Novell rebuts statements made by Microsoft that their controversial
agreement acknowledges patent infringements in Linux:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231047,00.html
An international agreement is signed to spend NZ$20 billion on building
the ITER nuclear fusion reactor in France, starting 2008:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/21/uiter121.xml
Michigan teenager Thiago Olson builds the world's 18th non-professional
- but functioning - fusion reactor in his basement:
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=27082
Microsoft release PowerShell, a shell and scripting language to simplify
automation and administration. Version expected for Vista soon...:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061115-8234.html
Microsoft Office 2007 - licenced to kill:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061120-8256.html
Novell put Microsoft VBA macro support into the OpenOffice spreadsheet:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205
The recently introduced British biometric pasports are cracked,
allowing perps to see if they match the biometric info:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1950226,00.html
A little sketchy on the details, but it appears Vodafone will be
offering 900MHz UMTS HSDPA next year for improved coverage:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/09C52D4DEB8E5543CC2572290007CF15
Hutchison mobiles to offer a free calls to Skype, teaming with with
Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb & Sony:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49285322,00.htm
Whatever spin is put on DRM in Microsoft's new Vista OS, the potential
users don't like the sound of it. Particularly if they have old DRM:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/30339093789DE576CC2572280082B81F
And finally. An accessory for the iPod that turns music into, er,
vibrations of a different sort. Your songs will never be the same again:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/6492/
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.