Red Hat signs on for participation in Sun's OpenJDK, bringing its Java
efforts into the fold:
http://open.itworld.com/4917/071105redhatjava/page_1.html
Stage one of the Google Phone saga is officially announced. The new
"Android" mobile OS - Java on Linux - but no hardware yet:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071105-its-official-google-announces-open-source-mobile-phone-os-android.html
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
Microsoft fires its chief information officer Stuart Scott for
unspecified “violation of company policies”:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/06/trouble-in-redmond-microsoft-boots-cio/
Symbian are predictably dismissive of Google's entry into the mobile
phone operating system market, and take a poke at linux too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7082414.stm
Nvidia sets a standard for monitoring power supplies and cooling systems:
http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA%5FESA%5F%5FEnthusiast%5FSystem%5FArchitecture/
Samsung bring out a 64GB solid-state drive:
http://www.fastsilicon.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=333&Itemid=60
And finally. Kids look to robot playmates as peers, not toys. One child
even went as far to cover one with a blanket when the batteries ran out:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12879-giggling-robot-becomes-one-of-the-kids-.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.