 2007 MS Office system on release to manufacturing":
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35619
Emirates to allow users to make mobile phone calls in-flight from
January. Switches to TXT mode only during night flights:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6127052.stm
An interesting redesign of the analogue clock, adding glanceable
calendar information around the circumference:
http://www.ambientclock.com/
Harkening back to the "anti-Microsoft tax" days, Dell refunds the cost
of XP to a user who photographed himself clicking "I do not accept":
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35610
Dell unveil their first batch of quad-core Xeon systems:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061108-8179.html
China to open it's own little-known "Beidou" GPS system from 2008 in
response to the EU's Galilieo GPS system:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10472-chinas-satellite-navigation-plans-threaten-galileo.html
And finally. By pumping CO2 down their wells, geothermal power plants
could actually consume CO2. But will it gum the works up?:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10478-geothermal-power-plants-could-also-consume-co2.html
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.