The Commerce Commission has been investigating complaints over NZ
Telecom's broadband advertising and believes it might breach laws:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/049B8714DC5ACAB7CC25721F00833E1B
E-voting gets fingered as one candidate gets zero votes - despite having
voted for himself. Electronically, of course, so no paper trail:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2646802&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
The Samba Team ask Novell to reconsider the nature of the recent deal it
made with Microsoft to circumvent the GPL and introduce patents:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35681
http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell/
Disney nets US$4m on half a million video movie sales through iTunes
since their launch in September. Cars and Dead Man's Chest to come soon:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/5505/6529/Disney-sells-500000-movies-itunes.phtml
Yahoo and LinkSys roll out a joint-branded WiFi telephone handset
that can also hook into an analogue line. Expensive at US$130:
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20733528%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
And finally. NEC develop a robot capable of identifying wines, meats,
and other foodstuffs. Curious reporter inserts their hand - "Bacon":
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie.htm
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.